february &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:february @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:11:33 +0200 First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/first-man-into-space-1959 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" 1958/div div class="img" First Man Into Space (1959)/div div class="caption" A newspaper headline for February 28, 1958 reading THE HIGHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. DP: Geoffrey Faithfull./div div class="txt" "The conquest of new worlds always makes demands of human life. And there will always be men who will accept the risk." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #RobertDay #BillEdwards #BuxtonOrr #GeoffreyFaithfull #drama #SciFi #horror #UK #1950s ★★½/div /section ]]>

First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959)

Feb

28

1958

First Man Into Space (1959)

A newspaper headline for February 28, 1958 reading THE HIGHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. DP: Geoffrey Faithfull.

“The conquest of new worlds always makes demands of human life. And there will always be men who will accept the risk.”

#FilmDuJour #February #RobertDay #BillEdwards #BuxtonOrr #GeoffreyFaithfull #drama #SciFi #horror #UK #1950s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/first-man-into-space-1959 Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Even: As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay + LeRoy Robbins, 1937) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/even-as-you-and-i-1937 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Even: As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay + LeRoy Robbins, 1937)/div div class="month" Feb /div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Even: As You and I (1937)/div div class="caption" A film editor struggling with a long strip of celluloid. DP: Hy Hirsh./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #RogerBarlow #HarryHay #HyHirsh #LeRoyRobbins #SilentFilm #ShortFilm #surrealism #satire #comedy #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Even: As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay + LeRoy Robbins, 1937)

Feb

27

Even: As You and I (1937)

A film editor struggling with a long strip of celluloid. DP: Hy Hirsh.

#FilmDuJour #February #RogerBarlow #HarryHay #HyHirsh #LeRoyRobbins #SilentFilm #ShortFilm #surrealism #satire #comedy #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/even-as-you-and-i-1937 Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 憂國 [Yūkoku / Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death] (Yukio Mishima, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y9s1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 憂國 [Yūkoku / Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death] (Yukio Mishima, 1966)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" 1936/div div class="img" 憂國 (1966)/div div class="caption" Reiko (Yoshiko Tsuruoka) walking through her lover's blood, her kimono drenched. DP: Kimio Watanabe./div div class="txt" Covers February 26–28, 1936. "'I know how you feel,' Reiko says quietly. 'And I will follow you wherever you go.'" ### – intertitles /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #MasakiDōmoto #YukioMishima #YoshikoTsuruoka #KimioWatanabe #CoupDEtat #NohTheatre #JapanArtTheatreGuild #ATG #ShortFilm #patriotism #romance #suicide #Bushido #SilentFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

憂國 [Yūkoku / Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death] (Yukio Mishima, 1966)

Feb

26

1936

憂國 (1966)

Reiko (Yoshiko Tsuruoka) walking through her lover's blood, her kimono drenched. DP: Kimio Watanabe.

Covers February 26–28, 1936.

”'I know how you feel,' Reiko says quietly. 'And I will follow you wherever you go.'”

– intertitles

#FilmDuJour #February #MasakiDōmoto #YukioMishima #YoshikoTsuruoka #KimioWatanabe #CoupDEtat #NohTheatre #JapanArtTheatreGuild #ATG #ShortFilm #patriotism #romance #suicide #Bushido #SilentFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y9s1 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/murders-in-the-zoo-1933 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Murders in the Zoo (1933)/div div class="caption" A couple walks into a room, only to discover a lifeless man and a headless snake. DP: Ernest Haller./div div class="txt" "You don't think I sat there all evening with an eight-foot mamba in my pocket?" ### – Eric Gorman /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #AEdwardSutherland #LionelAtwill #KathleenBurke #RudolphGKopp #JohnLeipold #ErnestHaller #horror #comedy #animals #PreCode #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933)

Feb

20

Murders in the Zoo (1933)

A couple walks into a room, only to discover a lifeless man and a headless snake. DP: Ernest Haller.

“You don't think I sat there all evening with an eight-foot mamba in my pocket?”

– Eric Gorman

#FilmDuJour #February #AEdwardSutherland #LionelAtwill #KathleenBurke #RudolphGKopp #JohnLeipold #ErnestHaller #horror #comedy #animals #PreCode #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/murders-in-the-zoo-1933 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qcy3 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" 1962/div div class="img" Il mare (1962)/div div class="caption" The actor (Umberto Orsini) approaches a hotel lobby. A blackboard notes the date: February 17, 1962. DP: Ennio Guarnieri./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #GiuseppePatroniGriffi #UmbertoOrsini #FrançoisePrévost #DinoMele #GiovanniFusco #EnnioGuarnieri #drama #romance #LGBT #Capri #Italy #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)

Feb

17

1962

Il mare (1962)

The actor (Umberto Orsini) approaches a hotel lobby. A blackboard notes the date: February 17, 1962. DP: Ennio Guarnieri.

#FilmDuJour #February #GiuseppePatroniGriffi #UmbertoOrsini #FrançoisePrévost #DinoMele #GiovanniFusco #EnnioGuarnieri #drama #romance #LGBT #Capri #Italy #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qcy3 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The List of Adrian Messenger (John Huston, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-list-of-adrian-messenger-1963 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The List of Adrian Messenger (John Huston, 1963)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)/div div class="caption" Lady Jocelyn Bruttenholm (Dana Wynter), Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), and Raoul Le Borg (Jacques Roux). DP: Joseph MacDonald./div div class="txt" "There's nary a conspiracy. And if I'm right about this, it's a far older sin than politics." ### – Adrian Messenger /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #JohnHuston #DanaWynter #GeorgeCScott #KirkDouglas #JacquesRoux #TonyCurtis #KirkDouglas #BurtLancaster #RobertMitchum #FrankSinatra #JerryGoldsmith #JosephMacDonald #USA #crime #mystery #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

The List of Adrian Messenger (John Huston, 1963)

Feb

16

The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)

Lady Jocelyn Bruttenholm (Dana Wynter), Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), and Raoul Le Borg (Jacques Roux). DP: Joseph MacDonald.

“There's nary a conspiracy. And if I'm right about this, it's a far older sin than politics.”

– Adrian Messenger

#FilmDuJour #February #JohnHuston #DanaWynter #GeorgeCScott #KirkDouglas #JacquesRoux #TonyCurtis #KirkDouglas #BurtLancaster #RobertMitchum #FrankSinatra #JerryGoldsmith #JosephMacDonald #USA #crime #mystery #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-list-of-adrian-messenger-1963 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/picnic-at-hanging-rock-1975 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" Valentine's Day/div div class="img" Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)/div div class="caption" A delicate, pink frosted Valentine's cake topped with a yellow marzipan rose. The cake, which bears the words St. Valentine in crude writing, has a deep straight cut right through the middle and a scorched dark spot on its side. On the right a rusty knife. DP: Russell Boyd./div div class="txt" "On Saturday 14th February 1900, a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College picnicked at Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. During the afternoon, several members of the party disappeared without trace." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #PeterWeir #JoanLindsay #RussellBoyd #BookAdaptation #cake #StValentinesDay #drama #Australia #1970s ★½/div /section ]]>

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)

Feb

14

Valentine's Day

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

A delicate, pink frosted Valentine's cake topped with a yellow marzipan rose. The cake, which bears the words St. Valentine in crude writing, has a deep straight cut right through the middle and a scorched dark spot on its side. On the right a rusty knife. DP: Russell Boyd.

“On Saturday 14th February 1900, a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College picnicked at Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. During the afternoon, several members of the party disappeared without trace.”

#FilmDuJour #February #PeterWeir #JoanLindsay #RussellBoyd #BookAdaptation #cake #StValentinesDay #drama #Australia #1970s ★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/picnic-at-hanging-rock-1975 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0100 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre-1948-pq22 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" 1925/div div class="img" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)/div div class="caption" The winning lottery numbers of February 14, 1925. DP: Ted D. McCord./div div class="txt" "A thousand men, say, go searchin' for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky: one out of a thousand. His find represents not only his own labor, but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. That's six thousand months, five hundred years, scramblin' over a mountain, goin' hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the findin' and the gettin' of it." ### – Howard /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #JohnHuston #BTraven #HumphreyBogart #WalterHuston #TimHolt #MaxSteiner #TedDMcCord #BookAdaptation #drama #adventure #western #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)

Feb

14

1925

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

The winning lottery numbers of February 14, 1925. DP: Ted D. McCord.

“A thousand men, say, go searchin' for gold. After six months, one of them's lucky: one out of a thousand. His find represents not only his own labor, but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. That's six thousand months, five hundred years, scramblin' over a mountain, goin' hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the findin' and the gettin' of it.”

– Howard

#FilmDuJour #February #JohnHuston #BTraven #HumphreyBogart #WalterHuston #TimHolt #MaxSteiner #TedDMcCord #BookAdaptation #drama #adventure #western #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre-1948-pq22 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0100 Le Juif errant (Luitz-Morat, 1926) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9t1p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le Juif errant (Luitz-Morat, 1926)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" 1682/div div class="img" Le Juif errant (1926).jpg)/div div class="caption" Antonin Artaud as Gringalet. DPs: Maurice Arnou, Raoul Aubourdier, Georges Daret, Karémine Mérobian & André-Wladimir Reybas./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #LuitzMorat #EugèneSue #AndréMarnay #GabrielGabrio #MauriceSchutz #ClaudeMérelle #JeanneHelbling #AntoninArtaud #JeanPeyrière #MauriceArnou #RaoulAubourdier #GeorgesDaret #KarémineMérobian #AndréWladimirReybas #BookAdaptation #France #1920s/div /section ]]>

Le Juif errant (Luitz-Morat, 1926)

Feb

13

1682

Le Juif errant (1926)

Antonin Artaud as Gringalet. DPs: Maurice Arnou, Raoul Aubourdier, Georges Daret, Karémine Mérobian & André-Wladimir Reybas.

#FilmDuJour #February #LuitzMorat #EugèneSue #AndréMarnay #GabrielGabrio #MauriceSchutz #ClaudeMérelle #JeanneHelbling #AntoninArtaud #JeanPeyrière #MauriceArnou #RaoulAubourdier #GeorgesDaret #KarémineMérobian #AndréWladimirReybas #BookAdaptation #France #1920s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9t1p Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8d4m <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="X" /div div class="img" 暗黒街の美女 (1958)/divdiv class="caption" ###### A man, all in #bandages besides one half of his face, is interviewed by a policeman. Captions read: February 8supth/sup. DP: Wataro Nakao./div div class="txt" Policeman: What's today's date? Injured man: February 8supth/sup. /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #SeijunSuzuki #MichitarōMizushima #MariShiraki #HideakiNitani #ShinsukeAshida #HiroshiKondō #KakuTakashina #TōruAbe #NaozumiYamamoto #WataroNakao #crime #FilmNoir #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)

Feb

8

暗黒街の美女 (1958)

A man, all in #bandages besides one half of his face, is interviewed by a policeman. Captions read: February 8th. DP: Wataro Nakao.

Policeman: What's today's date?

Injured man: February 8th.

#FilmDuJour #February #SeijunSuzuki #MichitarōMizushima #MariShiraki #HideakiNitani #ShinsukeAshida #HiroshiKondō #KakuTakashina #TōruAbe #NaozumiYamamoto #WataroNakao #crime #FilmNoir #Japan #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8d4m Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100