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The Plague of the Zombies (John Gilling, 1966)
Aug
20
A rather disgusting looking zombie carrying a young brunette in a flower dress. DP: Arthur Grant.
“I, I find all kinds of witchcraft slightly nauseating and this I find absolutely disgusting.”
– Sir James Forbes
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Plein soleil [Purple Noon] (René Clément, 1960)
Aug
20
1959
A contract for Marge, a sailboat, dated August 20, 1959. DP: Henri Decaë.
“Marge, my love, my angel.”
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Vergogna, schifosi!… [Dirty Angels] (Mauro Severino, 1969)
Aug
14
fruit
“Matto, caldo, soldi, morto… girotondo…”
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X [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963)
Aug
14
“The city… as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead.”
– Dr. James Xavier
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La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963)
Aug
6
mercredi
The bank where Jean Fournier (Claude Mann) works. A wall calendar, slightly tilted, reads Août 6 Mercredi. DP: Jean Rabier.
“Life has its tricks. Its oddities.”
– Jackie Demaistre
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13号待避線より その護送車を狙え ['Jūsangō taihisen' yori: Sono gosōsha o nerae / Aim at the Police Van] (Seijun Suzuki, 1960)
Aug
5
Fujiya popcorn
Teenage girls eating Fujiya popcorn while singing along to rock 'n roll on the jukebox in cool cool Shinjuku [新宿区]. DP: Shigeyoshi Mine.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965)
Aug
4
junket
Two women – one young (Carol Lynley), one older (Lucie Mannheim) – in a school's kitchen. The older woman handling the food says “But when it looks like junket, it is junket.“. DP: Denys N. Coop.
”'Junket is junket,' I said, and 'no matter what you do with it, it still tastes like swill and swallows like slime.'”
– school cook
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黒蜥蜴 [Kurotokage / Kuro tokage / Black Lizard] (Kinji Fukasaku, 1968)
Aug
4
The Black Lizard (Akihiro Miwa) in embrace with Detective Akechi (Isao Kimura). DP: Hiroshi Dōwaki.
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She-Man: A Story of Fixation (Bob Clark, 1967)
Aug
4
Lt. Albert Rose, now Rose Albert (Leslie Marlowe), strikes a dramatic pose. DP: Gerhard Maser.
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玉羅剎 [Yu luo cha / The Jade Raksha] (Meng-Hua Ho, 1968)
Jul
20
peanuts
Leng Chiu-han's hand (Pei-Pei Cheng) holds up a roasted peanut in the shell. On the table several more peanuts, empty shells, wine cups, and chopsticks. DP: Kuo-Hsiang Lin.