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august

La baie des anges [Bay of Angels] (Jacques Demy, 1963)

Aug

6

Wed

La baie des anges (1963)

The bank where Jean Fournier (Claude Mann) works. A wall calendar, slightly tilted, reads Août 6 Mercredi. DP: Jean Rabier.

“Life has its tricks. Its oddities.”

– Jackie Demaistre

黒蜥蜴 [Kurotokage / Kuro tokage / Black Lizard] (Kinji Fukasaku, 1968)

Aug

4

黒蜥蜴 (1968)

The Black Lizard (Akihiro Miwa) in embrace with Detective Akechi (Isao Kimura). DP: Hiroshi Dōwaki.

She-Man: A Story of Fixation (Bob Clark, 1967)

Aug

4

She-Man: A Story of Fixation (1967)

Lt. Albert Rose, now Rose Albert (Leslie Marlowe), strikes a dramatic pose. DP: Gerhard Maser.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948)

Aug

3

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)

Mentalist John Triton (Edward G. Robinson, middle) and two of his conspirators. DP: John F. Seitz.

A continuity error later on in the movie makes it August 4.

“I'd become a sort of a reverse zombie. I was living in a world already dead, and I alone knowing it.”

– John Triton

White Woman (Stuart Walker, 1933)

Aug

1

White Woman (1933)

Horace H. Prin (Laughton) and Judith Denning (Lombard) in a promotional photo. DP: Harry Fischbeck.

“You'll go under like all the others.”

– Judith Denning