Bookadaptation &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:Bookadaptation @settima@zirk.us Sun, 10 May 2026 15:11:07 +0200 Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wm5g <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 08/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Le Horla (1966).png)/div div class="caption" A reel-to-reel tape recorder. DP: Jean-Jacques Rochut./div div class="txt" and subsequent days. "8supth/sup of May. What a lovely day!" ### – voice on tape /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JeanDanielPollet #GuyDeMaupassant #LaurentTerzieff #JeanJacquesRochut #ShortFilm #drama #mystery #monologue #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966)

May

08

Le Horla (1966)

A reel-to-reel tape recorder. DP: Jean-Jacques Rochut.

and subsequent days.

“8th of May. What a lovely day!”

– voice on tape

#FilmDuJour #May #JeanDanielPollet #GuyDeMaupassant #LaurentTerzieff #JeanJacquesRochut #ShortFilm #drama #mystery #monologue #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wm5g Fri, 08 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Зеркало для героя [Zerkalo dlya geroya / Mirror for a Hero] (Vladimir... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hcsz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Зеркало для героя [Zerkalo dlya geroya / Mirror for a Hero] (Vladimir Khotinenko, 1987)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" 1949/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" Зеркало для героя (1987)/div div class="caption" Sergey Pshenichnyy (Sergey Koltakov) speaking to one of the 1940s farmers. DP: Evgeniy Grebnev./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #VladimirKhotinenko #SvyatoslavRybas #BorisPetrov #EvgeniyGrebnev #BookAdaptation #SciFi #SovietUnion #1980s/div /section ]]>

Зеркало для героя [Zerkalo dlya geroya / Mirror for a Hero] (Vladimir Khotinenko, 1987)

May

8

1949

Зеркало для героя (1987)

Sergey Pshenichnyy (Sergey Koltakov) speaking to one of the 1940s farmers. DP: Evgeniy Grebnev.

#FilmDuJour #May #VladimirKhotinenko #SvyatoslavRybas #BorisPetrov #EvgeniyGrebnev #BookAdaptation #SciFi #SovietUnion #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hcsz Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="X" /div div class="img" My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)/div div class="caption" Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey./div div class="txt" – You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion? – You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross! ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)

May

5

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey.

– You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion?

– You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross!

#FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped]... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cjbl <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)/div div class="caption" A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts "Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]". DP: Léonce-Henri Burel./div div class="txt" "With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…" ### – Fontaine\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RobertBresson #AndréDevigny #FrançoisLeterrier #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #WW2 #biography #BookAdaptation #prison #JailBreak #France #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)

May

2

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)

A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts “Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]“. DP: Léonce-Henri Burel.

“With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…”

– Fontaine

#FilmDuJour #May #RobertBresson #AndréDevigny #FrançoisLeterrier #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #WW2 #biography #BookAdaptation #prison #JailBreak #France #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cjbl Sat, 02 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v7x3 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Devil Rides Out (1968)/div div class="caption" The menacing Mocata (Charles Gray). DP: Arthur Grant./div div class="txt" – Do you realise what today's date is, Rex? – April the, er, 29th, why? ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #TerenceFisher #RichardMatheson #DennisWheatley #ChristopherLee #CharlesGray #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #UK #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968)

Apr

29

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

The menacing Mocata (Charles Gray). DP: Arthur Grant.

– Do you realise what today's date is, Rex?

– April the, er, 29th, why?

#FilmDuJour #April #TerenceFisher #RichardMatheson #DennisWheatley #ChristopherLee #CharlesGray #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #UK #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v7x3 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r1tq <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" 1746/div div class="img" Culloden (1964)/div div class="caption" One of the clansman. The look in his eyes foreshadows the Vietnam War this films comments on. DP: Dick Bush./div div class="txt" "Sir Thomas Sheridan, Jacobite military secretary. Suffering advanced debility and loss of memory. Former military engagement, 56 years ago. Sir John MacDonald, Jacobite captain of cavalry. Aged, frequently intoxicated, described as 'a man of the most limited capacities.' John William O'Sullivan, Jacobite quartermaster general. Described as 'an Irishman whose vanity is superseded only by his lack of wisdom.' Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite commander in chief. Former military experience: 10 days at a siege at the age of 13." ### – narrator /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #PeterWatkins #JohnPrebble #DickBush #BookAdaptation #CinémaVérité #DocuDrama #documentary #war #TVMovie #drama #history #Culloden #UK #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964)

Apr

16

1746

Culloden (1964)

One of the clansman. The look in his eyes foreshadows the Vietnam War this films comments on. DP: Dick Bush.

“Sir Thomas Sheridan, Jacobite military secretary. Suffering advanced debility and loss of memory. Former military engagement, 56 years ago. Sir John MacDonald, Jacobite captain of cavalry. Aged, frequently intoxicated, described as 'a man of the most limited capacities.' John William O'Sullivan, Jacobite quartermaster general. Described as 'an Irishman whose vanity is superseded only by his lack of wisdom.' Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite commander in chief. Former military experience: 10 days at a siege at the age of 13.”

– narrator

#FilmDuJour #April #PeterWatkins #JohnPrebble #DickBush #BookAdaptation #CinémaVérité #DocuDrama #documentary #war #TVMovie #drama #history #Culloden #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r1tq Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-zpfs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 7 p.m./div div class="img" 野獣死すべし (1959)/div div class="caption" Kunihiko Date (Tatsuya Nakadai) driving along at night. DP: Fukuzō Koizumi./div div class="txt" "He’s not a beast. No, he’s a robot. A machine created by a modern, twisted society." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #EizōSugawa #HaruhikoŌyabu #TatsuyaNakadai #HiroshiKoizumi #ReikoDan #YumiShirakawa #MakotoSatō #EikoMiyoshi #ToshirōMayuzumi #FukuzōKoizumi #crime #FilmNoir #Bookadaptation #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959)

Mar

30

7 p.m.

野獣死すべし (1959)

Kunihiko Date (Tatsuya Nakadai) driving along at night. DP: Fukuzō Koizumi.

“He’s not a beast. No, he’s a robot. A machine created by a modern, twisted society.”

#FilmDuJour #March #EizōSugawa #HaruhikoŌyabu #TatsuyaNakadai #HiroshiKoizumi #ReikoDan #YumiShirakawa #MakotoSatō #EikoMiyoshi #ToshirōMayuzumi #FukuzōKoizumi #crime #FilmNoir #Bookadaptation #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-zpfs Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0200 The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-746p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Chase (1946).png)/div div class="caption" A man's hand holds up two first class tickets for March 21, destination Cuba. DP: Franz Planer./div div class="txt" "Have you ever been afraid? Really afraid?" ### – Lorna Roman /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #ArthurRipley #CornellWoolrich #RobertCummings #MichèleMorgan #SteveCochran #LloydCorrigan #JackHolt #DonWilson #PeterLorre #MichelMichelet #FranzPlaner #mystery #drama #crime #romance #FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946)

Mar

21

The Chase (1946)

A man's hand holds up two first class tickets for March 21, destination Cuba. DP: Franz Planer.

“Have you ever been afraid? Really afraid?”

– Lorna Roman

#FilmDuJour #March #ArthurRipley #CornellWoolrich #RobertCummings #MichèleMorgan #SteveCochran #LloydCorrigan #JackHolt #DonWilson #PeterLorre #MichelMichelet #FranzPlaner #mystery #drama #crime #romance #FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-746p Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100 La Chambre verte [The Green Room / The Vanishing Fiancée] (François Truffaut,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-07bp <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La Chambre verte [The Green Room / The Vanishing Fiancée] (François Truffaut, 1978)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="X" /div div class="img" La Chambre verte (1978)-2.webp)/div div class="caption" A woman cries. Captions read "on March 17th,". DP: Néstor Almendros./div div class="txt" "Our past doesn't belong to us." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #FrançoisTruffaut #HenryJames #NathalieBaye #MauriceJaubert #NéstorAlmendros #RogerCorman #drama #romance #BookAdaptation #France #1970s ★★☆☆☆/div /section ]]>

La Chambre verte [The Green Room / The Vanishing Fiancée] (François Truffaut, 1978)

Mar

17

La Chambre verte (1978)

A woman cries. Captions read “on March 17th,”. DP: Néstor Almendros.

“Our past doesn't belong to us.”

#FilmDuJour #March #FrançoisTruffaut #HenryJames #NathalieBaye #MauriceJaubert #NéstorAlmendros #RogerCorman #drama #romance #BookAdaptation #France #1970s ★★☆☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-07bp Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gxpg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Cockfighter (1974)/div div class="caption" Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) holding up a reluctant, wildly flapping white rooster. DP: Néstor Almendros./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #MonteHellman #CharlesWilleford #WarrenOates #HarryDeanStanton #MichaelFranks #NéstorAlmendros #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #animals #USA #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974)

Mar

15

Cockfighter (1974)

Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) holding up a reluctant, wildly flapping white rooster. DP: Néstor Almendros.

#FilmDuJour #March #MonteHellman #CharlesWilleford #WarrenOates #HarryDeanStanton #MichaelFranks #NéstorAlmendros #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #animals #USA #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gxpg Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100