holidays &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:holidays @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:16:59 +0200 X2000 (François Ozon, 1998) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/x2000-1998 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" X2000 (François Ozon, 1998)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" 2000/div div class="img" X2000 (1998)/div div class="caption" A young, naked man holding a drink observes two men asleep in a sleeping bag on the floor. On the wall behind them the text "2000" spelled out with tinsel garlands. DP: Pierre Stoeber./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #FrançoisOzon #PierreStoeber #ShortFilm #holidays #France #1990s /div /section ]]>

X2000 (François Ozon, 1998)

Jan

1

2000

X2000 (1998)

A young, naked man holding a drink observes two men asleep in a sleeping bag on the floor. On the wall behind them the text “2000” spelled out with tinsel garlands. DP: Pierre Stoeber.

#FilmDuJour #January #FrançoisOzon #PierreStoeber #ShortFilm #holidays #France #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/x2000-1998 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0100 La noche de los Inocentes [Night of the Innocents] (Arturo Sotto Díaz, 2007) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cb1n <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La noche de los Inocentes [Night of the Innocents] (Arturo Sotto Díaz, 2007)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="X" /div div class="img" La noche de los Inocentes (2007)/div div class="caption" The cast in the hospital. Lighting and stances appear theatre-like. DP: Ernesto Granado./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #ArturoSottoDíaz #JorgePerugorría #SílviaÁguila #YasmaniGuerrero #ErnanLopezNussa #ErnestoGranado #comedy #drama #holidays #Cuba #2000s/div /section ]]>

La noche de los Inocentes [Night of the Innocents] (Arturo Sotto Díaz, 2007)

Dec

28

La noche de los Inocentes (2007)

The cast in the hospital. Lighting and stances appear theatre-like. DP: Ernesto Granado.

#FilmDuJour #December #ArturoSottoDíaz #JorgePerugorría #SílviaÁguila #YasmaniGuerrero #ErnanLopezNussa #ErnestoGranado #comedy #drama #holidays #Cuba #2000s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cb1n Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Balada o trobenti in oblaku [Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud] (France... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-sz3y <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Balada o trobenti in oblaku [Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud] (France Štiglic, 1961)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="occasion" International Mountain Day/div div class="img" Balada o trobenti in oblaku (1961).jpg)/div div class="caption" A young couple dances among the mountains (via). DP: Rudi Vaupotič./div div class="txt" Set in the mountains for International Mountain Day &nbsp; 1943. With the family preparing for Christmas, old man Temnikar hears the sound of a trumpet. The patriarch sees it as his calling to follow – and kill – the White Guardists who visited his mountain farm looking for wounded Partisans. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #InternationalMountainDay #FranceŠtiglic #CirilKosmač #LojzePotokar #AngelcaHlebce #MarijaLojk #BrankoMiklavc #RudiKosmač #VladimirSkrbinšek #LojzeRozman #MaksBajc #PoldeBibič #AlojzSrebotnjak #RudiVaupotič #BookAdaptation #drama #Christmas #holidays #axes #war #WW2 #Yugoslavia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Balada o trobenti in oblaku [Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud] (France Štiglic, 1961)

Dec

11

International Mountain Day

Balada o trobenti in oblaku (1961)

A young couple dances among the mountains (via). DP: Rudi Vaupotič.

Set in the mountains for International Mountain Day

 

1943. With the family preparing for Christmas, old man Temnikar hears the sound of a trumpet. The patriarch sees it as his calling to follow – and kill – the White Guardists who visited his mountain farm looking for wounded Partisans.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #InternationalMountainDay #FranceŠtiglic #CirilKosmač #LojzePotokar #AngelcaHlebce #MarijaLojk #BrankoMiklavc #RudiKosmač #VladimirSkrbinšek #LojzeRozman #MaksBajc #PoldeBibič #AlojzSrebotnjak #RudiVaupotič #BookAdaptation #drama #Christmas #holidays #axes #war #WW2 #Yugoslavia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-sz3y Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0100 Kisapmata [Sa bawat kisapmata / In the Wink of an Eye] (Mike De Leon, 1981) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5814 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Kisapmata [Sa bawat kisapmata / In the Wink of an Eye] (Mike De Leon, 1981)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" Tue/div div class="img" Kisapmata (1981)/div div class="caption" Noel (Jay Ilagan) enters Milagros' (Charo Santos-Concio) room. On a sparse green wall a calendar with an image of the Virgin Mary. The 8supth/sup, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, is marked red as a holiday. DP: Rody Lacap./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #MikeDeLeon #NickJoaquin #CharoSantosConcio #JayIlagan #VicSilayan #CharitoSolis #RubenRustia #LorrieIlustre #RodyLacap #drama #Christmas #holidays #Philippines #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Kisapmata [Sa bawat kisapmata / In the Wink of an Eye] (Mike De Leon, 1981)

Dec

8

Tue

Kisapmata (1981)

Noel (Jay Ilagan) enters Milagros' (Charo Santos-Concio) room. On a sparse green wall a calendar with an image of the Virgin Mary. The 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, is marked red as a holiday. DP: Rody Lacap.

#FilmDuJour #December #MikeDeLeon #NickJoaquin #CharoSantosConcio #JayIlagan #VicSilayan #CharitoSolis #RubenRustia #LorrieIlustre #RodyLacap #drama #Christmas #holidays #Philippines #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5814 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Domenica d'agosto [Sunday in August] (Luciano Emmer, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/domenica-dagosto-1950-mgdd <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Domenica d'agosto [Sunday in August] (Luciano Emmer, 1950)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="occasion" 1949/div div class="img" Domenica d'agosto (1950)/div div class="caption" A little boy runs down a Roman street. Superimposed a calendar page: SUNDAY AUGUST 7 S. GAETANO THE SUN RISES AT 5:15 SUNSET AT 19:42 – CRESCENT MOON. "S. Gaetano" refers to Saint Cajetan, who's feast day is on August 7. DPs: Leonida Barboni, Ubaldo Marelli & Domenico Scala./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #LucianoEmmer #AnnaBaldini #VeraCarmi #MarcelloMastroianni #RomanVlad #LeonidaBarboni #UbaldoMarelli #DomenicoScala #holidays #romance #comedy #drama #Neorealismo #Ostia #Rome #Italy #1950s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Domenica d'agosto [Sunday in August] (Luciano Emmer, 1950)

Aug

7

1949

Domenica d'agosto (1950)

A little boy runs down a Roman street. Superimposed a calendar page: SUNDAY AUGUST 7 S. GAETANO THE SUN RISES AT 5:15 SUNSET AT 19:42 – CRESCENT MOON. “S. Gaetano” refers to Saint Cajetan, who's feast day is on August 7. DPs: Leonida Barboni, Ubaldo Marelli & Domenico Scala.

#FilmDuJour #August #LucianoEmmer #AnnaBaldini #VeraCarmi #MarcelloMastroianni #RomanVlad #LeonidaBarboni #UbaldoMarelli #DomenicoScala #holidays #romance #comedy #drama #Neorealismo #Ostia #Rome #Italy #1950s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/domenica-dagosto-1950-mgdd Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0200 À Meia Noite Levarei Sua Alma [At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul] (José Mojica... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-p1c9 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" À Meia Noite Levarei Sua Alma [At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul] (José Mojica Marins, 1964)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" Robert Englund – 1947/div div class="img" À Meia Noite Levarei Sua Alma (1964)/div div class="caption" Josefel Zanatas, aka Coffin Joe, summoning you to your early grave. DP: Giorgio Attili./div div class="txt" A] favourite horror movie villain for [Robert Englund's birthday (1947). "What is life? It is the beginning of death. What is death? It is the end of life! What is existence? It is the continuity of blood. What is blood? It is the reason to exist!" ### – Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe), opening lines In 1963, long before Freddy's got his claws, Brazil didn't have any horror films of its own. Then, José Mojica Marins woke up from uneasy dreams. He had seen himself being dragged across a cemetery by a dark figure, towards a grave with his name on it. Now wide awake in a pool of sweat, José became Josefel Zanatas – the true name of the godless undertaker from his dream. &nbsp; Josefel, nicknamed Zé do Caixão, or Coffin Joe as he was rechristened for the English speaking world, would be Marins' alter ego in numerous movies and TV shows. His gnarly nails clawed their way past Brazil's censorship, dug themselves out of the pits of obscurity, and impaled themselves deep into this disciple's heart./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #JoséMojicaMarins #MagdaMei #NivaldoLima #ValériaVasquez #SalatielCoelho #HerminioGiménez #GiorgioAttili #horror #holidays #Brazil #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

À Meia Noite Levarei Sua Alma [At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul] (José Mojica Marins, 1964)

Jun

6

Robert Englund – 1947

À Meia Noite Levarei Sua Alma (1964)

Josefel Zanatas, aka Coffin Joe, summoning you to your early grave. DP: Giorgio Attili.

[A] favourite horror movie villain for Robert Englund's birthday (1947).

“What is life? It is the beginning of death. What is death? It is the end of life! What is existence? It is the continuity of blood. What is blood? It is the reason to exist!”

– Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe), opening lines

In 1963, long before Freddy's got his claws, Brazil didn't have any horror films of its own. Then, José Mojica Marins woke up from uneasy dreams. He had seen himself being dragged across a cemetery by a dark figure, towards a grave with his name on it. Now wide awake in a pool of sweat, José became Josefel Zanatas – the true name of the godless undertaker from his dream.

 

Josefel, nicknamed Zé do Caixão, or Coffin Joe as he was rechristened for the English speaking world, would be Marins' alter ego in numerous movies and TV shows. His gnarly nails clawed their way past Brazil's censorship, dug themselves out of the pits of obscurity, and impaled themselves deep into this disciple's heart.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #JoséMojicaMarins #MagdaMei #NivaldoLima #ValériaVasquez #SalatielCoelho #HerminioGiménez #GiorgioAttili #horror #holidays #Brazil #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-p1c9 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0200 La última cena [The Last Supper] (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1976) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-11t2 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La última cena [The Last Supper] (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1976)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="occasion" Good Friday/div div class="img" La última cena (1976)/div div class="caption" The count, Christ, flanked by two of his slaves, John and Thomas respectively. DP: Mario García Joya./div div class="txt" Good Friday: an occurrence during a Friday or weekend. &nbsp; During Holy Week, a count visits his sugar mill on the day one of his slaves has escaped. Reluctant, overseer Don Manuel picks twelve slaves to join the count at his dinner table for a lecture about the possibility of happiness in slavery, all made up to resemble the Last Supper, with the count as Christ and the slaves as his apostles. Then conversation picks up, and the slaved men request, and are granted, a day off on Good Friday./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #GoodFriday #TomásGutiérrezAlea #MorenoFraginals #NelsonVillagra #SilvanoRey #LuisAlbertoGarcía #JoséAntonioRodríguez #SamuelClaxton #MirtaIbarra #ManuelPuig #LeoBrouwer #MarioGarcíaJoya #BookAdaptation #HolyWeek #slavery #religion #holidays #drama #history #Havana #Cuba #1970s/div /section ]]>

La última cena [The Last Supper] (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1976)

Apr

18

Good Friday

La última cena (1976)

The count, Christ, flanked by two of his slaves, John and Thomas respectively. DP: Mario García Joya.

Good Friday: an occurrence during a Friday or weekend.

 

During Holy Week, a count visits his sugar mill on the day one of his slaves has escaped. Reluctant, overseer Don Manuel picks twelve slaves to join the count at his dinner table for a lecture about the possibility of happiness in slavery, all made up to resemble the Last Supper, with the count as Christ and the slaves as his apostles. Then conversation picks up, and the slaved men request, and are granted, a day off on Good Friday.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #GoodFriday #TomásGutiérrezAlea #MorenoFraginals #NelsonVillagra #SilvanoRey #LuisAlbertoGarcía #JoséAntonioRodríguez #SamuelClaxton #MirtaIbarra #ManuelPuig #LeoBrouwer #MarioGarcíaJoya #BookAdaptation #HolyWeek #slavery #religion #holidays #drama #history #Havana #Cuba #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-11t2 Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0200 Macario (Roberto Gavaldón, 1960) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2qdm <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Macario (Roberto Gavaldón, 1960)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 22/div div class="occasion" National Poverty in America Awareness Month/div div class="img" Macario (1960)/div div class="caption" Macario (Ignacio López Tarso) passes a Día de los Muertos altar, stacked high with candles, human skulls and bones, and cempasúchil (marigolds), whose fragrant and colour lead the Dead back to their family on this revered day. DP: Gabriel Figueroa./div div class="txt" Poverty: National Poverty in America Awareness Month (USA) &nbsp; Macario, poor and hungry, wishes to eat a whole turkey all by himself on Día de los Muertos. When he finally has the opportunity, he is interrupted three times: by the Devil, by God, and by Death. With one of them, he shares his meal. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #PovertyAwarenessMonth #poverty #RobertoGavaldón #JTraven #IgnacioLópezTarso #PinaPellicer #EnriqueLucero #MarioAlbertoRodríguez #JoséGálvez #JoséLuisJiménez #RaúlLavista #GabrielFigueroa #DíaDeLosMuertos #holidays #drama #satire #comedy #fantasy #BookAdaptation #Mexico #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Macario (Roberto Gavaldón, 1960)

Jan

22

National Poverty in America Awareness Month

Macario (1960)

Macario (Ignacio López Tarso) passes a Día de los Muertos altar, stacked high with candles, human skulls and bones, and cempasúchil (marigolds), whose fragrant and colour lead the Dead back to their family on this revered day. DP: Gabriel Figueroa.

Poverty: National Poverty in America Awareness Month (USA)

 

Macario, poor and hungry, wishes to eat a whole turkey all by himself on Día de los Muertos. When he finally has the opportunity, he is interrupted three times: by the Devil, by God, and by Death. With one of them, he shares his meal.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #PovertyAwarenessMonth #poverty #RobertoGavaldón #JTraven #IgnacioLópezTarso #PinaPellicer #EnriqueLucero #MarioAlbertoRodríguez #JoséGálvez #JoséLuisJiménez #RaúlLavista #GabrielFigueroa #DíaDeLosMuertos #holidays #drama #satire #comedy #fantasy #BookAdaptation #Mexico #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2qdm Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Couro de Gato [Cat Skin] (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/couro-de-gato-1962 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Couro de Gato [Cat Skin] (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1962)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" Junkanoo/div div class="img" Couro de Gato (1962)/div div class="caption" A man plays a small hand drum, the tamborim, with a cat skin head. DP: Mário Carneiro./div div class="txt" Drums for Junkanoo. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2024FilmChallenge #Junkanoo #JoaquimPedroDeAndrade #Paulinho #RivaNimitz #HenriqueCésar #MiltonGonçalves #FranciscoDeAssis #NapoleãoMunizFreire #CláudioCorrêaECastro #DomingosDeOliveira #CarlosLyra #MárioCarneiro #drama #comedy #documentary #docudrama #ComingOfAge #Carnival #holidays #ShortFilm #animals #cats #Brazil #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Couro de Gato [Cat Skin] (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1962)

Dec

27

Junkanoo

Couro de Gato (1962)

A man plays a small hand drum, the tamborim, with a cat skin head. DP: Mário Carneiro.

Drums for Junkanoo.

#Bales2024FilmChallenge #Junkanoo #JoaquimPedroDeAndrade #Paulinho #RivaNimitz #HenriqueCésar #MiltonGonçalves #FranciscoDeAssis #NapoleãoMunizFreire #CláudioCorrêaECastro #DomingosDeOliveira #CarlosLyra #MárioCarneiro #drama #comedy #documentary #docudrama #ComingOfAge #Carnival #holidays #ShortFilm #animals #cats #Brazil #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/couro-de-gato-1962 Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:37:16 +0100 Cali: de película (Luis Ospina, 1973) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/cali-de-pelicula-1973 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Cali: de película (Luis Ospina, 1973)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" Feria de Cali/div div class="img" Cali: de película (1973)/div div class="caption" A child hands a man in indigenous garb a small liquor bottle during the cabalgata, the parade of horseback riders. The man's horse is painted to resemble a zebra. DP: Carlos Mayolo./div div class="txt" A parade for Feria de Cali, Columbia. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2024FilmChallenge #LaFeriaDeCali #CarlosMayolo #LuisOspina #UteBroll #EduardoCarvajal #documentary #ShortFilm #holidays #cabalgata #Colombia #1970s ★★★★★/div /section ]]>

Cali: de película (Luis Ospina, 1973)

Dec

26

Feria de Cali

Cali: de película (1973)

A child hands a man in indigenous garb a small liquor bottle during the cabalgata, the parade of horseback riders. The man's horse is painted to resemble a zebra. DP: Carlos Mayolo.

A parade for Feria de Cali, Columbia.

#Bales2024FilmChallenge #LaFeriaDeCali #CarlosMayolo #LuisOspina #UteBroll #EduardoCarvajal #documentary #ShortFilm #holidays #cabalgata #Colombia #1970s ★★★★★

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/cali-de-pelicula-1973 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 11:23:58 +0100