Bookadaptation &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:Bookadaptation @settima@mograph.social Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:06:33 +0200 Gli intoccabili [Machine Gun McCain] (Giuliano Montaldo, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-x7md <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Gli intoccabili [Machine Gun McCain] (Giuliano Montaldo, 1969)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 1968/div div class="img" Gli intoccabili (1969)/div div class="caption" 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./div div class="txt" "It's a lot of work, ya know, just staying alive." ### – Rosemary Scott /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #GiulianoMontaldo #OvidDemaris #JohnCassavetes #BrittEkland #PeterFalk #GabrieleFerzetti #GenaRowlands #EnnioMorricone #EricoMenczer #crime #drama #romance #BookAdaptation #Italy #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

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

#FilmDuJour #July #GiulianoMontaldo #OvidDemaris #JohnCassavetes #BrittEkland #PeterFalk #GabrieleFerzetti #GenaRowlands #EnnioMorricone #EricoMenczer #crime #drama #romance #BookAdaptation #Italy #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-x7md Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qc3r <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" 1940/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary The Killers (1946)/div div class="caption" The July 21 headline. DP: Elwood Bredell./div div class="txt" "Don't ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell." ### – Lt. Sam Lubinsky /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #RobertSiodmak #ErnestHemingway #BurtLancaster #AvaGardner #EdmondOBrien #AlbertDekker #SamLevene #MiklósRózsa #ElwoodBredell #drama #crime #FilmNoir #thriller #sports #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)

Jul

20

1940

spoiler warning: click to toggle image The Killers (1946)

The July 21 headline. DP: Elwood Bredell.

“Don't ask a dying man to lie his soul into Hell.”

– Lt. Sam Lubinsky

#FilmDuJour #July #RobertSiodmak #ErnestHemingway #BurtLancaster #AvaGardner #EdmondOBrien #AlbertDekker #SamLevene #MiklósRózsa #ElwoodBredell #drama #crime #FilmNoir #thriller #sports #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qc3r Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6gqx <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey, 1970)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Figures in a Landscape (1970)/div div class="caption" MacConnachie (Robert Shaw, standing and peering upwards) and Ansell (Malcolm McDowell, squatting and facing away) in a barren landscape. Both have their hands tied behind their back. DPs: Henri Alekan, Peter Suschitzky & Guy Tabary./div div class="txt" "I'll tell you what though, Mac. There'll be no more games from now on." ### – Ansell /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #JosephLosey #BarryEngland #RobertShaw #MalcolmMcDowell #RichardRodneyBennett #HenriAlekan #PeterSuschitzky #GuyTabary #BookAdaptation #manhunt #thriller #drama #action #UK #Spain #1970s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey, 1970)

Jul

17

Figures in a Landscape (1970)

MacConnachie (Robert Shaw, standing and peering upwards) and Ansell (Malcolm McDowell, squatting and facing away) in a barren landscape. Both have their hands tied behind their back. DPs: Henri Alekan, Peter Suschitzky & Guy Tabary.

“I'll tell you what though, Mac. There'll be no more games from now on.”

– Ansell

#FilmDuJour #July #JosephLosey #BarryEngland #RobertShaw #MalcolmMcDowell #RichardRodneyBennett #HenriAlekan #PeterSuschitzky #GuyTabary #BookAdaptation #manhunt #thriller #drama #action #UK #Spain #1970s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6gqx Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 妻は告白する [Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru / A Wife Confesses] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1961) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-slcx <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 妻は告白する [Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru / A Wife Confesses] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1961)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" 1961/div div class="img" 妻は告白する (1961).png)/div div class="caption" An expert called into the court case studies an enlarged photograph of the supposed crime scene. DP: Setsuo Kobayashi./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #YasuzōMasumura #MasayaMaruyama #AyakoWakao #HiroshiKawaguchi #EitarōOzawa #RiichirōManabe #SetsuoKobayashi #drama #romance #crime #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

妻は告白する [Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru / A Wife Confesses] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1961)

Jul

15

1961

妻は告白する (1961)

An expert called into the court case studies an enlarged photograph of the supposed crime scene. DP: Setsuo Kobayashi.

#FilmDuJour #July #YasuzōMasumura #MasayaMaruyama #AyakoWakao #HiroshiKawaguchi #EitarōOzawa #RiichirōManabe #SetsuoKobayashi #drama #romance #crime #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-slcx Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil [The Lady in the Car with... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-xy0g <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil [The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun] (Anatole Litvak, 1970)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" Vendredi/div div class="img" La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil (1970)/div div class="caption" A man with a lot of swagger and rolled up blueprints is about to enter a room with a prominent Coca-Cola machine and a jazzy leather swivel chair on display. An electronic flip clock tells the time and date. It's 17:52. DP: Claude Renoir./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #AnatoleLitvak #SébastienJaprisot #SamanthaEggar #OliverReed #StéphaneAudran #JohnMcEnery #MichelLegrand #ClaudeRenoir #crime #thriller #mystery #BookAdaptation #France #USA #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil [The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun] (Anatole Litvak, 1970)

Jul

10

Vendredi

La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil (1970)

A man with a lot of swagger and rolled up blueprints is about to enter a room with a prominent Coca-Cola machine and a jazzy leather swivel chair on display. An electronic flip clock tells the time and date. It's 17:52. DP: Claude Renoir.

#FilmDuJour #July #AnatoleLitvak #SébastienJaprisot #SamanthaEggar #OliverReed #StéphaneAudran #JohnMcEnery #MichelLegrand #ClaudeRenoir #crime #thriller #mystery #BookAdaptation #France #USA #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-xy0g Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Burnt Offerings (Dan Curtis, 1976) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ngd5 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Burnt Offerings (Dan Curtis, 1976)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Burnt Offerings (1976)/div div class="caption" The chauffeur (Anthony James). DP: Jacques R. Marquette./div div class="txt" "The house takes care of itself." ### – Roz Allardyce /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #DanCurtis #RobertMarasco #KarenBlack #OliverReed #BurgessMeredith #BetteDavis #AnthonyJames #BobCobert #JacquesRMarquette #BookAdaptation #horror #USA #Italy #1970s ★★½/div /section ]]>

Burnt Offerings (Dan Curtis, 1976)

Jul

1

Burnt Offerings (1976)

The chauffeur (Anthony James). DP: Jacques R. Marquette.

“The house takes care of itself.”

– Roz Allardyce

#FilmDuJour #July #DanCurtis #RobertMarasco #KarenBlack #OliverReed #BurgessMeredith #BetteDavis #AnthonyJames #BobCobert #JacquesRMarquette #BookAdaptation #horror #USA #Italy #1970s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ngd5 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200 The Lottery (Larry Yust, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rzw9 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Lottery (Larry Yust, 1969)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Lottery (1969)/div div class="caption" Drawing lots from a box. DP: Isidore Mankofsky./div div class="txt" This, or any other adaptation of Shirley Jackson's story. "Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones." ### – Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (1948) /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #LarryYust #ShirleyJackson #IsidoreMankofsky #lottery #BookAdaptation #horror #mystery #ShortFilm #USA #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Lottery (Larry Yust, 1969)

Jun

27

The Lottery (1969)

Drawing lots from a box. DP: Isidore Mankofsky.

This, or any other adaptation of Shirley Jackson's story.

“Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.”

– Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (1948)

#FilmDuJour #June #LarryYust #ShirleyJackson #IsidoreMankofsky #lottery #BookAdaptation #horror #mystery #ShortFilm #USA #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rzw9 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ymqg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Ikarie XB 1 (1963)/div div class="caption" An astronaut passing a perfectly symmetrical walkway, similar to the ones seen in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). DP: Jan Kališ./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #JindřichPolák #StanisławLem #ZdeněkLiška #JanKališ #BookAdaptation #drama #SciFi #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (Jindřich Polák, 1963)

Jun

26

Ikarie XB 1 (1963)

An astronaut passing a perfectly symmetrical walkway, similar to the ones seen in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). DP: Jan Kališ.

#FilmDuJour #June #JindřichPolák #StanisławLem #ZdeněkLiška #JanKališ #BookAdaptation #drama #SciFi #Czechoslovakia #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ymqg Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Strategia del ragno [The Spider's Stratagem] (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6by0 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Strategia del ragno [The Spider's Stratagem] (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" Sat/div div class="img" Strategia del ragno (1970)/div div class="caption" A clock face. It's 9:54 on Saturday June 15. DPs: Franco Di Giacomo & Vittorio Storaro./div div class="txt" The two-page story this film is based on – Jorge Luis Borges' Tema del traidor y del héroe [Theme of the Traitor and Hero] (1944) – takes place on January 3 and August 2. "Instead of leaving this morning, I'm still here. Among friends." ### – Athos Magnani /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #BernardoBertolucci #JorgeLuisBorges #FrancoDiGiacomo #VittorioStoraro #GiulioBrogi #AlidaValli #BookAdaptation #mystery #clocks #drama #Italy #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

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

Jun

15

Sat

Strategia del ragno (1970)

A clock face. It's 9:54 on Saturday June 15. DPs: Franco Di Giacomo & Vittorio Storaro.

The two-page story this film is based on – Jorge Luis Borges' Tema del traidor y del héroe [Theme of the Traitor and Hero] (1944) – takes place on January 3 and August 2.

“Instead of leaving this morning, I'm still here. Among friends.”

– Athos Magnani

#FilmDuJour #June #BernardoBertolucci #JorgeLuisBorges #FrancoDiGiacomo #VittorioStoraro #GiulioBrogi #AlidaValli #BookAdaptation #mystery #clocks #drama #Italy #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6by0 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Le doulos [The Informer] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-m3jf <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le doulos [The Informer] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Le doulos (1962).png)/div div class="caption" Belmondo and a white woman in a Cheongsam – both looking straight at us – awkwardly sit at a small round table in some sort of nightclub-ish establishment. There are cigarettes, an empty glass, and an ice bucket in front of her. DP: Nicolas Hayer./div div class="txt" "I don't give a damn. But I have the jewels and I need the money." ### – Silien /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #JeanPierreMelville #PierreLesou #JeanPaulBelmondo #SergeReggiani #JeanDesailly #RenéLefèvre #PhilippeMarch #FabienneDali #MoniqueHennessy #CarlStuder #MichelPiccoli #VolkerSchlöndorff #DominiqueZardi #PaulMisraki #NicolasHayer #BookAdaptation #crime #thriller #Paris #France #Italy #1960s/div /section ]]>

Le doulos [The Informer] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962)

Jun

12

Le doulos (1962)

Belmondo and a white woman in a Cheongsam – both looking straight at us – awkwardly sit at a small round table in some sort of nightclub-ish establishment. There are cigarettes, an empty glass, and an ice bucket in front of her. DP: Nicolas Hayer.

“I don't give a damn. But I have the jewels and I need the money.”

– Silien

#FilmDinner #JeanPierreMelville #PierreLesou #JeanPaulBelmondo #SergeReggiani #JeanDesailly #RenéLefèvre #PhilippeMarch #FabienneDali #MoniqueHennessy #CarlStuder #MichelPiccoli #VolkerSchlöndorff #DominiqueZardi #PaulMisraki #NicolasHayer #BookAdaptation #crime #thriller #Paris #France #Italy #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-m3jf Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:40:53 +0200