settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ @settima@zirk.us Wed, 06 May 2026 10:25:34 +0200 The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-unholy-three-1925 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Unholy Three (1925)/div div class="caption" Tweedledee (Harry Earles), Hercules (Victor McLaglen), and Echo - The Ventriloquist (Lon Chaney). DP: David Kesson./div div class="txt" "It's spooky! It sounds… unholy!" ### – Echo /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #TodBrowning #LonChaney #HarryEarles #VictorMcLaglen #DavidKesson #SilentFilm #crime #PreCode #USA #1920s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925)

May

6

The Unholy Three (1925)

Tweedledee (Harry Earles), Hercules (Victor McLaglen), and Echo – The Ventriloquist (Lon Chaney). DP: David Kesson.

“It's spooky! It sounds… unholy!”

– Echo

#FilmDuJour #May #TodBrowning #LonChaney #HarryEarles #VictorMcLaglen #DavidKesson #SilentFilm #crime #PreCode #USA #1920s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-unholy-three-1925 Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Bed Peace [John and Yoko: The Bed-In] (John Lennon + Yoko Ono, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l2xb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bed Peace [John and Yoko: The Bed-In] (John Lennon + Yoko Ono, 1969)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 05/div div class="occasion" 1969/div div class="img" Bed Peace (1969).png)/div div class="caption" Someone holds up a letter with John in the background who takes an amused drag from his cigarette. DP: Nicholas D. Knowland./div div class="txt" "on the fifth of May, Lisa[?] Minelli makes the bed." ### – John Lennon /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JohnLennon #YokoOno #MurrayTheK #AlCapp #KyokoOnoCox #AllenGinsberg #DickGregory #AllenKlein #JonasMekas #TimothyLeary #TomSmothers #NicholasDKnowland #documentary #interview #art #peace #Montréal #UK #1960s/div /section ]]>

Bed Peace [John and Yoko: The Bed-In] (John Lennon + Yoko Ono, 1969)

May

05

1969

Bed Peace (1969)

Someone holds up a letter with John in the background who takes an amused drag from his cigarette. DP: Nicholas D. Knowland.

“on the fifth of May, Lisa[?] Minelli makes the bed.”

– John Lennon

#FilmDuJour #May #JohnLennon #YokoOno #MurrayTheK #AlCapp #KyokoOnoCox #AllenGinsberg #DickGregory #AllenKlein #JonasMekas #TimothyLeary #TomSmothers #NicholasDKnowland #documentary #interview #art #peace #Montréal #UK #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l2xb Tue, 05 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0f30 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" 1945/div div class="img" Maratón (1968)/div div class="caption" Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #IvoNovák #JaromírHanzlík #JanaBrejchová #VladimírMenšík #KarelHöger #ZdeněkŠtěpánek #ZdeněkLiška #VáclavHanuš #comedy #drama #war #Czechoslovakia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)

May

5

1945

Maratón (1968)

Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš.

#FilmDuJour #May #IvoNovák #JaromírHanzlík #JanaBrejchová #VladimírMenšík #KarelHöger #ZdeněkŠtěpánek #ZdeněkLiška #VáclavHanuš #comedy #drama #war #Czechoslovakia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0f30 Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="X" /div div class="img" My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)/div div class="caption" Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey./div div class="txt" – You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion? – You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross! ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)

May

5

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey.

– You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion?

– You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross!

#FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0xr7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 03/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Japanicky (1928).png)/div div class="caption" A cheeky looking Felix stands in a doorway with a bamboo roller shutter. Inside the room a woman in Japanese dress sits in front of a tea bowl and pot on top of a small platform. From the ceiling hangs a (Chinese) lantern and from the wall a large scroll that reads May 3 in stereotypical Oriental lettering./div div class="txt" and May 4. &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #OttoMessmer #surrealism #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #animation #USA #1920s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928)

May

03

Japanicky (1928)

A cheeky looking Felix stands in a doorway with a bamboo roller shutter. Inside the room a woman in Japanese dress sits in front of a tea bowl and pot on top of a small platform. From the ceiling hangs a (Chinese) lantern and from the wall a large scroll that reads May 3 in stereotypical Oriental lettering.

and May 4.

 

#FilmDuJour #May #OttoMessmer #surrealism #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #animation #USA #1920s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0xr7 Sun, 03 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Goya 3 de mayo [Goya, May 3rd] (Carlos Saura, 2021) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-74jy <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Goya 3 de mayo [Goya, May 3rd] (Carlos Saura, 2021)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" 1808/div div class="img" Goya 3 de mayo (2021)/div div class="caption" Saura's reconstruction of Goya's anti-war painting El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid (1814). DP: Sergio De Uña./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #CarlosSaura #FranciscoGoya #ÁlvaroDePaz #AlfonsoGAguilar #SergioDeUña #art #FineArt #documentary #war #TVMovie #ShortFilm #Spain #2020s/div /section ]]>

Goya 3 de mayo [Goya, May 3rd] (Carlos Saura, 2021)

May

3

1808

Goya 3 de mayo (2021)

Saura's reconstruction of Goya's anti-war painting El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid (1814). DP: Sergio De Uña.

#FilmDuJour #May #CarlosSaura #FranciscoGoya #ÁlvaroDePaz #AlfonsoGAguilar #SergioDeUña #art #FineArt #documentary #war #TVMovie #ShortFilm #Spain #2020s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-74jy Sun, 03 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped]... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cjbl <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)/div div class="caption" A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts "Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]". DP: Léonce-Henri Burel./div div class="txt" "With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…" ### – Fontaine\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RobertBresson #AndréDevigny #FrançoisLeterrier #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #WW2 #biography #BookAdaptation #prison #JailBreak #France #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)

May

2

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)

A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts “Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]“. DP: Léonce-Henri Burel.

“With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…”

– Fontaine

#FilmDuJour #May #RobertBresson #AndréDevigny #FrançoisLeterrier #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #WW2 #biography #BookAdaptation #prison #JailBreak #France #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cjbl Sat, 02 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Normalsatz [Ordinary Sentence] (Heinz Emigholz, 1982) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qltn <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Normalsatz [Ordinary Sentence] (Heinz Emigholz, 1982)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 1975/div div class="img" Normalsatz (1982)/div div class="caption" A woman, seated on a bed, speaks to a second woman who is pressed against the side of a bookcase. Still via. DP: Heinz Emigholz./div div class="txt" Part of the Trilogie der Siebziger Jahre ("Trilogy of the Seventies"). /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #HeinzEmigholz #PeterBlegvad #MarciaBronstein #SilkeGrossmann #HannesHatje #ExperimentalFilm #WestGermany #1980s/div /section ]]>

Normalsatz [Ordinary Sentence] (Heinz Emigholz, 1982)

Apr

30

1975

Normalsatz (1982)

A woman, seated on a bed, speaks to a second woman who is pressed against the side of a bookcase. Still via. DP: Heinz Emigholz.

Part of the Trilogie der Siebziger Jahre (“Trilogy of the Seventies”).

#FilmDuJour #April #HeinzEmigholz #PeterBlegvad #MarciaBronstein #SilkeGrossmann #HannesHatje #ExperimentalFilm #WestGermany #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qltn Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v7x3 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Devil Rides Out (1968)/div div class="caption" The menacing Mocata (Charles Gray). DP: Arthur Grant./div div class="txt" – Do you realise what today's date is, Rex? – April the, er, 29th, why? ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #TerenceFisher #RichardMatheson #DennisWheatley #ChristopherLee #CharlesGray #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #UK #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968)

Apr

29

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

The menacing Mocata (Charles Gray). DP: Arthur Grant.

– Do you realise what today's date is, Rex?

– April the, er, 29th, why?

#FilmDuJour #April #TerenceFisher #RichardMatheson #DennisWheatley #ChristopherLee #CharlesGray #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #UK #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v7x3 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k05k <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" 8:59/div div class="img" 重慶森林 (1994)/div div class="caption" A flipclock. It's April 28, a Friday, and 8:59 pm. DPs: Christopher Doyle & Wai Keung Lau./div div class="txt" "We broke up on April's fools day, so I took it as a joke. I'm willing to humor her for a month." ### – He Zhiwu, Cop 223 /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #WongKarWai #BrigitteLin #TonyLeungChiuWai #FayeWong #TakeshiKaneshiro #ValerieChow #PiggyChan #FrankieChan #MichaelGalasso #RoelAGarcía #ChristopherDoyle #WaiKeungLau #romance #crime #drama #comedy #HongKong #1990s/div /section ]]>

重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)

Apr

28

8:59

重慶森林 (1994)

A flipclock. It's April 28, a Friday, and 8:59 pm. DPs: Christopher Doyle & Wai Keung Lau.

“We broke up on April's fools day, so I took it as a joke. I'm willing to humor her for a month.”

– He Zhiwu, Cop 223

#FilmDuJour #April #WongKarWai #BrigitteLin #TonyLeungChiuWai #FayeWong #TakeshiKaneshiro #ValerieChow #PiggyChan #FrankieChan #MichaelGalasso #RoelAGarcía #ChristopherDoyle #WaiKeungLau #romance #crime #drama #comedy #HongKong #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k05k Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200