settima

1960s

Lonely Are the Brave (David Miller, 1962)

Dec

15

bread

Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

Jerry Bondi (Gena Rowlands) kneads dough. DP: Philip H. Lathrop.

“I don't need a card to figure out who I am. I already know.”

– Jack Burns

Sedmi kontinent [Sedmý kontinent / The Seventh Continent] (Dušan Vukotić, 1966)

Dec

13

Francis Drake's circumnavigation

Sedmi kontinent (1966)

The first two children to set sail, with Iris Vrus on the right, and possibly Tomislav Pasarić on the left. DP: Karol Krška.

A voyage of discovery on the start of Francis Drake's circumnavigation. Children, ignored by their ever-busy parents, set sail to the Seventh Continent.

荒野のダッチワイフ [Kōya no dacchi waifu / Dutch Wife of the Wasteland] (Atsushi Yamatoya, 1967)

Dec

13

ice cream

荒野のダッチワイフ (1967)

A young woman in profile, almost a silhouette, eats ice cream. DP: Hajime Kai.

Hanoi, martes 13 [Hanoi, Tuesday 13th] (Santiago Álvarez, 1968)

Dec

13

Tue

Hanoi, martes 13 (1968)

A collage image of President Lyndon B. Johnson. His face is a hole and footage of a military burial service can be seen. DP: Iván Nápoles.

Roj [The Swarm] (Miodrag 'Mića' Popović, 1966)

Dec

12

International Day of Neutrality

Roj (1966)

The judge and the woman. DP: Milorad Marković.

Trying to stay out of conflict on the International Day of Neutrality.

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

Dec

11

Psycho (1960)

Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) in front of the family motel. DP: John L. Russell.

“The mattress is soft and there're hangers in the closet and stationary with “Bates' Motel” printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious.”

– Norman Bates

Les abysses [The Depths] (Nikos Papatakis, 1963)

Dec

2

sister's birthday

Les abysses (1963)

Michèle and Marie-Louise (real-life sisters Francine and Colette Bergé) as the real-life Papin sisters in their shared bedroom. DP: Jean-Michel Boussaguet.

Sisters for [OP's] sister's birthday.

Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)

Dec

1

Il mare (1962)

The actor (Umberto Orsini) and the boy (Dino Mele) in a restaurant. It's out of season and deserted. DP: Ennio Guarnieri.

Report (Bruce Conner, 1967)

Nov

23

1963

Report  (1967)

Television footage of JFK's state funeral with the caption “November 23, 1963”, superimposed over it.

Mélodie en sous-sol [Any Number Can Win] (Henri Verneuil, 1963)

Nov

22

banquet

Mélodie en sous-sol (1963)

Backstage at the Cannes casino, stars and stagehands enjoy their well-deserved end-of-season banquet. Just walking in front of the showgirls is piano player Sam (Jimmy Davis). DP: Louis Page.