Lo straniero [The Stranger] (Luchino Visconti, 1967)
Jul
3
soup
Arthur Meursault (Mastroianni) eating from a cracked bowl. DP: Giuseppe Rotunno.
O Bandido da Luz Vermelha [The Red Light Bandit] (Rogério Sganzerla, 1968)
Jul
1
prairie oyster
The bandit (Paulo Villaça) cracks a raw egg over his liquid breakfast while one of his female victims (Sonia Braga) is on the phone beside him. Her cigarette smokes itself and the kitchen table is packed with drugstore items. DPs: Peter Overbeck & Carlos Ebert.
“Say, mister. Will you stake a fellow American to a meal?”
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
Jun
30
campfire grub
Curtin (Tim Holt), Dobbs (Bogart), and Howard (Walter Huston) eating campfire grub. DP: Ted D. McCord.
– Dobbs
“Europe, a Stutz Bearcat, the best restaurants. You fellas really have a hard life, don't you?”
Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)
Jun
29
coffee
A squeaky young Stockwell and Varsi at a diner. We're looking in from the outside through an open window. The place is busy but she's all enthralled by his wit and intellect (and looks for sure). DP: William C. Mellor.
– Harold Horn, DA
– Why so grumpy?
– I'm starved! Dinner is always late!
La main du diable [The Devil's Hand / Carnival of Sinners] (Maurice Tourneur, 1943)
Jun
27
dinner (late)
A disgruntled man in a hotel restaurant. DP: Armand Thirard.
“I don't care about your barley. Or, your vines! Or, your new terra!”
Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
Jun
27
tuna (fresh)
Karen (Ingrid Bergman) looking miserable at a small kitchen table. A huge tuna covers most of its surface. DP: Otello Martelli.
Posted while deciding on my film dinner. Eventually I went with Tourneur's La Main du Diable (1943).
– Karen
Le trou [The Hole / The Night Watch] (Jacques Becker, 1960)
Jun
25
care package
Butchering a care package – butter, sausage and other joys of life – for contraband. DP: Ghislain Cloquet.
“Today over lunch I tried to improve morale and build a sense of camaraderie among the men by holding a humorous, round-robin discussion of the early days of the mission. My overtures were brutally rejected. These men do not want a happy ship. They are deeply sick and try to compensate by making me feel miserable.”
Dark Star (John Carpenter, 1974)
Jun
23
space lunch
The men enjoying a joyless lunch, consisting of something semi-liquid in a squeeze packet. DP: Douglas Knapp.
– Sgt. Pinback's video diary
“I left forty lira at home, the family is hungry now.”
Umut [Hope] (Yilmaz Güney, 1970)
Jun
18
Cabbar (Yilmaz Güney, center), his travel companions, and their hosts share an opulent meal. DP: Kaya Ererez.
– Cabbar
错位 [Cuo wei / Dislocation] (Huang Jianxin, 1986)
Jun
17
啤酒
The engineer (Zifeng Liu) drinking many many beers with his secretary (Hong Mu). DP: Xinsheng Wang.