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Day of the Outlaw (André De Toth, 1959)

Feb

2

coffee

Day of the Outlaw (1959)

Blaise Starrett (Ryan) and Mrs Crane (Louise) at a table. There are coffee cups and the talk is tense. DP: Russell Harlan.

“Excuse me, Mrs. Crane. This coffee made me think how good whiskey would taste.”

– Dan, Starret's foreman

El verdugo [The Executioner] (Luis García Berlanga, 1963)

Jan

31

stale bread

El verdugo (1963)

A closeup of man's hands crumbling bread over a small bowl placed next to a newspaper with keys on top of it. The man has a wool blanket over his shoulders. DP: Tonino Delli Colli.

“Father, we just ate!”

Space Coast (Ross McElwee + Michel Negroponte, 1979)

Jan

30

Space Coast (1979)

A woman and man eating at a wooden table. It's dark, there's one candle, and the guy wearing Ray-Bans® holding his #beer has got something to say.

Crime Wave [The City Is Dark] (André De Toth, 1953)

Jan

29

dinner for two

Crime Wave (1953)

Ellen Lacey (Phyllis Kirk) serving a bunch of punks (Bronson (2nd from the left, and Ted de Corsia (right) the food she prepared for herself and her husband Steve (Gene Nelson). DP: Bert Glennon.

“You know, it isn't what a man wants to do, Lacey, but what he has to do. Now take me – I love to smoke cigarettes, but the doctors say I can't have them. So what do I do? I chew toothpicks, tons of them.”

– Det. Lt. Sims

Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)

Jan

27

milk and cigarettes

Mikey and Nicky (1976)

The titular Mikey and Nicky sharing snacks, smokes, and sips at a tiny fast food table. There are piles of boxes with canned beer behind them. Mikey (Falk) cheesily grins at Nicky (Cassavetes). DPs: Bernie Abramson, Lucien Ballard, Jack Cooperman, Jerry File & Victor J. Kemper.

The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison, 1968)

Jan

26

champagne

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

A production photo showing Thomas Crown (McQueen) and Vicki Anderson (Dunaway) sharing foods and drinks. Them seem enthralled with each other. DP: Haskell Wexler.

– Do you play? – Try me.

Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár, 1968/1971)

Jan

21

salt

Touha zvaná Anada (1968/1971)

Semi-off screen, an older man with a moustache at a dinner table – many plates, glasses, and foods – reaches for a bowl of salt. DP: Vladimír Novotný.

High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, 1940)

Jan

19

High Sierra (1940)

Roy Earle (Bogart) pensively smoking an after-meal cigarette while Marie Garson (Lupino) looks on. DP: Tony Gaudio.

“Roy, this is the land of milk and honey for the health racket. Every woman in California thinks she's either too fat or too thin or too something.”

– 'Doc' Banton

Восточный коридор [Vostochny Koridor / Eastern Corridor] (Valentin Vinogradov, 1967)

Jan

15

Восточный коридор (1967)

People eating, drinking, singing. DP: Yuri Marukhin.

Les yeux cernés [Marked Eyes] (Robert Hossein, 1964)

Jan

11

baguette

Les yeux cernés (1964)

A young woman with big eyes and a dark bob (Marie-France Pisier) picks crumbs out of a fresh baguette. She's somewhere in a dreary small town. The snow's almost gone. DP: Jean Boffety.