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Mon oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)
Aug
29
Mr Hulot and three women enjoy an outdoor lunch in Villa Arpel's concrete backyard. A woman in furs laughs heartily, head thrown back, with Hulot looking into her open mouth, halting a woman reaching for a carafe mid-movement. The third woman, in an avant-garde Eastmancolor-red poncho, calmly smokes through her cigarette holder. DP: Jean Bourgoin.
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A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)
Aug
22
milkshake
A young woman with an impressive coif, a fur stole and a large milkshake peeks from around a corner with a surprised look on her face. DPs: Gayne Rescher & Harry Stradling Sr..
“Shucks, I could take chicken fertilizer and sell it to them as caviar. I could make them eat dog food and think it was steak. Sure, I got 'em like this…”
– Lonesome Rhodes
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La carrière de Suzanne [Suzanne's Career] (Éric Rohmer, 1963)
Aug
13
thé
A woman reaches for a silver teapot. We only see her hand. DP: Daniel Lacambre.
“I know. I know you. I know you very well.”
– Suzanne
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La boulangère de Monceau [The Bakery Girl of Monceau] (Éric Rohmer, 1963)
Jul
28
un gâteau
A young woman in an apron grabs a French cookie. DPs: Bruno Barbey & Jean-Michel Meurice.
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La vérité [The Truth] (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960)
Jul
25
Bardot and two men in a café. She has her head on Sami Frey's shoulder while the other man kisses her arm. The table in front of them holds a full ashtray and small coffee cups. DP: Armand Thirard.
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Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972)
Jul
24
cantaloupe
Bruce Dern as peace-loving Freeman Lowell aggressively eating a cantaloupe in space. DP: Charles F. Wheeler.
“It calls back a time when there were flowers all over the Earth… and there were valleys. And there were plains of tall green grass that you could lie down in – you could go to sleep in. And there were blue skies, and there was fresh air… and there were things growing all over the place, not just in some domed enclosures blasted some millions of miles out in to space.”
– Freeman Lowell
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血は渇いてる [Chi wa kawaiteru / Blood Is Dry] (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1960)
Jul
17
beer
A man and woman share a meal in a top-floor restaurant. The view is numerous identical modern buildings. She's smoking and they both clutch large beer mugs. Two dishes hold small bits of food with toothpicks stuck into them. DP: Tōichirō Narushima.
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Il boom [The Boom] (Vittorio De Sica, 1963)
Jul
13
espresso
A glum looking man holds a teeny espresso cup-and-saucer. DP: Armando Nannuzzi.
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L'ingorgo [Traffic Jam] (Luigi Comencini, 1979)
Jul
12
Two middle-aged men in a car, each very much enjoying a small meal. We see them through the windshield with behind them numerous other cars stuck in traffic. DP: Ennio Guarnieri.
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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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