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Le trou [The Hole / The Night Watch] (Jacques Becker, 1960)
Jun
19
International Box Day
The prisoners keep themselves occupied with making cardboard folding boxes. The second man from the right is the novel's author and real-world (ex-) inmate José Giovanni aka Jean Keraudy as Roland Darbant. DP: Ghislain Cloquet.
Inmates preoccupy themselves with making cardboard boxes. While working together, talking, gaining trust, plans for an escape unfold.
“Hello. My friend Jacques Becker recreated a true story in all its detail. My story. It took place in 1947 at La Santé prison.”
– Jean Keraudy as himself
Le trou is based on a real prison escape and introduced by one of the men involved, Jean Keraudy.
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Der siebente Kontinent [The Seventh Continent] (Michael Haneke, 1989)
Jun
18
Clean Your Aquarium Day
Evi (Leni Tanzer) dedicated to her routine of feeding the aquarium fish before going to bed. DP: Anton Peschke.
A middle-class Austrian family – father, mother and their ten year old daughter – live a mundane, almost ritualised life. There's work, school, social obligations. Stuff to maintain and food to prepare. Patients to see and fish to feed. Constant repetition begets chaos.
“Okay, time to say your prayers.”
– Anna Schober
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Umut [Hope] (Yilmaz Güney + Şerif Gören, 1970)
Jun
18
Cabbar (Yilmaz Güney, center), his travel companions, and their hosts share an opulent meal. DP: Kaya Ererez.
“I left forty lira at home, the family is hungry now.”
– Cabbar
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错位 [Cuo wei / Dislocation] (Huang Jianxin, 1986)
Jun
17
啤酒
The engineer (Zifeng Liu) drinking many many beers with his secretary (Hong Mu). DP: Xinsheng Wang.
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Könnyű testi sértés [Tight Quarters] (György Szomjas, 1983)
Jun
15
freebie: Flatmates Day
In a claustrophobically framed shot, two men and a woman – Csaba (Károly Eperjes), Miklós (Péter Andorai) and Éva (Mariann Erdőss) respectively – share a small kitchen. DP: Ferenc Grunwalsky.
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Lothar Mendes + Alexander Korda, 1936)
Jun
15
fruit
“As I want it, so it will be!”
– George McWhirter Fotheringay
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Körkarlen [The Phantom Carriage] (Victor Sjöström, 1921)
Jun
13
International Axe Throwing Day
David Holm (Victor Sjöström) attempts to break through a wooden door with the butt of an axe. This scene was the inspiration for the infamous door scene in Kubrick's The Shining (1980). DP: Julius Jaenzon.
“I want to be good, but no one believes me. Is it any wonder I cry?”
– David Holm
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Gycklarnas afton [Sawdust and Tinsel] (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)
Jun
11
pancakes
Ringmaster Albert Johansson (Åke Grönberg) with Anne (Harriet Andersson) – holding a pot – standing over him. DPs: Hilding Bladh & Sven Nykvist.
– All I can offer is pancakes? Will they do?
– They'll do just fine.
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Planeta krawiec [The Planet ‘Tailor’] (Jerzy Domaradzki, 1983)
June
7
National Tailors Day
During the tense hours of a solar #eclipse, the locals spend their time in a bar. One litre of vodka is the wager for he who can correctly guess a woman's dress size. Of course, tailor Józef Romanek (Kazimierz Kaczor) doesn't need to guess and that one litre later, finds himself walking through space. When he comes round from his coma, Józef builds an observatory in his house, where the tailor with his home-made telescope dreams of finding an unknown planet, and discovers the world around him.
Polish tailor Adam Giedrys is not only the subject of Planeta krawiec, but also served as the film's consultant. For his passion for and devotion to astronomy, Giedrys was the first Pole to receive Lunar soil from #NASA's 1969 Apollo 11 Moon mission.
