What's the name of this film?

http://towerofbabel.com/sections/film/cinemastardust/miserabl.htm

my favourite scene is possibly the roomful of small girls playing noisy pianos

Saw this at a film festival several years ago. It was either a Chinese or HK remake of Point Blank, late '60s or early '70s. I'm not thinking of the Chow Yun Fat '93 movie, Full Contact - I'm guessing this wasn't an officially sanctioned project, but it was really obviously based on the same film, scenes and characters being very similar; the tunnel sniping scene replaced with one in a park, and other replacements. It has a pretty cool climatic final gun battle with the main characters walking down a long flight of stairs, gunning intruders coming into the house - I wondered if de Palma had seen this prior to making Scarface. Can't for the life of me remember what this was called.

c'moooooon ILX use your powers

A french/belgian coming-of-age film, set on the coast and with masses of shots of the teenage leads mooching about on the beach and deep in earnest conversation. Vaguely remember the plot is some kind of love-triangle style hart brake stuff. Possibly leads are two girls and a lad, although the whole thing is a very hazy memory. It must be ten years since I saw it, and I reckon it was made in the late 80s or early 90s. Anyone?

sounds vaguely like bonjour tristesse but of course that date range would be off

You know when the very act of thinking about and remembering something helps to bring it into focus? And god bless youtube, because I've known for ages that it's not Eric Rohmer's Pauline a La Plage, but never really looked at the rest of his work. Checked the trailer for PaLP just then on YT and the sidebar linked to his Conte d'été and that IS the film. Made in 1996 so a little later than I imagined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOfrMoMTy-M

Whilst I'm on an idiotic roll with this, there are two more things which are buried so deep that I wonder if I just dreamt them. Both seen on TV in my early childhood so pre-1982(!).

1. Black and white silent animation, possibly of the gloomy eastern european type that the BBC used to show to fill gaps in the afternoon schedule. All I recall is a fat man wandering about his house, going to bed and plummeting, bed and all, into a kind of underworld where he is then eaten by a mass of starving people.

2. A British made, Bodysnatchers style sci-fi show/film. Vivid memory of a scientist character finally being "turned" and advising one of the leads that "everyone likes a change now and then" before biting off one of his own fingers and crunching it like a carrot. Properly put the shits up me at age 10 or so.

Can these possibly be real? I feel that if they were just dreams then I wouldn't remember them so well, but maybe this is just an instance of false memories. Have at it ILX.

Bill, i think it's andre techine's les roseaux sauvages aka wild reeds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H48V-DoaqJ8

^^^ love that film.

o right sorry, you found the film you were looking for and it's not that one but you should check that one out because it's great.

yes i do too alfred.

jed_, appreciate yr time anyway - thanks! tbh the Techine film you've suggested looks like total catnip for me so will add it to my rental list.

Oh, and in the spirit of trying to give something back, for Nhex's unanswered HK Point Blank remake upthread from the 60s/70s, I reckon it's Bao chou made in 1970:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065450/

I think that's it! Thanks man!!

maybe set in the 1970's late or early 80's. About a group of cops, in some US city (possibly San Francisco comes to mind). Every night these cops would finish their shift and go get drunk in some park near a lake.

I remember a couple of cops setting up cameras in a public toilet.

One scene vaguely remember one of the cops tied up in the park and a couple of gay blokes taunting them.

Scene near the end of the film where one of the cops gets caught in a brothel in bondage gear.

Sounds like The Choirboys to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Choirboys_(film)

THATS IT, thank you!

Am going to decloak from parenthood/indolence/new work related long long break from posting to answer one of my own questions above. The terrifying cartoon was this, it's real, and it's still deeply creepy (and amazing, first ever computer generated animation it seems?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwU3UARE6yc