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Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
May
16
doubles
Guy Haines (Farley Granger) and Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), two strangers on a train. DP: Robert Burks.
“I still think it would be wonderful to have a man love you so much he'd kill for you.”
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Domenica d'agosto [Sunday in August] (Luciano Emmer, 1950)
Apr
29
spaghetti di mamma
Marcella (Anna Baldini) enjoying mamma's spaghetti on the beach of Ostia. DPs: Leonida Barboni, Ubaldo Marelli & Domenico Scala.
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Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
April 20
20
oysters
J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) pulling Sidney Falco's (Tony Curtis) tie over cocktails and oysters. DP: James Wong Howe.
“I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic.”
– J.J. Hunsecker
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Raggare! [Blackjackets] (Olle Hellbom, 1959)
Apr
3
Bibban, a beaming blonde (Christina Schollin) in a petticoat, at a small bar table smoking a cigarette. There's an half-empty glass and a full ashtray next to her. Just offscreen the object of her smile: a smartly dressed man reaching for his glass. DPs: Frank Dalin & Bertil Palmgren.
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Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
Mar
12
Michel (Martin LaSalle) in a busy café, observing. An emptied water glass next to the thief should make him look like a paying guest. DP: Léonce-Henri Burel.
“Can we not admit that certain skilled men, gifted with intelligence, talent or even genius, and thus indispensable to society, rather than stagnate, should be free to disobey laws in certain cases?”
– Michel
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Hägringen [Mirage] (Peter Weiss, 1959)
Feb
12
An uncomfortably close close-up up of a man's mouth eating something. Tongue and mouth are visible. He's got stubble. DP: Gustaf Mandal.
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Weegee’s Coney Island [Coney Island] (Arthur “Weegee” Fellig, 1954)
Feb
10
Good Humor
Two chubby ladies on Coney Island's beach eating chocolate-coated ice cream bars on a stick, I guess Good Humor bars. The women both wear black shapeless bathing suits. One of them has a pink towel over her shoulders and her hair in rollers. The framing shows only part of the couple, but tells you all you need to know. DP: Weegee.
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Day of the Outlaw (André De Toth, 1959)
Feb
2
coffee
Blaise Starrett (Ryan) and Mrs Crane (Louise) at a table. There are coffee cups and the talk is tense. DP: Russell Harlan.
“Excuse me, Mrs. Crane. This coffee made me think how good whiskey would taste.”
– Dan, Starret's foreman
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Crime Wave [The City Is Dark] (André De Toth, 1953)
Jan
29
dinner for two
Ellen Lacey (Phyllis Kirk) serving a bunch of punks (Bronson (2nd from the left, and Ted de Corsia (right) the food she prepared for herself and her husband Steve (Gene Nelson). DP: Bert Glennon.
“You know, it isn't what a man wants to do, Lacey, but what he has to do. Now take me – I love to smoke cigarettes, but the doctors say I can't have them. So what do I do? I chew toothpicks, tons of them.”
– Det. Lt. Sims
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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.
