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Domenica d'agosto [Sunday in August] (Luciano Emmer, 1950)
Apr
29
spaghetti di mamma
Marcella (Anna Baldini) enjoying mamma's spaghetti on the beach of Ostia. DPs: Leonida Barboni, Ubaldo Marelli & Domenico Scala.
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Série noire (Alain Corneau, 1979)
Apr
9
canned pilchards
Franck Poupart (Patrick Dewaere) about to dig into a can of pilchards. A pile of French women's magazine “marie claire” is next to him on an otherwise bare coffee table. DP: Pierre-William Glenn.
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Io la conoscevo bene [I Knew Her Well] (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965)
Apr
2
cocktails
A lone Roberto (Enrico Maria Salerno) at a lively cocktail party in Rome's hypermodern EUR district. DP: Armando Nannuzzi.
“Trouble is, she likes everything. She's always happy. She desires nothing, envies no one, is curious about nothing. You can't surprise her. She doesn't notice the humiliations, though they happen to her every day. It all rolls off her back like some waterproof material. Zero ambition. No moral code. Not even a whore's love of money.”
– the writer
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Привързаният балон [Privarzaniyat balon / The Tied-Up Balloon] (Binka Zhelyazkova, 1967)
Mar
17
bread
A boy and young woman (Janet Miteva) riding a donkey. The boy eats a handful while the woman faces downwards. There are several donkeys with riders behind them. DP: Emil Vagenshtain.
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Mord und Totschlag [Degree of Murder] (Volker Schlöndorff, 1967)
Mar
4
juice
A pensive Marie (Anita Pallenberg) drinking something red from a bottle with a green straw. DP: Franz Rath..
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The World's Greatest Sinner (Timothy Carey, 1962)
Mar
1
eggs
Clarence “God” Hilliard (Timothy Carey) sitting at a round dinner table talking to his wife who's leaning against a counter holding a carton of eggs and crockery. DPs: Frank Grande, Robert Shelfow, Ray Dennis Steckler & Edgar G. Ulmer.
“Let's be different. Let's not hate anyone.”
– Clarence “God” Hilliard
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The Whole Shootin' Match (Eagle Pennell, 1978)
Feb
23
dinner with dad
Father and son at a small messy dinner table in a small kitchen. The dad, Frank (Sonny Carl Davis) is going on about something while the kid, T. Frank (David Weber), licks his finger. DP: Eagle Pennell.
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The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, 1977)
Feb
9
popcorn
A white guy munches popcorn in a seemingly empty movie theatre while an usher, standing right behind him, lights a cigarette. DP: Stephen M. Katz.
“The popcorn you are eating has been pissed in. Film at eleven.”
– newscaster
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A cavallo della tigre [On the Tiger's Back / Jail Break] (Luigi Comencini, 1961)
Jan
6
Two men in a doorway with a stunned look on their faces and their mouths stuffed with food. DP: Aldo Scavarda.
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Angel, Angel, Down We Go [Cult of the Damned (Robert Thom, 1969)
Dec
22
A chubby, piggy pink-dressed debutante (Joan Calhoun) flanked by her uppity-class parents (Charles Aidman and Jennifer Jones) in a fancy restaurant. The kid gives her mother the side eye. Other eaters look on in shock. DP: John F. Warren.
“We say hip, hooray,
Hip, hip hooray,
For fat!”
– Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, The Fat Song
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