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Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)

Aug

22

1972

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Sal (John Cazale) and Sonny (Al Pacino) in the bank, holding out with their increasingly impatient hostages. DP: Victor J. Kemper.

“He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me.”

– Leon

Plein soleil [Purple Noon] (René Clément, 1960)

Aug

20

1959

Plein soleil (1960)

A contract for Marge, a sailboat, dated August 20, 1959. DP: Henri Decaë.

“Marge, my love, my angel.”

Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, 1962)

Aug

18

1961

Experiment in Terror (1962)

A ticket to a baseball game at Candlestick Park on August 18, 1961, a Friday. Playing are the San Francisco Giants vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Giants won. DP: Philip H. Lathrop.

And July 26, Joey's birthday. He's six now.

“And oh, are the Giants mad!”

– announcer on PA

Cagliostro – Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers [Cagliostro] (Richard Oswald, 1929)

Aug

15

1785

Cagliostro (1929)

A title card: LE 15 AOÛT 1785. DPs: Maurice Desfassiaux & Jules Kruger.

 

簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)

Aug

10

1941

Kanzashi (1941)

A formal paper with the date stamp for August 10, Showa 16 (1941). DP: Suketarō Inokai.

 

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)

Aug

9

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr..

“You need more than luck in Shanghai.”

– Elsa Bannister

黒蜥蜴 [Kurotokage / Kuro tokage / Black Lizard] (Kinji Fukasaku, 1968)

Aug

4

黒蜥蜴 (1968)

The Black Lizard (Akihiro Miwa) in embrace with Detective Akechi (Isao Kimura). DP: Hiroshi Dōwaki.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948)

Aug

3

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)

Mentalist John Triton (Edward G. Robinson, middle) and two of his conspirators. DP: John F. Seitz.

A continuity error later on in the movie makes it August 4.

“I'd become a sort of a reverse zombie. I was living in a world already dead, and I alone knowing it.”

– John Triton

The Outfit (John Flynn, 1973)

Jul

31

bread

The Outfit (1973)

A white man in a dark coat in an undefined room. A concrete wall, a metal pipe, a loaf of white bread on a walnut counter. DP: Bruce Surtees.

“I don't talk to guys wearing aprons.”

– Earl Macklin

Gli intoccabili [Machine Gun McCain] (Giuliano Montaldo, 1969)

Jul

30

1968

Gli intoccabili (1969)

Man's hands hold up the July 30, 1968 San Francisco Chronicle. The headline reads GANGLAND FEUD EXPLODES: TWO CUT DOWN BY MACHINE GUN. It's a Tuesday. DP: Erico Menczer.

“It's a lot of work, ya know, just staying alive.”

– Rosemary Scott