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Yawar Mallku [Blood of the Condor] (Jorge Sanjinés, 1969)
Oct
9
Indigenous Peoples Day
Three Quechua men in ponchos and chullas seen from the back look out over the Anti (Andes). One of them stands on top of a large boulder. DP: Antonio Eguino.
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Almacita di desolato [Almacita, Soul of Desolato] (Felix de Rooy, 1986)
Oct
5
National Caribbean Civility Day
Desolato's village priestess Solem (Marian Rolle). DP: Ernest R. Dickerson.
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Beatriz (Gonzalo Suárez, 1976)
Oct
5
soup
Basilisa (Nadiuska) holds up a terrine for Juan (Óscar Martín), who scoops the soup into his bowl. The bowl is the top of three the small boy has towering in front of him. DP: Carlos Suárez.
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Dutchman (Anthony Harvey, 1966)
Oct
3
Mean Girls Day
Clay (Al Freeman Jr.) reading a newspaper and minding his business on a subway train home. Just arrived on his car is Lula (Shirley Knight) and her endless supply of apples. DP: Gerry Turpin.
“Bet you can't eat just one.”
– advertising slogan
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Morire gratis (Sandro Franchina, 1968)
Oct
2
National Michelle Day
Michelle (Karen Blanguernon) and the artist (Franco Angeli). DP: Guido Cosulich.
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Привързаният балон [Privarzaniyat balon / The Tied-Up Balloon] (Binka Zhelyazkova, 1967)
Oct
1
Balloons Around The World Day
The balloon sails along as a young woman in white (Janet Miteva) walks with it. DP: Emil Vagenshtain.
One day, a large blimp shows up over a small Bulgarian village. The townspeople, seeing the prosperity in all that beautiful silk and then some, go after it.
“It was fear that created the first gods.”
– Stratius
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The Animal (Walter Ungerer, 1976)
Sep
30
National Ghost Hunting Day
Jo (Jo Moore) in the couple's cabin. She's seen reflected in a mirror, together with what appears to be an older woman in an old photograph. DP: Walter Ungerer.
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Decoder (Muscha, 1984)
Sep
28
International Right To Know Day
“Information is like a bank. Some of us are rich. Some of us are poor, with information. All of us can be rich. Our job, your job, is to rob the bank. To kill the guard. To go out there to destroy everybody who keeps, and hides, the whole information. Simple. Special. Information. Power.”
– The High Priest
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Медвежья свадьба [Medvezhya svadba / The Bear's Wedding] (Konstantin Eggert + Vladimir Gardin, 1925)
Sep
28
In preparation of the bear's wedding, a cook – wearing not much more than an apron and a toque blanche – stirs a huge kettle over a roaring fire. DPs: Eduard Tisse & Pyotr Yermolov.
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Werckmeister harmóniák (Béla Tarr, 2000)
Sep
26
Shamu The Whale Day
A man in a dark hat and coat approaches the whale. The huge creature lays in an enormous open wooden crate in the middle of a town square. DPs: Patrick de Ranter, Miklós Gurbán, Erwin Lanzensberger, Gábor Medvigy, Emil Novák & Rob Tregenza.
“All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign.”
– János Valuska
