eggs &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:eggs @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:43:27 +0200 Memoirs of a Survivor (David Gladwell, 1981) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gmk1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Memoirs of a Survivor (David Gladwell, 1981)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" Easter Sunday /div div class="img" Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)/div div class="caption" A Victorian family, all dressed in white, marvel at an enormous egg in an ornate room. DP: Walter Lassally./div div class="txt" Eggs for Easter Sunday. "The walls of the room seemed to hold stories untold, whispering in the quiet." ### – Doris Lessing, The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) In a dystopian Britain, D (Julie Christie) survives taking care of a sullen teenage girl, and visiting a mirage behind the walls./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #EasterSunday #eggs #DavidGladwell #DorisLessing #JulieChristie #LeonieMellinger #NigelHawthorne #PatKeen #MarkDignam #MikeThorne #WalterLassally #SciFi #mystery #drama #dystopia #BookAdaptation #UK #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Memoirs of a Survivor (David Gladwell, 1981)

Apr

20

Easter Sunday

Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)

A Victorian family, all dressed in white, marvel at an enormous egg in an ornate room. DP: Walter Lassally.

Eggs for Easter Sunday.

“The walls of the room seemed to hold stories untold, whispering in the quiet.”

– Doris Lessing, The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)

In a dystopian Britain, D (Julie Christie) survives taking care of a sullen teenage girl, and visiting a mirage behind the walls.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #EasterSunday #eggs #DavidGladwell #DorisLessing #JulieChristie #LeonieMellinger #NigelHawthorne #PatKeen #MarkDignam #MikeThorne #WalterLassally #SciFi #mystery #drama #dystopia #BookAdaptation #UK #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gmk1 Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0200 Egged On (Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller + Ted Sears, 1926) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-nx1b <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Egged On (Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller + Ted Sears, 1926)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" inventions/div div class="img" Egged On (1926)/div div class="caption" Charley working his Rube Goldberger-esque egg-rubberizing contraption./div div class="txt" An invention for Benjamin Franklin's birthday. Inventor Charley (Charles R. Bowers) comes up with an ingenious method to make eggs break-proof for transport by rubberizing them. "… as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." ### – Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography Bowers was an almost-forgotten silent era comedian, filmmaker, and animator. In more recent years, his groundbreaking stop-motion comedy has found a new, well-deserved, interest./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #inventions #birthday #CharlesRBowers #HaroldLMuller #TedSears #eggs #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #slapstick #surrealism #StopMotion #USA #1920s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Egged On (Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller + Ted Sears, 1926)

Jan

17

inventions

Egged On (1926)

Charley working his Rube Goldberger-esque egg-rubberizing contraption.

An invention for Benjamin Franklin's birthday. Inventor Charley (Charles R. Bowers) comes up with an ingenious method to make eggs break-proof for transport by rubberizing them.

“… as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.”

– Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography

Bowers was an almost-forgotten silent era comedian, filmmaker, and animator. In more recent years, his groundbreaking stop-motion comedy has found a new, well-deserved, interest.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #inventions #birthday #CharlesRBowers #HaroldLMuller #TedSears #eggs #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #slapstick #surrealism #StopMotion #USA #1920s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-nx1b Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100 The World's Greatest Sinner (Timothy Carey, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-worlds-greatest-sinner-1962 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The World's Greatest Sinner (Timothy Carey, 1962)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" eggs/div div class="img" The World's Greatest Sinner (1962)/div div class="caption" Clarence "God" Hilliard (Timothy Carey) sitting at a round dinner table talking to his wife who's leaning against a counter holding a carton of eggs and crockery. DPs: Frank Grande, Robert Shelfow, Ray Dennis Steckler & Edgar G. Ulmer./div div class="txt" "Let's be different. Let's not hate anyone." ### – Clarence "God" Hilliard\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #TimothyCarey #TitusMoede #FrankZappa #FrankGrande #RobertShelfow #RayDennisSteckler #EdgarGUlmer #politics #drama #religion #cult #comedy #breakfast #eggs #USA #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

The World's Greatest Sinner (Timothy Carey, 1962)

Mar

1

eggs

The World's Greatest Sinner (1962)

Clarence “God” Hilliard (Timothy Carey) sitting at a round dinner table talking to his wife who's leaning against a counter holding a carton of eggs and crockery. DPs: Frank Grande, Robert Shelfow, Ray Dennis Steckler & Edgar G. Ulmer.

“Let's be different. Let's not hate anyone.”

– Clarence “God” Hilliard

#FilmDinner #TimothyCarey #TitusMoede #FrankZappa #FrankGrande #RobertShelfow #RayDennisSteckler #EdgarGUlmer #politics #drama #religion #cult #comedy #breakfast #eggs #USA #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-worlds-greatest-sinner-1962 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:07:07 +0100 鉄輪 [Kanawa / The Iron Crown] (Kaneto Shindō, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tie-lun-1972 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 鉄輪 [Kanawa / The Iron Crown] (Kaneto Shindō, 1972)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="occasion" fried eggs/div div class="img" 鉄輪 (1972)/div div class="caption" Meg Flower as the young woman eats a fried egg straight from a spatula. She's naked. DP: Kiyomi Kuroda./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #eggs #KanetoShindō #NobukoOtowa #HideoKanze #MegFlower #HikaruHayashi #KiyomiKuroda #revenge #drama #ghosts #romance #PinkuEiga #Japan #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

鉄輪 [Kanawa / The Iron Crown] (Kaneto Shindō, 1972)

Sep

20

fried eggs

鉄輪 (1972)

Meg Flower as the young woman eats a fried egg straight from a spatula. She's naked. DP: Kiyomi Kuroda.

#FilmDinner #eggs #KanetoShindō #NobukoOtowa #HideoKanze #MegFlower #HikaruHayashi #KiyomiKuroda #revenge #drama #ghosts #romance #PinkuEiga #Japan #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tie-lun-1972 Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:25:29 +0200 O Bandido da Luz Vermelha [The Red Light Bandit] (Rogério Sganzerla, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/o-bandido-da-luz-vermelha-1968 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" O Bandido da Luz Vermelha [The Red Light Bandit] (Rogério Sganzerla, 1968)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" prairie oyster/div div class="img" O Bandido da Luz Vermelha (1968)/div div class="caption" The bandit (Paulo Villaça) cracks a raw egg over his liquid breakfast while one of his female victims (Sonia Braga) is on the phone beside him. Her cigarette smokes itself and the kitchen table is packed with drugstore items. DPs: Peter Overbeck & Carlos Ebert./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #RogérioSganzerla #PauloVillaça #HelenaIgnez #PaganoSobrinho #LuizLinhares #SoniaBraga #RogérioSganzerla #PeterOverbeck #CarlosEbert #hangover #PrairieOyster #eggs #crime #comedy #politics #UFOs #Brazil #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

O Bandido da Luz Vermelha [The Red Light Bandit] (Rogério Sganzerla, 1968)

Jul

1

prairie oyster

O Bandido da Luz Vermelha (1968)

The bandit (Paulo Villaça) cracks a raw egg over his liquid breakfast while one of his female victims (Sonia Braga) is on the phone beside him. Her cigarette smokes itself and the kitchen table is packed with drugstore items. DPs: Peter Overbeck & Carlos Ebert.

#FilmDinner #RogérioSganzerla #PauloVillaça #HelenaIgnez #PaganoSobrinho #LuizLinhares #SoniaBraga #RogérioSganzerla #PeterOverbeck #CarlosEbert #hangover #PrairieOyster #eggs #crime #comedy #politics #UFOs #Brazil #1960s ★★★★☆

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