theatre &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:theatre @settima@zirk.us Thu, 21 May 2026 06:15:54 +0200 The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Gordon Davidson, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-fg26 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Gordon Davidson, 1972)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" 1968/div div class="img" The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972).jpg)/div div class="caption" Director Gordon Davidson and the defense attorney (David Spielberg) on set. DP: Haskell Wexler./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #GordonDavidson #DanielBerrigan #EdFlanders #DavidSpielberg #ShellyManne #HaskellWexler #drama #biography #VietnamWar #theatre #USA #1970s/div /section ]]>

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Gordon Davidson, 1972)

May

17

1968

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)

Director Gordon Davidson and the defense attorney (David Spielberg) on set. DP: Haskell Wexler.

#FilmDuJour #May #GordonDavidson #DanielBerrigan #EdFlanders #DavidSpielberg #ShellyManne #HaskellWexler #drama #biography #VietnamWar #theatre #USA #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-fg26 Sun, 17 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d0bj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Bell Book and Candle (1958)/div div class="caption" Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) and her Siamese, Pyewacket. DP: James Wong Howe./div div class="txt" "I sit in the subway sometimes, on buses, or the movies, and I look at the people next to me and I think… 'What would you say if I told you I was a witch?'" ### – Queenie /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #RichardQuine #JohnVanDruten #GeorgeDuning #JamesWongHowe #KimNovak #JamesStewart #JackLemmon #ErnieKovacs #HermioneGingold #ElsaLanchester #Pyewacket #witches #witchcraft #cats #theatre #USA #1950s ★★½/div /section ]]>

Bell Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)

Mar

12

Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) and her Siamese, Pyewacket. DP: James Wong Howe.

“I sit in the subway sometimes, on buses, or the movies, and I look at the people next to me and I think… 'What would you say if I told you I was a witch?'”

– Queenie

#FilmDuJour #March #RichardQuine #JohnVanDruten #GeorgeDuning #JamesWongHowe #KimNovak #JamesStewart #JackLemmon #ErnieKovacs #HermioneGingold #ElsaLanchester #Pyewacket #witches #witchcraft #cats #theatre #USA #1950s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d0bj Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Night Must Fall (Karel Reisz, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-n6qg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Night Must Fall (Karel Reisz, 1964)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" roast/div div class="img" Night Must Fall (1964).png)/div div class="caption" A man mostly off screen carves meat of some sort. Surely it's symbolic. DP: Freddie Francis./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #roast #meat #KarelReisz #EmlynWilliams #AlbertFinney #MonaWashbourne #SusanHampshire #SheilaHancock #RonGrainer #FreddieFrancis #theatre #drama #crime #thriller #UK #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Night Must Fall (Karel Reisz, 1964)

Feb

2

roast

Night Must Fall (1964)

A man mostly off screen carves meat of some sort. Surely it's symbolic. DP: Freddie Francis.

 

#FilmDinner #roast #meat #KarelReisz #EmlynWilliams #AlbertFinney #MonaWashbourne #SusanHampshire #SheilaHancock #RonGrainer #FreddieFrancis #theatre #drama #crime #thriller #UK #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-n6qg Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:11:49 +0100 Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Stuart Cooper, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y5p9 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Stuart Cooper, 1974)/div div class="month" Scrawdyke/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)/div div class="caption" Malcolm Scrawdyke (John Hurt), disgruntled art student. DP: John Alcott./div div class="txt" "So, this month becomes the month of Scrawdyke." ### – Malcolm Scrawdyke /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #StuartCooper #DavidHalliwell #JohnHurt #JohnMcEnery #DavidWarner #RosalindAyres #RaymondPlatt #StanleyMyers #JohnAlcott #drama #Movember #theatre #satire #UK #1970s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Stuart Cooper, 1974)

Scrawdyke

2

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)

Malcolm Scrawdyke (John Hurt), disgruntled art student. DP: John Alcott.

“So, this month becomes the month of Scrawdyke.”

– Malcolm Scrawdyke

#FilmDuJour #February #StuartCooper #DavidHalliwell #JohnHurt #JohnMcEnery #DavidWarner #RosalindAyres #RaymondPlatt #StanleyMyers #JohnAlcott #drama #Movember #theatre #satire #UK #1970s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-y5p9 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +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 November 1918 [Third of November 1918] (Edwin Zbonek, 1965) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8008 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 3. November 1918 [Third of November 1918] (Edwin Zbonek, 1965)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="occasion" 1918/div div class="img" 3. November 1918 (1965)/div div class="caption" A calendar page for November 3, 1918. It's a Sunday. DP: Rudolf Sandtner./div div class="txt" Takes place on November 2 and 3. &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #November #EdwinZbonek #FranzTheodorCsokor #ErikFrey #PeterMatic #FritzMuliar #ErichAuer #WalterKohut #HugoGottschlich #KurtSowinetz #HannsObonya #KarlDeGroof #RudolfSandtner #theatre #drama #history #war #Austria #1960s/div /section ]]>

3. November 1918 [Third of November 1918] (Edwin Zbonek, 1965)

Nov

3

1918

3. November 1918 (1965)

A calendar page for November 3, 1918. It's a Sunday. DP: Rudolf Sandtner.

Takes place on November 2 and 3.

 

#FilmDuJour #November #EdwinZbonek #FranzTheodorCsokor #ErikFrey #PeterMatic #FritzMuliar #ErichAuer #WalterKohut #HugoGottschlich #KurtSowinetz #HannsObonya #KarlDeGroof #RudolfSandtner #theatre #drama #history #war #Austria #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-8008 Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0100 September 30, 1955 (James Bridges, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bhfs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" September 30, 1955 (James Bridges, 1977)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 30/div div class="occasion" 1955/div div class="img" September 30, 1955 (1977)/div div class="caption" Jimmy J. (Richard Thomas) in the lobby of his movie theatre, looking at the poster for Elia Kazan's East of Eden (1955). DP: Gordon Willis./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #JamesBridges #RichardThomas #SusanTyrrell #DeborahBenson #LisaBlount #TomHulce #DennisQuaid #LeonardRosenman #GordonWillis #theatre #USA #1970s/div /section ]]>

September 30, 1955 (James Bridges, 1977)

Sep

30

1955

September 30, 1955 (1977)

Jimmy J. (Richard Thomas) in the lobby of his movie theatre, looking at the poster for Elia Kazan's East of Eden (1955). DP: Gordon Willis.

#FilmDuJour #September #JamesBridges #RichardThomas #SusanTyrrell #DeborahBenson #LisaBlount #TomHulce #DennisQuaid #LeonardRosenman #GordonWillis #theatre #USA #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-bhfs Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0200 地獄門 [Jigokumon / Gate of Hell] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-3zdb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 地獄門 [Jigokumon / Gate of Hell] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="occasion" orange/div div class="img" Jigokumon (1953)/div div class="caption" The shrine's torii as seen in the film. Vermilion contains mercury, which not only acts as a preservative but is also believed to ward off evil. DP: Kōhei Sugiyama./div div class="txt" Orange: a building or structure "Today is the first day of a life of sacrifice." ### – Moritoo Endō Partially filmed near the 厳島神社 (Itsukushima Shrine) with its striking vermilion torii. &nbsp; Shot on Eastmancolor, relatively cheap and globally available, and influenced by Hollywood colour melodramas of the time, in particularly Rudolph Maté's Mississippi Gambler (1953) (source), and in its turn greatly influenced the implementation of colour in global cinema to come. &nbsp; Jigokumon won two Academy Awards in 1955, for Best Costume Design and Best Foreign Language Film. &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 #colours #orange #vermilion #TeinosukeKinugasa #KanKikuchi #KazuoHasegawa #MachikoKyō #IsaoYamagata #YatarōKurokawa #YasushiAkutagawa #Eastmancolor #samurai #shinto #drama #history #romance #theatre #Japan #1950s/div /section ]]>

地獄門 [Jigokumon / Gate of Hell] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953)

Aug

4

orange

Jigokumon (1953)

The shrine's torii as seen in the film. Vermilion contains mercury, which not only acts as a preservative but is also believed to ward off evil. DP: Kōhei Sugiyama.

Orange: a building or structure*

“Today is the first day of a life of sacrifice.”

– Moritoo Endō

Partially filmed near the 厳島神社 (Itsukushima Shrine) with its striking vermilion torii.

 

Shot on Eastmancolor, relatively cheap and globally available, and influenced by Hollywood colour melodramas of the time, in particularly Rudolph Maté's Mississippi Gambler (1953) (source), and in its turn greatly influenced the implementation of colour in global cinema to come.

 

Jigokumon won two Academy Awards in 1955, for Best Costume Design and Best Foreign Language Film.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #colours #orange #vermilion #TeinosukeKinugasa #KanKikuchi #KazuoHasegawa #MachikoKyō #IsaoYamagata #YatarōKurokawa #YasushiAkutagawa #Eastmancolor #samurai #shinto #drama #history #romance #theatre #Japan #1950s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-3zdb Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0200 White Woman (Stuart Walker, 1933) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/white-woman-1933 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" White Woman (Stuart Walker, 1933)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="X" /div div class="img" White Woman (1933)/div div class="caption" Horace H. Prin (Laughton) and Judith Denning (Lombard) in a promotional photo. DP: Harry Fischbeck./div div class="txt" "You'll go under like all the others." ### – Judith Denning\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #StuartWalker #NormanReillyRaine #FrankButler #KarlHajos #JohnLeipold #HarryFischbeck #CaroleLombard #CharlesLaughton #theatre #PreCode #USA #1930s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

White Woman (Stuart Walker, 1933)

Aug

1

White Woman (1933)

Horace H. Prin (Laughton) and Judith Denning (Lombard) in a promotional photo. DP: Harry Fischbeck.

“You'll go under like all the others.”

– Judith Denning

#FilmDuJour #August #StuartWalker #NormanReillyRaine #FrankButler #KarlHajos #JohnLeipold #HarryFischbeck #CaroleLombard #CharlesLaughton #theatre #PreCode #USA #1930s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/white-woman-1933 Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0200 The Tempest (Derek Jarman, 1979) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0d3b <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Tempest (Derek Jarman, 1979)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Tempest (1979)/div div class="caption" Sailors dancing in a room wildly decorated with guirlandes and flowers (via). DP: Peter Middleton./div div class="txt" Local nightlife: people dancing or at a show "Don't know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps raining all of the time Oh, yeah Life is bad Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather, stormy weather And I just can get my poor self together Oh, I'm weary all of the time The time, so weary all of the time When he went away The blues walked in and met me Oh, yeah if he stays away Old rocking chair's gonna get me All I do is pray The Lord will let me Walk in the sun once more Oh, I can't go on, can't go on, can't go on Everything I have is gone Stormy weather, stormy weather Since my man and I, me and my daddy ain't together Keeps raining all of the time Oh, oh, keeps raining all of the time Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah raining all of the time Stormy stormy Stormy weather Yeah" ### – Elisabeth Welch, Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler, 1933) A radiant Goddess (Elisabeth Welch) performs the torch song Stormy Weather. Enchanted sailors dance. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #DerekJarman #WilliamShakespeare #PeterBull #HeathcoteWilliams #ToyahWillcox #RichardWarwick #KarlJohnson #ElisabethWelch #ChristopherBiggins #BrianHodgson #StephenPruslin #JohnLewis #PeterMiddleton #LGBT #sailors #blues #drama #fantasy #theatre #UK #1970s/div /section ]]>

The Tempest (Derek Jarman, 1979)

Jul

28

The Tempest (1979)

Sailors dancing in a room wildly decorated with guirlandes and flowers (via). DP: Peter Middleton.

Local nightlife: people dancing or at a show*

“Don't know why There's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and I ain't together Keeps raining all of the time

Oh, yeah Life is bad Gloom and misery everywhere Stormy weather, stormy weather And I just can get my poor self together Oh, I'm weary all of the time The time, so weary all of the time

When he went away The blues walked in and met me Oh, yeah if he stays away Old rocking chair's gonna get me All I do is pray The Lord will let me Walk in the sun once more

Oh, I can't go on, can't go on, can't go on Everything I have is gone Stormy weather, stormy weather Since my man and I, me and my daddy ain't together Keeps raining all of the time Oh, oh, keeps raining all of the time Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah raining all of the time Stormy stormy Stormy weather Yeah”

– Elisabeth Welch, Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler, 1933)

A radiant Goddess (Elisabeth Welch) performs the torch song Stormy Weather. Enchanted sailors dance.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #DerekJarman #WilliamShakespeare #PeterBull #HeathcoteWilliams #ToyahWillcox #RichardWarwick #KarlJohnson #ElisabethWelch #ChristopherBiggins #BrianHodgson #StephenPruslin #JohnLewis #PeterMiddleton #LGBT #sailors #blues #drama #fantasy #theatre #UK #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0d3b Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200