“Play straight, baby.”
Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971)
Jan
27
John Shaft (Richard Roundtree). Can you dig it, baby? DP: Urs Furrer.
– John Shaft
Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner [The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner] (Werner Herzog, 1974)
Jan
25
Chamonix 1924 Winter Olympics
Live footage of Steiner preparing for his flight. DP: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein.
Winter sports in celebration of the Chamonix 1924 Winter Olympics.
– Walter Steiner
In a film that is as much about Herzog as it is about Steiner, we follow the soft-spoken woodcarver in preparation of his definitive ski flight in Planica, Yugoslavia.
دایره مینا [Dayereh mina / The Cycle] (Dariush Mehrjui, 1977)
Jan
23
National Blood Donor Month
Poor looking men seen squatting on the floor, one arm attached to a blood bottle. In the middle of the floor a man in a lab coat with numerous empty bottles on a pristine white table. DP: Houshang Baharlou.
Someone gives blood for National Blood Donor Month (USA). A young man who accompanies his sick father to a hospital decides to donate blood for much needed money.
“It has been a good day for everyone, even for God. No sign of rain. No evidence of disease or blood.”
El año de la peste [The Year of the Plague] (Felipe Cazals, 1979)
Jan
12
Armed police wearing gas masks in front of the Palacio Nacional, Mexico City. DP: Xavier Cruz.
“Twenty-three years of living with nothing but gutter hypes and junkies!”
The Trip Back (Ralph Weisinger, 1970)
Jan
11
Florrie Fisher telling the kids about her highs and lows in the gutter. DPs: Donald Shapiro & Ralph Weisinger.
– Florrie Fisher
Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (John Reardon, 1978)
Jan
10
Tarry-Dan (Paul Curran) observing kids at the school's gate. DP: Peter Bartlett.
“I therefore concluded and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury round the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous subsequent observations. These observations also established that there are not only three, but four, erratic sidereal bodies performing their revolutions round Jupiter… the revolutions are so swift that an observer may generally get differences of position every hour.”
Operation Ganymed [Helden, verloren im Staub der Sterne] (Rainer Erler, 1977)
Jan
7
moons
Jupiter rising. DP: Wolfgang Grasshoff.
Moons for Galileo Galilei's observation of Jupiter's four largest moons in 1610: Ganymede and Callisto on January 7, and Europa and Io on January 8.
– Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius (”Starry Messenger”), 1610
A spacecraft named Ganymede II returns back to Earth after its expedition to Jupiter's moons followed by 1500 days stuck in space. The Earth they find, is deserted.
“I came from a dream that the black man dreamed long ago. I’m actually a presence sent to you by your ancestors.”
Space Is the Place (John Coney, 1974)
Jan
5
Space Shuttle
Ra's arrival. DP: Seth Hill.
A film about space travel on the day Nixon announced the Space Shuttle program in 1972.
– Sun Ra
儀式 [Gishiki / The Ceremony] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1971)
Jan
1
A boy in school uniform has his ear pressed against the ground. DP: Tōichirō Narushima.
“When we behave nobody cares. But when we are bad nobody forgets.”
Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen [Even Dwarfs Started Small] (Werner Herzog, 1970)
Dec
30
National Short Person Day
Some of the main cast members, with three women in focus. They're outdoors and several animals, including a kneeling dromedary, can be spotted in the background. DP: Thomas Mauch.
A short main character for National Short Person Day (USA).
– Hombré