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Bob le flambeur [Bob the Gambler] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)
Jun
13
frites
Anne (Isabelle Corey), a cute blonde with a beret, eats a fry (French, obviously) while giving us a side glance. It's all very proto-Vague. DP: Henri Decaë.
– I saw you the other morning, eating frites.
– I like frites.
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Bob le flambeur [Bob the Gambler] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)
Jun
13
Friday
Bob (Roger Duchesne) at the tables, gambling. DP: Henri Decaë.
“I'd even lose at hopscotch these days.”
– Bob Montagné
Bob gambles, and always wins. But then he starts losing. And not just games.
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Black Friday (Arthur Lubin, 1940)
Jun
13
DP: Elwood Bredell.
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Skammen [Shame] (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
Jun
12
Loving Day
Eva (Liv Ullmann) and Jan Rosenberg (Max von Sydow) (via). DP: Sven Nykvist.
“Sometimes everything seems just like a dream. It's not my dream, it's somebody else's. But I have to participate in it. How do you think someone who dreams about us would feel when he wakes up. Feeling ashamed?”
– Eva
After Vargtimmen (1968), the second of Bergman's Ullmann/Von Sydow cycle. It was followed by En passion (1969).
Against the backdrop of war, a violinist couple tends a garden – and marriage – on the island of Fårö.
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Le temps des loups [The Heist] (Sergio Gobbi, 1970)
Jun
12
1938
Dillinger (Robert Hossein) followed by Stella (Virna Lisi). DP: Daniel Diot.
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Morte a Venezia [Death in Venice] (Luchino Visconti, 1971)
Jun
11
Say HI Day
Von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) and Tadzio (Björn Andrésen). DP: Pasqualino De Santis.
Characters say or wave hello on Say HI Day
A sickly composer meets and becomes infatuated with a boy during his stay in Venice.
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The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison, 1968)
Jun
9
A newspaper covered in food scraps. Barely legible a large ad: BE A FINK FOR $25,000! WAS HE IN BOSTON ON JUNE 9TH? DP: Haskell Wexler.
“Left early. Please come with the money… or, you keep the Rolls. All my love,
Tommy”
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O Menino e o Vento [The Boy and the Wind] (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1967)
Jun
8
National Best Friends Day
The two friends in intimate embrace. DP: Antônio Gonçalves.
“I'm going with this one.”
– Zeca de Curva, running into the storm
The close friendship between two young men raises suspicion when the younger of them disappears..
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Лісова пісня. Мавка [Lisova pisnya. Mavka / A Story of the Forest: Mavka] (Yuri Ilyenko, 1981)
Jun
7
National Trails Day
Mavka (Lyudmila Efimenko) and the Spirit of the Forest (Boris Khmelnitskiy). DP: Yuri Ilyenko.
Mavka, a forest nymph, falls in love with mortal Lukash, who in his turn is punished by the Spirit of the Forest for marrying another mortal instead. Curse upon curse, Lukash is turned into a wolf, and Mavka into a weeping willow.
The colours, mood and impact of the four seasons on mortal and sprite alike is there, not only made visible by Ilyenko's ethereal, spiralling camera, but somewhere blooming deep inside us, observing.
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Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel, 1954)
June
5
1920
Inmate James V. Dunn's (Neville Brand) file. He's born on June 5, 1920 and incarcerated in Willows State Prison on August 4, 1950. Somehow he's 32 year's old. DP: Russell Harlan.
And August 4.
“You're either in or out. OK?”
– James V. Dunn
