tea &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:tea @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:31:52 +0200 祇園囃子 [Gion bayashi / Gion Festival Music] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r6dn <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 祇園囃子 [Gion bayashi / Gion Festival Music] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" 茶/div div class="img" Gion bayashi (1953).jpg)/div div class="caption" Studying the tea ceremony, accompanied by director Mizoguchi (via). DP: Kazuo Miyagawa./div div class="txt" Having tea "A geisha’s lie is not a real lie. It’s a cornerstone of our profession." ### – Miyoharu &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #tea #KenjiMizoguchi #MatsutarōKawaguchi #MichiyoKogure #AyakoWakao #SeizaburōKawazu #EitarōShindō #IchirōSugai #KanjiKoshiba #IchirōSaitō #KazuoMiyagawa #drama #geisha #BookAdaptation #Japan #1950s/div /section ]]>

祇園囃子 [Gion bayashi / Gion Festival Music] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)

Dec

15

茶

Gion bayashi (1953)

Studying the tea ceremony, accompanied by director Mizoguchi (via). DP: Kazuo Miyagawa.

Having tea*

“A geisha’s lie is not a real lie. It’s a cornerstone of our profession.”

– Miyoharu

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #tea #KenjiMizoguchi #MatsutarōKawaguchi #MichiyoKogure #AyakoWakao #SeizaburōKawazu #EitarōShindō #IchirōSugai #KanjiKoshiba #IchirōSaitō #KazuoMiyagawa #drama #geisha #BookAdaptation #Japan #1950s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-r6dn Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:10:00 +0100 La carrière de Suzanne [Suzanne's Career] (Éric Rohmer, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gw65 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La carrière de Suzanne [Suzanne's Career] (Éric Rohmer, 1963)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" thé/div div class="img" La carrière de Suzanne (1963).png)/div div class="caption" A woman reaches for a silver teapot. We only see her hand. DP: Daniel Lacambre./div div class="txt" "I know. I know you. I know you very well." ### – Suzanne /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #tea #ÉricRohmer #CatherineSée #PhilippeBeuzen #ChristianCharrière #DianeWilkinson #PatrickBauchau #JeanClaudeBiette #JeanLouisComolli #PierreCottrell #DanielLacambre #romance #drama #ComingOfAge #Paris #France #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

La carrière de Suzanne [Suzanne's Career] (Éric Rohmer, 1963)

Aug

13

thé

La carrière de Suzanne (1963)

A woman reaches for a silver teapot. We only see her hand. DP: Daniel Lacambre.

“I know. I know you. I know you very well.”

– Suzanne

#FilmDinner #tea #ÉricRohmer #CatherineSée #PhilippeBeuzen #ChristianCharrière #DianeWilkinson #PatrickBauchau #JeanClaudeBiette #JeanLouisComolli #PierreCottrell #DanielLacambre #romance #drama #ComingOfAge #Paris #France #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-gw65 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:32:31 +0200 浪華悲歌 [Naniwa erejī / Osaka Elegy] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/naniwa-ereji-1936 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 浪華悲歌 [Naniwa erejī / Osaka Elegy] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" International Tea Day/div div class="img" 浪華悲歌 (1936)/div div class="caption" A woman in kimono sits at a low wooden tea cabinet. It holds a small tea pot and other utensils. The traditional setup is broken in the background with contemporary Western furniture. She's smoking. DP: Minoru Miki./div div class="txt" Something with tea for International Tea Day.\ &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2024FilmChallenge #InternationalTeaDay #tea #KenjiMizoguchi #IsuzuYamada #YōkoUmemura #ChiyokoŌkura #KōichiTakagi #MinoruMiki #drama #Japan #1930s/div /section ]]>

浪華悲歌 [Naniwa erejī / Osaka Elegy] (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)

Dec

15

International Tea Day

浪華悲歌 (1936)

A woman in kimono sits at a low wooden tea cabinet. It holds a small tea pot and other utensils. The traditional setup is broken in the background with contemporary Western furniture. She's smoking. DP: Minoru Miki.

Something with tea for International Tea Day.

 

#Bales2024FilmChallenge #InternationalTeaDay #tea #KenjiMizoguchi #IsuzuYamada #YōkoUmemura #ChiyokoŌkura #KōichiTakagi #MinoruMiki #drama #Japan #1930s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/naniwa-ereji-1936 Sun, 15 Dec 2024 18:19:25 +0100 Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cfdh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="occasion" tea/div div class="img" Altered States (1980)/div div class="caption" An almost monochrome man and woman in Edwardian costumes sit at a round table under a parasol. The couple looks out over a field with bright orange poppies. The flowers are filmed through a fisheye lens and appear to be on a grassy green planet.. DP: Jordan Cronenweth./div div class="txt" "She's still crazy about him. He's still crazy." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #KenRussell #PaddyChayefsky #WilliamHurt #BlairBrown #BobBalaban #CharlesWhiteEagle #JohnCorigliano #JordanCronenweth #SciFi #horror #psychedelic #BodyHorror #drugs #tea #poppies #flowers #BookAdaptation #USA #1980s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)

May

18

tea

Altered States (1980)

An almost monochrome man and woman in Edwardian costumes sit at a round table under a parasol. The couple looks out over a field with bright orange poppies. The flowers are filmed through a fisheye lens and appear to be on a grassy green planet.. DP: Jordan Cronenweth.

“She's still crazy about him. He's still crazy.”

#FilmDinner #KenRussell #PaddyChayefsky #WilliamHurt #BlairBrown #BobBalaban #CharlesWhiteEagle #JohnCorigliano #JordanCronenweth #SciFi #horror #psychedelic #BodyHorror #drugs #tea #poppies #flowers #BookAdaptation #USA #1980s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-cfdh Sat, 18 May 2024 16:39:30 +0200 Herz aus Glas [Heart of Glass] (Werner Herzog, 1976) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/herz-aus-glas-1976 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Herz aus Glas [Heart of Glass] (Werner Herzog, 1976)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" tea/div div class="img" Herz aus Glas (1976)/div div class="caption" A young maid (Sonja Skiba) holding a heavy tray with cups, plates, and various tea-related pottery. There's a somnambulist quality to her bearing. DP: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein./div div class="txt" "I look into the distance to the end of the world. Before the day is over, the end will come. First, time will tumble, and then the earth. The clouds will begin to race… the earth boils over; this is the sign. This is the beginning of the end. The world's edge begins to crumble… everything starts to collapse… tumbles, fall, crumbles and collapses. I look into the cataract. I feel an undertow, it draws me, it sucks me down. I began to fal, a vertigo seizes upon me." ### – Hias\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #tea #WernerHerzog #JosefBierbichler #StefanGüttler #ClemensScheitz #VolkerPrechtel #SonjaSkiba #JörgSchmidtReitwein #drama #mystery #hypnotism #PopolVuh #WestGermany #1970s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Herz aus Glas [Heart of Glass] (Werner Herzog, 1976)

Mar

13

tea

Herz aus Glas (1976)

“I look into the distance to the end of the world. Before the day is over, the end will come. First, time will tumble, and then the earth. The clouds will begin to race… the earth boils over; this is the sign. This is the beginning of the end. The world's edge begins to crumble… everything starts to collapse… tumbles, fall, crumbles and collapses. I look into the cataract. I feel an undertow, it draws me, it sucks me down. I began to fal, a vertigo seizes upon me.”

– Hias

#FilmDinner #tea #WernerHerzog #JosefBierbichler #StefanGüttler #ClemensScheitz #VolkerPrechtel #SonjaSkiba #JörgSchmidtReitwein #drama #mystery #hypnotism #PopolVuh #WestGermany #1970s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/herz-aus-glas-1976 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:55:20 +0100 گاو [Gaav / The Cow] (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/gaav-1969 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" گاو [Gaav / The Cow] (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" چای/div div class="img" Gaav (1969)/div div class="caption" Two man sit against a white plastered, adobe wall. As one plays the setar, the other accepts a glass of chaii (black tea) from a square hole in the wall. DP: Fereydon Ghovanlou./div div class="txt" "I'm not Hassan. I'm his cow." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #tea #chaii #DariushMehrjui #GholamHosseinSaedi #EzzatolahEntezami #MahinShahabi #AliNasirian #HormouzFarhat #FereydonGhovanlou #theatre #drama #animals #Iran #1960s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

گاو [Gaav / The Cow] (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969)

Dec

27

چای

Gaav (1969)

Two man sit against a white plastered, adobe wall. As one plays the setar, the other accepts a glass of chaii (black tea) from a square hole in the wall. DP: Fereydon Ghovanlou.

“I'm not Hassan. I'm his cow.”

#FilmDinner #tea #chaii #DariushMehrjui #GholamHosseinSaedi #EzzatolahEntezami #MahinShahabi #AliNasirian #HormouzFarhat #FereydonGhovanlou #theatre #drama #animals #Iran #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/gaav-1969 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:11:05 +0100 আকালের সন্ধানে [Akaler Sandhane / In Search of Famine] (Mrinal Sen, 1981) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/aakaaler-sndhaane-1981 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" আকালের সন্ধানে [Akaler Sandhane / In Search of Famine] (Mrinal Sen, 1981)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" चाय/div div class="img" আকালের সন্ধানে (1981)/div div class="caption" The Bollywood stars arrive at the temple. In the foreground one of the actresses, cupping a beaker with her hands. DP: K.K. Mahajan./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #tea #MrinalSen #DhritimanChatterjee #SmitaPatil #SalilChoudhury #KKMahajan #drama #docudrama #India #1980s ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

আকালের সন্ধানে [Akaler Sandhane / In Search of Famine] (Mrinal Sen, 1981)

May

29

चाय

আকালের সন্ধানে (1981)

The Bollywood stars arrive at the temple. In the foreground one of the actresses, cupping a beaker with her hands. DP: K.K. Mahajan.

#FilmDinner #tea #MrinalSen #DhritimanChatterjee #SmitaPatil #SalilChoudhury #KKMahajan #drama #docudrama #India #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/aakaaler-sndhaane-1981 Mon, 29 May 2023 18:40:44 +0200