Requiem for a Village (David Gladwell, 1975)
Sep
29
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Farmers resting, eating bread, after the harvest. DP: Bruce Parsons.
La strega in amore [The Witch] (Damiano Damiani, 1966)
Sep
27
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We, the viewer, sit at the head of a long table. Two women at the tall ends of the table stop eating to look at us. It's ominous. DP: Leonida Barboni.
마의 계단 [Maui gyuedan / The Evil Stairs] (Lee Man-hee, 1964)
Sep
25
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Watched from above, the nurses gather to gossip over lunch. DP: Jeong-min Seo.
ტარიელ მკლავაძის მკვლელობის საქმე [Tariel Mklavadzis mkvlelobis saqme / The Hero of Our Time] (Ivane Perestiani, 1925)
Sep
21
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A dark eyed woman lurks from behind a white horse, while holding a glass of wine. DP: Aleksandr Digmelov.
Mon oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)
Aug
29
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Mr Hulot and three women enjoy an outdoor lunch in Villa Arpel's concrete backyard. A woman in furs laughs heartily, head thrown back, with Hulot looking into her open mouth, halting a woman reaching for a carafe mid-movement. The third woman, in an avant-garde Eastmancolor-red poncho, calmly smokes through her cigarette holder. DP: Jean Bourgoin.
“Shucks, I could take chicken fertilizer and sell it to them as caviar. I could make them eat dog food and think it was steak. Sure, I got 'em like this…”
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)
Aug
22
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A young woman with an impressive coif, a fur stole and a large milkshake peeks from around a corner with a surprised look on her face. DPs: Gayne Rescher & Harry Stradling Sr..
– Lonesome Rhodes
“I know. I know you. I know you very well.”
La carrière de Suzanne [Suzanne's Career] (Éric Rohmer, 1963)
Aug
13
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A woman reaches for a silver teapot. We only see her hand. DP: Daniel Lacambre.
– Suzanne
“Un gâteau.”
La boulangère de Monceau [The Bakery Girl of Monceau] (Éric Rohmer, 1963)
Jul
28
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A young woman in an apron grabs a French cookie. DPs: Bruno Barbey & Jean-Michel Meurice.
– young man
La vérité [The Truth] (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960)
Jul
25
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Bardot and two men in a café. She has her head on Sami Frey's shoulder while the other man kisses her arm. The table in front of them holds a full ashtray and small coffee cups. DP: Armand Thirard.
“It calls back a time when there were flowers all over the Earth… and there were valleys. And there were plains of tall green grass that you could lie down in – you could go to sleep in. And there were blue skies, and there was fresh air… and there were things growing all over the place, not just in some domed enclosures blasted some millions of miles out in to space.”
Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972)
Jul
24
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Bruce Dern as peace-loving Freeman Lowell aggressively eating a cantaloupe in space. DP: Charles F. Wheeler.
– Freeman Lowell