drama &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:drama @settima@zirk.us Thu, 28 May 2026 21:06:55 +0200 Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-60zj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár, 1968/1971)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Touha zvaná Anada (1968/1971)/div div class="caption" Zuzka (Milena Dravić) holds a mirror to Anada's (Paula Pritchett) face. Zuzka's husband Jánoš (Rade Marković) looks on. DP: Vladimír Novotný./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #ElmarKlos #JánKadár #LájosZilahy #RadeMarković #MilenaDravić #PaulaPritchett #VladimírNovotný #ZdeněkLiška #VladimírNovotný #drama #fantasy #mirrors #1960s #1970s #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár, 1968/1971)

May

20

Touha zvaná Anada (1968/1971)

Zuzka (Milena Dravić) holds a mirror to Anada's (Paula Pritchett) face. Zuzka's husband Jánoš (Rade Marković) looks on. DP: Vladimír Novotný.

#FilmDuJour #May #ElmarKlos #JánKadár #LájosZilahy #RadeMarković #MilenaDravić #PaulaPritchett #VladimírNovotný #ZdeněkLiška #VladimírNovotný #drama #fantasy #mirrors #1960s #1970s #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-60zj Wed, 20 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 La Femme Bourreau [A Woman Kills] (Jean-Denis Bonan, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5krp <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La Femme Bourreau [A Woman Kills] (Jean-Denis Bonan, 1968)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" 1943/div div class="img" La Femme Bourreau (1968)/div div class="caption" A dark-haired woman lounging on a bed. DP: Gérard de Battista./div div class="txt" "Hélène Picard, born in Lyon, May 20, 1943. A child in care, she is reported as a runaway, a thief and unstable." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JeanDenisBonan #MyriamMézières #JeanRollin #BernardVitet #GérardDeBattista #drama #crime #ExperimentalFilm #Paris #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

La Femme Bourreau [A Woman Kills] (Jean-Denis Bonan, 1968)

May

20

1943

La Femme Bourreau (1968)

A dark-haired woman lounging on a bed. DP: Gérard de Battista.

“Hélène Picard, born in Lyon, May 20, 1943. A child in care, she is reported as a runaway, a thief and unstable.”

#FilmDuJour #May #JeanDenisBonan #MyriamMézières #JeanRollin #BernardVitet #GérardDeBattista #drama #crime #ExperimentalFilm #Paris #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5krp Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Gordon Davidson, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-fg26 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Gordon Davidson, 1972)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" 1968/div div class="img" The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972).jpg)/div div class="caption" Director Gordon Davidson and the defense attorney (David Spielberg) on set. DP: Haskell Wexler./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #GordonDavidson #DanielBerrigan #EdFlanders #DavidSpielberg #ShellyManne #HaskellWexler #drama #biography #VietnamWar #theatre #USA #1970s/div /section ]]>

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Gordon Davidson, 1972)

May

17

1968

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)

Director Gordon Davidson and the defense attorney (David Spielberg) on set. DP: Haskell Wexler.

#FilmDuJour #May #GordonDavidson #DanielBerrigan #EdFlanders #DavidSpielberg #ShellyManne #HaskellWexler #drama #biography #VietnamWar #theatre #USA #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-fg26 Sun, 17 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-b6f1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Compulsion (1959)/div div class="caption" Straus (Bradford Dillman) with Steiner (Dean Stockwell) behind the wheel. They're beaming. DP: William C. Mellor./div div class="txt" "Murder's nothing. It's just a simple experience. Murder and rape? Do you know what beauty there is in evil?" ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)

May

16

Compulsion (1959)

Straus (Bradford Dillman) with Steiner (Dean Stockwell) behind the wheel. They're beaming. DP: William C. Mellor.

“Murder's nothing. It's just a simple experience. Murder and rape? Do you know what beauty there is in evil?”

#FilmDuJour #May #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-b6f1 Sat, 16 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Appointment (Lindsey C. Vickers, 1982) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0cdn <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Appointment (Lindsey C. Vickers, 1982)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" Tue/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" The Appointment (1982)/div div class="caption" A schoolgirl with long brown hair seen from the back. She's taking the popular shortcut through the fields. DP: Brian West./div div class="txt" "Subject, Sandy Fremont. The last positive sighting of the child was on her way home from a school orchestra rehearsal. This was on Tuesday May 14th at approximately 6:30 in the evening." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #LindseyCVickers #EdwardWoodward #JaneMerrow #SamanthaWeysom #JohnJudd #AlanStuart #TrevorJones #BrianWest #thriller #drama #animals #revenge #horror #mystery #UK #1980s ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

The Appointment (Lindsey C. Vickers, 1982)

May

14

Tue

The Appointment (1982)

“Subject, Sandy Fremont. The last positive sighting of the child was on her way home from a school orchestra rehearsal. This was on Tuesday May 14th at approximately 6:30 in the evening.”

#FilmDuJour #May #LindseyCVickers #EdwardWoodward #JaneMerrow #SamanthaWeysom #JohnJudd #AlanStuart #TrevorJones #BrianWest #thriller #drama #animals #revenge #horror #mystery #UK #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0cdn Thu, 14 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l4py <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" 1852/div div class="img" The Searchers (1956).png)/div div class="caption" A little girl finds comfort in a rag doll. She's sitting against a wooden grave marker. Another scene reveals the date. DP: Winton C. Hoch./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JohnFord #JohnWayne #NatalieWood #AlanLeMay #MaxSteiner #WintonCHoch #kidnapping #western #drama #adventure #BookAdaptation #Arizona #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

May

12

1852

The Searchers (1956)

A little girl finds comfort in a rag doll. She's sitting against a wooden grave marker. Another scene reveals the date. DP: Winton C. Hoch.

 

#FilmDuJour #May #JohnFord #JohnWayne #NatalieWood #AlanLeMay #MaxSteiner #WintonCHoch #kidnapping #western #drama #adventure #BookAdaptation #Arizona #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l4py Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wm5g <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 08/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Le Horla (1966).png)/div div class="caption" A reel-to-reel tape recorder. DP: Jean-Jacques Rochut./div div class="txt" and subsequent days. "8supth/sup of May. What a lovely day!" ### – voice on tape /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JeanDanielPollet #GuyDeMaupassant #LaurentTerzieff #JeanJacquesRochut #ShortFilm #drama #mystery #monologue #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966)

May

08

Le Horla (1966)

A reel-to-reel tape recorder. DP: Jean-Jacques Rochut.

and subsequent days.

“8th of May. What a lovely day!”

– voice on tape

#FilmDuJour #May #JeanDanielPollet #GuyDeMaupassant #LaurentTerzieff #JeanJacquesRochut #ShortFilm #drama #mystery #monologue #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wm5g Fri, 08 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w9z7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" birthdays/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" Stromboli (Terra di Dio) (1950)/div div class="caption" Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman on set on Sardinia. In the background the house Bergman's character moves into with her husband. DP: Otello Martelli./div div class="txt" ##### May 8 is both director Rossellini and Bergman's character Karen's #birthday. "What mystery, what beauty." ### – Karen /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RobertoRossellini #IngridBergman #MarioVitale #RenzoCesana #MarioSponzo #OtelloMartelli #RenzoRossellini #OtelloMartelli #drama #melodrama #Neorealismo #religion #Sardinia #Italy #USA #1950s ★★☆☆☆/div /section ]]>

Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)

May

8

birthdays

Stromboli (Terra di Dio) (1950)

Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman on set on Sardinia. In the background the house Bergman's character moves into with her husband. DP: Otello Martelli.

May 8 is both director Rossellini and Bergman's character Karen's #birthday.

“What mystery, what beauty.”

– Karen

#FilmDuJour #May #RobertoRossellini #IngridBergman #MarioVitale #RenzoCesana #MarioSponzo #OtelloMartelli #RenzoRossellini #OtelloMartelli #drama #melodrama #Neorealismo #religion #Sardinia #Italy #USA #1950s ★★☆☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w9z7 Fri, 08 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rpt6 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)/div div class="caption" Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine) lighting Tom Garrett's (Dana Andrews) cigarette. DP: William E. Snyder./div div class="txt" "It's a weird, crazy idea, but that's the reason it intrigues me." ### – Tom Garrett /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #JoanFontaine #HerschelBurkeGilbert #WilliamESnyder #crime #drama #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)

May

7

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine) lighting Tom Garrett's (Dana Andrews) cigarette. DP: William E. Snyder.

“It's a weird, crazy idea, but that's the reason it intrigues me.”

– Tom Garrett

#FilmDuJour #May #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #JoanFontaine #HerschelBurkeGilbert #WilliamESnyder #crime #drama #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rpt6 Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0f30 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" 1945/div div class="img" Maratón (1968)/div div class="caption" Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #IvoNovák #JaromírHanzlík #JanaBrejchová #VladimírMenšík #KarelHöger #ZdeněkŠtěpánek #ZdeněkLiška #VáclavHanuš #comedy #drama #war #Czechoslovakia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)

May

5

1945

Maratón (1968)

Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš.

#FilmDuJour #May #IvoNovák #JaromírHanzlík #JanaBrejchová #VladimírMenšík #KarelHöger #ZdeněkŠtěpánek #ZdeněkLiška #VáclavHanuš #comedy #drama #war #Czechoslovakia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0f30 Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200