settima

mystery

Les yeux cernés [Marked Eyes] (Robert Hossein, 1964)

Jan

11

baguette

Les yeux cernés (1964)

A young woman with big eyes and a dark bob (Marie-France Pisier) picks crumbs out of a fresh baguette. She's somewhere in a dreary small town. The snow's almost gone. DP: Jean Boffety.

Invasión [Invasion] (Hugo Santiago, 1969)

Dec

27

maté

Invasión (1969)

Don Porfirio (Juan Carlos Paz) pours water from a small kettle into a maté. DP: Ricardo Aronovich.

3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)

Dec

2

Pillsbury™ Crescent Dogs

3 Women (1977)

Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) opens a jar of Sau-Sea shrimp cocktail. Thank you Mother Suspiria and mom for solving this riddle! Ooo, there's Crescent Dogs too! DP: Charles Rosher Jr..

Pinky Rose: Wine! You got wine! Millie: Yeah. PR: Tickled Pink! M: And the other's Lemon Satin. PR: Ooo! Lemon Satin!

L'udienza [The Audience] (Marco Ferreri, 1972)

Nov

14

L'udienza (1972)

Amedeo (Enzo Jannacci), a young man with heavy rimmed glasses wrapped in heavy, flowery drapes as if it's a toga, eating late at night. There's an opened can on one of his plates. A sad looking stuffed toy dog hangs out. DP: Mario Vulpiani.

The Animal (Walter Ungerer, 1976)

Sep

30

National Ghost Hunting Day

The Animal (1976)

Jo (Jo Moore) in the couple's cabin. She's seen reflected in a mirror, together with what appears to be an older woman in an old photograph. DP: Walter Ungerer.

Werckmeister harmóniák (Béla Tarr, 2000)

Sep

26

Shamu The Whale Day

Werckmeister harmóniák (2000)

A man in a dark hat and coat approaches the whale. The huge creature lays in an enormous open wooden crate in the middle of a town square. DPs: Patrick de Ranter, Miklós Gurbán, Erwin Lanzensberger, Gábor Medvigy, Emil Novák & Rob Tregenza.

“All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign.”

– János Valuska

Orlacs Hände [Die unheimlichen Hände des Doktor Orlac / The Hands of Orlac] (Robert Wiene, 1924)

Sep

25

Orlacs Hände (1924)

Paul Orlac (Conrad Veidt) stretched out on a wooden bench in a tavern. A strange man sits on a second bench on the other side of the table. DPs: Hans Androschin & Günther Krampf.

Veneno para las hadas [Poison for the Fairies] (Carlos Enrique Taboada, 1986)

Sep

19

apples

Veneno para las hadas (1986)

Verónica (Ana Patricia Rojo) eating a red apple from a paper bag filled with fruit. The kitchen is spartan. DP: Lupe García.

The Medium (Gian Carlo Menotti, 1951)

Sep

18

The Medium (1951)

Madame Flora (Marie Powers) by herself at a small table in a shady bar. DP: Enzo Serafin.

To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955)

Sep

8

leg or breast

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Francie (Grace Kelly) and John Robie (Cary Grant) taking a (lunch) break on the Grand Corniche coast road. DP: Robert Burks.

– You want a leg or a breast?

– You make the choice.