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I think the bumper-grill thing could mean car, but then barbecue would seem to indicate some pyrotechnic elements as well. Any EXPLODING car movies in the Janus vault? Or perhaps some post-apocalyptic something or other? Mad Max?

Or maybe this means a Walkabout reissue. Didn't the dad torch the car?

arsonfilms wrote:Or maybe this means a Walkabout reissue. Didn't the dad torch the car?

so far this makes the most sense, except, being a reissue, it would be Criterion's SECOND-ever bumper grill barbeque

And actually, Walkabout was Criterion's first-ever DVD release (ten years ago this May). Between that and the burning car thing, I'd say that's gotta be it.

mianda72 wrote:

domino harvey wrote:Okay I think it has to be a car movie because I believe bumper-grill barbecue here is a pun and not an accurate description. Anyone know any car movies that Janus owns?

Tati's Traffic ?

Oh, we might have a winner here. Doesn't Hulot's car turn into a barbecue?

i hope it's Grindhouse...

Zazou dans le Metro wrote:

miless wrote:

Zazou dans le Metro wrote:Could it be a quince??

quinces sure don't look like that (they look like a lumpy, misshapen apple-pear-thing)

Well they do in my garden and what is that thing if not a lumpy misshapen
apple-pear thing.....drawn badly

most quinces I've ever seen look like this.

years ago I had heard about Criterion acquiring the rights to a (or possibly several) films from Brazil's Cinema Novo movement... possibly the gourd has something to do with that?

starmanof51 wrote:

mianda72 wrote:

domino harvey wrote:Okay I think it has to be a car movie because I believe bumper-grill barbecue here is a pun and not an accurate description. Anyone know any car movies that Janus owns?

Tati's Traffic ?

Oh, we might have a winner here. Doesn't Hulot's car turn into a barbecue?

If memory serves, the prototype car Tati drives comes with a built-in barbecue. Regardless, it's almost certainly the film in question.

The drawing looks sort of like a bomb to me. What looks like the stem could be a fuse. The verbal clue might refer to Godard's WEEKEND (1967), esp. the massive automobile pile-up, "barbecue" the film's cannabalistic elements. To me, "First-ever" suggests it's new to the collection, not a re-release.

Weekend is the best guess yet.

Weekend or Trafic.

Either is fine with me.

Weekend is, however, already on DVD.

Not in the Collection.

tavernier wrote:Not in the Collection.

When was the last time Criterion obtained the dvd rights from New Yorker video?

I say it's gotta be Trafic

Trafic is fine by me.

You can debate most things, but that's 100% a gourd.

This should be the funniest and weirdest speculation over a title. Ever.

A gourd is the first and only thing that came to mind when I saw the newsletter.

I have to confess that my knowledge of english vocabulary on vegetables is more complete now. I had to look into a dictionary in order to find out what a gourd is!

filmghost wrote:I have to confess that my knowledge of english vocabulary on vegetables is more complete now. I had to look into a dictionary in order to find out what a gourd is!

Fuck, I had no idea a gourd actually is a fruit! I was going to correct filmghost, and explain that a gourd is in fact a vessel used for drinking. It turns out that it's "a hollow, dried shell of a fruit in the Cucurbitaceae family of plants of the genus Lagenaria" that can be used as a bowl or bottle, among many other things.

a hard, inedible squash.
Gourds can be hybridized with nearly any other type of squash... and the outcome is always a gourd.

filmghost wrote:This should be the funniest and weirdest speculation over a title. Ever.

I look forward to bouncing grandchildren on my knee, regaling them with stories of the great quince-gourd debate of aught eight.

denti alligator wrote:

filmghost wrote:I have to confess that my knowledge of english vocabulary on vegetables is more complete now. I had to look into a dictionary in order to find out what a gourd is!

Fuck, I had no idea a gourd actually is a fruit! I was going to correct filmghost, and explain that a gourd is in fact a vessel used for drinking. It turns out that it's "a hollow, dried shell of a fruit in the Cucurbitaceae family of plants of the genus Lagenaria" that can be used as a bowl or bottle, among many other things.

Well, I've seen those things before (they actually grow in our garden in Crete) but I hadn't seen the word before and it never occured to me that I would learn how they are called in english thanks to this forum! (I actually thought that the drawing was a pear)

In any case, why isn't this thread stickied?

Maybe it's Cronenberg's Crash? Making the phrase "bumper-grill barbecue" a little vomit worthy.

if there was a "bumper grill bbq" in Life of Brian, I'd throw that title in...
there is a gourd...
that's how I knew what it was...