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Thursday
Apr212011

First and Last, Painting

Andreas here with one more First and Last challenge.

The first and last images from a motion picture:

Can you guess the movie?

Answer after the jump.

Fuzzy Dunlop and MrW got it: it's the Goya painting and blurry ostrich that bookend Luis Buñuel's The Phantom of Liberty.

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ugh. i never realize how hard these are until someone else fills in for me. i KNOW i've seen this movie. and i can't for the life of me recall what it is or in what context that familiar painting is part of a movie. (or maybe i just know the painting?)

April 21, 2011 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

my first thought was HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS because Holly Hunter is a restorer gently dabbing at a painting in the opening sequence but that's totally not right.

April 21, 2011 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

Goya's Ghosts?

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterJose

Another hesitant vote for Goya's Ghosts.

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered Commenterjbaker475

I believe this is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterLucy

Ahhhh Six Degress of Separation was a great movie!! I could totally watch that again!

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterKane

Nathaniel -- I have the same experience all the time. It's hell trying to connect visual memory with movie title memory!

Good guesses all, but it's not Home for the Holidays, Goya's Ghosts, or the painting-filled Six Degrees of Separation.

April 21, 2011 | Registered CommenterAndreas

6 Degrees of Separation?

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterOuisa Kittredge

The Phantom of Liberty ?

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterFuzzy Dunlop

Junebug?

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterEvan

Is it Broken Flowers?

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterJon

The first is definitely shown at the beginning of Phantom of Liberty. And if the last image is a blurry ostrich, than Phantom of Liberty it is.

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterMrW

I'm thinking it's an Almodovar film..... but which one.....

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterSan FranCinema

I thought Almodovar as well! I don't know why.

Is it Basquiat?

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterRosa

Fuzzy -- good job!

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterZach

No one from Almodovar, that's sure!!! I suposse it must be "Los fantasmas de Goya".

April 21, 2011 | Unregistered Commentergarbogarbo

Phantom of Liberty! I ADORE this movie.

April 22, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterCristhian

My first inclination is for Goya's Ghosts, because I seem to remember it started with a montage of his work, including the above painting, but the finale was of Natalie Portman following that cart down the street so that final shot doesn't seem to fit.

April 22, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterThe Very Lovely Me
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