December &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:December @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:43:06 +0200 Traversées [Crossing Over] (Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, 1982) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-lcgk <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Traversées [Crossing Over] (Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, 1982)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 31/div div class="occasion" 1980/div div class="img" Traversées (1982).jpg)/div div class="caption" The two passengers stuck on a ferry, endlessly traveling between shorelines (via). DP: Gilberto Azevedo./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #MahmoudBenMahmoud #FadhelJaziri #JulianNegulesco #ÉvaDarlan #VincentGrass #ChristianMaillet #JeanPierreDauzun #FrancescoAccolla #GilbertoAzevedo #Tunisia #France #Belgium #1980s/div /section ]]>

Traversées [Crossing Over] (Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, 1982)

Dec

31

1980

Traversées (1982)

The two passengers stuck on a ferry, endlessly traveling between shorelines (via). DP: Gilberto Azevedo.

 

#FilmDuJour #December #MahmoudBenMahmoud #FadhelJaziri #JulianNegulesco #ÉvaDarlan #VincentGrass #ChristianMaillet #JeanPierreDauzun #FrancescoAccolla #GilbertoAzevedo #Tunisia #France #Belgium #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-lcgk Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100 The Book of Life (Hal Hartley, 1998) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v4bs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Book of Life (Hal Hartley, 1998)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 31/div div class="occasion" 1999/div div class="img" The Book of Life (1998)/div div class="caption" The "New York News" of December 31, 1999. The headline reads LAST DAY OF CENTURY BELIEVERS PRAY FOR END. DP: Jim Denault./div div class="txt" "It was the morning of December 31, 1999 when I returned, at last, to judge the living and the dead. Though still, and perhaps always, I had my doubts." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #HalHartley #MartinDonovan #PJHarvey #YoLaTengo #ThomasJayRyan #JimDenault #religion #comedy #France #NewYork #USA #1990s/div /section ]]>

The Book of Life (Hal Hartley, 1998)

Dec

31

1999

The Book of Life (1998)

The “New York News” of December 31, 1999. The headline reads LAST DAY OF CENTURY BELIEVERS PRAY FOR END. DP: Jim Denault.

“It was the morning of December 31, 1999 when I returned, at last, to judge the living and the dead. Though still, and perhaps always, I had my doubts.”

#FilmDuJour #December #HalHartley #MartinDonovan #PJHarvey #YoLaTengo #ThomasJayRyan #JimDenault #religion #comedy #France #NewYork #USA #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v4bs Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Sprawa Gorgonowej [The Gorgon Case] (Janusz Majewski, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-m5kf <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sprawa Gorgonowej [The Gorgon Case] (Janusz Majewski, 1977)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 1931/div div class="img" Sprawa Gorgonowej (1977)/div div class="caption" Ewa Dałkowska as governess Rita Gorgonowa. DP: Zygmunt Samosiuk./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #JanuszMajewski #EwaDałkowska #AleksanderBardini #MariuszDmochowski #StanisławRadwan #ZygmuntSamosiuk #RitaGorgonowa #biography #crime #drama #Poland #1970s/div /section ]]>

Sprawa Gorgonowej [The Gorgon Case] (Janusz Majewski, 1977)

Dec

30

1931

Sprawa Gorgonowej (1977)

Ewa Dałkowska as governess Rita Gorgonowa. DP: Zygmunt Samosiuk.

#FilmDuJour #December #JanuszMajewski #EwaDałkowska #AleksanderBardini #MariuszDmochowski #StanisławRadwan #ZygmuntSamosiuk #RitaGorgonowa #biography #crime #drama #Poland #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-m5kf Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100 Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-27h5 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 1947/div div class="img" Canon City (1948)/div div class="caption" A calendar page. It's December 30, 1947. DP: John Alton./div div class="txt" "We're not here to play dominoes." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #CraneWilbur #ScottBrady #JohnAlton #drama #crime #JailBreak #FilmNoir #DocuDrama #thriller #HomeInvasion #CanonCity #Colorado #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948)

Dec

30

1947

Canon City (1948)

A calendar page. It's December 30, 1947. DP: John Alton.

“We're not here to play dominoes.”

#FilmDuJour #December #CraneWilbur #ScottBrady #JohnAlton #drama #crime #JailBreak #FilmNoir #DocuDrama #thriller #HomeInvasion #CanonCity #Colorado #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-27h5 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 La noche de los Inocentes [Night of the Innocents] (Arturo Sotto Díaz, 2007) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cb1n <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La noche de los Inocentes [Night of the Innocents] (Arturo Sotto Díaz, 2007)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="X" /div div class="img" La noche de los Inocentes (2007)/div div class="caption" The cast in the hospital. Lighting and stances appear theatre-like. DP: Ernesto Granado./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #ArturoSottoDíaz #JorgePerugorría #SílviaÁguila #YasmaniGuerrero #ErnanLopezNussa #ErnestoGranado #comedy #drama #holidays #Cuba #2000s/div /section ]]>

La noche de los Inocentes [Night of the Innocents] (Arturo Sotto Díaz, 2007)

Dec

28

La noche de los Inocentes (2007)

The cast in the hospital. Lighting and stances appear theatre-like. DP: Ernesto Granado.

#FilmDuJour #December #ArturoSottoDíaz #JorgePerugorría #SílviaÁguila #YasmaniGuerrero #ErnanLopezNussa #ErnestoGranado #comedy #drama #holidays #Cuba #2000s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cb1n Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 姿三四郎 [Sugata Sanshirō / Judo Saga] (Akira Kurosawa, 1943) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bc6j <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 姿三四郎 [Sugata Sanshirō / Judo Saga] (Akira Kurosawa, 1943)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" 8 p.m./div div class="img" 姿三四郎 (1943)/div div class="caption" A letter beckoning to come to Ukyō-ku, on December 26, at 8 o'clock. DP: Akira Mimura./div div class="txt" "On the night of December 26, at 8:00 on Ukyō-ku." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #AkiraKurosawa #TsuneoTomita #DenjirōŌkōchi #SusumuFujita #YukikoTodoroki #SeiichiSuzuki #AkiraMimura #MartialArts #judo #sports #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

姿三四郎 [Sugata Sanshirō / Judo Saga] (Akira Kurosawa, 1943)

Dec

26

8 p.m.

姿三四郎 (1943)

A letter beckoning to come to Ukyō-ku, on December 26, at 8 o'clock. DP: Akira Mimura.

“On the night of December 26, at 8:00 on Ukyō-ku.”

#FilmDuJour #December #AkiraKurosawa #TsuneoTomita #DenjirōŌkōchi #SusumuFujita #YukikoTodoroki #SeiichiSuzuki #AkiraMimura #MartialArts #judo #sports #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bc6j Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt + Basil Dearden, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1nw4 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt + Basil Dearden, 1958)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 22/div div class="occasion" Tue/div div class="img" Nowhere to Go (1958).png)/div div class="caption" A man checks into a hotel. A wall calendar reads December 22, a Tuesday. DP: Paul Beeson ./div div class="txt" "Sloane! Be lucky!" ### – Paul Gregory /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #SethHolt #BasilDearden #DonaldMacKenzie #GeorgeNader #MaggieSmith #BernardLee #DizzyReece #PaulBeeson #drama #crime #FilmNoir #jazz #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt + Basil Dearden, 1958)

Dec

22

Tue

Nowhere to Go (1958)

A man checks into a hotel. A wall calendar reads December 22, a Tuesday. DP: Paul Beeson .

“Sloane! Be lucky!”

– Paul Gregory

#FilmDuJour #December #SethHolt #BasilDearden #DonaldMacKenzie #GeorgeNader #MaggieSmith #BernardLee #DizzyReece #PaulBeeson #drama #crime #FilmNoir #jazz #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1nw4 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 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 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 Le pacha [Pasha / Showdown] (Georges Lautner, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yw2w <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le pacha [Pasha / Showdown] (Georges Lautner, 1968)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Le pacha (1968).png)/div div class="caption" Jean Gabin and Dany Carrel in a still on the cover of Serge Gainsbourg's Requiem pour un con 7" (via). DP: Maurice Fellous./div div class="txt" "Écoute les orgues Elles jouent pour toi Il est terrible, cet air-là J'espère que tu aimes C'est assez beau, non ? C'est le requiem pour un con" ### – Serge Gainsbourg, Requiem pour un con (1968) /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #GeorgesLautner #JeanLaborde #JeanGabin #DanyCarrel #AndréPousse #RobertDalban #JeanGaven #LouisArbessier #GérardBuhr #MauriceGarrel #SergeGainsbourg #MauriceFellous #crime #action #thriller #drama #BookAdaptation #France #Italy #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Le pacha [Pasha / Showdown] (Georges Lautner, 1968)

Dec

19

Le pacha (1968)

Jean Gabin and Dany Carrel in a still on the cover of Serge Gainsbourg's Requiem pour un con 7” (via). DP: Maurice Fellous.

“Écoute les orgues Elles jouent pour toi Il est terrible, cet air-là J'espère que tu aimes C'est assez beau, non ? C'est le requiem pour un con”

– Serge Gainsbourg, Requiem pour un con (1968)

#FilmDuJour #December #GeorgesLautner #JeanLaborde #JeanGabin #DanyCarrel #AndréPousse #RobertDalban #JeanGaven #LouisArbessier #GérardBuhr #MauriceGarrel #SergeGainsbourg #MauriceFellous #crime #action #thriller #drama #BookAdaptation #France #Italy #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yw2w Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100