Libahunt [Лесная легенда / Werewolf] (Leida Laius, 1968)
Jan
13
soup

A dinner table shown from above. Several people, we mainly see their hands and wooden spoons, eat from a hand-carved bowl. DP: Algimantas Mockus.
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Libahunt [Лесная легенда / Werewolf] (Leida Laius, 1968)
Jan
13
soup

A dinner table shown from above. Several people, we mainly see their hands and wooden spoons, eat from a hand-carved bowl. DP: Algimantas Mockus.
“Better to be with wolves in the forest, than with people like you!”Libahunt [Лесная легенда / Werewolf] (Leida Laius, 1968)
Jan
13
wolf moon

Tiina (Ene Rämmeld) walking through the forest. DP: Algimantas Mockus.
Wolves for Wolf Moon, the first full moon after Yule.
In Livonia, which covers modern day Estonia, the 17th century was when the werewolf trials reigned.
Tiina, a young liberated woman taken in by a family of farmers after her mother was put on trial for witchcraft, is accused of hunting with the wolves as a werewolf by her half-sister with whom she shares a lover.
“Right now, I don't know if it's me or the dynamite that doin' all that sweatin'.”The Professionals (Richard Brooks, 1966)
Jan
12
1812

The sheriff jolts something down next to a wall calendar that reads January 12, 1812. Just visible through a window, Jake (Woody Strode) approaches. DP: Conrad L. Hall.
– Jake Sharp
“It has been a good day for everyone, even for God. No sign of rain. No evidence of disease or blood.”El año de la peste [The Year of the Plague] (Felipe Cazals, 1979)
Jan
12

Armed police wearing gas masks in front of the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City. DP: Xavier Cruz.
“We sought asylum for our love, but the road led us out to the land of the dead.”նռան գույնը [Sayat Nova / The Color of Pomegranates] (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)
Jan
11
journeys

A nun holds up an embroidered cloth depicting a dead Christ surrounded by mourning saints. Next to her a monk in black, resembling poet Sayat-Nova. Screenshot via Screenmusings. DP: Suren Shakhbazyan.
Garnets for January. The garnet is supposed to protect the traveller on his journey, and is named after the pomegranate with which it shares its bloodred colour.
The story of a poet's spiritual journey. The poet, and poems the film is based on is ashough [lover, or travelling musician] Sayat-Nova (b. Harutyun Sayatyan).
“Twenty-three years of living with nothing but gutter hypes and junkies!”The Trip Back (Ralph Weisinger, 1970)
Jan
11

Florrie Fisher telling the kids about her highs and lows in the gutter. DPs: Donald Shapiro & Ralph Weisinger.
– Florrie Fisher
“The Kinoautomat in the Czechoslovak Pavilion is a guaranteed hit of the World Exposition, and the Czechs should build a monument to the man who conceived the idea, Radúz Činčera.”Kinoautomat: Člověk a jeho dům [Kinoautomat / One Man and His House] (Ján Roháč, Radúz Činčera + Vladimír Svitáček, 1967)
Jan
10
Representation of the People Act 1918

The audience about to vote for one of two scenes, with two presenters on stage.. DP: Jaromír Šofr.
Voting, for the Representation of the People Act 1918, UK.
Made for the Czechoslovak Pavilion at #Expo67 in #Montréal, Kinoautomat was the world's first interactive film. During nine moments in the story, a moderator would appear on the stage, and ask the audience where the story should go now. Depending on the votes, one of two reels would play.
– The New Yorker
After its very successful performance at Expo 67, and a one year run in Prague, Kinoautomat was banned by the Czechoslovakian government.
“Yes, it's story time on WJAD in the heart of Times Square, New York, New York. The city so nice, they named it twice.”Times Square (Allan Moyle, 1980)
Jan
10
1967

A bus on Times Square with a large (expensive) ad asking people to be on the lookout for a Pamela Pearl, born January 10, 1967. DP: James A. Contner.
– Johnny LaGuardia, on the air
Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (John Reardon, 1978)
Jan
10

Tarry-Dan (Paul Curran) observing kids at the school's gate. DP: Peter Bartlett.
– How much did you win? – 500,000 in less than an hour. It's immoral, but no more than anything else. No more than poverty or ugliness.La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963)
Jan
9
Wheel of Fortune

Jean (Claude Mann) and Jackie (Jeanne Moreau) at a casino table. The tension is palpable. DP: Jean Rabier.
Good, or bad, fortune on the day Wheel of Fortune premiered in 1975.