toys &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:toys @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:00:15 +0200 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/superstar-the-karen-carpenter-story-1987 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)/div div class="caption" A brunette Barbie doll representing Karen Carpenter makes a statement in front of the White House. DP: Barry Ellsworth./div div class="txt" "Mother, didn't you know there are children starving in Africa?" ### – "Karen Carpenter" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #ToddHaynes #KarenCarpenter #BarryEllsworth #EatingDisorders #Barbie #toys #satire #food #biography #drama #music #USA #1980s/div /section ]]>

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987)

Feb

4

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)

A brunette Barbie doll representing Karen Carpenter makes a statement in front of the White House. DP: Barry Ellsworth.

“Mother, didn't you know there are children starving in Africa?”

– “Karen Carpenter”

#FilmDuJour #February #ToddHaynes #KarenCarpenter #BarryEllsworth #EatingDisorders #Barbie #toys #satire #food #biography #drama #music #USA #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/superstar-the-karen-carpenter-story-1987 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Mitt hem är Copacabana [My Home Is Copacabana] (Arne Sucksdorff, 1965) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-sgbk <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Mitt hem är Copacabana [My Home Is Copacabana] (Arne Sucksdorff, 1965)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Mitt hem är Copacabana (1965)/div div class="caption" The favela children on the beach, playing with kites and mingling with the rich kids. DP: Arne Sucksdorff./div div class="txt" A kite in celebration of 浜松まつり, the Hamamatsu Kite Festival, which takes place on May 3–5 &nbsp; Favela kids steal kites and sell them on in this Copacabana-set Nordic drama. &nbsp; Toninho Carlos de Lima, Rico in the movie, was not a homeless kid from the favelas but lived in a house with his family when he was send to Sweden to promote Mitt hem är Copacabana. A wealthy Swedish couple offered to adopt him, and his natural mother reluctantly gave in hoping to prevent a life of crime for her son (source). That too, dear reader, is colonialism. &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 #kites #ArneSucksdorff #LeilaSantosDeSousa #CosmeDosSantos #JosafáDaSilvaSanto #ToninhoCarlosDeLima #HerminiaGonçalves #DirceMigliaccio #JoãoLucas #FlávioMigliaccio #AllanEdwall #RadamésGnatalli #toys #drama #crime #favelas #Copacabana #RioDeJaneiro #Sweden #1960s/div /section ]]>

Mitt hem är Copacabana [My Home Is Copacabana] (Arne Sucksdorff, 1965)

Aug

2

Mitt hem är Copacabana (1965)

The favela children on the beach, playing with kites and mingling with the rich kids. DP: Arne Sucksdorff.

A kite in celebration of 浜松まつり, the Hamamatsu Kite Festival, which takes place on May 3–5*

 

Favela kids steal kites and sell them on in this Copacabana-set Nordic drama.

 

Toninho Carlos de Lima, Rico in the movie, was not a homeless kid from the favelas but lived in a house with his family when he was send to Sweden to promote Mitt hem är Copacabana. A wealthy Swedish couple offered to adopt him, and his natural mother reluctantly gave in hoping to prevent a life of crime for her son (source). That too, dear reader, is colonialism.

 

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #kites #ArneSucksdorff #LeilaSantosDeSousa #CosmeDosSantos #JosafáDaSilvaSanto #ToninhoCarlosDeLima #HerminiaGonçalves #DirceMigliaccio #JoãoLucas #FlávioMigliaccio #AllanEdwall #RadamésGnatalli #toys #drama #crime #favelas #Copacabana #RioDeJaneiro #Sweden #1960s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-sgbk Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0200 Die Puppe [The Doll] (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/die-puppe-1919 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Die Puppe [The Doll] (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" Stupid Toy Day/div div class="img" Die Puppe (1919)/div div class="caption" The doll (Ossi Oswalda) mischievously sticks out her tongue. DPs: Theodor Sparkuhl & Kurt Waschneck ./div div class="txt" A ridiculous toy for Stupid Toy Day.\ "She must have one complex mechanism!" ### – Lancelot /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2024FilmChallenge #StupidToyDay #toys #dolls #ErnstLubitsch #ETAHoffmann #MaxKronert #HermannThimig #VictorJanson #MargaKöhler #OssiOswalda #GerhardRitterband #JakobTiedtke #JosefineDora #TheodorSparkuhl #KurtWaschneck #comedy #fantasy #SilentFilm #Germany #1910s/div /section ]]>

Die Puppe [The Doll] (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)

Dec

16

Stupid Toy Day

Die Puppe (1919)

The doll (Ossi Oswalda) mischievously sticks out her tongue. DPs: Theodor Sparkuhl & Kurt Waschneck .

A ridiculous toy for Stupid Toy Day.

“She must have one complex mechanism!”

– Lancelot

#Bales2024FilmChallenge #StupidToyDay #toys #dolls #ErnstLubitsch #ETAHoffmann #MaxKronert #HermannThimig #VictorJanson #MargaKöhler #OssiOswalda #GerhardRitterband #JakobTiedtke #JosefineDora #TheodorSparkuhl #KurtWaschneck #comedy #fantasy #SilentFilm #Germany #1910s

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