JackPalance &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:JackPalance @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:51:32 +0200 The Professionals (Richard Brooks, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-professionals-1966 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Professionals (Richard Brooks, 1966)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" 1812/div div class="img" The Professionals (1966)/div div class="caption" The sheriff jolts something down next to a wall calendar that reads January 12, 1812. Just visible through a window, Jake (Woody Strode) approaches. DP: Conrad L. Hall./div div class="txt" "Right now, I don't know if it's me or the dynamite that doin' all that sweatin'." ### – Jake Sharp /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #RichardBrooks #FrankORourke #BurtLancaster #LeeMarvin #RobertRyan #WoodyStrode #JackPalance #ClaudiaCardinale #MauriceJarre #ConradLHall #western #adventure #action #BookAdaptation #USA #1960s ★★½/div /section ]]>

The Professionals (Richard Brooks, 1966)

Jan

12

1812

The Professionals (1966)

The sheriff jolts something down next to a wall calendar that reads January 12, 1812. Just visible through a window, Jake (Woody Strode) approaches. DP: Conrad L. Hall.

“Right now, I don't know if it's me or the dynamite that doin' all that sweatin'.”

– Jake Sharp

#FilmDuJour #January #RichardBrooks #FrankORourke #BurtLancaster #LeeMarvin #RobertRyan #WoodyStrode #JackPalance #ClaudiaCardinale #MauriceJarre #ConradLHall #western #adventure #action #BookAdaptation #USA #1960s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-professionals-1966 Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0100 Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d6dk <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan, 1950)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Panic in the Streets (1950).png)/div div class="caption" A bunch of tough-looking guys at a table with what may be a sandwich. Even the sandwich is up to no good.. DP: Joseph MacDonald./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #EliaKazan #RichardWidmark #PaulDouglas #BarbaraBelGeddes #JackPalance #ZeroMostel #DanRiss #TommyCook #AlfredNewman #JosephMacDonald #crime #outbreak #drama #thriller #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan, 1950)

Dec

13

Panic in the Streets (1950)

A bunch of tough-looking guys at a table with what may be a sandwich. Even the sandwich is up to no good.. DP: Joseph MacDonald.

 

#FilmDinner #EliaKazan #RichardWidmark #PaulDouglas #BarbaraBelGeddes #JackPalance #ZeroMostel #DanRiss #TommyCook #AlfredNewman #JosephMacDonald #crime #outbreak #drama #thriller #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d6dk Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:24:26 +0100 Psychic Confession (Danny Korem, 1982) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/psychic-confession-1982 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Psychic Confession (Danny Korem, 1982)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 23/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Psychic Confession (1982)/div div class="caption" James Hydrick spins a one dollar bill – balanced on top of a pin, locked into an airtight, glass box – with the power of his own mind./div div class="txt" "My whole idea behind this in the first place was to see how dumb America was. How dumb the world is." ### – James Hydrick\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #DannyKorem #JamesHydrick #JackPalance #MartialArts #documentary #telekinesis #paranormal #crime #USA #1980s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Psychic Confession (Danny Korem, 1982)

Oct

23

Psychic Confession (1982)

James Hydrick spins a one dollar bill – balanced on top of a pin, locked into an airtight, glass box – with the power of his own mind.

“My whole idea behind this in the first place was to see how dumb America was. How dumb the world is.”

– James Hydrick

#FilmDuJour #October #DannyKorem #JamesHydrick #JackPalance #MartialArts #documentary #telekinesis #paranormal #crime #USA #1980s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/psychic-confession-1982 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Paparazzi (Jacques Rozier, 1963/1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wftq <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Paparazzi (Jacques Rozier, 1963/1964)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Paparazzi (1964)/div div class="caption" Brigitte Bardot and her co-star Michel Piccoli making a show of ascending the stairs of Casa Malaparte as seen through a paparazzo's lens. DP: Maurice Perrimond./div div class="txt" A character has a camera or takes photos &nbsp; It buzzes on the set of Le mépris. These mosquitos, the Italians say paparazzi, swarm La Bardot and making it merely impossible for anyone – themselves included – to do their job. But Bardot knows them, too well, and gives them what they want, when she wants it. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #JacquesRozier #MichelPiccoli #JeanLescot #DavidTonelli #JickyDussart #GiorgiaMoll #WilliamRobertSivel #ClaudioValente #BrigitteBardot #JeanLucGodard #FritzLang #JackPalance #AntoineDuhamel #MauricePerrimond #photography #paparazzi #voyeurism #ShortFilm #documentary #Capri #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Paparazzi (Jacques Rozier, 1963/1964)

Jul

29

Paparazzi (1964)

Brigitte Bardot and her co-star Michel Piccoli making a show of ascending the stairs of Casa Malaparte as seen through a paparazzo's lens. DP: Maurice Perrimond.

A character has a camera or takes photos*

 

It buzzes on the set of Le mépris. These mosquitos, the Italians say paparazzi, swarm La Bardot and making it merely impossible for anyone – themselves included – to do their job. But Bardot knows them, too well, and gives them what they want, when she wants it.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #JacquesRozier #MichelPiccoli #JeanLescot #DavidTonelli #JickyDussart #GiorgiaMoll #WilliamRobertSivel #ClaudioValente #BrigitteBardot #JeanLucGodard #FritzLang #JackPalance #AntoineDuhamel #MauricePerrimond #photography #paparazzi #voyeurism #ShortFilm #documentary #Capri #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wftq Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200 Le mépris [Contempt] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-41q7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le mépris [Contempt] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" Europe Day/div div class="img" Le mépris (1963)/div div class="caption" 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./div div class="txt" A director from the EU for Europe Day "Producers are something I can easily do without" ### – Fritz Lang A film in a film, the former directed by Fritz Lang, directed by Godard./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #EuropeDay #JeanLucGodard #AlbertoMoravia #BrigitteBardot #MichelPiccoli #JackPalance #GiorgiaMoll #FritzLang #RaoulCoutard #LindaVeras #GeorgesDelerue #PieroPiccioni #drama #philosophy #romance #mystery #BookAdaptation #Capri #France #Italy #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Le mépris [Contempt] (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)

May

5

Europe Day

Le mépris (1963)

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

“Producers are something I can easily do without”

– Fritz Lang

A film in a film, the former directed by Fritz Lang, directed by Godard.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #EuropeDay #JeanLucGodard #AlbertoMoravia #BrigitteBardot #MichelPiccoli #JackPalance #GiorgiaMoll #FritzLang #RaoulCoutard #LindaVeras #GeorgesDelerue #PieroPiccioni #drama #philosophy #romance #mystery #BookAdaptation #Capri #France #Italy #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-41q7 Mon, 05 May 2025 19:22:00 +0200