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Hell Bound (William J. Hole Jr., 1957)
Mar
12
Saturday
A man writes a name in the 9:30 a.m. time slot of the calendar page for Saturday March 21. DP: Carl E. Guthrie.
“Three days ago, at exactly 0600 – because that is really not the time – on February 5 – because that is really not the date – this freighter, which shall be nameless, sailed from a certain Far Eastern port. Its destination: The Port of Los Angeles, Wilmington, California. This is fact.”
– narrator
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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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暗黒街の美女 [Ankokugai no bijo / Underworld Beauty] (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)
Feb
8
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.
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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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Canon City (Crane Wilbur, 1948)
Dec
30
1947
A calendar page. It's December 30, 1947. DP: John Alton.
“We're not here to play dominoes.”
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Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt + Basil Dearden, 1958)
Dec
22
Tue
A man checks into a hotel. A wall calendar reads December 22, a Tuesday. DP: Paul Beeson .
“Sloane! Be lucky!”
– Paul Gregory
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Accidente 703 [Los culpables] (José María Forqué, 1962)
Dec
21
A darkened room. People take care of a man slumped on a coach. A wall calendar tells us it's the 21st. DP: Juan Mariné.
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Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958)
Nov
29
candy
In a small movie theatre, a guy in a suit (Phillip Pine) stuffs his face with something from a small brown paper bag. Behind him are the Hollywood idea of an “elderly” woman (Janet Brandt) and a man with a moustache (Albert Cavens), Right next to snack man, a fellow with his hat pulled deeply over his face (Herschel Bernardi) takes a nap.. DP: Lucien Ballard.
“The way i see it, Harry, everybody lives off everybody else.”
– Claude
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13号待避線より その護送車を狙え ['Jūsangō taihisen' yori: Sono gosōsha o nerae / Aim at the Police Van] (Seijun Suzuki, 1960)
Aug
5
Fujiya popcorn
Teenage girls eating Fujiya popcorn while singing along to rock 'n roll on the jukebox in cool cool Shinjuku [新宿区]. DP: Shigeyoshi Mine.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965)
Aug
4
junket
Two women – one young (Carol Lynley), one older (Lucie Mannheim) – in a school's kitchen. The older woman handling the food says “But when it looks like junket, it is junket.“. DP: Denys N. Coop.
”'Junket is junket,' I said, and 'no matter what you do with it, it still tastes like swill and swallows like slime.'”
– school cook
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