settima

romance

Belle (André Delvaux, 1973)

Nov

28

Belle (1973)

Belle (Adriana Bogdan) in front of her cabin on the moors. DPs: Ghislain Cloquet & Charles Van Damme.

Na wylot [Through and Through] (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, 1972)

Nov

4

1933

Na wylot (1972)

Maria (Anna Nieborowska) and Jan (Franciszek Trzeciak) in court. The film is based on the 1933 Jan and Maria Malisz’s Case. DP: Bogdan Dziworski.

The Animal (Walter Ungerer, 1976)

Sep

22

The Animal (1976)

A man (Paul Ickovic) by himself at a table. The table setting suggests another person present. DP: Walter Ungerer.

Na wylot [Through and Through] (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, 1972)

Jul

15

sandwiches

Na wylot (1972)

Jan (Franciszek Trzeciak) and Maria (Anna Nieborowska) share lunch on a bench. DP: Bogdan Dziworski.

The Disappearance (Stuart Cooper, 1977)

Jun

21

cereal

The Disappearance (1977)

Jay Mallory (Donald Sutherland) eats cornflakes in a black-tiled kitchen in Habitat 67. At the other side of their hexagonal table, Celandine (Francine Racette) smokes a cigarette. DP: John Alcott.

Die Konsequenz [The Consequence] (Wolfgang Petersen, 1977)

Jun

17

prison grub

Die Konsequenz (1977)

Thomas (Ernst Hannawald), the warden's son, and convicted homosexual Martin (Jürgen Prochnow) sharing a mug, a meal, a cell. DP: Jörg-Michael Baldenius.

“I think it's really rotten of them to lock you up like this for making love to a boy.”

– Thomas Manzoni

The Leather Boys (Sidney J. Furie, 1964)

Jun

12

wedding buffet

The Leather Boys (1964)

Newlyweds Dot and Reggie and friends and family about to dig into the wedding buffet. DP: Gerald Gibbs.

“I'll be eating frankfurters and onions. Plenty of tomato ketchup. Chips with lots of vinegar. Few cockles and muscles. Jellied eels, Coca-Cola, beer, the old jukebox, lollipops, all the lot.”

– Pete

鴎よ、きらめく海を見たか めぐり逢い [Kamome-yo, kirameku umi o mitaka/meguri ai / Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter] (Kenji Yoshida, 1975)

May

30

Pokkī

鴎よ、きらめく海を見たか めぐり逢い (1975)

A young woman in a red-and-white striped sweater (Yōko Takahashi) leafs through fashion magazines strewn out before her on a grass-green carpeted floor while chewing a Pokkī. On a small stove close to her a fire truck red coffee pot. DP: Kōshirō Ōtsu.

Doktor Glas [Doctor Glas] (Mai Zetterling, 1968)

May

27

akvavit

Doktor Glas (1968)

A man (Per Oscarsson) raises a glass and peers though its ribs and liquids. DP: Rune Ericson.

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

Apr

29

spaghetti di mamma

Domenica d'agosto (1950)

Marcella (Anna Baldini) enjoying mamma's spaghetti on the beach of Ostia. DPs: Leonida Barboni, Ubaldo Marelli & Domenico Scala.