royalty &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:royalty @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:51:29 +0200 Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g6tn <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="occasion" Bavaria/div div class="img" Lola Montès (1955)/div div class="caption" The crowned royal mistress on display in glorious Eastmancolor (via). DP: Christian Matras./div div class="txt" Celebrating Oktoberfest in September/October] and the [Bavarian royals [rip]: a royal character or family "The painter takes his time. He doesn't like her dress. He doesn't like her gloves. One day he asks her if she dares pose for him - all in pink. She dares! And the king, enraptured by her pose, offers her a palace!" ### – circus master Maria Dolores Porriz y Montez, Countess von Landsfeld, Lola Montès for short, now a circus attraction, once the mistress to Ludwig I, King of Bavaria. While her fellow circus performers play Lola's former lovers, the ringmaster tells her story. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for August is not date-related but lists, for the most part, the colours of the rainbow./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #royalty #MaxOphüls #JacquesLaurent #MartineCarol #PeterUstinov #AntonWalbrook #HenriGuisol #GeorgesAuric #ChristianMatras #Eastmancolor #circus #biography #drama #romance #history #BookAdaptation #France #WestGermany #1950s/div /section ]]>

Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955)

Aug

14

Bavaria

Lola Montès (1955)

The crowned royal mistress on display in glorious Eastmancolor (via). DP: Christian Matras.

Celebrating Oktoberfest [in September/October] and the Bavarian royals [rip]: a royal character or family*

“The painter takes his time. He doesn't like her dress. He doesn't like her gloves. One day he asks her if she dares pose for him – all in pink. She dares! And the king, enraptured by her pose, offers her a palace!”

– circus master

Maria Dolores Porriz y Montez, Countess von Landsfeld, Lola Montès for short, now a circus attraction, once the mistress to Ludwig I, King of Bavaria. While her fellow circus performers play Lola's former lovers, the ringmaster tells her story.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #royalty #MaxOphüls #JacquesLaurent #MartineCarol #PeterUstinov #AntonWalbrook #HenriGuisol #GeorgesAuric #ChristianMatras #Eastmancolor #circus #biography #drama #romance #history #BookAdaptation #France #WestGermany #1950s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-g6tn Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:30:00 +0200 Jubilee (Derek Jarman, 1978) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-fc4p <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Jubilee (Derek Jarman, 1978)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" Tiara Day/div div class="img" Jubilee (1978)/div div class="caption" Bod (Jenny Runacre), wears a Crown Jewel-ish affair. Amyl Nitrate (Jordan) clutches her pearls. DP: Peter Middleton./div div class="txt" A "member of a monarchy" for Tiara Day "Rule Britannia, Britannia, Britannia…" ### – Amyl Nitrite Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) requests Her court occultist John Dee (Richard O'Brien) to show Her Majesty the future of Her kingdom, baroness Thatcher's rotten England, ruled over by a gang of nihilist women./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #TiaraDay #royalty #tiaras #crowns #DerekJarman #AdamAnt #RichardOBrien #IanCharleson #JayneCounty #Jordan #NellCampbell #JennyRunacre #ToyahWillcox #LindsayKemp #BrianEno #PeterMiddleton #feminism #punk #fantasy #satire #drama #UK #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Jubilee (Derek Jarman, 1978)

May

24

Tiara Day

Jubilee (1978)

Bod (Jenny Runacre), wears a Crown Jewel-ish affair. Amyl Nitrate (Jordan) clutches her pearls. DP: Peter Middleton.

A “member of a monarchy” for Tiara Day

“Rule Britannia, Britannia, Britannia…”

– Amyl Nitrite

Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) requests Her court occultist John Dee (Richard O'Brien) to show Her Majesty the future of Her kingdom, baroness Thatcher's rotten England, ruled over by a gang of nihilist women.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #TiaraDay #royalty #tiaras #crowns #DerekJarman #AdamAnt #RichardOBrien #IanCharleson #JayneCounty #Jordan #NellCampbell #JennyRunacre #ToyahWillcox #LindsayKemp #BrianEno #PeterMiddleton #feminism #punk #fantasy #satire #drama #UK #1970s ★★★½

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