may &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:may @settima@zirk.us Sun, 10 May 2026 14:05:12 +0200 Unearthly Stranger (John Krish, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-11rj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Unearthly Stranger (John Krish, 1963)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" 10.30 a.m/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary Unearthly Stranger (1963).png)/div div class="caption" 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./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JohnKrish #JohnNeville #PhilipStone #GabriellaLicudi #PatrickNewell #JeanMarsh #WarrenMitchell #EdwardWilliams #ReginaldHWyer #Hooptober #scifi #horror #romance #UK #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Unearthly Stranger (John Krish, 1963)

May

10

10.30 a.m

spoiler warning: click to toggle image Unearthly Stranger (1963)

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.

 

#FilmDuJour #May #JohnKrish #JohnNeville #PhilipStone #GabriellaLicudi #PatrickNewell #JeanMarsh #WarrenMitchell #EdwardWilliams #ReginaldHWyer #Hooptober #scifi #horror #romance #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-11rj Sun, 10 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wm5g <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 08/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Le Horla (1966).png)/div div class="caption" A reel-to-reel tape recorder. DP: Jean-Jacques Rochut./div div class="txt" and subsequent days. "8supth/sup of May. What a lovely day!" ### – voice on tape /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JeanDanielPollet #GuyDeMaupassant #LaurentTerzieff #JeanJacquesRochut #ShortFilm #drama #mystery #monologue #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Le Horla [The Horla] (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1966)

May

08

Le Horla (1966)

A reel-to-reel tape recorder. DP: Jean-Jacques Rochut.

and subsequent days.

“8th of May. What a lovely day!”

– voice on tape

#FilmDuJour #May #JeanDanielPollet #GuyDeMaupassant #LaurentTerzieff #JeanJacquesRochut #ShortFilm #drama #mystery #monologue #BookAdaptation #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wm5g Fri, 08 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w9z7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" birthdays/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" Stromboli (Terra di Dio) (1950)/div div class="caption" Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman on set on Sardinia. In the background the house Bergman's character moves into with her husband. DP: Otello Martelli./div div class="txt" ##### May 8 is both director Rossellini and Bergman's character Karen's #birthday. "What mystery, what beauty." ### – Karen /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RobertoRossellini #IngridBergman #MarioVitale #RenzoCesana #MarioSponzo #OtelloMartelli #RenzoRossellini #OtelloMartelli #drama #melodrama #Neorealismo #religion #Sardinia #Italy #USA #1950s ★★☆☆☆/div /section ]]>

Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)

May

8

birthdays

Stromboli (Terra di Dio) (1950)

Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman on set on Sardinia. In the background the house Bergman's character moves into with her husband. DP: Otello Martelli.

May 8 is both director Rossellini and Bergman's character Karen's #birthday.

“What mystery, what beauty.”

– Karen

#FilmDuJour #May #RobertoRossellini #IngridBergman #MarioVitale #RenzoCesana #MarioSponzo #OtelloMartelli #RenzoRossellini #OtelloMartelli #drama #melodrama #Neorealismo #religion #Sardinia #Italy #USA #1950s ★★☆☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w9z7 Fri, 08 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Зеркало для героя [Zerkalo dlya geroya / Mirror for a Hero] (Vladimir... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hcsz <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Зеркало для героя [Zerkalo dlya geroya / Mirror for a Hero] (Vladimir Khotinenko, 1987)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" 1949/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" Зеркало для героя (1987)/div div class="caption" Sergey Pshenichnyy (Sergey Koltakov) speaking to one of the 1940s farmers. DP: Evgeniy Grebnev./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #VladimirKhotinenko #SvyatoslavRybas #BorisPetrov #EvgeniyGrebnev #BookAdaptation #SciFi #SovietUnion #1980s/div /section ]]>

Зеркало для героя [Zerkalo dlya geroya / Mirror for a Hero] (Vladimir Khotinenko, 1987)

May

8

1949

Зеркало для героя (1987)

Sergey Pshenichnyy (Sergey Koltakov) speaking to one of the 1940s farmers. DP: Evgeniy Grebnev.

#FilmDuJour #May #VladimirKhotinenko #SvyatoslavRybas #BorisPetrov #EvgeniyGrebnev #BookAdaptation #SciFi #SovietUnion #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hcsz Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rpt6 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)/div div class="caption" Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine) lighting Tom Garrett's (Dana Andrews) cigarette. DP: William E. Snyder./div div class="txt" "It's a weird, crazy idea, but that's the reason it intrigues me." ### – Tom Garrett /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #JoanFontaine #HerschelBurkeGilbert #WilliamESnyder #crime #drama #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)

May

7

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine) lighting Tom Garrett's (Dana Andrews) cigarette. DP: William E. Snyder.

“It's a weird, crazy idea, but that's the reason it intrigues me.”

– Tom Garrett

#FilmDuJour #May #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #JoanFontaine #HerschelBurkeGilbert #WilliamESnyder #crime #drama #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rpt6 Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-unholy-three-1925 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Unholy Three (1925)/div div class="caption" Tweedledee (Harry Earles), Hercules (Victor McLaglen), and Echo - The Ventriloquist (Lon Chaney). DP: David Kesson./div div class="txt" "It's spooky! It sounds… unholy!" ### – Echo /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #TodBrowning #LonChaney #HarryEarles #VictorMcLaglen #DavidKesson #SilentFilm #crime #PreCode #USA #1920s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925)

May

6

The Unholy Three (1925)

Tweedledee (Harry Earles), Hercules (Victor McLaglen), and Echo – The Ventriloquist (Lon Chaney). DP: David Kesson.

“It's spooky! It sounds… unholy!”

– Echo

#FilmDuJour #May #TodBrowning #LonChaney #HarryEarles #VictorMcLaglen #DavidKesson #SilentFilm #crime #PreCode #USA #1920s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-unholy-three-1925 Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Bed Peace [John and Yoko: The Bed-In] (John Lennon + Yoko Ono, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l2xb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bed Peace [John and Yoko: The Bed-In] (John Lennon + Yoko Ono, 1969)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 05/div div class="occasion" 1969/div div class="img" Bed Peace (1969).png)/div div class="caption" Someone holds up a letter with John in the background who takes an amused drag from his cigarette. DP: Nicholas D. Knowland./div div class="txt" "on the fifth of May, Lisa[?] Minelli makes the bed." ### – John Lennon /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JohnLennon #YokoOno #MurrayTheK #AlCapp #KyokoOnoCox #AllenGinsberg #DickGregory #AllenKlein #JonasMekas #TimothyLeary #TomSmothers #NicholasDKnowland #documentary #interview #art #peace #Montréal #UK #1960s/div /section ]]>

Bed Peace [John and Yoko: The Bed-In] (John Lennon + Yoko Ono, 1969)

May

05

1969

Bed Peace (1969)

Someone holds up a letter with John in the background who takes an amused drag from his cigarette. DP: Nicholas D. Knowland.

“on the fifth of May, Lisa[?] Minelli makes the bed.”

– John Lennon

#FilmDuJour #May #JohnLennon #YokoOno #MurrayTheK #AlCapp #KyokoOnoCox #AllenGinsberg #DickGregory #AllenKlein #JonasMekas #TimothyLeary #TomSmothers #NicholasDKnowland #documentary #interview #art #peace #Montréal #UK #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l2xb Tue, 05 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200 Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0f30 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" 1945/div div class="img" Maratón (1968)/div div class="caption" Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #IvoNovák #JaromírHanzlík #JanaBrejchová #VladimírMenšík #KarelHöger #ZdeněkŠtěpánek #ZdeněkLiška #VáclavHanuš #comedy #drama #war #Czechoslovakia #1960s/div /section ]]>

Maratón [The Marathon] (Ivo Novák, 1968)

May

5

1945

Maratón (1968)

Karla (Jana Brejchová) and Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík). DP: Václav Hanuš.

#FilmDuJour #May #IvoNovák #JaromírHanzlík #JanaBrejchová #VladimírMenšík #KarelHöger #ZdeněkŠtěpánek #ZdeněkLiška #VáclavHanuš #comedy #drama #war #Czechoslovakia #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0f30 Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="X" /div div class="img" My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)/div div class="caption" Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey./div div class="txt" – You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion? – You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross! ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)

May

5

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey.

– You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion?

– You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross!

#FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0xr7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 03/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Japanicky (1928).png)/div div class="caption" A cheeky looking Felix stands in a doorway with a bamboo roller shutter. Inside the room a woman in Japanese dress sits in front of a tea bowl and pot on top of a small platform. From the ceiling hangs a (Chinese) lantern and from the wall a large scroll that reads May 3 in stereotypical Oriental lettering./div div class="txt" and May 4. &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #OttoMessmer #surrealism #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #animation #USA #1920s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928)

May

03

Japanicky (1928)

A cheeky looking Felix stands in a doorway with a bamboo roller shutter. Inside the room a woman in Japanese dress sits in front of a tea bowl and pot on top of a small platform. From the ceiling hangs a (Chinese) lantern and from the wall a large scroll that reads May 3 in stereotypical Oriental lettering.

and May 4.

 

#FilmDuJour #May #OttoMessmer #surrealism #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #animation #USA #1920s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0xr7 Sun, 03 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200