fruit &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:fruit @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:47:47 +0200 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6tgz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" melon/div div class="img" Kanzashi (1941).png)/div div class="caption" A traditional Japanese room with tatami mats. Boys at a table eat melon slices. A woman makes a phone call. The view through the window reveals a gnarly tree and a mountain in the background. DP: Suketarō Inokai./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #melons #fruit #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

簪​ [Kanzashi / Ornamental Hairpin] (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)

Mar

3

melon

Kanzashi (1941)

A traditional Japanese room with tatami mats. Boys at a table eat melon slices. A woman makes a phone call. The view through the window reveals a gnarly tree and a mountain in the background. DP: Suketarō Inokai.

 

#FilmDinner #melons #fruit #HiroshiShimizu #MasujiIbuse #KinuyoTanaka #HirokoKawasaki #TatsuoSaitō #ChishūRyū #ShinIchiHimori #TakeshiSakamoto #TakaakiAsai #SuketarōInokai #comedy #drama #BookAdaptation #Japan #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6tgz Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:41:04 +0100 Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält [Mark of the Devil] (Michael Armstrong + Adrian... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-xm65 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält [Mark of the Devil] (Michael Armstrong + Adrian Hoven, 1970)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" cheese /div div class="img" Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält (1970).png)/div div class="caption" A young, pretty Udo Kier seated at a dinner table. There are various fruits on a platter and Udo's eating cheese. His outfit suggests the 18th century. DP: Ernst W. Kalinke./div div class="txt" "I accuse you of having trampled on the cross, of having ridden to the Sabbath, of throwing the Holy Cross of our Saviour into manure so that the skies grew dark, and the rain fell upon the earth!" ### – Albino /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #fruit #cheese #MichaelArmstrong #AdrianHoven #HerbertLom #UdoKier #OliveraKatarina #ReggieNalder #HerbertFux #GabyFuchs #MichaelHolm #ErnstWKalinke #drama #witches #horror #history #WestGermany #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält [Mark of the Devil] (Michael Armstrong + Adrian Hoven, 1970)

Nov

28

cheese

Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält (1970)

A young, pretty Udo Kier seated at a dinner table. There are various fruits on a platter and Udo's eating cheese. His outfit suggests the 18th century. DP: Ernst W. Kalinke.

“I accuse you of having trampled on the cross, of having ridden to the Sabbath, of throwing the Holy Cross of our Saviour into manure so that the skies grew dark, and the rain fell upon the earth!”

– Albino

#FilmDinner #fruit #cheese #MichaelArmstrong #AdrianHoven #HerbertLom #UdoKier #OliveraKatarina #ReggieNalder #HerbertFux #GabyFuchs #MichaelHolm #ErnstWKalinke #drama #witches #horror #history #WestGermany #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-xm65 Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:29:30 +0100 Kladivo na čarodějnice [Witchhammer] (Otakar Vávra, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wsnz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Kladivo na čarodějnice [Witchhammer] (Otakar Vávra, 1970)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" apples/div div class="img" Kladivo na čarodějnice (1970).png)/div div class="caption" A woman in a tub lustfully bites into an apple, presented to her by a giddy maid. A second maid replenishes the bathwater. DP: Josef Illík./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #apples #fruit #OtakarVávra #VáclavKaplický #EloRomančík #VladimírŠmeral #SoňaValentová #JosefKemr #LolaSkrbková #JiřinaŠtěpničková #JiříSrnka #JosefIllík #drama #history #Hooptober #witches #religion #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Kladivo na čarodějnice [Witchhammer] (Otakar Vávra, 1970)

Oct

19

apples

Kladivo na čarodějnice (1970)

A woman in a tub lustfully bites into an apple, presented to her by a giddy maid. A second maid replenishes the bathwater. DP: Josef Illík.

 

#FilmDinner #apples #fruit #OtakarVávra #VáclavKaplický #EloRomančík #VladimírŠmeral #SoňaValentová #JosefKemr #LolaSkrbková #JiřinaŠtěpničková #JiříSrnka #JosefIllík #drama #history #Hooptober #witches #religion #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wsnz Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:10:41 +0200 Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-j3z5 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" National Apple Dumpling Day /div div class="img" Äppelkriget (1971)/div div class="caption" Locals and a centaur – half man, half papier-mâché – enjoy a drink. DP: Lars Swanberg./div div class="txt" Apples, or dumplings, for National Apple Dumpling Day (USA) – What are you gonna do with tons of apples? They can't be sold! Ask any apple farmer! They just pile up and rot! – The apple farmers? – No. The apples! A beautiful, picturesque part of Sweden will become… Deutschneyland! At least, that's the brilliant business plan Herr Volkswagner has. But the local apple farmers – a large family that's half human, half mythological creatures – have no need for an amusement park on their grounds. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #AppleDumplingDay #apples #fruit #TageDanielsson #Per Grundén #GöstaEkman #StureEricson #IngvarOttoson #PerWaldvik #YvonneLombard #MaxVonSydow #EvertTaube #LarsSwanberg #comedy #satire #fantasy #Sweden #1970s/div /section ]]>

Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971)

Sep

17

National Apple Dumpling Day

Äppelkriget (1971)

Locals and a centaur – half man, half papier-mâché – enjoy a drink. DP: Lars Swanberg.

Apples, or dumplings, for National Apple Dumpling Day (USA)

– What are you gonna do with tons of apples? They can't be sold! Ask any apple farmer! They just pile up and rot! – The apple farmers? – No. The apples!

A beautiful, picturesque part of Sweden will become… Deutschneyland! At least, that's the brilliant business plan Herr Volkswagner has. But the local apple farmers – a large family that's half human, half mythological creatures – have no need for an amusement park on their grounds.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #AppleDumplingDay #apples #fruit #TageDanielsson #Per Grundén #GöstaEkman #StureEricson #IngvarOttoson #PerWaldvik #YvonneLombard #MaxVonSydow #EvertTaube #LarsSwanberg #comedy #satire #fantasy #Sweden #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-j3z5 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:30:00 +0200 Ovoce stromů rajských jíme [We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise] (Věra... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v87v <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ovoce stromů rajských jíme [We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise] (Věra Chytilová, 1970)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" orange/div div class="img" Ovoce stromů rajských jíme (1970)/div div class="caption" Eva (Jitka Novákova) devouring oranges under a black umbrella (via). DP: Jaroslav Kučera./div div class="txt" Orange, food or fashion "Tell me the truth!" ### – choir An allegorical, psychedelic retelling of Genesis 3 and the Fall of Man &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #orange #colours #VěraChytilová #JitkaNovákova #KarelNovák #JanSchmid #EvaGabrielová #JuliusAlbert #ZdeněkLiška #JaroslavKučera #food #fruit #oranges #religion #fantasy #drama #Czechoslovakia #Belgium #1970s/div /section ]]>

Ovoce stromů rajských jíme [We Eat the Fruit of the Trees of Paradise] (Věra Chytilová, 1970)

Aug

6

orange

Ovoce stromů rajských jíme (1970)

Eva (Jitka Novákova) devouring oranges under a black umbrella (via). DP: Jaroslav Kučera.

Orange, food or fashion*

“Tell me the truth!”

– choir

An allegorical, psychedelic retelling of Genesis 3 and the Fall of Man

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #orange #colours #VěraChytilová #JitkaNovákova #KarelNovák #JanSchmid #EvaGabrielová #JuliusAlbert #ZdeněkLiška #JaroslavKučera #food #fruit #oranges #religion #fantasy #drama #Czechoslovakia #Belgium #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v87v Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0200 Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v3yq <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" cantaloupe/div div class="img" Silent Running (1972).png)/div div class="caption" Bruce Dern as peace-loving Freeman Lowell aggressively eating a cantaloupe in space. DP: Charles F. Wheeler./div div class="txt" "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 /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #cantaloupes #fruit #DouglasTrumbull #BruceDern #CliffPotts #RonRifkin #JesseVint #MarkPersons #StevenBrown #CherylSparks #LarryWhisenhunt #JosephCampanella #RoyEngel #PeterSchickele #CharlesFWheeler #drama #SciFi #hippies #robots #USA #1970s ★★★★☆ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972)

Jul

24

cantaloupe

Silent Running (1972)

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

#FilmDinner #cantaloupes #fruit #DouglasTrumbull #BruceDern #CliffPotts #RonRifkin #JesseVint #MarkPersons #StevenBrown #CherylSparks #LarryWhisenhunt #JosephCampanella #RoyEngel #PeterSchickele #CharlesFWheeler #drama #SciFi #hippies #robots #USA #1970s ★★★★☆ ♥︎

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-v3yq Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:18:39 +0200 重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-prr8 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" freebie: April/div div class="img" 重慶森林 (1994)/div div class="caption" Eating pineapple, expiration date May 1. DPs: Christopher Doyle & Wai Keung Lau./div div class="txt" A film set in April. "We split up on April Fool's Day. So I decided to let the joke run for a month. Every day I buy a can of pineapple with a sell-by date of May 1. May loves pineapple, and May 1 is my birthday. If May hasn't changed her mind by the time I've bought thirty cans, then our love will also expire." ### – He Zhiwu, Cop 223 /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #April #WongKarWai #BrigitteLin #TonyLeungChiuWai #FayeWong #TakeshiKaneshiro #ValerieChow #PiggyChan #FrankieChan #MichaelGalasso #RoelAGarcía #ChristopherDoyle #WaiKeungLau #romance #crime #drama #comedy #pineapple #fruit #food #HongKong #1990s/div /section ]]>

重慶森林 [Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)

Apr

28

freebie: April

重慶森林 (1994)

Eating pineapple, expiration date May 1. DPs: Christopher Doyle & Wai Keung Lau.

A film set in April.

“We split up on April Fool's Day. So I decided to let the joke run for a month. Every day I buy a can of pineapple with a sell-by date of May 1. May loves pineapple, and May 1 is my birthday. If May hasn't changed her mind by the time I've bought thirty cans, then our love will also expire.”

– He Zhiwu, Cop 223

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #April #WongKarWai #BrigitteLin #TonyLeungChiuWai #FayeWong #TakeshiKaneshiro #ValerieChow #PiggyChan #FrankieChan #MichaelGalasso #RoelAGarcía #ChristopherDoyle #WaiKeungLau #romance #crime #drama #comedy #pineapple #fruit #food #HongKong #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-prr8 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0200 նռան գույնը [Sayat Nova / The Color of Pomegranates] (Sergei Parajanov, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gg5y <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" նռան գույնը [Sayat Nova / The Color of Pomegranates] (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="occasion" journeys/div div class="img" նռան գույնը (1969)/div div class="caption" A nun holds up an embroidered cloth depicting a dead Christ surrounded by mourning saints. Next to her a monk in black, resembling poet Sayat-Nova. Screenshot via Screenmusings. DP: Suren Shakhbazyan./div div class="txt" Garnets for January. The garnet is supposed to protect the traveller on his journey, and is named after the pomegranate with which it shares its bloodred colour. "We sought asylum for our love, but the road led us out to the land of the dead." The story of a poet's spiritual journey. The poet, and poems the film is based on is ashough lover, or travelling musician] [Sayat-Nova (b. Harutyun Sayatyan)./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #garnets #journey #birthstones #pomegranates #fruit #SergeiParajanov #SayatNova #SpartakBagashvili #SofikoChiaureli #MedeaJaparidze #VilenGalustyan #GogiGegechkori #TigranMansuryan #SurenShakhbazyan #poetry #Armenia #SovietUnion #1960s/div /section ]]>

նռան գույնը [Sayat Nova / The Color of Pomegranates] (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)

Jan

11

journeys

նռան գույնը (1969)

A nun holds up an embroidered cloth depicting a dead Christ surrounded by mourning saints. Next to her a monk in black, resembling poet Sayat-Nova. Screenshot via Screenmusings. DP: Suren Shakhbazyan.

Garnets for January. The garnet is supposed to protect the traveller on his journey, and is named after the pomegranate with which it shares its bloodred colour.

“We sought asylum for our love, but the road led us out to the land of the dead.”

The story of a poet's spiritual journey. The poet, and poems the film is based on is ashough [lover, or travelling musician] Sayat-Nova (b. Harutyun Sayatyan).

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #garnets #journey #birthstones #pomegranates #fruit #SergeiParajanov #SayatNova #SpartakBagashvili #SofikoChiaureli #MedeaJaparidze #VilenGalustyan #GogiGegechkori #TigranMansuryan #SurenShakhbazyan #poetry #Armenia #SovietUnion #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gg5y Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:23:34 +0100 Vergogna, schifosi!… [Dirty Angels] (Mauro Severino, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0w8k <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Vergogna, schifosi!… [Dirty Angels] (Mauro Severino, 1969)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" fruit/div div class="img" Vergogna, schifosi!… (1969)/div div class="caption" A group of people in skimpy swimwear sits on space-agey white plastic seating – Archizoom's radical Superonda (1967) – while decadently eating luxurious tropical fruit from a round table that futuristically descends from the ceiling via a steel pole. DP: Angelo Lotti./div div class="txt" "Matto, caldo, soldi, morto… girotondo…" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #fruit #MauroSeverino #LinoCapolicchio #MaríliaBranco #RobertoBisacco #DaniëlSola #IvanoDavoli #EnnioMorricone #AngeloLotti #blackmail #thriller #mystery #LGBT #Milan #Italy #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Vergogna, schifosi!… [Dirty Angels] (Mauro Severino, 1969)

Aug

14

fruit

Vergogna, schifosi!… (1969)

A group of people in skimpy swimwear sits on space-agey white plastic seating – Archizoom's radical Superonda (1967) – while decadently eating luxurious tropical fruit from a round table that futuristically descends from the ceiling via a steel pole. DP: Angelo Lotti.

“Matto, caldo, soldi, morto… girotondo…”

#FilmDinner #fruit #MauroSeverino #LinoCapolicchio #MaríliaBranco #RobertoBisacco #DaniëlSola #IvanoDavoli #EnnioMorricone #AngeloLotti #blackmail #thriller #mystery #LGBT #Milan #Italy #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0w8k Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:01:42 +0200 Strategia del ragno The Spider's Stratagem] (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/strategia-del-ragno-1970 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Strategia del ragno The Spider's Stratagem] (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" melon/div div class="img" Strategia del ragno (1970)/div div class="caption" Athos Magnani (Giulio Brogi) and Draifa (Alida Valli) sharing a meal. There's a carafe with water, a small vase with two flowers, wine glasses, and half a melon. Athos looks up, past us, towards something. DPs: Franco Di Giacomo & Vittorio Storaro./div div class="txt" "There's phrase that… 'A man is made of all men. He is equal to all and all are equal to him'." ### – Athos Magnani /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #melons #fruit #BernardoBertolucci #JorgeLuisBorges #FrancoDiGiacomo #VittorioStoraro #GiulioBrogi #AlidaValli #BookAdaptation #mystery #drama #Italy #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Strategia del ragno The Spider's Stratagem] (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

Apr

19

melon

Strategia del ragno (1970)

Athos Magnani (Giulio Brogi) and Draifa (Alida Valli) sharing a meal. There's a carafe with water, a small vase with two flowers, wine glasses, and half a melon. Athos looks up, past us, towards something. DPs: Franco Di Giacomo & Vittorio Storaro.

“There's phrase that… 'A man is made of all men. He is equal to all and all are equal to him'.”

– Athos Magnani

#FilmDinner #melons #fruit #BernardoBertolucci #JorgeLuisBorges #FrancoDiGiacomo #VittorioStoraro #GiulioBrogi #AlidaValli #BookAdaptation #mystery #drama #Italy #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/strategia-del-ragno-1970 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:37:05 +0200