NewYearsEve &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:NewYearsEve @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:47:24 +0200 駅​ [Eki / Station] (Yasuo Furuhata, 1981) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/yi-1981 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 駅​ [Eki / Station] (Yasuo Furuhata, 1981)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 駅 (1981)/div div class="caption" Eiji Mikami (Ken Takakura) and Kiriko (Chieko Baishō) watching TV in her quiet bar. She sings along with her favourite song. DP: Daisaku Kimura./div div class="txt" Set 278 days before the start of the Tokyo Olympics. "One can meet only god at such hour." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #YasuoFuruhata #KenTakakura #ChiekoBaishō #RyūdōUzaki #DaisakuKimura #NewYearsEve #drama #romance #crime #Japan #1980s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

駅​ [Eki / Station] (Yasuo Furuhata, 1981)

Oct

12

駅 (1981)

Eiji Mikami (Ken Takakura) and Kiriko (Chieko Baishō) watching TV in her quiet bar. She sings along with her favourite song. DP: Daisaku Kimura.

Set 278 days before the start of the Tokyo Olympics.

“One can meet only god at such hour.”

#FilmDuJour #October #YasuoFuruhata #KenTakakura #ChiekoBaishō #RyūdōUzaki #DaisakuKimura #NewYearsEve #drama #romance #crime #Japan #1980s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/yi-1981 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/o-drakos-1956 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 31/div div class="occasion" New Year's Eve/div div class="img" Ο Δράκος (1956)/div div class="caption" Men in identical white shirts and dark slacks dancing in the club during after hours. Their upper bodies seem top-heavy, tending to lunge towards the ground. DP: Kostas Theodoridis./div div class="txt" New Year's Eve celebrations. &nbsp; A mousy bank clerk (Dinos Iliopoulos), who bears an uncanny resemblance to a criminal on the run, finds himself hiding in a shady cabaret on New Year's Eve instead of spending a quiet evening alone. During his forced stay at the nightclub, he comes to enjoy and identify more and more with his newfound persona and assumes the role of the notorious "Drago". &nbsp; An initial box office dud, it is now considered one of the top ten all-time best Greek films. &nbsp; Happy new year, everyone! On to many more cinematic discoveries!/div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NewYearsEve #NikosKoundouros #DinosIliopoulos #GiannisArgyris #MargaritaPapageorgiou #MarikaLekaki #ManosHatzidakis #KostasTheodoridis #Zeibekiko #FilmNoir #satire #crime #holidays #romance #drama #music #Greece #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Ο Δράκος [O Drakos / The Ogre of Athens / The Ogre / The Vampire] (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)

Dec

31

New Year's Eve

Ο Δράκος (1956)

Men in identical white shirts and dark slacks dancing in the club during after hours. Their upper bodies seem top-heavy, tending to lunge towards the ground. DP: Kostas Theodoridis.

New Year's Eve celebrations.

 

A mousy bank clerk (Dinos Iliopoulos), who bears an uncanny resemblance to a criminal on the run, finds himself hiding in a shady cabaret on New Year's Eve instead of spending a quiet evening alone. During his forced stay at the nightclub, he comes to enjoy and identify more and more with his newfound persona and assumes the role of the notorious “Drago”.

 

An initial box office dud, it is now considered one of the top ten all-time best Greek films.

 

Happy new year, everyone! On to many more cinematic discoveries!

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NewYearsEve #NikosKoundouros #DinosIliopoulos #GiannisArgyris #MargaritaPapageorgiou #MarikaLekaki #ManosHatzidakis #KostasTheodoridis #Zeibekiko #FilmNoir #satire #crime #holidays #romance #drama #music #Greece #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/o-drakos-1956 Sun, 31 Dec 2023 21:45:24 +0100 Körkarlen [The Phantom Carriage] (Victor Sjöström, 1921) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/korkarlen-1921 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Körkarlen [The Phantom Carriage] (Victor Sjöström, 1921)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" International Axe Throwing Day/div div class="img" Körkarlen (1921)/div div class="caption" David Holm (Victor Sjöström) attempts to break through a wooden door with the butt of an axe. This scene was the inspiration for the infamous door scene in Kubrick's The Shining (1980). DP: Julius Jaenzon./div div class="txt" "I want to be good, but no one believes me. Is it any wonder I cry?" ### – David Holm\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #InternationalAxeThrowingDay #axes #VictorSjöström #SelmaLagerlöf #JuliusJaenzon #holidays #NewYearsEve #drama #horror #BookAdaptation #SilentFilm #Sweden #1920s/div /section ]]>

Körkarlen [The Phantom Carriage] (Victor Sjöström, 1921)

Jun

13

International Axe Throwing Day

Körkarlen (1921)

David Holm (Victor Sjöström) attempts to break through a wooden door with the butt of an axe. This scene was the inspiration for the infamous door scene in Kubrick's The Shining (1980). DP: Julius Jaenzon.

“I want to be good, but no one believes me. Is it any wonder I cry?”

– David Holm

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #InternationalAxeThrowingDay #axes #VictorSjöström #SelmaLagerlöf #JuliusJaenzon #holidays #NewYearsEve #drama #horror #BookAdaptation #SilentFilm #Sweden #1920s

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