settima

1970s

The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978)

May

1

mutton

The Shout (1978)

Charles Crossley (Alan Bates) in Anthony Fielding's (John Hurt) kitchen. Despite being the outsider here, Crossley's presence takes central stage. DP: Mike Molloy.

Strategia del ragno The Spider's Stratagem] (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

Apr

19

melon

Strategia del ragno (1970)

Athos Magnani (Giulio Brogi) and Draifa (Alida Valli) sharing a meal. There's a carafe with water, a small vase with two flowers, wine glasses, and half a melon. Athos looks up, past us, towards something. DPs: Franco Di Giacomo & Vittorio Storaro.

“There's phrase that… 'A man is made of all men. He is equal to all and all are equal to him'.”

– Athos Magnani

Série noire (Alain Corneau, 1979)

Apr

9

canned pilchards

Série noire (1979)

Franck Poupart (Patrick Dewaere) about to dig into a can of pilchards. A pile of French women's magazine “marie claire” is next to him on an otherwise bare coffee table. DP: Pierre-William Glenn.

Max et les ferrailleurs [Max and the Junkmen] (Claude Sautet, 1971)

Mar

16

Max et les ferrailleurs (1971)

Lily (Schneider) and Max (Piccoli) at a small table decked with good food, good wine, and quite a few wads of cash. DP: René Mathelin.

Herz aus Glas [Heart of Glass] (Werner Herzog, 1976)

Mar

13

tea

Herz aus Glas (1976)

“I look into the distance to the end of the world. Before the day is over, the end will come. First, time will tumble, and then the earth. The clouds will begin to race… the earth boils over; this is the sign. This is the beginning of the end. The world's edge begins to crumble… everything starts to collapse… tumbles, fall, crumbles and collapses. I look into the cataract. I feel an undertow, it draws me, it sucks me down. I began to fal, a vertigo seizes upon me.”

– Hias

Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél [The Wind Blows Under Your Feet] (György Szomjas, 1976)

Mar

11

wine

Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél (1976)

German lobby card. Two rough-looking Hungarian cowboys drink from wooden beakers at a small, wooden table. The man who has the carafe, also has the knife. DP: Elemér Ragályi.

Avere vent'anni [To Be Twenty] (Fernando Di Leo, 1978)

Mar

9

sandwiches

Avere vent'anni (1978)

Lia (Gloria Guida), one of the young, hot and pissed off 20-somethings, enjoys a sandwich with her espadrilles resting on a small restaurant table. Just visible in the background are multiple men on their lunchbreak. DP: Roberto Gerardi.

“I'm young, hot and pissed off!”

– Tina

破戒 [Po jie / Broken Oath] (Chang-hwa Jeong, 1977)

Feb

24

noodles

破戒 (1977)

A large man at an eatery gulps down bowl after bowl of delicious noodles. He's at number seven with bowl eight ready to go. DPs: Tieh Wang & Yung-Lung Wang.

The Whole Shootin' Match (Eagle Pennell, 1978)

Feb

23

dinner with dad

The Whole Shootin' Match (1978)

Father and son at a small messy dinner table in a small kitchen. The dad, Frank (Sonny Carl Davis) is going on about something while the kid, T. Frank (David Weber), licks his finger. DP: Eagle Pennell.

The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, 1977)

Feb

9

popcorn

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

A white guy munches popcorn in a seemingly empty movie theatre while an usher, standing right behind him, lights a cigarette. DP: Stephen M. Katz.

“The popcorn you are eating has been pissed in. Film at eleven.”

– newscaster