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Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932)
Aug
15
1927
“We know what year it is, don't we?”
– Mrs. Haggerty speaking to her dog
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White Woman (Stuart Walker, 1933)
Aug
1
“You'll go under like all the others.”
– Judith Denning
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Picture Snatcher (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
Jun
16
Patricia Nolan (Patricia Ellis) and Danny Kean (James Cagney). DP: Sol Polito.
“That gets it. That little touch of lavender. Am I gonna stink pretty.”
– Danny Kean
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934)
Mar
21
Abbott (Peter Lorre). DP: Curt Courant.
“Stand by, there's trouble coming soon.”
– Bob Lawrence
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Even: As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay + LeRoy Robbins, 1937)
Feb
27
A film editor struggling with a long strip of celluloid. DP: Hy Hirsh.
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Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933)
Feb
20
A couple walks into a room, only to discover a lifeless man and a headless snake. DP: Ernest Haller.
“You don't think I sat there all evening with an eight-foot mamba in my pocket?”
– Eric Gorman
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大佛廻國 [Daibutsu kaikoku / The Great Buddha Arrival] (Yoshirō Edamasa, 1934)
Dec
22
Buddha takes a holiday. A gigantic Buddha statue rests his hand on a multi-story building in possibly Kyoto. In front and sprawling out are multiple small wooden establishments with people in kimono and several bicycles in front of them. A tram, the only thing that suggests the 20th century, can be seen almost off-screen. (via). DPs: Haruzo Ando & Harumi Machii.
Something tall*
In this very early kaiju moving picture, Buddha returns and goes on a sightseeing trip through Japan.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.
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Children's Party (Joseph Cornell, c. 1938/1969)
Dec
18
Las Posadas
Exuberant dancers at the children's party.
“Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.”
– Joseph Cornell
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L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Dec
16
on a river
Juliette (Dita Parlo) in her bridal dress walks the cover of her husband's river barge L'Atalante. A steam barge putputs by (via). DP: Boris Kaufman.
Set on a river*
Jean: Are you bored?
Juliette: Oh, no.
Jean: Don't worry. There'll be places to see.
Juliette: Riverbanks.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.
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20 de noviembre de 1936 ¿Te acuerdas de esta fecha, compañero? [20th of November] (1937)
Nov
20
1936
Soldiers in silhouette. Disclaimer: I am not 100% sure this still is from the correct film. DP: anonymous.
A documentary made by the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in honour of anarchist Buenaventura Durruti, who was murdered on November 20, 1936.
“Fascism is not to be debated, it is to be destroyed.”
– Buenaventura Durruti
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