The City of Lost Children

And she doesn't have any dialogue in the movie, so that's probably why it works.

If anybody's ever seen the Luc Besson movie, The City of Lost Children, the American actor Ron Perlman is in that, and that's a French movie.

And he doesn't speak French, so they just put in his character as a mute.

Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, the film opens as a young mute girl named Nivenia who is hidden away in a cave by her mother to protect her from an ancient shape-shifting witch known as the Wolf-Eatrice.

like a kid's comedy movie.

No, but it's – I think a lot of the films that transform me early days like A Rat Catcher or like A City of Lost Children or most recently Capernaum.

Have you seen that? Yeah, yeah.

I mean I think anytime a young child can pull off that level of authenticity and – These movies tend to be kids going through some pretty big transformations or like it's, you know, very powerful.

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The movies are voting between are Blue Velvet, The City of Lost Children, and Manghunter.

Bob, how are those numbers looking for the last time in spooky season 2026? Oh, God.

City of Lost Children in last place with 14% of the vote.

She's found begging for, essentially, the end of her life to stop the torture.

In the 1995 French fantasy film The City of Lost Children, Irvin is a talking brain in a jar, literally.

He's one of the only characters in the entire film with a moral compass and symbolizes loneliness and the desire for human connection, which he can't have.

He also suffers from bad migraines.

Horror noir films.

The three movies are Blue Velvet, The City of Lost Children, and Manhunter.

Bob, how are those numbers looking? I'm sure I'm dominating per usual.

I'm sure I'm just raking in the wins, Bob.

Um...

The City of Lost Children, or La Cité

des Enfants Perdus.

The greenest movie ever

Time to talk about it.

La Cité des Enfants Perdus, a.k.a.

The City of Lost Children.

It was

The argument that it was studio intervention and not him that ruined that film is, I think, very well borne out by the fact that everything else he's made has been really fucking great.

And then Alien Resurrection was Winona and Ron Perlman, directed by one of Junot, I think, from Junot and Corot, who made Delicatessen and City of Lost Children.

So it's, like, strange.

And I actually liked...

Amelie? There's just...

Like City of Lost Children

or something.

Different cords go into a hundred different objects in that bathroom.