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Touche pas à la femme blanche [Don't Touch the White Woman!] (Marco Ferreri, 1974)

Nov

23

potato chips

Touche pas à la femme blanche (1974)

Two white Frenchmen – in a University of Columbia and a CIA sweatshirt respectively – comment on the “period piece” they're in. CIA man (Paolo Villaggio) stuffs his face with potato chips. DP: Étienne Becker.

“Whoever dies for the country hasn't lived in vain. I, on the contrary, will live for the country because I'm not that stupid.”

– George A. Custer

#FilmDinner #PotatoChips #MarcoFerreri #CatherineDeneuve #MarcelloMastroianni #MichelPiccoli #PhilippeNoiret #UgoTognazzi #AlainCuny #SergeReggiani #PaoloVillaggio #PhilippeSarde #ÉtienneBecker #Movember #satire #history #drama #war #western #Paris #France #Italy #1970s ★★★★☆

Muhammad Ali, the Greatest [Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee] (William Klein, 1974)

Sep

4

Mouthguard Day

Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (1974)

A randomly picked screenshot showing Muhammad Ali fighting George Foreman. Each and every scene of a William Klein film is a photograph. DPs: Étienne Becker, William Klein, Richard Suzuki & Patrice Wyers.

“I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; Handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.”

– Muhammad Ali

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #MouthguardDay #WilliamKlein #MuhammadAli #CassiusClay #GeorgeForeman #MalcolmX #MobutuSeseSeko #MickeyBaker #ÉtienneBecker #WilliamKlein #RichardSuzuki #PatriceWyers #sports #politics #photography #documentary #France #1970s ★★★★½