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Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965)
Aug
4
junket
Two women – one young (Carol Lynley), one older (Lucie Mannheim) – in a school's kitchen. The older woman handling the food says “But when it looks like junket, it is junket.“. DP: Denys N. Coop.
”'Junket is junket,' I said, and 'no matter what you do with it, it still tastes like swill and swallows like slime.'”
– school cook
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黒蜥蜴 [Kurotokage / Kuro tokage / Black Lizard] (Kinji Fukasaku, 1968)
Aug
4
The Black Lizard (Akihiro Miwa) in embrace with Detective Akechi (Isao Kimura). DP: Hiroshi Dōwaki.
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La maudite galette [Dirty Money] (Denys Arcand, 1972)
Aug
2
At a depressing, fluorescent-lit bar, men gathered at small round tables smoke and drink. A single man in a brightly lit phone booth places a call. DP: Alain Dostie.
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On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
Jul
28
liquor
“You know this city's full of hawks? That's a fact. They hang around on the top of the big hotels. And they spot a pigeon in the park. Right down on him.”
– Terry Malloy
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Les trois couronnes du matelot [Three Crowns of the Sailor] (Raúl Ruiz, 1983)
Jul
25
1958
Prostitute María (Nadège Clair) sitting on her bed. The bed is covered in dolls. DP: Sacha Vierny.
“On the night of July 25, 1958 I killed Ladislaw Zukarevitch, antique dealer, my mentor, my master in the art of polishing diamonds, my tutor at Warsaw Theological School.”
– the student
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Dillinger è morto [Dillinger Is Dead] (Marco Ferreri, 1969)
Jul
25
1934
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玉羅剎 [Yu luo cha / The Jade Raksha] (Meng-Hua Ho, 1968)
Jul
20
peanuts
Leng Chiu-han's hand (Pei-Pei Cheng) holds up a roasted peanut in the shell. On the table several more peanuts, empty shells, wine cups, and chopsticks. DP: Kuo-Hsiang Lin.
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Die glücklichen Minuten des Georg Hauser [The Happy Minutes of Georg Hauser] (Mansur Madavi, 1974)
Jul
20
A smiling Georg Hauser (Walter Bannert) with one of his many attractive secretaries. DP: Mansur Madavi.
“Grünes Licht für ehrgeizige, strebsame und arbeitswillige junge Menschen.”
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Ucho [The Ear] (Karel Kachyňa, 1970)
Jul
17
Party member, and rather drunk, Anna (Jiřina Bohdalová) and her newspaper hat at the officials' party. DP: Josef Illík.
“The 17th of July. Comrade Anna is not lying!”
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Jul
17
MacConnachie (Robert Shaw, standing and peering upwards) and Ansell (Malcolm McDowell, squatting and facing away) in a barren landscape. Both have their hands tied behind their back. DPs: Henri Alekan, Peter Suschitzky & Guy Tabary.
“I'll tell you what though, Mac. There'll be no more games from now on.”
– Ansell
