romance &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:romance @settima@zirk.us Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:41:02 +0200 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hzvg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Notorious (1946)/div div class="caption" Devlin (Cary Grant) and Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman). DP: Ted Tetzlaff./div div class="txt" And January 9.\ "Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character." ### – Devlin\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #AlfredHitchcock #CaryGrant #IngridBergman #ClaudeRains #RoyWebb #TedTetzlaff #thriller #mystery #romance #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

Apr

24

Notorious (1946)

Devlin (Cary Grant) and Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman). DP: Ted Tetzlaff.

And January 9.

“Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.”

– Devlin

#FilmDuJour #April #AlfredHitchcock #CaryGrant #IngridBergman #ClaudeRains #RoyWebb #TedTetzlaff #thriller #mystery #romance #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hzvg Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Vulcano [Volcano] (William Dieterle, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-szl7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Vulcano [Volcano] (William Dieterle, 1950)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 23/div div class="occasion" 1949/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary Vulcano (1950).png)/div div class="caption" A letter from Pietro, dated April 23, 1949 DP: Arturo Gallea./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #WilliamDieterle #AnnaMagnani #RossanoBrazzi #GeraldineBrooks #EduardoCiannelli #EnzoStaiola #EnzoMasetti #ArturoGallea #volcanos #islands #drama #romance #crime #prostitution #Salina #Italy #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Vulcano [Volcano] (William Dieterle, 1950)

Apr

23

1949

spoiler warning: click to toggle image Vulcano (1950)

A letter from Pietro, dated April 23, 1949 DP: Arturo Gallea.

 

#FilmDuJour #April #WilliamDieterle #AnnaMagnani #RossanoBrazzi #GeraldineBrooks #EduardoCiannelli #EnzoStaiola #EnzoMasetti #ArturoGallea #volcanos #islands #drama #romance #crime #prostitution #Salina #Italy #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-szl7 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-746p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Chase (1946).png)/div div class="caption" A man's hand holds up two first class tickets for March 21, destination Cuba. DP: Franz Planer./div div class="txt" "Have you ever been afraid? Really afraid?" ### – Lorna Roman /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #ArthurRipley #CornellWoolrich #RobertCummings #MichèleMorgan #SteveCochran #LloydCorrigan #JackHolt #DonWilson #PeterLorre #MichelMichelet #FranzPlaner #mystery #drama #crime #romance #FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946)

Mar

21

The Chase (1946)

A man's hand holds up two first class tickets for March 21, destination Cuba. DP: Franz Planer.

“Have you ever been afraid? Really afraid?”

– Lorna Roman

#FilmDuJour #March #ArthurRipley #CornellWoolrich #RobertCummings #MichèleMorgan #SteveCochran #LloydCorrigan #JackHolt #DonWilson #PeterLorre #MichelMichelet #FranzPlaner #mystery #drama #crime #romance #FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-746p Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100 La Chambre verte [The Green Room / The Vanishing Fiancée] (François Truffaut,... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-07bp <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La Chambre verte [The Green Room / The Vanishing Fiancée] (François Truffaut, 1978)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="X" /div div class="img" La Chambre verte (1978)-2.webp)/div div class="caption" A woman cries. Captions read "on March 17th,". DP: Néstor Almendros./div div class="txt" "Our past doesn't belong to us." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #FrançoisTruffaut #HenryJames #NathalieBaye #MauriceJaubert #NéstorAlmendros #RogerCorman #drama #romance #BookAdaptation #France #1970s ★★☆☆☆/div /section ]]>

La Chambre verte [The Green Room / The Vanishing Fiancée] (François Truffaut, 1978)

Mar

17

La Chambre verte (1978)

A woman cries. Captions read “on March 17th,”. DP: Néstor Almendros.

“Our past doesn't belong to us.”

#FilmDuJour #March #FrançoisTruffaut #HenryJames #NathalieBaye #MauriceJaubert #NéstorAlmendros #RogerCorman #drama #romance #BookAdaptation #France #1970s ★★☆☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-07bp Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gxpg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Cockfighter (1974)/div div class="caption" Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) holding up a reluctant, wildly flapping white rooster. DP: Néstor Almendros./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #MonteHellman #CharlesWilleford #WarrenOates #HarryDeanStanton #MichaelFranks #NéstorAlmendros #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #animals #USA #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974)

Mar

15

Cockfighter (1974)

Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) holding up a reluctant, wildly flapping white rooster. DP: Néstor Almendros.

#FilmDuJour #March #MonteHellman #CharlesWilleford #WarrenOates #HarryDeanStanton #MichaelFranks #NéstorAlmendros #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #animals #USA #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gxpg Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Hell Bound (William J. Hole Jr., 1957) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yb4c <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Hell Bound (William J. Hole Jr., 1957)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" Sat/div div class="img" Hell Bound (1957)/div div class="caption" A man writes a name in the 9:30 a.m. time slot of the calendar page for Saturday March 21. DP: Carl E. Guthrie./div div class="txt" "Three days ago, at exactly 0600 – because that is really not the time – on February 5 – because that is really not the date – this freighter, which shall be nameless, sailed from a certain Far Eastern port. Its destination: The Port of Los Angeles, Wilmington, California. This is fact." ### – narrator /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #WilliamJHoleJr #JohnRussell #JuneBlair #StuartWhitman #DehlBerti #GeorgeEMather #LesBaxter #CarlEGuthrie #crime #drama #romance #FilmNoir #drugs #heist #USA #1950s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Hell Bound (William J. Hole Jr., 1957)

Mar

12

Sat

Hell Bound (1957)

A man writes a name in the 9:30 a.m. time slot of the calendar page for Saturday March 21. DP: Carl E. Guthrie.

“Three days ago, at exactly 0600 – because that is really not the time – on February 5 – because that is really not the date – this freighter, which shall be nameless, sailed from a certain Far Eastern port. Its destination: The Port of Los Angeles, Wilmington, California. This is fact.”

– narrator

#FilmDuJour #March #WilliamJHoleJr #JohnRussell #JuneBlair #StuartWhitman #DehlBerti #GeorgeEMather #LesBaxter #CarlEGuthrie #crime #drama #romance #FilmNoir #drugs #heist #USA #1950s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yb4c Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 憂國 [Yūkoku / Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death] (Yukio Mishima, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y9s1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 憂國 [Yūkoku / Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death] (Yukio Mishima, 1966)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 26/div div class="occasion" 1936/div div class="img" 憂國 (1966)/div div class="caption" Reiko (Yoshiko Tsuruoka) walking through her lover's blood, her kimono drenched. DP: Kimio Watanabe./div div class="txt" Covers February 26–28, 1936. "'I know how you feel,' Reiko says quietly. 'And I will follow you wherever you go.'" ### – intertitles /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #MasakiDōmoto #YukioMishima #YoshikoTsuruoka #KimioWatanabe #CoupDEtat #NohTheatre #JapanArtTheatreGuild #ATG #ShortFilm #patriotism #romance #suicide #Bushido #SilentFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

憂國 [Yūkoku / Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death] (Yukio Mishima, 1966)

Feb

26

1936

憂國 (1966)

Reiko (Yoshiko Tsuruoka) walking through her lover's blood, her kimono drenched. DP: Kimio Watanabe.

Covers February 26–28, 1936.

”'I know how you feel,' Reiko says quietly. 'And I will follow you wherever you go.'”

– intertitles

#FilmDuJour #February #MasakiDōmoto #YukioMishima #YoshikoTsuruoka #KimioWatanabe #CoupDEtat #NohTheatre #JapanArtTheatreGuild #ATG #ShortFilm #patriotism #romance #suicide #Bushido #SilentFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y9s1 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qcy3 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" 1962/div div class="img" Il mare (1962)/div div class="caption" The actor (Umberto Orsini) approaches a hotel lobby. A blackboard notes the date: February 17, 1962. DP: Ennio Guarnieri./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #GiuseppePatroniGriffi #UmbertoOrsini #FrançoisePrévost #DinoMele #GiovanniFusco #EnnioGuarnieri #drama #romance #LGBT #Capri #Italy #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Il mare [The Sea] (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)

Feb

17

1962

Il mare (1962)

The actor (Umberto Orsini) approaches a hotel lobby. A blackboard notes the date: February 17, 1962. DP: Ennio Guarnieri.

#FilmDuJour #February #GiuseppePatroniGriffi #UmbertoOrsini #FrançoisePrévost #DinoMele #GiovanniFusco #EnnioGuarnieri #drama #romance #LGBT #Capri #Italy #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qcy3 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-08l0 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary The Sleeping Tiger (1954)/div div class="caption" A cheque dated January 14. DP: Harry Waxman ./div div class="txt" "If the halo fits, put it on. And don't pretend you don't love winding people up like little toys." ### – Glenda Esmond /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #JosephLosey #MauriceMoiseiwitsch #DirkBogarde #AlexisSmith #AlexanderKnox #HughGriffith #PatriciaMcCarron #MalcolmArnold #HarryWaxman #drama #romance #crime FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954)

Jan

14

spoiler warning: click to toggle image The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

A cheque dated January 14. DP: Harry Waxman .

“If the halo fits, put it on. And don't pretend you don't love winding people up like little toys.”

– Glenda Esmond

#FilmDuJour #January #JosephLosey #MauriceMoiseiwitsch #DirkBogarde #AlexisSmith #AlexanderKnox #HughGriffith #PatriciaMcCarron #MalcolmArnold #HarryWaxman #drama #romance #crime FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-08l0 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Balada pro banditu [Ballad for a Bandit] (Vladimír Sís, 1979) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-577t <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Balada pro banditu [Ballad for a Bandit] (Vladimír Sís, 1979)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" Christmas Eve – Nikolas/div div class="img" Balada pro banditu (1979).webp)/div div class="caption" The bandit and his bride. DP: Viktor Růžička./div div class="txt" A Nikolas or Nicholas for Christmas Eve. &nbsp; The tale of legendary highwayman Nikola Šuhaj from Koločava. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #Nikolas #VladimírSís #MilanUhde #MilošŠtědroň #MiroslavDonutil #PetrMaláč #IvaBittová #BlankaRudová #FrantišekDerfler #MilošŠtědroň #VlastimilHála #ViktorRůžička #crime #FairyTale #drama #romance #musical #theatre #history #biopic #Czechoslovakia #1970s/div /section ]]>

Balada pro banditu [Ballad for a Bandit] (Vladimír Sís, 1979)

Dec

24

Christmas Eve – Nikolas

Balada pro banditu (1979)

The bandit and his bride. DP: Viktor Růžička.

A Nikolas or Nicholas for Christmas Eve.

 

The tale of legendary highwayman Nikola Šuhaj from Koločava.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #Nikolas #VladimírSís #MilanUhde #MilošŠtědroň #MiroslavDonutil #PetrMaláč #IvaBittová #BlankaRudová #FrantišekDerfler #MilošŠtědroň #VlastimilHála #ViktorRůžička #crime #FairyTale #drama #romance #musical #theatre #history #biopic #Czechoslovakia #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-577t Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:45:00 +0100