usa &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:usa @settima@mograph.social Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:33:05 +0200 Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rwqs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 22/div div class="occasion" 1972/div div class="img" Dog Day Afternoon (1975)/div div class="caption" Sal (John Cazale) and Sonny (Al Pacino) in the bank, holding out with their increasingly impatient hostages. DP: Victor J. Kemper./div div class="txt" "He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me." ### – Leon /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #SidneyLumet #LeslieWaller #JohnCazale #AlPacino #ChrisSarandon #CarolKane #PenelopeAllen #LanceHenriksen #VictorJKemper #drama #heist #crime #LGBT #biography #BookAdaptation #USA #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)

Aug

22

1972

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Sal (John Cazale) and Sonny (Al Pacino) in the bank, holding out with their increasingly impatient hostages. DP: Victor J. Kemper.

“He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me.”

– Leon

#FilmDuJour #August #SidneyLumet #LeslieWaller #JohnCazale #AlPacino #ChrisSarandon #CarolKane #PenelopeAllen #LanceHenriksen #VictorJKemper #drama #heist #crime #LGBT #biography #BookAdaptation #USA #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rwqs Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Marquette Park I (Tom Palazzolo + Mark Rance, 1976) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d82t <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Marquette Park I (Tom Palazzolo + Mark Rance, 1976)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="occasion" 1976/div div class="img" Marquette Park I (1976).png)/div div class="caption" A snotty kid – who, like all kids in the 70s, looks like Mick Jagger – holds up a xeroxed pamphlet calling out to the "white voter"./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #TomPalazzolo #MarkRance #Panchito #GeorgeEstregan #RomyDiaz #VicDiaz #JooneeGamboa #ShortFilm #Nazis #Neonazis #documentary #Chicago #USA #1970s/div /section ]]>

Marquette Park I (Tom Palazzolo + Mark Rance, 1976)

Aug

21

1976

Marquette Park I (1976)

A snotty kid – who, like all kids in the 70s, looks like Mick Jagger – holds up a xeroxed pamphlet calling out to the “white voter”.

 

#FilmDuJour #August #TomPalazzolo #MarkRance #Panchito #GeorgeEstregan #RomyDiaz #VicDiaz #JooneeGamboa #ShortFilm #Nazis #Neonazis #documentary #Chicago #USA #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d82t Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4dhs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, 1962)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 18/div div class="occasion" 1961/div div class="img" Experiment in Terror (1962).png)/div div class="caption" A ticket to a baseball game at Candlestick Park on August 18, 1961, a Friday. Playing are the San Francisco Giants vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Giants won. DP: Philip H. Lathrop./div div class="txt" And July 26, Joey's birthday. He's six now. "And oh, are the Giants mad!" ### – announcer on PA /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #BlakeEdwards #GordonGordon #MildredGordon #GlennFord #LeeRemick #StefaniePowers #RoyPoole #NedGlass #AnitaLoo #PatriciaHuston #RossMartin #HenryMancini #PhilipHLathrop #drama #thriller #crime #BookAdaptation #FilmNoir #baseball #SanFrancisco #USA #1960s ★★★★☆ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, 1962)

Aug

18

1961

Experiment in Terror (1962)

A ticket to a baseball game at Candlestick Park on August 18, 1961, a Friday. Playing are the San Francisco Giants vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Giants won. DP: Philip H. Lathrop.

And July 26, Joey's birthday. He's six now.

“And oh, are the Giants mad!”

– announcer on PA

#FilmDuJour #August #BlakeEdwards #GordonGordon #MildredGordon #GlennFord #LeeRemick #StefaniePowers #RoyPoole #NedGlass #AnitaLoo #PatriciaHuston #RossMartin #HenryMancini #PhilipHLathrop #drama #thriller #crime #BookAdaptation #FilmNoir #baseball #SanFrancisco #USA #1960s ★★★★☆ ♥︎

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-4dhs Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9726 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" 10 A.M./div div class="img" Top of the Heap (1972)/div div class="caption" An invitation via telegram dated August 10 for astronaut George Lattimer to Waltersville Alabama on August 16 at 10 A.M.. DP: Richard A. Kelley./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #ChristopherStJohn #PaulaKelly #JiTuCumbuka #BrianCutler #JJJohnson #RichardAKelley #drama #AfroFuturism #USA #1970s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972)

Aug

16

10 A.M.

Top of the Heap (1972)

An invitation via telegram dated August 10 for astronaut George Lattimer to Waltersville Alabama on August 16 at 10 A.M.. DP: Richard A. Kelley.

#FilmDuJour #August #ChristopherStJohn #PaulaKelly #JiTuCumbuka #BrianCutler #JJJohnson #RichardAKelley #drama #AfroFuturism #USA #1970s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9726 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3wt <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" 1927/div div class="img" Shanghai Express (1932).png)/div div class="caption" An elderly lady complains from her train compartment to a newspaper salesman on the platform: "This magazine you sold me says August 15, 1927". DPs: Lee Garmes & James Wong Howe./div div class="txt" Takes place between August 15 and August 19, 1927 "We know what year it is, don't we?" ### – Mrs. Haggerty speaking to her dog /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #JosefVonSternberg #MarleneDietrich #CliveBrook #AnnaMayWong #WarnerOland #EugenePallette #KarlHajos #WFrankeHarling #RudolphGKopp #JohnLeipold #LeeGarmes #JamesWongHowe #war #drama #romance #FilmNoir #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932)

Aug

15

1927

Shanghai Express (1932)

An elderly lady complains from her train compartment to a newspaper salesman on the platform: “This magazine you sold me says August 15, 1927”. DPs: Lee Garmes & James Wong Howe.

Takes place between August 15 and August 19, 1927

“We know what year it is, don't we?”

– Mrs. Haggerty speaking to her dog

#FilmDuJour #August #JosefVonSternberg #MarleneDietrich #CliveBrook #AnnaMayWong #WarnerOland #EugenePallette #KarlHajos #WFrankeHarling #RudolphGKopp #JohnLeipold #LeeGarmes #JamesWongHowe #war #drama #romance #FilmNoir #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3wt Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200 The Beast with Five Fingers (Robert Florey, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-jx7s <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Beast with Five Fingers (Robert Florey, 1946)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)/div div class="caption" Hilary Cummins (Peter Lorre). DP: Wesley Anderson./div div class="txt" "Eight bones has the carpus, five the metacarpus, fourteen the phlanges, all in all, all in all, twenty-seven all in all. Abracadabra." ### – Donald Arlington\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #RobertFlorey #PeterLorre #JohnAlvin #MaxSteiner #WesleyAnderson #horror #mystery #FilmNoir #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Beast with Five Fingers (Robert Florey, 1946)

Aug

15

The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

Hilary Cummins (Peter Lorre). DP: Wesley Anderson.

“Eight bones has the carpus, five the metacarpus, fourteen the phlanges, all in all, all in all, twenty-seven all in all. Abracadabra.”

– Donald Arlington

#FilmDuJour #August #RobertFlorey #PeterLorre #JohnAlvin #MaxSteiner #WesleyAnderson #horror #mystery #FilmNoir #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-jx7s Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 X​ [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rygc <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" X​ [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" X (1963)/div div class="caption" Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) performing his mind-reading trick. DP: Floyd Crosby./div div class="txt" "The city… as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead." ### – Dr. James Xavier\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #RogerCorman #RayMilland #DonRickles #DickMiller #LesBaxter #FloydCrosby #horror #SciFi #drama #USA #1960s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

X​ [The Man with the X-Ray Eyes] (Roger Corman, 1963)

Aug

14

X (1963)

Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) performing his mind-reading trick. DP: Floyd Crosby.

“The city… as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead.”

– Dr. James Xavier

#FilmDuJour #August #RogerCorman #RayMilland #DonRickles #DickMiller #LesBaxter #FloydCrosby #horror #SciFi #drama #USA #1960s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rygc Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Der Stand der Dinge [The State of Things] (Wim Wenders, 1982) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-kd0z <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Der Stand der Dinge [The State of Things] (Wim Wenders, 1982)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" 1942/div div class="img" Der Stand der Dinge (1982)/div div class="caption" Friedrich Munro's (Patrick Bauchau) Hollywood, Ca address and date of birth: August 13, 1942. DPs: Henri Alekan, Fred Murphy & Martin Schäfer./div div class="txt" – You know, I take pictures, photographs, but I never really thought in black and white before I saw our rushes. Do you know what I mean? You can see the shape of things. &nbsp; – Life is in colour, but black and white is more realistic. ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #WimWenders #SamuelFuller #Viva #RogerCorman #PatrickBauchau #GeoffreyCarey #JimJarmusch #JürgenKnieper #HenriAlekan #FredMurphy #MartinSchäfer #RoadMovie #WestGermany #Portugal #France #Spain #Netherlands #UK #USA #1980s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Der Stand der Dinge [The State of Things] (Wim Wenders, 1982)

Aug

13

1942

Der Stand der Dinge (1982)

Friedrich Munro's (Patrick Bauchau) Hollywood, Ca address and date of birth: August 13, 1942. DPs: Henri Alekan, Fred Murphy & Martin Schäfer.

– You know, I take pictures, photographs, but I never really thought in black and white before I saw our rushes. Do you know what I mean? You can see the shape of things.   – Life is in colour, but black and white is more realistic.

#FilmDuJour #August #WimWenders #SamuelFuller #Viva #RogerCorman #PatrickBauchau #GeoffreyCarey #JimJarmusch #JürgenKnieper #HenriAlekan #FredMurphy #MartinSchäfer #RoadMovie #WestGermany #Portugal #France #Spain #Netherlands #UK #USA #1980s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-kd0z Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5ccy <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Lady from Shanghai (1947)/div div class="caption" Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr../div div class="txt" "You need more than luck in Shanghai." ### – Elsa Bannister /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #OrsonWelles #SherwoodKing #RitaHayworth #EverettSloane #TedDeCorsia #WilliamCastle #HeinzRoemheld #CharlesLawtonJr #RudolphMaté #JosephWalker #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #mirrors #FilmNoir #Chinatown #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)

Aug

9

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr..

“You need more than luck in Shanghai.”

– Elsa Bannister

#FilmDuJour #August #OrsonWelles #SherwoodKing #RitaHayworth #EverettSloane #TedDeCorsia #WilliamCastle #HeinzRoemheld #CharlesLawtonJr #RudolphMaté #JosephWalker #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #mirrors #FilmNoir #Chinatown #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-5ccy Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 8-8-88 Church of Satan Mansonite Rally (Boyd Rice, 1988) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wfyt <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 8-8-88 Church of Satan Mansonite Rally (Boyd Rice, 1988)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" 1988/div div class="img" 8-8-88 Church of Satan Mansonite Rally (1988)/div div class="caption" The marquee of the San Francisco Strand Theater. Mentioned are two films: animation A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief by Jonathan Reiss (1988), and excellent Mansonsploitation drama The Other Side of Madness aka The Helter Skelter Murders by Frank Howard (1971). Also billed (what a night!) are NON and Secret Chiefs 3.Still (via). DP: ?./div div class="txt" Provocateur Boyd Rice and friends perform a Satanic rite on August 8, 1988; exactly 20 years minus one year minus one day after the Tate-LaBianca murders. "The entire world is rotten and corrupt… to us they're dead people who refuse to lay down, they're cadavers" ### – Boyd Rice speaking to Geraldo Rivera (via) Please note that the linked article is written by an dimwitted ignoramus completely oblivious of Boyd Rice's, and Anton LaVey's, prankster background./div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #BoydRice #ZeenaSchreck #NikolasSchreck #AdamParfrey #NON #SecretChiefs3 #industrial #documentary #music #Satanism #pranks #Mansonsploitation #USA #1980s/div /section ]]>

8-8-88 Church of Satan Mansonite Rally (Boyd Rice, 1988)

Aug

8

1988

8-8-88 Church of Satan Mansonite Rally (1988)

The marquee of the San Francisco Strand Theater. Mentioned are two films: animation A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief by Jonathan Reiss (1988), and excellent Mansonsploitation drama The Other Side of Madness aka The Helter Skelter Murders by Frank Howard (1971). Also billed (what a night!) are NON and Secret Chiefs 3.Still (via). DP: ?.

Provocateur Boyd Rice and friends perform a Satanic rite on August 8, 1988; exactly 20 years minus one year minus one day after the Tate-LaBianca murders.

“The entire world is rotten and corrupt… to us they're dead people who refuse to lay down, they're cadavers”

– Boyd Rice speaking to Geraldo Rivera (via)

Please note that the linked article is written by an dimwitted ignoramus completely oblivious of Boyd Rice's, and Anton LaVey's, prankster background.

#FilmDuJour #August #BoydRice #ZeenaSchreck #NikolasSchreck #AdamParfrey #NON #SecretChiefs3 #industrial #documentary #music #Satanism #pranks #Mansonsploitation #USA #1980s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-wfyt Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200