Capri &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:Capri @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:18:29 +0200 Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qcy3 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" 1962/div div class="img" Il mare (1962)/div div class="caption" The actor (Umberto Orsini) approaches a hotel lobby. A blackboard notes the date: February 17, 1962. DP: Ennio Guarnieri./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #GiuseppePatroniGriffi #UmbertoOrsini #FrançoisePrévost #DinoMele #GiovanniFusco #EnnioGuarnieri #drama #romance #LGBT #Capri #Italy #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)

Feb

17

1962

Il mare (1962)

The actor (Umberto Orsini) approaches a hotel lobby. A blackboard notes the date: February 17, 1962. DP: Ennio Guarnieri.

#FilmDuJour #February #GiuseppePatroniGriffi #UmbertoOrsini #FrançoisePrévost #DinoMele #GiovanniFusco #EnnioGuarnieri #drama #romance #LGBT #Capri #Italy #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qcy3 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Paparazzi (Jacques Rozier, 1963/1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wftq <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Paparazzi (Jacques Rozier, 1963/1964)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Paparazzi (1964)/div div class="caption" Brigitte Bardot and her co-star Michel Piccoli making a show of ascending the stairs of Casa Malaparte as seen through a paparazzo's lens. DP: Maurice Perrimond./div div class="txt" A character has a camera or takes photos &nbsp; It buzzes on the set of Le mépris. These mosquitos, the Italians say paparazzi, swarm La Bardot and making it merely impossible for anyone – themselves included – to do their job. But Bardot knows them, too well, and gives them what they want, when she wants it. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #JacquesRozier #MichelPiccoli #JeanLescot #DavidTonelli #JickyDussart #GiorgiaMoll #WilliamRobertSivel #ClaudioValente #BrigitteBardot #JeanLucGodard #FritzLang #JackPalance #AntoineDuhamel #MauricePerrimond #photography #paparazzi #voyeurism #ShortFilm #documentary #Capri #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Paparazzi (Jacques Rozier, 1963/1964)

Jul

29

Paparazzi (1964)

Brigitte Bardot and her co-star Michel Piccoli making a show of ascending the stairs of Casa Malaparte as seen through a paparazzo's lens. DP: Maurice Perrimond.

A character has a camera or takes photos*

 

It buzzes on the set of Le mépris. These mosquitos, the Italians say paparazzi, swarm La Bardot and making it merely impossible for anyone – themselves included – to do their job. But Bardot knows them, too well, and gives them what they want, when she wants it.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #JacquesRozier #MichelPiccoli #JeanLescot #DavidTonelli #JickyDussart #GiorgiaMoll #WilliamRobertSivel #ClaudioValente #BrigitteBardot #JeanLucGodard #FritzLang #JackPalance #AntoineDuhamel #MauricePerrimond #photography #paparazzi #voyeurism #ShortFilm #documentary #Capri #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wftq Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200 Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rqmq <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Il mare (1962)/div div class="caption" The actor (Umberto Orsini) looking out over the island. The claustrophobic framing of the hotel windows contrasts sharply with the openness of the sea. DP: Ennio Guarnieri./div div class="txt" My ideal vacation spot, country, city, town, or resort &nbsp; An island, in this case Capri (granted I've never been there), off-season, in a space and time lost in the mists. It'll occasionally rain and it's cold enough to dress up. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #GiuseppePatroniGriffi #UmbertoOrsini #FrançoisePrévost #DinoMele #GiovanniFusco #EnnioGuarnieri #drama #romance #LGBT #Capri #Italy #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)

Jul

1

Il mare (1962)

The actor (Umberto Orsini) looking out over the island. The claustrophobic framing of the hotel windows contrasts sharply with the openness of the sea. DP: Ennio Guarnieri.

My ideal vacation spot, country, city, town, or resort*

 

An island, in this case Capri (granted I've never been there), off-season, in a space and time lost in the mists. It'll occasionally rain and it's cold enough to dress up.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #GiuseppePatroniGriffi #UmbertoOrsini #FrançoisePrévost #DinoMele #GiovanniFusco #EnnioGuarnieri #drama #romance #LGBT #Capri #Italy #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rqmq Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200 Le mépris [Contempt] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-41q7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le mépris [Contempt] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" Europe Day/div div class="img" Le mépris (1963)/div div class="caption" Michel Piccoli, director Fritz Lang, Jack Palance, and director Jean-Luc Godard behind the scenes. The clapperboard held by Godard is for the movie that Lang's working on in Le Mépris, an adaption of Homer's Odyssey. DP: Raoul Coutard./div div class="txt" A director from the EU for Europe Day "Producers are something I can easily do without" ### – Fritz Lang A film in a film, the former directed by Fritz Lang, directed by Godard./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #EuropeDay #JeanLucGodard #AlbertoMoravia #BrigitteBardot #MichelPiccoli #JackPalance #GiorgiaMoll #FritzLang #RaoulCoutard #LindaVeras #GeorgesDelerue #PieroPiccioni #drama #philosophy #romance #mystery #BookAdaptation #Capri #France #Italy #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Le mépris [Contempt] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)

May

5

Europe Day

Le mépris (1963)

Michel Piccoli, director Fritz Lang, Jack Palance, and director Jean-Luc Godard behind the scenes. The clapperboard held by Godard is for the movie that Lang's working on in Le Mépris, an adaption of Homer's Odyssey. DP: Raoul Coutard.

A director from the EU for Europe Day

“Producers are something I can easily do without”

– Fritz Lang

A film in a film, the former directed by Fritz Lang, directed by Godard.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #EuropeDay #JeanLucGodard #AlbertoMoravia #BrigitteBardot #MichelPiccoli #JackPalance #GiorgiaMoll #FritzLang #RaoulCoutard #LindaVeras #GeorgesDelerue #PieroPiccioni #drama #philosophy #romance #mystery #BookAdaptation #Capri #France #Italy #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-41q7 Mon, 05 May 2025 19:22:00 +0200 Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1973) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-llnq <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1973)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="occasion" Elton John – 1947/div div class="img" Ludwig (1973)/div div class="caption" ###### Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria (Romy Schneider) and King Ludwig II of Bavaria (Helmut Berger) in his beloved Venus Grotto below Schloss Linderhoff. Ludwig wanted blue light in reference to the Grotta Azzurra) in #Capri, and had electricity installed in the grotto, which was the first usage of electricity in Austria. DP: Armando Nannuzzi./div div class="txt" A flamboyant character for Elton John’s birthday (1947). "I want to remain an enigma forever. To others, and also to myself." ### – Ludwig II /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #flamboyance #LuchinoVisconti #HelmutBerger #RomySchneider #TrevorHoward #SilvanaMangano #GertFröbe #HelmutGriem #ArmandoNannuzzi #history #drama #biography #Italy #France #WestGermany #Monaco #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1973)

Mar

25

Elton John – 1947

Ludwig (1973)

Elisabeth “Sissi” of Austria (Romy Schneider) and King Ludwig II of Bavaria (Helmut Berger) in his beloved Venus Grotto below Schloss Linderhoff. Ludwig wanted blue light in reference to the Grotta Azzurra in #Capri, and had electricity installed in the grotto, which was the first usage of electricity in Austria. DP: Armando Nannuzzi.

A flamboyant character for Elton John’s birthday (1947).

“I want to remain an enigma forever. To others, and also to myself.”

– Ludwig II

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #flamboyance #LuchinoVisconti #HelmutBerger #RomySchneider #TrevorHoward #SilvanaMangano #GertFröbe #HelmutGriem #ArmandoNannuzzi #history #drama #biography #Italy #France #WestGermany #Monaco #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-llnq Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/il-mare-1962 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Il mare (1962)/div div class="caption" The actor (Umberto Orsini) and the boy (Dino Mele) in a restaurant. It's out of season and deserted. DP: Ennio Guarnieri./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #GiuseppePatroniGriffi #UmbertoOrsini #FrançoisePrévost #DinoMele #GiovanniFusco #EnnioGuarnieri #drama #romance #LGBT #Capri #Italy #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)

Dec

1

Il mare (1962)

The actor (Umberto Orsini) and the boy (Dino Mele) in a restaurant. It's out of season and deserted. DP: Ennio Guarnieri.

#FilmDinner #GiuseppePatroniGriffi #UmbertoOrsini #FrançoisePrévost #DinoMele #GiovanniFusco #EnnioGuarnieri #drama #romance #LGBT #Capri #Italy #1960s ★★★★½

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