alcohol &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:alcohol @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:43:31 +0200 Bildnis einer Trinkerin – Aller jamais retour [Portrait of a Female Drunkard. https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-79f7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bildnis einer Trinkerin – Aller jamais retour [Portrait of a Female Drunkard. Ticket of No Return] (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Bildnis einer Trinkerin( (1979)/div div class="caption" Sie, German for "she/her", hungover in her fabulous yellow nappa leather outfit (via). DP: Ulrike Ottinger./div div class="txt" Someone is hungover "Ein Psychogramm zweier ungewöhnlicher, aber auch extrem unterschiedlicher Frauen. Die eine, reich, exzentrisch, ihre Gefühle maskenhaft verbergend, trinkt sich bewusst zu Tode. Sie ist der Fall, der in der Statistik nicht erscheint, weil entweder zu Hause unter Valium gehalten oder unter Verschluss in einer Privatklinik. Die andere ist arm und trinkt sich unbewusst zu Tode. Sie erscheint in der normalen Statistik als Typ der haltlosen Trinkerin" ### – U.O., via An eccentric woman simply named Sie (Tabea Blumenschein), takes a one-way trip to West Berlin. Accompanied by her alter ego, a homeless alcoholic, and commented on by a Greek choir consisting of Soziale Frage (Social Question), Exakte Statistik (Exact Statistics), and Gesunder Menschenverstand (Common Sense), she drinks herself to death. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #UlrikeOttinger #TabeaBlumenschein #ChristineLutze #MagdalenaMontezuma #OrphaTermin #NinaHagen #GünterMeisner #KurtRaab #VolkerSpengler #EddieConstantine #PeerRaben #drama #ExperimentalFilm #alcohol #alcoholism #addiction #Berlin #WestGermany #1970s/div /section ]]>

Bildnis einer Trinkerin – Aller jamais retour [Portrait of a Female Drunkard. Ticket of No Return] (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979)

Jul

15

Bildnis einer Trinkerin( (1979)

Sie, German for “she/her”, hungover in her fabulous yellow nappa leather outfit (via). DP: Ulrike Ottinger.

Someone is hungover*

“Ein Psychogramm zweier ungewöhnlicher, aber auch extrem unterschiedlicher Frauen. Die eine, reich, exzentrisch, ihre Gefühle maskenhaft verbergend, trinkt sich bewusst zu Tode. Sie ist der Fall, der in der Statistik nicht erscheint, weil entweder zu Hause unter Valium gehalten oder unter Verschluss in einer Privatklinik. Die andere ist arm und trinkt sich unbewusst zu Tode. Sie erscheint in der normalen Statistik als Typ der haltlosen Trinkerin”

– U.O., via

An eccentric woman simply named Sie (Tabea Blumenschein), takes a one-way trip to West Berlin. Accompanied by her alter ego, a homeless alcoholic, and commented on by a Greek choir consisting of Soziale Frage (Social Question), Exakte Statistik (Exact Statistics), and Gesunder Menschenverstand (Common Sense), she drinks herself to death.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #UlrikeOttinger #TabeaBlumenschein #ChristineLutze #MagdalenaMontezuma #OrphaTermin #NinaHagen #GünterMeisner #KurtRaab #VolkerSpengler #EddieConstantine #PeerRaben #drama #ExperimentalFilm #alcohol #alcoholism #addiction #Berlin #WestGermany #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-79f7 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200 On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/on-the-bowery-1956 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin, 1956)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" National Sober Day/div div class="img" On the Bowery (1956)/div div class="caption" Finnish poster. DP: Richard Bagley./div div class="txt" Someone mentions getting sober. "When I get myself - cleaned up and straightened out, I'm going down and get a ship and I'm going to wind up in South Sea islands. That's where I wanna go!" ### /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalSoberDay #LionelRogosin #CharlesMills #RichardBagley #documentary #docudrama #food #alcohol #alcoholism #addiction #USA #1950s/div /section ]]>

On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin, 1956)

Sep

14

National Sober Day

On the Bowery (1956)

Finnish poster. DP: Richard Bagley.

Someone mentions getting sober.

“When I get myself – cleaned up and straightened out, I'm going down and get a ship and I'm going to wind up in South Sea islands. That's where I wanna go!”

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalSoberDay #LionelRogosin #CharlesMills #RichardBagley #documentary #docudrama #food #alcohol #alcoholism #addiction #USA #1950s

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