Bad Taste
To Kill a Mubi Bird
The Descreet Charm of the Mubi
diagnosis dead
Simplest are best…
Taxi Driver
Pickpocket
Carny
Freaks
Happiness
Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre.
It’s the Nordic Snakes on a Plane.
Pretty Poison (shudder)
Pretty Poison (shudder)
This is not a double post. I figure it deserved at least two mentions.
Baise-Moi
and
I Spit on Your Grave
Sa mori ranit din dragoste de viata (To Die from Love of Life)
Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen ( Even Dwarfs Started Small)
La Classe operaia va in paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven)
La Proprietà non è più un furto (Property Is No Longer a Theft)
Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (Where the Green Ants Dream)
Myth of the Fingerprints (bad film thought)
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Live Flesh
I Don’t To Sleep Alone
Porcile
Throw Away Your Books, Rallye in the Streets
Dog Man Star
Fuck
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies is the best title I’ve heard in a while. Haven’t seen it, though.
http://mubi.com/films/22879
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
WOMAN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE
SCENT OF A WOMAN
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
GOLDFINGER
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
GONE WITH THE WIND
MO’ BETTER BLUES
Someone To Love
Last Summer In The Hamptons
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Citizen Kane
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The Silence of the Lambs
The Shawshank Redemption
For a Few Dollars More
Million Dollar Baby
Snakes On A Plane
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Queen of the Lot
Good Will Hunting
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Philadelphia Story
Arsenic and Old Lace
Throw Mama From The Train
Whatever Happend To Baby Jane?
the curious case of benjamin button always seemed so contrived to me. it trys far too hard.
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(apparently I like longer movie names.)
(oh, okay, here’s a short one I always admired:)
Snatch
Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith’s Intolerance and Tati’s Mr. Hulot’s Holiday or The Foundation and Doom of Czechoslovakia (1918–1992)
newly added to database
Dog day afternoon
She’s gotta have it
A safe place
Sitting ducks
Drive, He Said
How to lose a guy in 10 days
The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty by wenders.
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
On The Occasion Of Remembering The Turning Gate
(Although the last one has a less sexy title in its native korean)
Oh Lucky Man! – Malcolm McDowall originally titled it “the lucky man”, Lindsay Anderson said “no, ‘oh lucky man!’”
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? – on my mind while watching
Stairway to Heaven / A Matter Of Life Or Death – exactly what it was
Jesus Christ Superstar
Closely Watched Trains
Dog Day Afternoon
A Hard Day’s Night – originally called “Eight Arms To Hold You”
Au Revoir Les Enfants – the last line
A Thousand Clowns
Big Fish
The Madness of King George
Them!
The Knack… And How To Get It
Blow Up
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Fearless Vampire Killers Or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck
De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped). Also in Russian translation it sounds really great – “Мое сердце биться перестало”.
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER
then
ANATOMIE DE L’ENFER
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS OR: PARDON ME, BUT YOUR TEETH ARE IN MY NECK
Army of Shadow (I think it’s better without the “s,” so I omit). I’m not sure why, but that title has always enthralled me.
Trash Humpers
Gummo
The Diary of Anne Frank Part Two
“Scum”
“The Men who Stare at Goats”
“How to Undress in Front of Your Husband.”
abraham
Before they idiotically changed the title to “Yes Man”, I thought the name “Yes” was pretty great.