Salesman (Albert + David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
Mar
29
breakfast
Bible salesmen enjoying breakfast at a soulless motel. DP: Albert Maysles.
Watched on Good Friday.
Los hermanos Del Hierro [My Son, the Hero] (Ismael Rodríguez, 1961)
Mar
19
revenge
Brothers Martín (Julio Alemán) and Reynaldo Del Hierro (Antonio Aguilar) drinking in a cantina. Reynaldo, the older one, looks pensive while the younger takes a big gulp of beer. DP: Rosalío Solano.
A dish best served cold.
Привързаният балон [Privarzaniyat balon / The Tied-Up Balloon] (Binka Zhelyazkova, 1967)
Mar
17
bread
A boy and young woman (Janet Miteva) riding a donkey. The boy eats a handful while the woman faces downwards. There are several donkeys with riders behind them. DP: Emil Vagenshtain.
Max et les ferrailleurs [Max and the Junkmen] (Claude Sautet, 1971)
Mar
16
Lily (Schneider) and Max (Piccoli) at a small table decked with good food, good wine, and quite a few wads of cash. DP: René Mathelin.
Devil Doll (Lindsay Shonteff, 1964)
Mar
15
sandwiches
A large knife amongst rather minuscule triangular tea sandwiches. A miniature wooden barrel holding toothpicks is right there for your sandwich stabbing convenience. DP: Gerald Gibbs.
“I look into the distance to the end of the world. Before the day is over, the end will come. First, time will tumble, and then the earth. The clouds will begin to race… the earth boils over; this is the sign. This is the beginning of the end. The world's edge begins to crumble… everything starts to collapse… tumbles, fall, crumbles and collapses. I look into the cataract. I feel an undertow, it draws me, it sucks me down. I began to fal, a vertigo seizes upon me.”
Herz aus Glas [Heart of Glass] (Werner Herzog, 1976)
Mar
13
tea
A young maid (Sonja Skiba) holding a heavy tray with cups, plates, and various tea-related pottery. There's a somnambulist quality to her bearing. DP: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein.
– Hias
“Can we not admit that certain skilled men, gifted with intelligence, talent or even genius, and thus indispensable to society, rather than stagnate, should be free to disobey laws in certain cases?”
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
Mar
12
Michel (Martin LaSalle) in a busy café, observing. An emptied water glass next to the thief should make him look like a paying guest. DP: Léonce-Henri Burel.
– Michel
Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél [The Wind Blows Under Your Feet] (György Szomjas, 1976)
Mar
11
wine
German lobby card. Two rough-looking Hungarian cowboys drink from wooden beakers at a small, wooden table. The man who has the carafe, also has the knife. DP: Elemér Ragályi.
“I'm young, hot and pissed off!”
Avere vent'anni [To Be Twenty] (Fernando Di Leo, 1978)
Mar
9
sandwiches
Lia (Gloria Guida), one of the young, hot and pissed off 20-somethings, enjoys a sandwich with her espadrilles resting on a small restaurant table. Just visible in the background are multiple men on their lunchbreak. DP: Roberto Gerardi.
– Tina
Mord und Totschlag [Degree of Murder] (Volker Schlöndorff, 1967)
Mar
4
juice
A pensive Marie (Anita Pallenberg) drinking something red from a bottle with a green straw. DP: Franz Rath..