Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940)
Jun
13
DP: Elwood Bredell.
Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940)
Jun
13
DP: Elwood Bredell.
El gran calavera [The Great Madcap] (Luis Buñuel, 1949)
May
31
Lobbycard. DP: Ezequiel Carrasco.
– You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion? – You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross!My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)
May
5
Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey.
Krakatit (Otakar Vávra, 1948)
Apr
26
International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day
A man on a darkened, concrete runway, running towards a man-made structure, a mirage. DP: Václav Hanuš.
Something nuclear on International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day
In a state of delirium, engineer Prokop chases his stolen chemical formula, worried it may be used for mass destruction
With the experience of yet another world war, and two devastating applications of science biggest terror, Karel Čapek's 1922 novel Krakatit [“Krakatoa”] anticipated and moulded the decades to come.
And R.U.R. is now, just around the corner.
“Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.”Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
Apr
24
Devlin (Cary Grant) and Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman). DP: Ted Tetzlaff.
And January 9.
– Devlin
“Do you fancy a pizza? Come on, then! Come on, let's go! What the hell. We might as well go out in style. What's the point in worrying about it all?”Ladri di biciclette [The Bicycle Thieves] (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
Apr
11
National Cheese Fondue Day
Bruno (Enzo Staiola) eating mozzarella. DP: Carlo Montuori.
Cheese or fondue for National Cheese Fondue Day (USA)
– Antonio Ricci
父ありき [Chichi ariki / There Was a Father] (Yasujirō Ozu, 1942)
Mar
31
a father
Father and son fishing in a creek. DP: Yūharu Atsuta.
A father for OP's father's birthday.
A father, and proud teacher, raises his son alone. When the boy is an adult and a teacher himself, the elder's traditional concept of societal hierarchy affirms the balance between the generations.
“A thousand men, say, go searchin' for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky: one out of a thousand. His find represents not only his own labor, but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. That's six thousand months, five hundred years, scramblin' over a mountain, goin' hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the findin' and the gettin' of it.”The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
Feb
14
1925
The winning lottery numbers of February 14, 1925. DP: Ted D. McCord.
– Howard
“We're not here to play dominoes.”Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948)
Dec
30
1947
A calendar page. It's December 30, 1947. DP: John Alton.
“If that's Americanism, it's very hyphenated.”December 7th (John Ford + Gregg Toland, 1943)
Dec
7
1941
A Japanese person paints over the Japanese characters on their store's sign. AZUMA PHONE and SUS[HI obscured] can stay. DP: Gregg Toland.
– narrator