drama &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:drama @settima@mograph.social Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:50:26 +0200 Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4dhs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, 1962)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="occasion" 1961/div div class="img" Experiment in Terror (1962).png)/div div class="caption" A ticket to a baseball game at Candlestick Park on August 18, 1961, a Friday. Playing are the San Francisco Giants vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Giants won. DP: Philip H. Lathrop./div div class="txt" And July 26, Joey's birthday. He's six now. "And oh, are the Giants mad!" ### – announcer on PA /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #BlakeEdwards #GordonGordon #MildredGordon #GlennFord #LeeRemick #StefaniePowers #RoyPoole #NedGlass #AnitaLoo #PatriciaHuston #RossMartin #HenryMancini #PhilipHLathrop #drama #thriller #crime #BookAdaptation #FilmNoir #baseball #SanFrancisco #USA #1960s ★★★★☆ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, 1962)

Aug

18

1961

Experiment in Terror (1962)

A ticket to a baseball game at Candlestick Park on August 18, 1961, a Friday. Playing are the San Francisco Giants vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Giants won. DP: Philip H. Lathrop.

And July 26, Joey's birthday. He's six now.

“And oh, are the Giants mad!”

– announcer on PA

#FilmDuJour #August #BlakeEdwards #GordonGordon #MildredGordon #GlennFord #LeeRemick #StefaniePowers #RoyPoole #NedGlass #AnitaLoo #PatriciaHuston #RossMartin #HenryMancini #PhilipHLathrop #drama #thriller #crime #BookAdaptation #FilmNoir #baseball #SanFrancisco #USA #1960s ★★★★☆ ♥︎

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4dhs Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9726 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" 10 A.M./div div class="img" Top of the Heap (1972)/div div class="caption" An invitation via telegram dated August 10 for astronaut George Lattimer to Waltersville Alabama on August 16 at 10 A.M.. DP: Richard A. Kelley./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #ChristopherStJohn #PaulaKelly #JiTuCumbuka #BrianCutler #JJJohnson #RichardAKelley #drama #AfroFuturism #USA #1970s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972)

Aug

16

10 A.M.

Top of the Heap (1972)

An invitation via telegram dated August 10 for astronaut George Lattimer to Waltersville Alabama on August 16 at 10 A.M.. DP: Richard A. Kelley.

#FilmDuJour #August #ChristopherStJohn #PaulaKelly #JiTuCumbuka #BrianCutler #JJJohnson #RichardAKelley #drama #AfroFuturism #USA #1970s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9726 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3wt <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" 1927/div div class="img" Shanghai Express (1932).png)/div div class="caption" An elderly lady complains from her train compartment to a newspaper salesman on the platform: "This magazine you sold me says August 15, 1927". DPs: Lee Garmes & James Wong Howe./div div class="txt" Takes place between August 15 and August 19, 1927 "We know what year it is, don't we?" ### – Mrs. Haggerty speaking to her dog /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #JosefVonSternberg #MarleneDietrich #CliveBrook #AnnaMayWong #WarnerOland #EugenePallette #KarlHajos #WFrankeHarling #RudolphGKopp #JohnLeipold #LeeGarmes #JamesWongHowe #war #drama #romance #FilmNoir #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932)

Aug

15

1927

Shanghai Express (1932)

An elderly lady complains from her train compartment to a newspaper salesman on the platform: “This magazine you sold me says August 15, 1927”. DPs: Lee Garmes & James Wong Howe.

Takes place between August 15 and August 19, 1927

“We know what year it is, don't we?”

– Mrs. Haggerty speaking to her dog

#FilmDuJour #August #JosefVonSternberg #MarleneDietrich #CliveBrook #AnnaMayWong #WarnerOland #EugenePallette #KarlHajos #WFrankeHarling #RudolphGKopp #JohnLeipold #LeeGarmes #JamesWongHowe #war #drama #romance #FilmNoir #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3wt Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200 Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers [Cagliostro] (Richard... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bqs1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers [Cagliostro] (Richard Oswald, 1929)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" 1785/div div class="img" Cagliostro (1929).png)/div div class="caption" A title card: LE 15 AOÛT 1785. DPs: Maurice Desfassiaux & Jules Kruger./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #RichardOswald #JohannesVonGünther #HansStüwe #RenéeHéribel #AlfredAbel #IvanKovalSamborsky #RinaDeLiguoro #MauriceDesfassiaux #JulesKruger #SilentFilm #fragment #drama #history #melodrama #BookAdaptation #Germany #France #Sweden #1920s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Cagliostro – Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers [Cagliostro] (Richard Oswald, 1929)

Aug

15

1785

Cagliostro (1929)

A title card: LE 15 AOÛT 1785. DPs: Maurice Desfassiaux & Jules Kruger.

 

#FilmDuJour #August #RichardOswald #JohannesVonGünther #HansStüwe #RenéeHéribel #AlfredAbel #IvanKovalSamborsky #RinaDeLiguoro #MauriceDesfassiaux #JulesKruger #SilentFilm #fragment #drama #history #melodrama #BookAdaptation #Germany #France #Sweden #1920s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bqs1 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0200 Fuoco! [Fire!] (Gian Vittorio Baldi, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mq52 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Fuoco! [Fire!] (Gian Vittorio Baldi, 1968)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" Ferragosto/div div class="img" Fuoco! (1968)/div div class="caption" The statue of the Virgin with a bullet hole right through her eye. DP: Ugo Piccone./div div class="txt" Someone opens fire on August 15, the day of Ferragosto and the Virgin's Assumption &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #GianVittorioBaldi #MarioBagnato #LidiaBiondi #GiorgioMaulini #FrancoPotenza #UgoPiccone #thriller #drama #Italy #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Fuoco! [Fire!] (Gian Vittorio Baldi, 1968)

Aug

15

Ferragosto

Fuoco! (1968)

The statue of the Virgin with a bullet hole right through her eye. DP: Ugo Piccone.

Someone opens fire on August 15, the day of Ferragosto and the Virgin's Assumption

 

#FilmDuJour #August #GianVittorioBaldi #MarioBagnato #LidiaBiondi #GiorgioMaulini #FrancoPotenza #UgoPiccone #thriller #drama #Italy #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mq52 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200 X​ [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rygc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" X​ [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" X (1963)/div div class="caption" Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) performing his mind-reading trick. DP: Floyd Crosby./div div class="txt" "The city… as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead." ### – Dr. James Xavier\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #RogerCorman #RayMilland #DonRickles #DickMiller #LesBaxter #FloydCrosby #horror #SciFi #drama #USA #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

X​ [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963)

Aug

14

X (1963)

Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) performing his mind-reading trick. DP: Floyd Crosby.

“The city… as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead.”

– Dr. James Xavier

#FilmDuJour #August #RogerCorman #RayMilland #DonRickles #DickMiller #LesBaxter #FloydCrosby #horror #SciFi #drama #USA #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rygc Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 …und deine Liebe auch [And Your Love Too] (Frank Vogel, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-06qz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" …und deine Liebe auch [And Your Love Too] (Frank Vogel, 1962)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" 1961/div div class="img" …und deine Liebe auch (1962)/div div class="caption" Eva (Kati Székely). Someone offscreen lits her cigarette. DP: Günter Ost./div div class="txt" Three people must decide what to do on August 13, 1961, the day the Berlin Wall goes up. &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #FrankVogel #ArminMuellerStahl #KatiSzékely #UlrichThein #AlfonsoArau #ChristelBodenstein #HansDieterHosalla #GünterOst #drama #romance #Berlin #EastGermany #1960s/div /section ]]>

…und deine Liebe auch [And Your Love Too] (Frank Vogel, 1962)

Aug

13

1961

…und deine Liebe auch (1962)

Eva (Kati Székely). Someone offscreen lits her cigarette. DP: Günter Ost.

Three people must decide what to do on August 13, 1961, the day the Berlin Wall goes up.

 

#FilmDuJour #August #FrankVogel #ArminMuellerStahl #KatiSzékely #UlrichThein #AlfonsoArau #ChristelBodenstein #HansDieterHosalla #GünterOst #drama #romance #Berlin #EastGermany #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-06qz Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-tpvc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" 1941/div div class="img" Kanzashi (1941).png)/div div class="caption" A formal paper with the date stamp for August 10, Showa 16 (1941). DP: Suketarō Inokai./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)

Aug

10

1941

Kanzashi (1941)

A formal paper with the date stamp for August 10, Showa 16 (1941). DP: Suketarō Inokai.

 

#FilmDuJour #August #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-tpvc Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5ccy <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Lady from Shanghai (1947)/div div class="caption" Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr../div div class="txt" "You need more than luck in Shanghai." ### – Elsa Bannister /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #OrsonWelles #SherwoodKing #RitaHayworth #EverettSloane #TedDeCorsia #WilliamCastle #HeinzRoemheld #CharlesLawtonJr #RudolphMaté #JosephWalker #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #mirrors #FilmNoir #Chinatown #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)

Aug

9

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr..

“You need more than luck in Shanghai.”

– Elsa Bannister

#FilmDuJour #August #OrsonWelles #SherwoodKing #RitaHayworth #EverettSloane #TedDeCorsia #WilliamCastle #HeinzRoemheld #CharlesLawtonJr #RudolphMaté #JosephWalker #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #mirrors #FilmNoir #Chinatown #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5ccy Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Domenica d'agosto [Sunday in August] (Luciano Emmer, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-815c <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Domenica d'agosto [Sunday in August] (Luciano Emmer, 1950)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="occasion" 1949/div div class="img" Domenica d'agosto (1950)/div div class="caption" A little boy runs down a Roman street. Superimposed a calendar page: SUNDAY AUGUST 7 S. GAETANO THE SUN RISES AT 5:15 SUNSET AT 19:42 – CRESCENT MOON. "S. Gaetano" refers to Saint Cajetan, who's feast day is on August 7. DPs: Leonida Barboni, Ubaldo Marelli & Domenico Scala./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #LucianoEmmer #AnnaBaldini #VeraCarmi #MarcelloMastroianni #RomanVlad #LeonidaBarboni #UbaldoMarelli #DomenicoScala #holidays #romance #comedy #drama #Neorealismo #Ostia #Rome #Italy #1950s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Domenica d'agosto [Sunday in August] (Luciano Emmer, 1950)

Aug

7

1949

Domenica d'agosto (1950)

A little boy runs down a Roman street. Superimposed a calendar page: SUNDAY AUGUST 7 S. GAETANO THE SUN RISES AT 5:15 SUNSET AT 19:42 – CRESCENT MOON. “S. Gaetano” refers to Saint Cajetan, who's feast day is on August 7. DPs: Leonida Barboni, Ubaldo Marelli & Domenico Scala.

#FilmDuJour #August #LucianoEmmer #AnnaBaldini #VeraCarmi #MarcelloMastroianni #RomanVlad #LeonidaBarboni #UbaldoMarelli #DomenicoScala #holidays #romance #comedy #drama #Neorealismo #Ostia #Rome #Italy #1950s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-815c Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200