Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)

Feb

14

Valentine's Day

A delicate, pink frosted Valentine's cake topped with a yellow marzipan rose. The cake, which bears the words St. Valentine in crude writing, has a deep straight cut right through the middle and a scorched dark spot on its side. On the right a rusty knife. DP: Russell Boyd.

“On Saturday 14th February 1900, a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College picnicked at Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. During the afternoon, several members of the party disappeared without trace.”

#FilmDuJour #February #PeterWeir #JoanLindsay #RussellBoyd #BookAdaptation #cake #StValentinesDay #drama #Australia #1970s ★½

Ucho [The Ear] (Karel Kachyňa, 1970)

Jan

8

cake

A gold-rimmed plate with a messy piece of cake on its side. Near it two glasses and a bottle of alcohol. DP: Josef Illík.

#FilmDinner #cake #KarelKachyňa #RadoslavBrzobohatý #JiřinaBohdalová #SvatoplukHavelka #JosefIllík #ČeskoslovenskáNováVlna #drama #satire #paranoia #politics #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★★☆

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.

“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.”

– Miss McCraw

#FilmDinner #cake #picnic #PeterWeir #JoanLindsay #RussellBoyd #BookAdaptation #Australia #animals #ants #drama #1970s ★½