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Unearthly Stranger (John Krish, 1963)
May
10
10.30 a.m
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An invitation: The Funeral of Geoffrey Munroe will take place on Friday 10th May at St. Marys Church 10.30 a.m. DP: Reginald H. Wyer.
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L'ange et la femme [The Angel and the Woman] (Gilles Carle, 1977)
Dec
3
Gabriel (Lewis Furey) and the woman he named Fabienne (Carole Laure). DP: François Protat.
A caregiver*
A woman is brutally murdered and taken home by a young man. This man – this angel – takes away her wounds, returns her to life, and nurses her. They fall in love.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.
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Kladivo na čarodějnice [Witchhammer] (Otakar Vávra, 1970)
Oct
19
apples
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.
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藪の中の黒猫 [Yabu no naka no kuroneko / A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove] (Kaneto Shindō, 1968)
Oct
13
Two country women sit on the floor on tatami mats, eating from bowls using chopsticks. They look directly at us, seemingly interrupted. DP: Kiyomi Kuroda.
A mother and daughter who are raped and murdered by a rogue samurai, return as cat-shaped onryō, vengeful spirits.
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하녀 [Hanyeo / The Housemaid] (Kim Ki-young , 1960)
Oct
12
rice
A distraught looking woman appears to be force fed rice by a person just off-screen. DP: Kim Deok-jin.
“I won't cook for a concubine, even if today is the last day of my life.”
– Mrs Kim
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Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf] (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
Oct
4
aquavit
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Digestifs served with glass peepers Skål! DP: Sven Nykvist.
“This is my supper, you see. Lindhorst, who knows the world, says that old harlots have a morbid desire to satisfy their mouths and stomachs.”
– Gamla Fru von Merkens
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Requiem for a Village (David Gladwell, 1975)
Sep
29
bread
Farmers resting, eating bread, after the harvest. DP: Bruce Parsons.
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La strega in amore [The Witch] (Damiano Damiani, 1966)
Sep
27
We, the viewer, sit at the head of a long table. Two women at the tall ends of the table stop eating to look at us. It's ominous. DP: Leonida Barboni.
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마의 계단 [Maui gyuedan / The Evil Stairs] (Lee Man-hee, 1964)
Sep
25
rice
Watched from above, the nurses gather to gossip over lunch. DP: Jeong-min Seo.
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Rosso sangue [Absurd / Monster Hunter] (Joe D'Amato, 1981)
Nov
2
spaghetti
“So this is the team, ey? A priest, a detective near retirement, and a young moron rookie of a cop… Terrific.”
– Sgt. Ben Engleman
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