drama &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:drama @settima@zirk.us Fri, 08 May 2026 14:32:12 +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 My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="X" /div div class="img" My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)/div div class="caption" Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey./div div class="txt" – You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion? – You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross! ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)

May

5

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey.

– You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion?

– You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross!

#FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped]... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cjbl <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)/div div class="caption" A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts "Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]". DP: Léonce-Henri Burel./div div class="txt" "With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…" ### – Fontaine\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RobertBresson #AndréDevigny #FrançoisLeterrier #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #WW2 #biography #BookAdaptation #prison #JailBreak #France #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Robert Bresson, 1956)

May

2

Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)

A hand with dirty nails writing on a scrap of paper with a pencil stump. It starts “Mai 2 Ma chère maman, Je suis à la pris[…]“. DP: Léonce-Henri Burel.

“With nothing to do, no news and in terrible solitude, we were 100 unfortunates awaiting our fate. I had no illusions about my own. If I could only escape, run away…”

– Fontaine

#FilmDuJour #May #RobertBresson #AndréDevigny #FrançoisLeterrier #LéonceHenriBurel #drama #WW2 #biography #BookAdaptation #prison #JailBreak #France #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cjbl Sat, 02 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k05k <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" 8:59/div div class="img" 重慶森林 (1994)/div div class="caption" A flipclock. It's April 28, a Friday, and 8:59 pm. DPs: Christopher Doyle & Wai Keung Lau./div div class="txt" "We broke up on April's fools day, so I took it as a joke. I'm willing to humor her for a month." ### – He Zhiwu, Cop 223 /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #WongKarWai #BrigitteLin #TonyLeungChiuWai #FayeWong #TakeshiKaneshiro #ValerieChow #PiggyChan #FrankieChan #MichaelGalasso #RoelAGarcía #ChristopherDoyle #WaiKeungLau #romance #crime #drama #comedy #HongKong #1990s/div /section ]]>

重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)

Apr

28

8:59

重慶森林 (1994)

A flipclock. It's April 28, a Friday, and 8:59 pm. DPs: Christopher Doyle & Wai Keung Lau.

“We broke up on April's fools day, so I took it as a joke. I'm willing to humor her for a month.”

– He Zhiwu, Cop 223

#FilmDuJour #April #WongKarWai #BrigitteLin #TonyLeungChiuWai #FayeWong #TakeshiKaneshiro #ValerieChow #PiggyChan #FrankieChan #MichaelGalasso #RoelAGarcía #ChristopherDoyle #WaiKeungLau #romance #crime #drama #comedy #HongKong #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k05k Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Vulcano [Volcano] (William Dieterle, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-szl7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Vulcano [Volcano] (William Dieterle, 1950)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 23/div div class="occasion" 1949/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary Vulcano (1950).png)/div div class="caption" A letter from Pietro, dated April 23, 1949 DP: Arturo Gallea./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #WilliamDieterle #AnnaMagnani #RossanoBrazzi #GeraldineBrooks #EduardoCiannelli #EnzoStaiola #EnzoMasetti #ArturoGallea #volcanos #islands #drama #romance #crime #prostitution #Salina #Italy #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Vulcano [Volcano] (William Dieterle, 1950)

Apr

23

1949

spoiler warning: click to toggle image Vulcano (1950)

A letter from Pietro, dated April 23, 1949 DP: Arturo Gallea.

 

#FilmDuJour #April #WilliamDieterle #AnnaMagnani #RossanoBrazzi #GeraldineBrooks #EduardoCiannelli #EnzoStaiola #EnzoMasetti #ArturoGallea #volcanos #islands #drama #romance #crime #prostitution #Salina #Italy #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-szl7 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Két félidő a pokolban [Two Half-Times in Hell] (Zoltán Fábri, 1961) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-tjwm <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Két félidő a pokolban [Two Half-Times in Hell] (Zoltán Fábri, 1961)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Két félidő a pokolban (1961)/div div class="caption" A sour looking player with a flood of Nazis coming towards him. DP: Ferenc Szécsényi./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #ZoltánFábri #ImreSinkovits #DezsőGaras #LászlóMárkus #FerencFarkas #FerencSzécsényi #drama #WW2 #sports #soccer #Hungary #1960s/div /section ]]>

Két félidő a pokolban [Two Half-Times in Hell] (Zoltán Fábri, 1961)

Apr

20

Két félidő a pokolban (1961)

A sour looking player with a flood of Nazis coming towards him. DP: Ferenc Szécsényi.

#FilmDuJour #April #ZoltánFábri #ImreSinkovits #DezsőGaras #LászlóMárkus #FerencFarkas #FerencSzécsényi #drama #WW2 #sports #soccer #Hungary #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-tjwm Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r1tq <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" 1746/div div class="img" Culloden (1964)/div div class="caption" One of the clansman. The look in his eyes foreshadows the Vietnam War this films comments on. DP: Dick Bush./div div class="txt" "Sir Thomas Sheridan, Jacobite military secretary. Suffering advanced debility and loss of memory. Former military engagement, 56 years ago. Sir John MacDonald, Jacobite captain of cavalry. Aged, frequently intoxicated, described as 'a man of the most limited capacities.' John William O'Sullivan, Jacobite quartermaster general. Described as 'an Irishman whose vanity is superseded only by his lack of wisdom.' Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite commander in chief. Former military experience: 10 days at a siege at the age of 13." ### – narrator /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #PeterWatkins #JohnPrebble #DickBush #BookAdaptation #CinémaVérité #DocuDrama #documentary #war #TVMovie #drama #history #Culloden #UK #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964)

Apr

16

1746

Culloden (1964)

One of the clansman. The look in his eyes foreshadows the Vietnam War this films comments on. DP: Dick Bush.

“Sir Thomas Sheridan, Jacobite military secretary. Suffering advanced debility and loss of memory. Former military engagement, 56 years ago. Sir John MacDonald, Jacobite captain of cavalry. Aged, frequently intoxicated, described as 'a man of the most limited capacities.' John William O'Sullivan, Jacobite quartermaster general. Described as 'an Irishman whose vanity is superseded only by his lack of wisdom.' Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite commander in chief. Former military experience: 10 days at a siege at the age of 13.”

– narrator

#FilmDuJour #April #PeterWatkins #JohnPrebble #DickBush #BookAdaptation #CinémaVérité #DocuDrama #documentary #war #TVMovie #drama #history #Culloden #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r1tq Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200