UK &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:UK @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:58:35 +0200 The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v7x3 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Devil Rides Out (1968)/div div class="caption" The menacing Mocata (Charles Gray). DP: Arthur Grant./div div class="txt" – Do you realise what today's date is, Rex? – April the, er, 29th, why? ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #TerenceFisher #RichardMatheson #DennisWheatley #ChristopherLee #CharlesGray #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #UK #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968)

Apr

29

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

The menacing Mocata (Charles Gray). DP: Arthur Grant.

– Do you realise what today's date is, Rex?

– April the, er, 29th, why?

#FilmDuJour #April #TerenceFisher #RichardMatheson #DennisWheatley #ChristopherLee #CharlesGray #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #UK #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v7x3 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r1tq <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" 1746/div div class="img" Culloden (1964)/div div class="caption" One of the clansman. The look in his eyes foreshadows the Vietnam War this films comments on. DP: Dick Bush./div div class="txt" "Sir Thomas Sheridan, Jacobite military secretary. Suffering advanced debility and loss of memory. Former military engagement, 56 years ago. Sir John MacDonald, Jacobite captain of cavalry. Aged, frequently intoxicated, described as 'a man of the most limited capacities.' John William O'Sullivan, Jacobite quartermaster general. Described as 'an Irishman whose vanity is superseded only by his lack of wisdom.' Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite commander in chief. Former military experience: 10 days at a siege at the age of 13." ### – narrator /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #PeterWatkins #JohnPrebble #DickBush #BookAdaptation #CinémaVérité #DocuDrama #documentary #war #TVMovie #drama #history #Culloden #UK #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964)

Apr

16

1746

Culloden (1964)

One of the clansman. The look in his eyes foreshadows the Vietnam War this films comments on. DP: Dick Bush.

“Sir Thomas Sheridan, Jacobite military secretary. Suffering advanced debility and loss of memory. Former military engagement, 56 years ago. Sir John MacDonald, Jacobite captain of cavalry. Aged, frequently intoxicated, described as 'a man of the most limited capacities.' John William O'Sullivan, Jacobite quartermaster general. Described as 'an Irishman whose vanity is superseded only by his lack of wisdom.' Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite commander in chief. Former military experience: 10 days at a siege at the age of 13.”

– narrator

#FilmDuJour #April #PeterWatkins #JohnPrebble #DickBush #BookAdaptation #CinémaVérité #DocuDrama #documentary #war #TVMovie #drama #history #Culloden #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r1tq Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rrvw <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)/div div class="caption" Abbott (Peter Lorre). DP: Curt Courant./div div class="txt" "Stand by, there's trouble coming soon." ### – Bob Lawrence\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #AlfredHitchcock #Hitchcock #PeterLorre #LeslieBanks #ArthurBenjamin #CurtCourant #crime #thriller #UK #1930s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934)

Mar

21

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

Abbott (Peter Lorre). DP: Curt Courant.

“Stand by, there's trouble coming soon.”

– Bob Lawrence

#FilmDuJour #March #AlfredHitchcock #Hitchcock #PeterLorre #LeslieBanks #ArthurBenjamin #CurtCourant #crime #thriller #UK #1930s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rrvw Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Threads (Mick Jackson, 1984) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g31n <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Threads (Mick Jackson, 1984)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" Sat/div div class="img" Threads (1984).jpg)/div div class="caption" A caption superimosed over the city of Sheffield: SHEFFIELD SATURDAY MARCH 5TH. DPs: Andrew Dunn & Paul Morris./div div class="txt" "In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable." ### – Narrator /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #MickJackson #KarenMeagher #ReeceDinsdale #DavidBrierly #RitaMay #NicholasLane #JaneHazlegrove #AndrewDunn #PaulMorris #TVMovie #drama #war #Sheffield #UK #Australia #1980s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Threads (Mick Jackson, 1984)

Mar

5

Sat

Threads (1984)

A caption superimosed over the city of Sheffield: SHEFFIELD SATURDAY MARCH 5TH. DPs: Andrew Dunn & Paul Morris.

“In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable.”

– Narrator

#FilmDuJour #March #MickJackson #KarenMeagher #ReeceDinsdale #DavidBrierly #RitaMay #NicholasLane #JaneHazlegrove #AndrewDunn #PaulMorris #TVMovie #drama #war #Sheffield #UK #Australia #1980s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g31n Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The City of the Dead (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pj57 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The City of the Dead (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The City of the Dead (1960)/div div class="caption" Nan Barlow (Venetia Stevenson), exploring. DP: Desmond Dickinson./div div class="txt" – Burn witch, burn witch, burn! – Dig that crazy beat, man. ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #JohnLlewellynMoxey #DouglasGamley #DesmondDickinson #VulcanFilms #horror #witches #mystery #ChristopherLee #VenetiaStevenson #UK #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The City of the Dead (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960)

Mar

3

The City of the Dead (1960)

Nan Barlow (Venetia Stevenson), exploring. DP: Desmond Dickinson.

– Burn witch, burn witch, burn!

– Dig that crazy beat, man.

#FilmDuJour #March #JohnLlewellynMoxey #DouglasGamley #DesmondDickinson #VulcanFilms #horror #witches #mystery #ChristopherLee #VenetiaStevenson #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pj57 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/first-man-into-space-1959 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" 1958/div div class="img" First Man Into Space (1959)/div div class="caption" A newspaper headline for February 28, 1958 reading THE HIGHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. DP: Geoffrey Faithfull./div div class="txt" "The conquest of new worlds always makes demands of human life. And there will always be men who will accept the risk." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #RobertDay #BillEdwards #BuxtonOrr #GeoffreyFaithfull #drama #SciFi #horror #UK #1950s ★★½/div /section ]]>

First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959)

Feb

28

1958

First Man Into Space (1959)

A newspaper headline for February 28, 1958 reading THE HIGHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. DP: Geoffrey Faithfull.

“The conquest of new worlds always makes demands of human life. And there will always be men who will accept the risk.”

#FilmDuJour #February #RobertDay #BillEdwards #BuxtonOrr #GeoffreyFaithfull #drama #SciFi #horror #UK #1950s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/first-man-into-space-1959 Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Night Must Fall (Karel Reisz, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-n6qg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Night Must Fall (Karel Reisz, 1964)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" roast/div div class="img" Night Must Fall (1964).png)/div div class="caption" A man mostly off screen carves meat of some sort. Surely it's symbolic. DP: Freddie Francis./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #roast #meat #KarelReisz #EmlynWilliams #AlbertFinney #MonaWashbourne #SusanHampshire #SheilaHancock #RonGrainer #FreddieFrancis #theatre #drama #crime #thriller #UK #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Night Must Fall (Karel Reisz, 1964)

Feb

2

roast

Night Must Fall (1964)

A man mostly off screen carves meat of some sort. Surely it's symbolic. DP: Freddie Francis.

 

#FilmDinner #roast #meat #KarelReisz #EmlynWilliams #AlbertFinney #MonaWashbourne #SusanHampshire #SheilaHancock #RonGrainer #FreddieFrancis #theatre #drama #crime #thriller #UK #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-n6qg Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:11:49 +0100 Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Stuart Cooper, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y5p9 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Stuart Cooper, 1974)/div div class="month" Scrawdyke/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)/div div class="caption" Malcolm Scrawdyke (John Hurt), disgruntled art student. DP: John Alcott./div div class="txt" "So, this month becomes the month of Scrawdyke." ### – Malcolm Scrawdyke /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #StuartCooper #DavidHalliwell #JohnHurt #JohnMcEnery #DavidWarner #RosalindAyres #RaymondPlatt #StanleyMyers #JohnAlcott #drama #Movember #theatre #satire #UK #1970s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Stuart Cooper, 1974)

Scrawdyke

2

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)

Malcolm Scrawdyke (John Hurt), disgruntled art student. DP: John Alcott.

“So, this month becomes the month of Scrawdyke.”

– Malcolm Scrawdyke

#FilmDuJour #February #StuartCooper #DavidHalliwell #JohnHurt #JohnMcEnery #DavidWarner #RosalindAyres #RaymondPlatt #StanleyMyers #JohnAlcott #drama #Movember #theatre #satire #UK #1970s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y5p9 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0100 The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-08l0 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary The Sleeping Tiger (1954)/div div class="caption" A cheque dated January 14. DP: Harry Waxman ./div div class="txt" "If the halo fits, put it on. And don't pretend you don't love winding people up like little toys." ### – Glenda Esmond /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #JosephLosey #MauriceMoiseiwitsch #DirkBogarde #AlexisSmith #AlexanderKnox #HughGriffith #PatriciaMcCarron #MalcolmArnold #HarryWaxman #drama #romance #crime FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954)

Jan

14

spoiler warning: click to toggle image The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

A cheque dated January 14. DP: Harry Waxman .

“If the halo fits, put it on. And don't pretend you don't love winding people up like little toys.”

– Glenda Esmond

#FilmDuJour #January #JosephLosey #MauriceMoiseiwitsch #DirkBogarde #AlexisSmith #AlexanderKnox #HughGriffith #PatriciaMcCarron #MalcolmArnold #HarryWaxman #drama #romance #crime FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-08l0 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (John Reardon, 1978) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tarry-dan-tarry-dan-scarey-old-spooky-man-1978 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (John Reardon, 1978)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (1978)/div div class="caption" Tarry-Dan (Paul Curran) observing kids at the school's gate. DP: Peter Bartlett./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #JohnReardon #PaulCurran #ColinMayes #JeremyBarlow #PeterBartlett #horror #mystery #TVMovie #UK #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (John Reardon, 1978)

Jan

10

Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (1978)

Tarry-Dan (Paul Curran) observing kids at the school's gate. DP: Peter Bartlett.

#FilmDuJour #January #JohnReardon #PaulCurran #ColinMayes #JeremyBarlow #PeterBartlett #horror #mystery #TVMovie #UK #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tarry-dan-tarry-dan-scarey-old-spooky-man-1978 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100