CarCrash &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:CarCrash @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:16:43 +0200 Moment of Impact (Julia Loktev, 1998) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mklq <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Moment of Impact (Julia Loktev, 1998)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" 1989/div div class="img" Moment of Impact (1998)/div div class="caption" A person holds Leonid Loktev's head from behind, while someone else cups his left eye with one hand. DP: Julia Loktev./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #JuliaLoktev #LarisaLoktev #LeonidLoktev #documentary #disability #CarCrash #USA #1990s/div /section ]]>

Moment of Impact (Julia Loktev, 1998)

Apr

1

1989

Moment of Impact (1998)

A person holds Leonid Loktev's head from behind, while someone else cups his left eye with one hand. DP: Julia Loktev.

#FilmDuJour #April #JuliaLoktev #LarisaLoktev #LeonidLoktev #documentary #disability #CarCrash #USA #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mklq Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Accidente 703 [Los culpables] (José María Forqué, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-lv28 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Accidente 703 [Los culpables] (José María Forqué, 1962)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Accidente 703 (1962)/div div class="caption" A darkened room. People take care of a man slumped on a coach. A wall calendar tells us it's the 21supst/sup. DP: Juan Mariné./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #JoséMaríaForqué #AdolfoWaitzman #JuanMariné #FilmNoir #drama #cars #CarCrash #Madrid #Spain #Argentina #1960s/div /section ]]>

Accidente 703 [Los culpables] (José María Forqué, 1962)

Dec

21

Accidente 703 (1962)

A darkened room. People take care of a man slumped on a coach. A wall calendar tells us it's the 21st. DP: Juan Mariné.

#FilmDuJour #December #JoséMaríaForqué #AdolfoWaitzman #JuanMariné #FilmNoir #drama #cars #CarCrash #Madrid #Spain #Argentina #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-lv28 Sun, 21 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Red & Rosy (Frank Grow, 1989) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/red-and-rosy-1989 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Red & Rosy (Frank Grow, 1989)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Red & Rosy (1989)/div div class="caption" Big Red (Rico Martinez) in his hotrod. DPs: Frank Grow, Ralph Hawkins & Rico Martinez./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #FrankGrow #RicoMartinez #RalphHawkins #drugs #addiction #DragRacing #HotRods #cars #CarCrash #ShortFilm #LowBudget #comedy #horror #puppetry #USA #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Red & Rosy (Frank Grow, 1989)

Jun

3

Red & Rosy (1989)

Big Red (Rico Martinez) in his hotrod. DPs: Frank Grow, Ralph Hawkins & Rico Martinez.

#FilmDuJour #June #FrankGrow #RicoMartinez #RalphHawkins #drugs #addiction #DragRacing #HotRods #cars #CarCrash #ShortFilm #LowBudget #comedy #horror #puppetry #USA #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/red-and-rosy-1989 Tue, 03 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-3yld <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="occasion" UN Global Road Safety Week/div div class="img" Week-end (1967)/div div class="caption" A terrible, bloody, car crash. There's cars on fire and several injured sprawled around. A lucky survivor exclaims MY HERMÈS HANDBAG! DP: Raoul Coutard./div div class="txt" A traffic accident: UN Global Road Safety Week "My Hermès handbag!" ### – Corinne The bourgeois make their way to the countryside, and find themselves in a cacophony of car crashes, primitive urges, and political uprisings. &nbsp; In 2025, this actually takes places from May 12 – 18./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #UNGlobalRoadSafetyWeek #JeanLucGodard #JulioCortázar #MireilleDarc #JeanYanne #JeanPierreKalfon #AntoineDuhamel #RaoulCoutard #drama #satire #CarCrash #BookAdaptation #France #Italy #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)

May

9

UN Global Road Safety Week

Week-end (1967)

A terrible, bloody, car crash. There's cars on fire and several injured sprawled around. A lucky survivor exclaims MY HERMÈS HANDBAG! DP: Raoul Coutard.

A traffic accident: UN Global Road Safety Week *

“My Hermès handbag!”

– Corinne

The bourgeois make their way to the countryside, and find themselves in a cacophony of car crashes, primitive urges, and political uprisings.

 

* In 2025, this actually takes places from May 12 – 18.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #UNGlobalRoadSafetyWeek #JeanLucGodard #JulioCortázar #MireilleDarc #JeanYanne #JeanPierreKalfon #AntoineDuhamel #RaoulCoutard #drama #satire #CarCrash #BookAdaptation #France #Italy #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-3yld Fri, 09 May 2025 21:07:00 +0200 ドキュメント 路上 [Document Rojo / On the Road: The Document] (Noriaki Tsuchimoto, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-911h <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" ドキュメント 路上 [Document Rojo / On the Road: The Document] (Noriaki Tsuchimoto, 1964)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" Road Traffic Act 1934/div div class="img" ドキュメント 路上 (1964)/div div class="caption" A look from a Tokyo cab driver's perspective. We see the dashboard, heavy trucks ahead, and behind, and the reflection of the driver in his rearview mirror. DP: Tatsuo Suzuki./div div class="txt" Bad drivers: the start of compulsory driving tests in the UK was established on March 26, 1934 with the Road Traffic Act. "This film portrays the traffic war that goes on every day. — Tokyo, 1964" ### – opening title I find no solid proof to support this statement/div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #RoadTrafficAct1934 #NoriakiTsuchimoto #KimioKawasaki #MinoruMiki #TatsuoSuzuki #CarCrash #traffic #taxis #cars #jazz #documentary #Tokyo #Japan #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

ドキュメント 路上 [Document Rojo / On the Road: The Document] (Noriaki Tsuchimoto, 1964)

Mar

26

Road Traffic Act 1934

ドキュメント 路上 (1964)

A look from a Tokyo cab driver's perspective. We see the dashboard, heavy trucks ahead, and behind, and the reflection of the driver in his rearview mirror. DP: Tatsuo Suzuki.

Bad drivers: the start of compulsory driving tests in the UK was established on March 26, 1934* with the Road Traffic Act.

“This film portrays the traffic war that goes on every day. — Tokyo, 1964”

– opening title

*I find no solid proof to support this statement

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #RoadTrafficAct1934 #NoriakiTsuchimoto #KimioKawasaki #MinoruMiki #TatsuoSuzuki #CarCrash #traffic #taxis #cars #jazz #documentary #Tokyo #Japan #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-911h Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-z1y7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 少年 (1969)/div div class="caption" The boy in his school uniform (Bin Amatsu) at a table in a traditional Japanese room with his meal untouched. A man eats next to the kid who glances at someone or something offscreen. The table is set for three. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)

May

6

少年 (1969)

The boy in his school uniform (Bin Amatsu) at a table in a traditional Japanese room with his meal untouched. A man eats next to the kid who glances at someone or something offscreen. The table is set for three. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka.

#FilmDinner #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-z1y7 Mon, 06 May 2024 13:43:57 +0200 A Zed & Two Noughts [Z+00 / ZOO] (Peter Greenaway, 1985) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/a-zed-and-two-noughts-1985 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" A Zed & Two Noughts [Z+00 / ZOO] (Peter Greenaway, 1985)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" Visit The Zoo Day/div div class="img" A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)/div div class="caption" A zebra in a cage with the word ZOO in large blue lit capitals in the background. In the background a man. All but the lettering is black-and-white. DP: Sacha Vierny./div div class="txt" A zoo for National Visit The Zoo Day (USA) "In the land of the legless, the one-legged woman is queen." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #VisitTheZooDay #PeterGreenaway #AndréaFerréol #BrianDeacon #EricDeacon #FrancesBarber #JossAckland #GerardThoolen #WolfKahler #GeoffreyPalmer #DavidAttenborough #MichaelNyman #SachaVierny #ExperimentalFilm #zoo #zebras #drama #animals #CarCrash #UK #Netherlands #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

A Zed & Two Noughts [Z+00 / ZOO] (Peter Greenaway, 1985)

Dec

27

Visit The Zoo Day

A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

A zebra in a cage with the word ZOO in large blue lit capitals in the background. In the background a man. All but the lettering is black-and-white. DP: Sacha Vierny.

A zoo for National Visit The Zoo Day (USA)

“In the land of the legless, the one-legged woman is queen.”

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #VisitTheZooDay #PeterGreenaway #AndréaFerréol #BrianDeacon #EricDeacon #FrancesBarber #JossAckland #GerardThoolen #WolfKahler #GeoffreyPalmer #DavidAttenborough #MichaelNyman #SachaVierny #ExperimentalFilm #zoo #zebras #drama #animals #CarCrash #UK #Netherlands #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/a-zed-and-two-noughts-1985 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:52:34 +0100 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/shao-nian-1969 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day/div div class="img" 少年 (1969)/div div class="caption" The boy waiting next to a buzy road. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka./div div class="txt" Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day (USA) redux. &nbsp; A boy (Bin Amatsu), helps out his father and stepmother's insurance money scam by pretending to be injured in traffic. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalInsuranceAwarenessDay #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

少年 [Shōnen / Boy] (Nagisa Ōshima, 1969)

Dec

17

Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day

少年 (1969)

The boy waiting next to a buzy road. DPs: Seizō Sengen & Yasuhiro Yoshioka.

Freebie: National Insurance Awareness Day (USA) redux.

 

A boy (Bin Amatsu), helps out his father and stepmother's insurance money scam by pretending to be injured in traffic.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalInsuranceAwarenessDay #NagisaŌshima #BinAmatsu #FumioWatanabe #AkikoKoyama #TetsuoAbe #TsuyoshiKinoshita #LoLoCannon #DoYunYu #HikaruHayashi #SeizōSengen #YasuhiroYoshioka #ATG #drama #crime #biography #CarCrash #Japan #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/shao-nian-1969 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 16:06:21 +0100 Muerte de un ciclista [Death of a Cyclist / Age of Infidelity] (Juan Antonio... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/muerte-de-un-ciclista-1955 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Muerte de un ciclista [Death of a Cyclist / Age of Infidelity] (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" National Insurance Awareness Day /div div class="img" Muerte de un ciclista (1955)/div div class="caption" Juan (Alberto Closas) looking out at María José (Lucia Bosè) and the car after the crash. The cyclist is never shown. The scene echoes Beckett's Waiting for Godot. DP: Alfredo Fraile./div div class="txt" A car crash on National Insurance Awareness Day (USA) &nbsp; ##### A couple rushing home at night hit a cyclist. Despite knowing that the man's still alive, they opt to leave the site of the #crash and never mention it again. News reports about the death of the cyclist cause a rupture; because of the couple's #class differences – she a wealthy socialite, he a former falange soldier turned university professor – because they're lovers, and because no one can know about their whereabouts on the night of the accident. "He's still alive." ### \ ##### Striking about Bardem's Muerte de un ciclista is its outsiderness in the Spanish film landscape. By adopting the visual language of both Italian #Neorealismo and Hollywood #melodrama, Bardem elegantly circumvents #Franco​ist censorship./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalInsuranceAwarenessDay #JuanAntonioBardem #LuciaBosè #IsidroBMaiztegui #AlfredoFraile #drama #crime #romance #SocialRealism #CarCrash #Spain #Italy #1950s ★★★★½ /div /section ]]>

Muerte de un ciclista [Death of a Cyclist / Age of Infidelity] (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)

Jun

28

National Insurance Awareness Day

Muerte de un ciclista (1955)

Juan (Alberto Closas) looking out at María José (Lucia Bosè) and the car after the crash. The cyclist is never shown. The scene echoes Beckett's Waiting for Godot. DP: Alfredo Fraile.

A car crash on National Insurance Awareness Day (USA)

 

A couple rushing home at night hit a cyclist. Despite knowing that the man's still alive, they opt to leave the site of the #crash and never mention it again. News reports about the death of the cyclist cause a rupture; because of the couple's #class differences – she a wealthy socialite, he a former falange soldier turned university professor – because they're lovers, and because no one can know about their whereabouts on the night of the accident.

“He's still alive.”

Striking about Bardem's Muerte de un ciclista is its outsiderness in the Spanish film landscape. By adopting the visual language of both Italian #Neorealismo and Hollywood #melodrama, Bardem elegantly circumvents #Franco​ist censorship.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalInsuranceAwarenessDay #JuanAntonioBardem #LuciaBosè #IsidroBMaiztegui #AlfredoFraile #drama #crime #romance #SocialRealism #CarCrash #Spain #Italy #1950s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/muerte-de-un-ciclista-1955 Wed, 28 Jun 2023 14:44:48 +0200 Trafic [Traffic] (Jacques Tati, 1971) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/trafic-1971 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Trafic [Traffic] (Jacques Tati, 1971)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" National Barbecue Day/div div class="img" Trafic (1971)/div div class="caption" A man prepares a steak on his nifty Renault 4 Altra grill (there's a pun), observed by M. Hulot and a perplexed Dutch customs officer. In the background a sign in Dutch that requests to refrain from smoking. DPs: Eduard van der Enden & Marcel Weiss./div div class="txt" Monsieur Hulot – who in his final appearance happens to be an automobile designer – travels to a car show in Amsterdam to demonstrate his latest creation, a camper van par excellence. The vehicle of course accommodates the latest gadgets, such as a collapsible grill. "Where are you going, Mr. Hulot?" ### \ ##### However regarded as a lesser #Tati, Trafic, is another display of lovingly choreographed insanity, notably a #CarCrash that makes me wonder if this was Tati's attempt to transpose Godard's Week-end (1967) into a pleasant, pre-May 68 France./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalBarbecueDay #JacquesTati #CharlesDumont #EduardVanDerEnden #MarcelWeiss #MonsieurHulot #comedy #cars #food #barbecue #France #Italy #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Trafic [Traffic] (Jacques Tati, 1971)

May

16

National Barbecue Day

Trafic (1971)

A man prepares a steak on his nifty Renault 4 Altra grill (there's a pun), observed by M. Hulot and a perplexed Dutch customs officer. In the background a sign in Dutch that requests to refrain from smoking. DPs: Eduard van der Enden & Marcel Weiss.

Monsieur Hulot – who in his final appearance happens to be an automobile designer – travels to a car show in Amsterdam to demonstrate his latest creation, a camper van par excellence. The vehicle of course accommodates the latest gadgets, such as a collapsible grill.

“Where are you going, Mr. Hulot?”

However regarded as a lesser #Tati, Trafic, is another display of lovingly choreographed insanity, notably a #CarCrash that makes me wonder if this was Tati's attempt to transpose Godard's Week-end (1967) into a pleasant, pre-May 68 France.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalBarbecueDay #JacquesTati #CharlesDumont #EduardVanDerEnden #MarcelWeiss #MonsieurHulot #comedy #cars #food #barbecue #France #Italy #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/trafic-1971 Tue, 16 May 2023 10:03:47 +0200