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Eclipse

April 8, 2024

“Everything that lives is still. Are the hills going to march off? Will heaven fall upon us? Will the Earth open under us? We don't know. We don't know, for a total eclipse has come upon us.” –Lars Rudolph as János Valuska in “Werckmeister harmóniák”

Slnko v sieti [The Sun in a Net] (Štefan Uher, 1963) L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune [The Eclipse: The Courtship of the Sun and Moon] (Georges Méliès, 1907) Werckmeister harmóniák [Werckmeister Harmonies] (Béla Tarr, 2000) L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) That Cloud Never Left (Yashaswini Raghunandan, 2019) Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum, 1920/25)

#Arcs #MariánBielik #JanaBeláková #LarsRudolph #MonicaVitti #AlainDelon #eclipse #todo

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L'eclisse [The Eclipse] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)

Jul

19

fruit

Vitti as Vittoria in front of a fruit stand next to La Borsa, the Rome stock exchange located in the remnants of the Hadrianeum. The fruit in the middle is a Melone Mantovano, a type of cantaloupe. DP: Gianni Di Venanzo.

“I still can't figure out if it's an office, a market place, or a boxing ring. And maybe I don't even need to.”

– Vittoria

#FilmDinner #fruit #MichelangeloAntonioni #MonicaVitti #AlainDelon #GiovanniFusco #GianniDiVenanzo #eclipse #romance #apples #pears #melons #drama #mystery #EUR #Rome #Italy #France #1960s ★★★★★

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La piscine [The Swimming Pool] (Jacques Deray, 1969)

Jul

13

“Chinese food”

The two couples (Delon and Schneider, and Ronet and Birkin) awkwardly share dinner. There's wine in red glasses and the food, plated on rustic French dinnerware, is handled with chopsticks. DP: Jean-Jacques Tarbès.

“We'll eat Chinese. OK?”

#FilmDinner #JacquesDeray #AlainDelon #RomySchneider #MauriceRonet #JaneBirkin #PaulCrauchet #MichelLegrand #JeanJacquesTarbès #crime #romance #drama #SaintTropez #France #Italy #1960s ★★½

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Le Samouraï [The Samurai] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)

Apr

25

License Plates Day

A pair of hands switching license plates on the front of a Citroën DS. The scene is almost black-and-white. DP: Henri Decaë.

Hitman Jef Costello (Alain Delon) coolly drives a #Citroën DS 21 to his garagiste (André Salgues), who routinely switches the license plates in a beautifully wordless, efficiently lit scene.

“I never lose. Never really.”

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #LicensePlatesDay #JeanPierreMelville #AlainDelon #AndréSalgues #FrançoisDeRoubaix #HenriDecaë #NeoNoir #cars #CitroënDS #goddess #crime #France #Italy #1960s