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Le pacha [Pasha / Showdown] (Georges Lautner, 1968)
Dec
19
“Écoute les orgues
Elles jouent pour toi
Il est terrible, cet air-là
J'espère que tu aimes
C'est assez beau, non ?
C'est le requiem pour un con”
– Serge Gainsbourg, Requiem pour un con (1968)
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Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Dec
11
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) in front of the family motel. DP: John L. Russell.
“The mattress is soft and there're hangers in the closet and stationary with “Bates' Motel” printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious.”
– Norman Bates
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Un comisar acuză [A Police Inspector Calls] (Sergiu Nicolaescu, 1974)
Nov
26
1940
DP: Alexandru David.
Takes place on the night of November 26-27, 1940.
“Mister Moldovan, this is not for the first time that a criminal case is entrusted to you. It is precisely your political objectivity that made us choose you.”
– Alexandru Dincă
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E tanta paura [Plot of Fear] (Paolo Cavara, 1976)
Nov
14
1975
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Two newspaper clippings in a scrapbook, one of them with the date November 14. DP: Franco Di Giacomo.
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Emperor of the North Pole (Robert Aldrich, 1973)
Oct
25
Lobbycard. The blurb reads: “The battle for the title of “Emperor of the North Pole” begins between Shack (ERNEST BORGNINE) and A-No. 1 (LEE MARVIN)“. DP: Joseph F. Biroc.
“Stay off the tracks. Forget it. Its a bum's world for a bum.”
– Shack
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Nattmara [Nightmare] (Arne Mattsson, 1965)
Oct
19
Tue
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Hands hold up a small diary. The camera is focussed on Tuesday the 19th of October, 1965. Handwriting, a chicken scrawl, reads CITROEN A66692 MAJ BERG ✝. Besides that the week is uneventful. DP: Max Wilén.
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The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, 1952)
Oct
4
Man's hands, one bandaged, holding a rifle. DP: Burnett Guffey.
“I'm gonna be happy for a change.”
– Edward Miller
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Le boucher [The Butcher] (Claude Chabrol, 1970)
Oct
3
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Maléfices [Sorcery / Where the Truth Lies] (Henri Decoin, 1962)
Sep
10
Myriam Heller (Juliette Gréco) sharing a bed with Nyète, her cheetah. DP: Marcel Grignon.
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Nuits rouges [L'homme sans visage / Shadowman] (Georges Franju, 1974)
Sep
6
A faceless man in black wearing a red balaclava (Jacques Champreux) holds his right wrist, which is bleeding profusely. DP: Guido Bertoni.