Christmas &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:Christmas @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:44:56 +0200 Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum] (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-66h4 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum] (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="occasion" winter solstice/div div class="img" Die Blechtrommel (1979).jpg)/div div class="caption" Little Oskar with his tin drum. DP: Igor Luther./div div class="txt" Something short for winter solstice. "He's growing! Look! See how he's growing! I have seen the Lord! The Lord! The Lord!" ### – Schugger-Leo On the eve of World War 2, little Oskar – just three years old – decides he doesn't want to grow anymore. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #WinterSolstice #solstice #VolkerSchlöndorff #GünterGrass #MarioAdorf #AngelaWinkler #DavidBennent #KatharinaThalbach #DanielOlbrychski #CharlesAznavour #ErnstJacobi #JeanClaudeCarrière #MauriceJarre #FriedrichMeyer #IgorLuther #drama #history #war #WW2 #Christmas #BookAdaptation #WestGermany #France #Poland #1970s/div /section ]]>

Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum] (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979)

Dec

21

winter solstice

Die Blechtrommel (1979)

Little Oskar with his tin drum. DP: Igor Luther.

Something short for winter solstice.

“He's growing! Look! See how he's growing! I have seen the Lord! The Lord! The Lord!”

– Schugger-Leo

On the eve of World War 2, little Oskar – just three years old – decides he doesn't want to grow anymore.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #WinterSolstice #solstice #VolkerSchlöndorff #GünterGrass #MarioAdorf #AngelaWinkler #DavidBennent #KatharinaThalbach #DanielOlbrychski #CharlesAznavour #ErnstJacobi #JeanClaudeCarrière #MauriceJarre #FriedrichMeyer #IgorLuther #drama #history #war #WW2 #Christmas #BookAdaptation #WestGermany #France #Poland #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-66h4 Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:15:00 +0100 Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (Richard Winer + Barry Mahon, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yg1r <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (Richard Winer + Barry Mahon, 1972)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)/div div class="caption" A bunch of screaming children on top of a red firetruck stand right behind the driver, a stoic person in a pink bunny costume. DPs: William Tobin & Richard Winer./div div class="txt" "What is that? What is that I hear? Where's it coming from? I hear a siren, but I don't see any fire, I don't see any smoke. Whenever there's a siren, it means there's a fire, but I don't see any smoke. That siren. Where is it coming from? Where's that sound coming from?" ### – Santa Claus\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #RichardWiner #BarryMahon #HansChristianAndersen #JayRipley #RalphFalco #GeorgeLinsenmann #WilliamTobin #Christmas #Santa #ChristmasMovie #BookAdaptation #musical #FairyTale #fantasy #USA #1970s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (Richard Winer + Barry Mahon, 1972)

Dec

20

Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)

A bunch of screaming children on top of a red firetruck stand right behind the driver, a stoic person in a pink bunny costume. DPs: William Tobin & Richard Winer.

“What is that? What is that I hear? Where's it coming from? I hear a siren, but I don't see any fire, I don't see any smoke. Whenever there's a siren, it means there's a fire, but I don't see any smoke. That siren. Where is it coming from? Where's that sound coming from?”

– Santa Claus

#FilmDuJour #December #RichardWiner #BarryMahon #HansChristianAndersen #JayRipley #RalphFalco #GeorgeLinsenmann #WilliamTobin #Christmas #Santa #ChristmasMovie #BookAdaptation #musical #FairyTale #fantasy #USA #1970s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yg1r Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Balada o trobenti in oblaku [Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud] (France... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-sz3y <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Balada o trobenti in oblaku [Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud] (France Štiglic, 1961)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="occasion" International Mountain Day/div div class="img" Balada o trobenti in oblaku (1961).jpg)/div div class="caption" A young couple dances among the mountains (via). DP: Rudi Vaupotič./div div class="txt" Set in the mountains for International Mountain Day &nbsp; 1943. With the family preparing for Christmas, old man Temnikar hears the sound of a trumpet. The patriarch sees it as his calling to follow – and kill – the White Guardists who visited his mountain farm looking for wounded Partisans. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #InternationalMountainDay #FranceŠtiglic #CirilKosmač #LojzePotokar #AngelcaHlebce #MarijaLojk #BrankoMiklavc #RudiKosmač #VladimirSkrbinšek #LojzeRozman #MaksBajc #PoldeBibič #AlojzSrebotnjak #RudiVaupotič #BookAdaptation #drama #Christmas #holidays #axes #war #WW2 #Yugoslavia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Balada o trobenti in oblaku [Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud] (France Štiglic, 1961)

Dec

11

International Mountain Day

Balada o trobenti in oblaku (1961)

A young couple dances among the mountains (via). DP: Rudi Vaupotič.

Set in the mountains for International Mountain Day

 

1943. With the family preparing for Christmas, old man Temnikar hears the sound of a trumpet. The patriarch sees it as his calling to follow – and kill – the White Guardists who visited his mountain farm looking for wounded Partisans.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #InternationalMountainDay #FranceŠtiglic #CirilKosmač #LojzePotokar #AngelcaHlebce #MarijaLojk #BrankoMiklavc #RudiKosmač #VladimirSkrbinšek #LojzeRozman #MaksBajc #PoldeBibič #AlojzSrebotnjak #RudiVaupotič #BookAdaptation #drama #Christmas #holidays #axes #war #WW2 #Yugoslavia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-sz3y Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0100 Kisapmata [Sa bawat kisapmata / In the Wink of an Eye] (Mike De Leon, 1981) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5814 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Kisapmata [Sa bawat kisapmata / In the Wink of an Eye] (Mike De Leon, 1981)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" Tue/div div class="img" Kisapmata (1981)/div div class="caption" Noel (Jay Ilagan) enters Milagros' (Charo Santos-Concio) room. On a sparse green wall a calendar with an image of the Virgin Mary. The 8supth/sup, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, is marked red as a holiday. DP: Rody Lacap./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #MikeDeLeon #NickJoaquin #CharoSantosConcio #JayIlagan #VicSilayan #CharitoSolis #RubenRustia #LorrieIlustre #RodyLacap #drama #Christmas #holidays #Philippines #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Kisapmata [Sa bawat kisapmata / In the Wink of an Eye] (Mike De Leon, 1981)

Dec

8

Tue

Kisapmata (1981)

Noel (Jay Ilagan) enters Milagros' (Charo Santos-Concio) room. On a sparse green wall a calendar with an image of the Virgin Mary. The 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, is marked red as a holiday. DP: Rody Lacap.

#FilmDuJour #December #MikeDeLeon #NickJoaquin #CharoSantosConcio #JayIlagan #VicSilayan #CharitoSolis #RubenRustia #LorrieIlustre #RodyLacap #drama #Christmas #holidays #Philippines #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5814 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Wśród nocnej ciszy [Quiet Is the Night] (Tadeusz Chmielewski, 1978) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/wsrod-nocnej-ciszy-1978 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Wśród nocnej ciszy [Quiet Is the Night] (Tadeusz Chmielewski, 1978)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Wśród nocnej ciszy (1978)/div div class="caption" A young student sits on the ledge of a barge, looking up at another man. DP: Jerzy Szurowski./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #TadeuszChmielewski #TomaszZaliwski #PiotrŁysak #JerzyMatuszkiewicz #JerzySzurowski #crime #SerialKillers #Christmas #ChristmasMovie #Poland #1970s ★★½/div /section ]]>

Wśród nocnej ciszy [Quiet Is the Night] (Tadeusz Chmielewski, 1978)

Sep

14

Wśród nocnej ciszy (1978)

A young student sits on the ledge of a barge, looking up at another man. DP: Jerzy Szurowski.

#FilmDuJour #September #TadeuszChmielewski #TomaszZaliwski #PiotrŁysak #JerzyMatuszkiewicz #JerzySzurowski #crime #SerialKillers #Christmas #ChristmasMovie #Poland #1970s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/wsrod-nocnej-ciszy-1978 Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt, 1984) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pyxb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt, 1984)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" cereal/div div class="img" Night of the Comet (1984)/div div class="caption" An empty box or Raisin Bran lies tipped-over next to a Toshiba boombox. Just visible but out of focus is Samantha Belmont (Kelli Maroney) in her cheerleader uniform DP: Arthur Albert./div div class="txt" "Hey! If you're going to throw those guns away, can I have one?" ### – Sarah /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #cereal #ThomEberhardt #RobertBeltran #CatherineMaryStewart #KelliMaroney #SharonFarrell #MaryWoronov #JaniceKawaye #DavidCampbell #ArthurAlbert #Hooptober #drama #comedy #horror #holidays #Christmas #USA #1980s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt, 1984)

Sep

20

cereal

Night of the Comet (1984)

An empty box or Raisin Bran lies tipped-over next to a Toshiba boombox. Just visible but out of focus is Samantha Belmont (Kelli Maroney) in her cheerleader uniform DP: Arthur Albert.

“Hey! If you're going to throw those guns away, can I have one?”

– Sarah

#FilmDinner #cereal #ThomEberhardt #RobertBeltran #CatherineMaryStewart #KelliMaroney #SharonFarrell #MaryWoronov #JaniceKawaye #DavidCampbell #ArthurAlbert #Hooptober #drama #comedy #horror #holidays #Christmas #USA #1980s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pyxb Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:10:38 +0200 Kisapmata [Sa bawat kisapmata / In the Wink of an Eye] (Mike De Leon, 1981) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k91f <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Kisapmata [Sa bawat kisapmata / In the Wink of an Eye] (Mike De Leon, 1981)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="occasion" gatas/div div class="img" Kisapmata (1981)/div div class="caption" Adelina (Charito Solis) unwell in bed. She holds a glass of milk. DP: Rody Lacap./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #milk #MikeDeLeon #NickJoaquin #CharoSantosConcio #JayIlagan #VicSilayan #CharitoSolis #RubenRustia #LorrieIlustre #RodyLacap #drama #Christmas #holidays #Philippines #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Kisapmata [Sa bawat kisapmata / In the Wink of an Eye] (Mike De Leon, 1981)

Aug

18

gatas

Kisapmata (1981)

Adelina (Charito Solis) unwell in bed. She holds a glass of milk. DP: Rody Lacap.

#FilmDinner #milk #MikeDeLeon #NickJoaquin #CharoSantosConcio #JayIlagan #VicSilayan #CharitoSolis #RubenRustia #LorrieIlustre #RodyLacap #drama #Christmas #holidays #Philippines #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k91f Sun, 18 Aug 2024 17:48:08 +0200 Salesman (Albert + David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/salesman-1969 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Salesman (Albert + David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" breakfast/div div class="img" Salesman (1969)/div div class="caption" Bible salesmen enjoying breakfast at a soulless motel. DP: Albert Maysles./div div class="txt" Watched on Good Friday. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #AlbertMaysles #DavidMaysles #CharlotteZwerin #PaulBrennan #CharlesMcDevitt #JamesBaker #RaymondMartos #religion #capitalism #breakfast #documentary #drama #CinémaDirect #Christmas #USA #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Salesman (Albert + David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)

Mar

29

breakfast

Salesman (1969)

Bible salesmen enjoying breakfast at a soulless motel. DP: Albert Maysles.

Watched on Good Friday.

#FilmDinner #AlbertMaysles #DavidMaysles #CharlotteZwerin #PaulBrennan #CharlesMcDevitt #JamesBaker #RaymondMartos #religion #capitalism #breakfast #documentary #drama #CinémaDirect #Christmas #USA #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/salesman-1969 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:03:33 +0100 Иконостасът [Ikonostasat / The Icon Stand] (Christo Christov + Todor Dinov,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ikonostas-t-1969-0k77 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Иконостасът [Ikonostasat / The Icon Stand] (Christo Christov + Todor Dinov, 1969)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" apples/div div class="img" Иконостасът (1969)/div div class="caption" A closeup of woman's hand moving an apple. The black-and-white photography is deliberately out of focus. DP: Atanas Tasev./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #apples #ChristoChristov #TodorDinov #DimitarTalev #VioletaGindeva #DimitarTashev #MilchoLeviev #AtanasTasev #drama #religion #fantasy #holidays #Christmas #BookAdaptation #Bulgaria #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Иконостасът [Ikonostasat / The Icon Stand] (Christo Christov + Todor Dinov, 1969)

Feb

5

apples

Иконостасът (1969)

A closeup of woman's hand moving an apple. The black-and-white photography is deliberately out of focus. DP: Atanas Tasev.

#FilmDinner #apples #ChristoChristov #TodorDinov #DimitarTalev #VioletaGindeva #DimitarTashev #MilchoLeviev #AtanasTasev #drama #religion #fantasy #holidays #Christmas #BookAdaptation #Bulgaria #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ikonostas-t-1969-0k77 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 11:02:32 +0100 Рождество обитателей леса (ca 1912) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/rozhdestvo-obitatelei-lesa-ca <![CDATA[Рождество обитателей леса (ca 1912) Various beetles and a grasshopper rejoice around the Christmas tree materialised by Old Man Frost. Рождество обитателей леса (ca. 1912) ### December 25: a Santa for #Christmas Pождество обитателей леса [Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa / The Insects' Christmas] (Wladyslaw Starewicz, ca 1912) Father Christmas makes a Christmas tree for the people of the forest. Дед Мороз (Ded Moroz, or Old Man Frost) is the Slavic version of Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus. An ornament depicting the old grey climbs down a child's (or doll's) Christmas tree and sets off to the forest where he plants his magic staff to create a Christmas feast for the woodland animals. The word “animation” means “a bestowing of life“. Like his ancestor in the arts a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-renaissance-artist-cast-live-snakes-frogs-lizards-ceramics" Bernard Palissy/a and the ancient winter solstice celebration of the return of light that long ago spawned Christmas, Wladyslaw Starewicz's Insects' Christmas breathes life into real but inanimate beetles, dragonflies, and frogs. The illusion is complete as you effortlessly forget they are painstakingly animated. From me to you, a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:TheInsects%27Christmas(1913).webm"a little Christmas treat/a Director Wladyslaw Starewicz and his daughter Irina (Irene), surrounded by several of his tiny actors. Irina, writer and director in her own right, starred in her father's WW1 short "Liliya Belgii" ["The Lily of Belgium"] (1915). Рождество обитателей леса (ca. 1912) #Bales2023FilmChallenge #WladyslawStarewicz #Russia #fantasy #animation #ShortFilm #Christmas #holidays #StopMotion #insects #animals #1910s ★★★★☆ todo]]> Рождество обитателей леса (ca 1912)
Various beetles and a grasshopper rejoice around the Christmas tree materialised by Old Man Frost.

Рождество обитателей леса (ca. 1912)

December 25: a Santa for #Christmas

Pождество обитателей леса [Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa / The Insects' Christmas] (Wladyslaw Starewicz, ca 1912)

Father Christmas makes a Christmas tree for the people of the forest.

Дед Мороз (Ded Moroz, or Old Man Frost) is the Slavic version of Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus. An ornament depicting the old grey climbs down a child's (or doll's) Christmas tree and sets off to the forest where he plants his magic staff to create a Christmas feast for the woodland animals.

The word “animation” means “a bestowing of life“. Like his ancestor in the arts Bernard Palissy and the ancient winter solstice celebration of the return of light that long ago spawned Christmas, Wladyslaw Starewicz's Insects' Christmas breathes life into real but inanimate beetles, dragonflies, and frogs. The illusion is complete as you effortlessly forget they are painstakingly animated.

From me to you, a little Christmas treat

Director Wladyslaw Starewicz and his daughter Irina (Irene), surrounded by several of his tiny actors. Irina, writer and director in her own right, starred in her father's WW1 short “Liliya Belgii” [“The Lily of Belgium”] (1915).

Рождество обитателей леса (ca. 1912)

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #WladyslawStarewicz #Russia #fantasy #animation #ShortFilm #Christmas #holidays #StopMotion #insects #animals #1910s ★★★★☆

#todo

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/rozhdestvo-obitatelei-lesa-ca Mon, 25 Dec 2023 18:28:06 +0100