Thumbnail Movies

Glue-sniffing kids curb

cat population after tornado hits the heartland.

Yokohama businessman faces enmity

and moral surcease oozes from hilltop home.

Raising hucksterism to new levels, a roustabout

splashes in nightclub society with mentalist Zeena.

Pregnant cashier and husband

argue Shepard-like in Hokkaido trailer park.

To judge tussle over big hat, we follow

hep kitten and jazzbo skins-beater.

Oedipal bully threatens fiery kablooie

atop petroleum’s big house.

While Muscovites flex and quaff,

suspicious man stalks with tripod.

Both orphan and frazzled writer

fatten up on penitents’ transcriptions of joy.

Inside Mexican desert, vets’ fishing plans

are waylaid by one-eyed insomniac bent on flight.

Sapphic coquettes in velvet capes

stand haunted house on its ear.

Grandee leaves all to playboy

and somnambulist nun’s homeless clan.

As trees sough above a river bank

mother and daughter submit to rapists.

Alongside cuckolded Nazi father-figure,

bicyclist manages Berlin winter.

Escaping Hamburg thugs, tiny accordion player

and whore take-up dairy farming in Wisconsin.

Truck-stop cook and hitch-hiker

show their exhaust to demonized big rig.

Single mother of four gets erotic

and forgets from whence they liked her jokes.

Before Federal sentence can get brutal,

swabbies cook-up winter frankfurters.

Dying son with eye patch returns home

to break knuckles with Neanderthal father.

Teenager inhabits closet with Spaghetti-O’s

as social worker diverts into Freudsville.

After promotion, Snappy dressing Aryan

levels Warsaw and peepless call girls.

Reporter with nothing to lose but incestuous

affair, enters bug house for big story.

Obsessed with heart-breaker’s love nest,

Charles visits Park City A-Frame packing ennui.

Raccoon-eyed loser fronts John Doe,

leaves folkie sister in the moral dust.

Blacklisted Lothario flees tinsel town

for twisted femme in Newcastle bed-sitter.

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Answers to Thumbnail Movies (Tues. September 8, 2009)

Gummo—Harmony Korine (1997)

High and Low—Akira Kurosawa (1963)

Nightmare Alley—Edmund Goulding (1947)

Yellow Handkerchief—Yoji Yamada (1977)

Phantom Lady—Robert Siodmak (1944)

White Heat—Raoul Walsh (1949)

Man with a Movie Camera—D. Vertov (1929)

Central Station—Walter Salles (1998)

The Hitch-Hiker—Ida Lupino (1953)

Vampyres—Jose Ramon Larraz (1974)

Viridiana—Luis Bunuel (1961)

A Day in the Country—Jean Renoir (1936)

Germany, Year Zero—Roberto Rossellini (1948)

Strozek—Werner Herzog (1977)

Road Games—Richard Franklin (1981)

Nobody Knows—Kore-eda Hirokazu (2004)

The Last Detail—Hal Ashby (1973)

Dream with the Fishes—Finn Taylor (1997)

The Taste of Water—Orlow Seunke (1982)

The Night of the Generals—Anatole Litvak (1967)

Shock Corridor—Sam Fuller (1963)

Chilly Scenes of Winter—Joan Micklin Silver (1979)

Georgia— Ulu Grosbard (1995)

Finger of Guilt—Joseph Losey (1956)

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