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La boulangère de Monceau [The Bakery Girl of Monceau] (Éric Rohmer, 1963)
Jul
28
un gâteau
A young woman in an apron grabs a French cookie. DPs: Bruno Barbey & Jean-Michel Meurice.
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La vérité [The Truth] (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960)
Jul
25
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.
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Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972)
Jul
24
cantaloupe
Bruce Dern as peace-loving Freeman Lowell aggressively eating a cantaloupe in space. DP: Charles F. Wheeler.
“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.”
– Freeman Lowell
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血は渇いてる [Chi wa kawaiteru / Blood Is Dry] (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1960)
Jul
17
beer
A man and woman share a meal in a top-floor restaurant. The view is numerous identical modern buildings. She's smoking and they both clutch large beer mugs. Two dishes hold small bits of food with toothpicks stuck into them. DP: Tōichirō Narushima.
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Il boom [The Boom] (Vittorio De Sica, 1963)
Jul
13
espresso
A glum looking man holds a teeny espresso cup-and-saucer. DP: Armando Nannuzzi.
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L'ingorgo [Traffic Jam] (Luigi Comencini, 1979)
Jul
12
Two middle-aged men in a car, each very much enjoying a small meal. We see them through the windshield with behind them numerous other cars stuck in traffic. DP: Ennio Guarnieri.
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Bob le flambeur [Bob the Gambler] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)
Jun
13
frites
Anne (Isabelle Corey), a cute blonde with a beret, eats a fry (French, obviously) while giving us a side glance. It's all very proto-Vague. DP: Henri Decaë.
– I saw you the other morning, eating frites.
– I like frites.
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Les abysses [The Depths] (Nikos Papatakis, 1963)
Feb
18
pancakes
Michèle and Marie-Louise (real-life sisters Francine and Colette Bergé) as the real-life Papin sisters prepare crêpes for Monsieur. DP: Jean-Michel Boussaguet.
– Why are we making pancakes?
– Monsieur likes them. Besides, what else is there?
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野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959)
Feb
17
airline food
Kunihiko Date (Tatsuya Nakadai) enjoys an in-flight meal. DP: Fukuzō Koizumi.
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Todo modo [One Way or Another] (Elio Petri, 1976)
Feb
13
Eucharist
Captains of industry, politicians and others of the upper echelons share a meal of bread, water, and wine at a long table. DP: Luigi Kuveiller.
“When you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper you eat, for as you eat, each of you goes ahead without waiting for anybody else. One remains hungry, another gets drunk.”
– 1 Corinthians 11:20–21, via
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