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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.
– Why so grumpy?
– I'm starved! Dinner is always late!
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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).
“I don't care about your barley. Or, your vines! Or, your new terra!”
– Karen
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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.
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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.
“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.”
– Sgt. Pinback's video diary
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Umut [Hope] (Yilmaz Güney + Şerif Gören, 1970)
Jun
18
Cabbar (Yilmaz Güney, center), his travel companions, and their hosts share an opulent meal. DP: Kaya Ererez.
“I left forty lira at home, the family is hungry now.”
– Cabbar
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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.
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Lothar Mendes + Alexander Korda, 1936)
Jun
15
fruit
“As I want it, so it will be!”
– George McWhirter Fotheringay
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Gycklarnas afton [Sawdust and Tinsel] (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)
Jun
11
pancakes
Ringmaster Albert Johansson (Åke Grönberg) with Anne (Harriet Andersson) – holding a pot – standing over him. DPs: Hilding Bladh & Sven Nykvist.
– All I can offer is pancakes? Will they do?
– They'll do just fine.
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Les trois couronnes du matelot [Three Crowns of the Sailor] (Raúl Ruiz, 1983)
Jun
5
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Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (Richard Blackburn, 1973)
Jun
4
meat
A fancy looking silver plate with what appears to be raw meat. DP: Robert Caramico.
“Wouldn't you rather I did it out of love, than have one of those wood things do it out of their own animal hungers?”
– Lemora
