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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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Les abysses [The Depths] (Nikos Papatakis, 1963)
Feb
18
pancakes
Michèle and Marie-Louise (real-life sisters Francine and Colette Bergé) as the real-life Papin sisters prepare crêpes for Monsieur. DP: Jean-Michel Boussaguet.
– Why are we making pancakes?
– Monsieur likes them. Besides, what else is there?
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野獣死すべし [Yajū shisubeshi / The Beast Shall Die] (Eizō Sugawa, 1959)
Feb
17
airline food
Kunihiko Date (Tatsuya Nakadai) enjoys an in-flight meal. DP: Fukuzō Koizumi.
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Todo modo [One Way or Another] (Elio Petri, 1976)
Feb
13
Eucharist
Captains of industry, politicians and others of the upper echelons share a meal of bread, water, and wine at a long table. DP: Luigi Kuveiller.
“When you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper you eat, for as you eat, each of you goes ahead without waiting for anybody else. One remains hungry, another gets drunk.”
– 1 Corinthians 11:20–21, via
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暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)
Feb
3
oden
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Libahunt [Лесная легенда / Werewolf] (Leida Laius, 1968)
Jan
13
soup
A dinner table shown from above. Several people, we mainly see their hands and wooden spoons, eat from a hand-carved bowl. DP: Algimantas Mockus.
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Sevmek Zamanı [Time to Love] (Metin Erksan, 1965)
Jan
4
fruit
In a modernist room under renovation, two man idle through their lunch. The elder, a Sufi, plays his tanbur, the younger looks out of a window. There's a sense of melancholy. DP: Mengü Yeğin.
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