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Professione: reporter [The Passenger] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
Sep
10
three o'clock
The girl (Maria Schneider) reads out Locke's (Jack Nicholson) calendar: “at three o'clock on the ten of September, don't forget”. DP: Luciano Tovoli.
The reporter keeps a detailed calendar with many, many dates to pick from:
“Monday 3 September 1973, Munich – airport; Wednesday 5 September 1973, Barcelona, 12 a.m. – Parque Communal, – Umbraculo; Friday 7 September 1973, pick up Lucy; Monday 10 September 1973, Melina – 3 p.m. Plaza de la Iglesia, S. Ferdinando; Tuesday 11 September 1973, Daisy, 6 p.m. – Osuna, Hotel de la Gloria; Thursday 13 September 1973, 47-22, including SM, $40; Sunday 16 September 1973, care Daisy in Madrid.”
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More (Barbet Schroeder, 1969)
Sep
7
Estelle (Mimsy Farmer) and Stefan (Klaus Grünberg) tripping in Ibiza. DP: Néstor Almendros.
“I had imagined this journey as a quest. I finished my studies in math. I wanted to live. I wanted to burn all the bridges, all the formulas, and if I got burned, that was okay, too. I wanted to be warm. I wanted the sun and I went after it.”
– Stefan
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Le vampire de Düsseldorf [The Vampire of Dusseldorf] (Robert Hossein, 1965)
Sep
5
Robert Hossein as Peter Kuerten [sic]. DP: Alain Levent.
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Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh [The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh] (Sergio Martino, 1971)
Aug
22
1970
A German tabloid writes EIN NEUES OPFER DES IRREN MÖRDERS (“A new victim of the insane killer”). It's Saturday, August 22, 1979. DPs: Emilio Foriscot & Florian Trenker.
“Now I know you're trying to get away from me —– but your vice is like a room locked from the inside and only I have the key…”
– bouquet card
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Al filo del hacha [Edge of the Axe] (José Ramón Larraz, 1988)
Aug
16
1978
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A computer screen with the admission date of Lillian Nebbs (Christina Marie Lane) in the psychiatric ward on August 16, 1978. Diagnosis: Psycho Amnesia [sic]. There are small pop magazine stickers on the display's bezel. DP: Tote Trenas.
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Der Stand der Dinge [The State of Things] (Wim Wenders, 1982)
Aug
13
1942
Friedrich Munro's (Patrick Bauchau) Hollywood, Ca address and date of birth: August 13, 1942. DPs: Henri Alekan, Fred Murphy & Martin Schäfer.
– You know, I take pictures, photographs, but I never really thought in black and white before I saw our rushes. Do you know what I mean? You can see the shape of things.
– Life is in colour, but black and white is more realistic.
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Jul
17
MacConnachie (Robert Shaw, standing and peering upwards) and Ansell (Malcolm McDowell, squatting and facing away) in a barren landscape. Both have their hands tied behind their back. DPs: Henri Alekan, Peter Suschitzky & Guy Tabary.
“I'll tell you what though, Mac. There'll be no more games from now on.”
– Ansell
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L'uomo più velenoso del cobra [The Man More Venomous Than the Cobra / Human Cobras] (Bitto Albertini, 1971)
May
19
Leslie (Erika Blanc) and Tony Garden (George Ardisson). DP: Emilio Foriscot.
“For a handful of coins!”
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Una libélula para cada muerto [A Dragonfly for Each Corpse] (León Klimovsky, 1975)
May
14
Martedi
Grimy looking Inspector Paolo Scaporella (Paul Naschy) in intense phone conversation. The wall calendar reads Maggio 29 Martedi. DP: Miguel Fernández Mila.
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Goya 3 de mayo [Goya, May 3rd] (Carlos Saura, 2021)
May
3
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