Holubice [The White Dove] (František Vláčil, 1960)
Dec
9
Official Lost And Found Day
Michal (Karel Smyczek) finds the white dove perched on a sculpture. The artwork depicts a faceless boy. DP: Jan Čuřík.
Something is lost and found on Official Lost and Found Day (USA)
“This we do for pleasure, so that we may shortly be at the mercy of venomous snakes and poisonous ants. How foolish can human creatures be.”Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
Nov
26
Valentine's cake – alfresco
A piece of cake. With teeny tiny ants crawling all over it. Awww! DP: Russell Boyd.
– Miss McCraw
“The vicinity is reknowned for its venomous snakes and poisonous ants of various species. It is, however, a geological marvel.”Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
Nov
26
World Lewis Day
A koala high up in a tree, observing one of the rescue operations. DP: Russell Boyd.
A koala for World Lewis Day
It's not possible to be in nature, one can only be absorbed by it.
– Mrs. Appleyard
“Nur ein leichtfertig Knechtlein, dem es gleichgültig war, regne oder sonnenscheine es in der Ernte, wenn nur das Jahr umging und der Lohn kam und zu jeder Essenszeit das Essen auf den Tisch, griff zum Löffel und berichtete Christine, daß noch keine Buche gepflanzet sei und alles gehe, als ob sie verhext wären.”Die schwarze Spinne [The Black Spider] (Mark M. Rissi, 1983)
Oct
20
Christine (Beatrice Kessler) and her junkie friends eating the old man's food. DP: Edwin Horak.
– Jeremias Gotthelf, Die schwarze Spinne (1842)
“It was fear that created the first gods.”Привързаният балон [Privarzaniyat balon / The Tied-Up Balloon] (Binka Zhelyazkova, 1967)
Oct
1
Balloons Around The World Day
The balloon sails along as a young woman in white (Janet Miteva) walks with it. DP: Emil Vagenshtain.
One day, a large blimp shows up over a small Bulgarian village. The townspeople, seeing the prosperity in all that beautiful silk and then some, go after it.
– Stratius
“All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign.”Werckmeister harmóniák (Béla Tarr, 2000)
Sep
26
Shamu The Whale Day
A man in a dark hat and coat approaches the whale. The huge creature lays in an enormous open wooden crate in the middle of a town square. DPs: Patrick de Ranter, Miklós Gurbán, Erwin Lanzensberger, Gábor Medvigy, Emil Novák & Rob Tregenza.
– János Valuska
La caza [The Hunt] (Carlos Saura, 1966)
Sep
23
International Rabbit Day
One of the hunters, seen from the back, aims for a wild rabbit. When you look closely you can see the animal leap just out of frame. DP: Luis Cuadrado.
Ostia [A Violent Life] (Sergio Citti, 1970)
Sep
11
supper
A group of vulgar looking people eating outdoors at a very long table in front of an old crumbing wall at a very long table. The scene is a re-enactment of Da Vinci's Il Cenacolo / Last Supper. DP: Mario Mancini.
“Are the birds gonna eat us, Mommy?”The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
Sep
10
chicken
Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren in a promotional photo by Philippe Halsman. Hedren, as her character Melanie Daniels, is attacked by a large crow while Hitchcock calmly enjoys a fried chicken and a glass of wine. DP: Robert Burks.
Feeling rather peckish.