saints &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:saints @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:09:34 +0200 Sebastiane (Paul Humfress + Derek Jarman, 1976) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6twd <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sebastiane (Paul Humfress + Derek Jarman, 1976)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="occasion" Pluto Day/div div class="img" Sebastiane (1976)/div div class="caption" Sebastian (Leonardo Treviglio) sits on a rock in a barren landscape. Two men in the distance, and a sheep, all have their backs turned to him. DP: Peter Middleton./div div class="txt" Someone is snubbed or rejected on Pluto [Discovery] Day. "His body is golden like molten gold. This hand of his… will smooth away these wounds. Justin, he is as beautiful as the sun. This sun which caresses me… is his burning desire. He is Phoebus Apollo. The sun… is his… burning kiss." ### – Sebastian Sebastian, member of the Emperor's personal guard, is exiled after an incident. He finds himself on a rocky outpost, and the object of the other men's lust. One of them – a centurion rejected by the Christian boy – subjects Sebastian to torture and eventually lifts him up martyrdom. &nbsp; Pluto Demoted Day is on August 24/div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #PlutoDay #saints #PaulHumfress #DerekJarman #LeonardoTreviglio #BarneyJames #NeilKennedy #RichardWarwick #NellCampbell #DuggieFields #PeterHinwood #Jordan #LindsayKemp #PatriciaQuinn #PhilipSayer #BrianEno #PeterMiddleton #history #drama #LGBT #UK #1970s/div /section ]]>

Sebastiane (Paul Humfress + Derek Jarman, 1976)

Feb

18

Pluto Day

Sebastiane (1976)

Sebastian (Leonardo Treviglio) sits on a rock in a barren landscape. Two men in the distance, and a sheep, all have their backs turned to him. DP: Peter Middleton.

Someone is snubbed or rejected on Pluto [Discovery] Day*.

“His body is golden like molten gold. This hand of his… will smooth away these wounds. Justin, he is as beautiful as the sun. This sun which caresses me… is his burning desire. He is Phoebus Apollo. The sun… is his… burning kiss.”

– Sebastian

Sebastian, member of the Emperor's personal guard, is exiled after an incident. He finds himself on a rocky outpost, and the object of the other men's lust. One of them – a centurion rejected by the Christian boy – subjects Sebastian to torture and eventually lifts him up martyrdom.

 

* Pluto Demoted Day is on August 24

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #PlutoDay #saints #PaulHumfress #DerekJarman #LeonardoTreviglio #BarneyJames #NeilKennedy #RichardWarwick #NellCampbell #DuggieFields #PeterHinwood #Jordan #LindsayKemp #PatriciaQuinn #PhilipSayer #BrianEno #PeterMiddleton #history #drama #LGBT #UK #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-6twd Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Ole dole doff [Eeny Meeny Miny Moe / Who Saw Him Die?] (Jan Troell, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8kx1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ole dole doff [Eeny Meeny Miny Moe / Who Saw Him Die?] (Jan Troell, 1968)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" Scholastica /div div class="img" Ole dole doff (1968)/div div class="caption" A reaction shot shows the pupils' faces. While the girls show some sort of remorse, the boys are deadpan. DP: Jan Troell ./div div class="txt" A film about teaching on the day of Saint Scholastica, patron saint of Benedictine nuns, education, and convulsive children. &nbsp; Companion piece to Vilgot Sjöman's 491 (1964). An anti-authoritarian teacher who is plagued by nightmares, slowly unravels./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #Scholastica #saints #JanTroell #ClasEngström #PerOscarsson #AnnMarieGyllenspetz #KerstinTidelius #BengtEkerot #HarrietForssell #PerSjöstrand #GeorgOddner #CattiEdfeldt #BoMalmqvist #schools #teachers #drama #BookAdaptation #Sweden #1960s/div /section ]]>

Ole dole doff [Eeny Meeny Miny Moe / Who Saw Him Die?] (Jan Troell, 1968)

Feb

10

Scholastica

Ole dole doff (1968)

A reaction shot shows the pupils' faces. While the girls show some sort of remorse, the boys are deadpan. DP: Jan Troell .

A film about teaching on the day of Saint Scholastica, patron saint of Benedictine nuns, education, and convulsive children.

 

Companion piece to Vilgot Sjöman's 491 (1964). An anti-authoritarian teacher who is plagued by nightmares, slowly unravels.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #Scholastica #saints #JanTroell #ClasEngström #PerOscarsson #AnnMarieGyllenspetz #KerstinTidelius #BengtEkerot #HarrietForssell #PerSjöstrand #GeorgOddner #CattiEdfeldt #BoMalmqvist #schools #teachers #drama #BookAdaptation #Sweden #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8kx1 Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100 Тіні забутих предків [Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors] (Sergei Parajanov, 1965) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c1c5 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Тіні забутих предків [Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors] (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="occasion" St. Dorothea of Caesarea/div div class="img" Тіні забутих предків (1965)/divdiv class="caption" The childhood lovers to be newlyweds. During the wedding ceremony, the bride suddenly breaks out in smile. DPs: Yuri Ilyenko & Viktor Bestayev./div div class="txt" A wedding on the day of Dorothea of Caesarea, patron saint of horticulture, brewers, brides, florists, gardeners, midwives, newlyweds, and love. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #saints #SergeiParajanov #MikhailKotsiubinsky #IvanMykolaichuk #LarysaKadochnykova #MiroslavSkorik #YuriIlyenko #ViktorBestayev #drama #romance #mystery #fantasy #FairyTale #witchcraft #BookAdaptation #Ukraine #SovietUnion #1960s ★★★★★/div /section ]]>

Тіні забутих предків [Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors] (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)

Feb

6

St. Dorothea of Caesarea

Тіні забутих предків (1965)

The childhood lovers to be newlyweds. During the wedding ceremony, the bride suddenly breaks out in smile. DPs: Yuri Ilyenko & Viktor Bestayev.

A wedding on the day of Dorothea of Caesarea, patron saint of horticulture, brewers, brides, florists, gardeners, midwives, newlyweds, and love.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #saints #SergeiParajanov #MikhailKotsiubinsky #IvanMykolaichuk #LarysaKadochnykova #MiroslavSkorik #YuriIlyenko #ViktorBestayev #drama #romance #mystery #fantasy #FairyTale #witchcraft #BookAdaptation #Ukraine #SovietUnion #1960s ★★★★★

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c1c5 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0100