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Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
Jan
27
milk and cigarettes
The titular Mikey and Nicky sharing snacks, smokes, and sips at a tiny fast food table. There are piles of boxes with canned beer behind them. Mikey (Falk) cheesily grins at Nicky (Cassavetes). DPs: Bernie Abramson, Lucien Ballard, Jack Cooperman, Jerry File & Victor J. Kemper.
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The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison, 1968)
Jan
26
champagne
A production photo showing Thomas Crown (McQueen) and Vicki Anderson (Dunaway) sharing foods and drinks. Them seem enthralled with each other. DP: Haskell Wexler.
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Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár, 1968/1971)
Jan
21
salt
Semi-off screen, an older man with a moustache at a dinner table – many plates, glasses, and foods – reaches for a bowl of salt. DP: Vladimír Novotný.
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High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, 1940)
Jan
19
Roy Earle (Bogart) pensively smoking an after-meal cigarette while Marie Garson (Lupino) looks on. DP: Tony Gaudio.
“Roy, this is the land of milk and honey for the health racket. Every woman in California thinks she's either too fat or too thin or too something.”
– 'Doc' Banton
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Восточный коридор [Vostochny Koridor / Eastern Corridor] (Valentin Vinogradov, 1967)
Jan
15
People eating, drinking, singing. DP: Yuri Marukhin.
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Les yeux cernés [Marked Eyes] (Robert Hossein, 1964)
Jan
11
baguette
A young woman with big eyes and a dark bob (Marie-France Pisier) picks crumbs out of a fresh baguette. She's somewhere in a dreary small town. The snow's almost gone. DP: Jean Boffety.
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Mit dem Motorrad über die Wolken [A Motorcycle Trip Among the Clouds] (Lothar Rübelt, 1926)
Jan
9
roadside picnic
A man and woman (Signorina Hansi) in 1920s motorcycle outfits enjoy a cheese-and-wine picnic at the Waldsee. DP: Franz Sochor.
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Ucho [The Ear] (Karel Kachyňa, 1970)
Jan
8
cake
A gold-rimmed plate with a messy piece of cake on its side. Near it two glasses and a bottle of alcohol. DP: Josef Illík.
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A cavallo della tigre [On the Tiger's Back / Jail Break] (Luigi Comencini, 1961)
Jan
6
Two men in a doorway with a stunned look on their faces and their mouths stuffed with food. DP: Aldo Scavarda.
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Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)
Jan
2
Martini
The boss, Hondros (Giannis Argyris), pours out a stiff drink on the floor of his cabaret with Mr Tomas (Dinos Iliopoulos) in the background. DP: Kostas Theodoridis.
The first film dinner of 2024.
