Cinema Cats

September 9, 2018 9:03 AM

Cinema Cats is a website dedicated to listing as many appearances of domestic cats in films and tv shows as it can.

I think my favourite film filled with incidental and background cats is probably L'Atalante.

posted by dng (23 comments total)

But does it have Kedi???

Oh yes it does. All is right.
posted by Vesihiisi at 9:21 AM on September 9, 2018 [1 favorite]

Black cats can’t help it if they show up at an inopportune time.

Oh, they can; they just don’t care.
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:52 AM on September 9, 2018 [1 favorite]

Of course they care! It's their entire job.
posted by evilDoug at 9:59 AM on September 9, 2018 [1 favorite]

Not the entire job. There’s also baleful glaring, soulful glowering, lurking, kibble quibbling, strategic pooping, and the occasional loving headbutt.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:04 AM on September 9, 2018 [5 favorites]

I'm pretty sure you meant to say:

Cinema Cats is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats screened into these films, or why.

posted by glonous keming at 10:09 AM on September 9, 2018 [11 favorites]

I support this, and am delighted to see dng lead off with L'Atalante.
posted by doctornemo at 10:19 AM on September 9, 2018 [2 favorites]

These are all well and good, but I must now see Repossessed for that closet bit.
posted by rhizome at 10:58 AM on September 9, 2018 [1 favorite]

strategic pooping

I'm picturing cats in airforce uniforms sitting in a classroom, with an instructor standing in front of a blackboard with the words STRATEGIC POOPING written in big bold letters... And then some kind of map with various spots marked with X and arrows pointing to and fro
posted by some loser at 11:52 AM on September 9, 2018 [3 favorites]

Love that it includes shorts and animated movies, some of which you can just click on and watch.

It is missing Eye of the Cat. Maybe evil cats were left out of the listing.
posted by eye of newt at 11:53 AM on September 9, 2018

I'm picturing cats in airforce uniforms sitting in a classroom,

You’re probably thinking of tactical pooping.
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:59 AM on September 9, 2018 [1 favorite]

Missing my favorite, the cat scene in Truffaut's "Day For Night".
posted by w0mbat at 12:21 PM on September 9, 2018

Missing my favorite, the cat scene in Truffaut's "Day For Night".

It does have that cat. And also another Truffaut cat scene (which was the inspiration for the Day For Night scene, and also for this post, as I discovered this site after watching The Soft Skin the other day and looking up that cat scene from it to show to a friend.)
posted by dng at 12:35 PM on September 9, 2018

Missing my favorite, the cat scene in Truffaut's "Day For Night".

It does have that cat.

You are right. I missed it because they listed it under the French name, "La Nuit Américaine".
Quel dommage.
posted by w0mbat at 12:50 PM on September 9, 2018

Ooh thanks for figuring out that the site lists films with the original title w0mbat. I was puzzled that "Take Care of My Cat" was missing, but then I looked for "goyangi" and all was well again.

BUT! When I searched for "neko"... they seem to have missed Rentaneko (2012) aka Rent-a-Cat
posted by spamandkimchi at 5:38 PM on September 9, 2018 [1 favorite]

This is a pretty good time-sink - I've spent about an hour checking on films I did know had cats in, and trying to think of ones they've missed, including the lovely but unpronounceable French film Chacun Cherche son Chat.

Also, because I love bad puns, I was tickled to see that the cat who plays the hairless Mr Bigglesworth in the Austin Powers films is called Ted Nude-Gent.
posted by Fuchsoid at 6:24 PM on September 9, 2018 [2 favorites]

Is this a new site, or are the stars simply aligning? I just searched "the innocents movie cat" and got back Mrs. Grose petting a stocky tabby, and then went to look up all the other cat sightings I could remember.

No Neko Atsume no ie though :(
posted by batter_my_heart at 12:04 AM on September 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

Nice writeup on my favourite cinematic cat scene, from Altman's The Long Goodbye.
posted by remembrancer at 6:52 AM on September 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

Jonesy, though, might be the luckiest/smartest/craftiest cat in all of cinema.
posted by ikahime at 8:29 AM on September 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

According to IMDB, that's the king of finicky cats Morris in The Long Goodbye. Morris was also in the film Shamus. I was a little disappointed last week when I couldn't find any "Burt Reynolds, who starred alongside '70s icon Morris The Cat"-style obits.
posted by queensissy at 11:06 AM on September 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

If you like this, you will also enjoy film critic Anne Billson's excellent and definitive book Cats on Film.
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 11:59 AM on September 10, 2018 [3 favorites]

Kittens of 1949!
posted by paduasoy at 3:36 PM on September 10, 2018

This is a pretty good time-sink - I've spent about an hour checking on films I did know had cats in, and trying to think of ones they've missed, including the lovely but unpronounceable French film Chacun Cherche son Chat.

I started my search with Logan's Run, which is one of my favorite cat films.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 4:45 PM on September 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

I thought this meant "Cats that live in cinemas" :-D
Like Duke who lives in the Astor Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, or his beloved (and cranky) predecessor Marzipan the Astor Cat. I'm proud to say I was scratched by her once....
posted by maxcelcat at 8:24 PM on September 11, 2018 [2 favorites]