“You're a foreigner and you're lost.”L'immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963)
Jun
23
Sat

A man's hand holds a crumbled up diary page for Saturday June 23. There are no calendar entries. DP: Maurice Barry.
“You're a foreigner and you're lost.”L'immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963)
Jun
23
Sat

A man's hand holds a crumbled up diary page for Saturday June 23. There are no calendar entries. DP: Maurice Barry.
“Oh, my God, Gerald! Shall I die?” Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969)
Nov
18
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Bates and Reed in post-jostle bliss, bathing in the fireplace's glow (via). DP: Billy Williams.
A memorable fire or fireplace scene*
– Gudrun Brangwen
Oddly, one barely remembers the fireplace.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way.
“She's a strange breed.” Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
Nov
4
sweaters

Catherine (Jeanne Moreau) in a raggedy, moth-eaten sweater and oversized newsboy cap, wears a moustache and smokes a cigar (via). DP: Raoul Coutard.
A movie with gorgeous sweater fashion*
– Jim
Throwing in a little Movember for good measure.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way.
“Tourists prefer the trendy colors, yellow and blue. Pacing fancies, hotels are painted yellow and blue. Blue wins. All women want to be fashionable. All women wear blue, except the English, those learning to swim, and the Germans, who are dedicated to green.”Du côté de la côte [Along the Coast] (Agnès Varda, 1958)
Aug
9
yellow

Two people, one big one small, in identical canary yellow robes and straw sun hats on the beach (more here). DPs: Quinto Albicocco & Raymond Castel.
Yellow, in food or fashion*
– narrator
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow.
“Producers are something I can easily do without”Le mépris [Contempt] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
May
5
Europe Day

Michel Piccoli, director Fritz Lang, Jack Palance, and director Jean-Luc Godard behind the scenes. The clapperboard held by Godard is for the movie that Lang's working on in Le Mépris, an adaption of Homer's Odyssey. DP: Raoul Coutard.
A director from the EU for Europe Day
– Fritz Lang
A film in a film, the former directed by Fritz Lang, directed by Godard.
“You're a foreigner and you're lost.”L'immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963)
Mar
12
National Hitchcock Day

A woman in silhouette (Françoise Brion) enters a building. The setup is perfectly symmetrical except a beam of light passing through the opened doors that highlight's the woman's presence, adding a sense of wrong to the scene. DP: Maurice Barry.
A favourite non-Hitchcock mystery for National Hitchcock Day (USA)
Malpertuis (Harry Kümel, 1971)
May
12
meat

Cassavius (Orson Welles), looking monstrous on his sickbed, surrounded by peopel who appear to be in mourning. On his bed's foot-end a large silver platter with cooked meat, and a rat on its hind legs. DP: Gerry Fisher.