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Salón México (Emilio Fernández, 1949)
Aug
13
$120 cerveza
Mercedes (Marga López) sitting at a small round table at the salón. A waiter just came over to take her order. In the other room, meticulously dressed couples dance to live music. DP: Gabriel Figueroa.
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Sedmi kontinent [Sedmý kontinent / The Seventh Continent] (Dušan Vukotić, 1966)
Aug
12
teevee dinner
A little blond boy on a red tricycle driving past his TV-ish dinner in an empty house. DP: Karol Krška.
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L'œil du malin [The Eye of Evil / The Third Lover] (Claude Chabrol, 1962)
Aug
8
A table covered with a neatly ironed table cloth and on it, several stacks of flat and soup plates, plus silverware and nesting aluminium pans. DP: Jean Rabier.
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Drak sa vracia [Dragon's Return] (Eduard Grečner, 1968)
Aug
6
Eva (Emília Vášáryová) stares into the fire on which a small anthropomorphic cooking vessel is mounted. DP: Vincent Rosinec.
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A Queda [The Fall] (Ruy Guerra + Nelson Xavier, 1978)
Aug
3
Salatiel (Lima Duarte), a middle-aged balding man, in his undershirt at a dinner table. Working class poverty all around. DP: Edgar Moura.
“We were soldiers together. A long time ago. We were young, you know? Free from everything. We've been through a lot together, we were… friends.”
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Os Fuzis [The Guns] (Ruy Guerra, 1964)
Aug
2
A bearded man in white eats from a simple, hand-carved wooden bowl using his hand. In his tangled up hair are small, silver devotional medals. DP: Ricardo Aronovich.
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Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948)
Jul
31
grub
A close-up of two prisoners' hands. One is handling grub with a spoon from a stainless steel soup bowl. DP: John Alton.
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La ragazza con la pistola [The Girl with a Pistol] (Mario Monicelli, 1968)
Jul
28
Assunta Patanè (Monica Vitti) seated between two dinner tables on a long, padded bench. She's clutching her purse and appears to be waiting for something. On the table to her right a sugar bowl and a branded ashtray. DP: Carlo Di Palma.
“Ah, well, if you love somebody, shoot!”
– Dr. Tom Osborne
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L'homme qui ment [The Man Who Lies] (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1968)
Jul
25
soup
The titular man (Jean-Louis Trintignant) at a dinner table, observed by Sylvia (Sylvia Turbová) and Maria (Sylvie Bréal). The room is white and sparsely furnished. DP: Igor Luther.
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The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, 1952)
Jul
21
chow mein
Dr. James G. Kent (Richard Kiley) discussing the case during lunch at a Chinese restaurant. After scratching his temple with his chopsticks, he attempts to eat his noodles with the utensils' grip. DP: Burnett Guffey.
“You know how much coffee I've had today? 17 cups. The Brazilians ought to give me a medal.”
– ER doctor
