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UK

A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger, 1944)

Aug

27

A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Alison (Sheila Sim) looking out over the rolling hills of Kent with the Canterbury Cathedral somewhere out there. DP: Erwin Hillier.

“Well, there are more ways than one of getting close to your ancestors. Follow the old road, and as you walk, think of them and of the old England. They climbed Chillingbourne Hill, just as you. They sweated and paused for breath just as you did today. And when you see the bluebells in the spring and the wild thyme, and the broom and the heather, you're only seeing what their eyes saw. You ford the same rivers. The same birds are singing. When you lie flat on your back and rest, and watch the clouds sailing, as I often do, you're so close to those other people, that you can hear the thrumming of the hoofs of their horses, and the sound of the wheels on the road, and their laughter and talk, and the music of the instruments they carried. And when I turn the bend in the road, where they too saw the towers of Canterbury, I feel I've only to turn my head, to see them on the road behind me.”

– Thomas Colpeper, JP

The Plague of the Zombies (John Gilling, 1966)

Aug

20

The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

A rather disgusting looking zombie carrying a young brunette in a flower dress. DP: Arthur Grant.

“I, I find all kinds of witchcraft slightly nauseating and this I find absolutely disgusting.”

– Sir James Forbes

Der Stand der Dinge [The State of Things] (Wim Wenders, 1982)

Aug

13

1942

Der Stand der Dinge (1982)

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.

Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965)

Aug

4

junket

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Two women – one young (Carol Lynley), one older (Lucie Mannheim) – in a school's kitchen. The older woman handling the food says “But when it looks like junket, it is junket.“. DP: Denys N. Coop.

”'Junket is junket,' I said, and 'no matter what you do with it, it still tastes like swill and swallows like slime.'”

– school cook

Среда [Sreda / Wednesday / Wednesday 19.7.1961] (Viktor Kosakovskiy, 1979)

Jul

19

Wed

Среда (1979)

Adult twins who, like director Kosakovskiy, were born on Wednesday 19, 1961. DP: Victor Kossakovsky.

Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey, 1970)

Jul

17

Figures in a Landscape (1970)

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

The Disappearance (Stuart Cooper, 1977)

Jun

21

cereal

The Disappearance (1977)

Jay Mallory (Donald Sutherland) eats cornflakes in a black-tiled kitchen in Habitat 67. At the other side of their hexagonal table, Celandine (Francine Racette) smokes a cigarette. DP: John Alcott.

The Leather Boys (Sidney J. Furie, 1964)

Jun

12

wedding buffet

The Leather Boys (1964)

Newlyweds Dot and Reggie and friends and family about to dig into the wedding buffet. DP: Gerald Gibbs.

“I'll be eating frankfurters and onions. Plenty of tomato ketchup. Chips with lots of vinegar. Few cockles and muscles. Jellied eels, Coca-Cola, beer, the old jukebox, lollipops, all the lot.”

– Pete

Wholly Communion (Peter Whitehead, 1966)

Jun

11

1965

Wholly Communion (1966)

Allen Ginsberg reciting in front of an enraptured audience at the Royal Albert Hall. DP: Peter Whitehead.

“Love! Love!”

– anonymous poet interrupting Harry Fainlight

Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959)

Jun

7

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor) and a man in white, seen from the back, eating alfresco near a beach. DP: Jack Hildyard.

“My son – Sebastian – and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer.”

– Mrs Vi Venable