usa &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:usa @settima@zirk.us Wed, 13 May 2026 23:35:31 +0200 The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l4py <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" 1852/div div class="img" The Searchers (1956).png)/div div class="caption" A little girl finds comfort in a rag doll. She's sitting against a wooden grave marker. Another scene reveals the date. DP: Winton C. Hoch./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JohnFord #JohnWayne #NatalieWood #AlanLeMay #MaxSteiner #WintonCHoch #kidnapping #western #drama #adventure #BookAdaptation #Arizona #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

May

12

1852

The Searchers (1956)

A little girl finds comfort in a rag doll. She's sitting against a wooden grave marker. Another scene reveals the date. DP: Winton C. Hoch.

 

#FilmDuJour #May #JohnFord #JohnWayne #NatalieWood #AlanLeMay #MaxSteiner #WintonCHoch #kidnapping #western #drama #adventure #BookAdaptation #Arizona #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-l4py Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w9z7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" birthdays/div div class="occasion" /div div class="img" Stromboli (Terra di Dio) (1950)/div div class="caption" Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman on set on Sardinia. In the background the house Bergman's character moves into with her husband. DP: Otello Martelli./div div class="txt" ##### May 8 is both director Rossellini and Bergman's character Karen's #birthday. "What mystery, what beauty." ### – Karen /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RobertoRossellini #IngridBergman #MarioVitale #RenzoCesana #MarioSponzo #OtelloMartelli #RenzoRossellini #OtelloMartelli #drama #melodrama #Neorealismo #religion #Sardinia #Italy #USA #1950s ★★☆☆☆/div /section ]]>

Stromboli (Terra di Dio) [Stromboli] (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)

May

8

birthdays

Stromboli (Terra di Dio) (1950)

Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman on set on Sardinia. In the background the house Bergman's character moves into with her husband. DP: Otello Martelli.

May 8 is both director Rossellini and Bergman's character Karen's #birthday.

“What mystery, what beauty.”

– Karen

#FilmDuJour #May #RobertoRossellini #IngridBergman #MarioVitale #RenzoCesana #MarioSponzo #OtelloMartelli #RenzoRossellini #OtelloMartelli #drama #melodrama #Neorealismo #religion #Sardinia #Italy #USA #1950s ★★☆☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-w9z7 Fri, 08 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rpt6 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)/div div class="caption" Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine) lighting Tom Garrett's (Dana Andrews) cigarette. DP: William E. Snyder./div div class="txt" "It's a weird, crazy idea, but that's the reason it intrigues me." ### – Tom Garrett /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #JoanFontaine #HerschelBurkeGilbert #WilliamESnyder #crime #drama #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)

May

7

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Susan Spencer (Joan Fontaine) lighting Tom Garrett's (Dana Andrews) cigarette. DP: William E. Snyder.

“It's a weird, crazy idea, but that's the reason it intrigues me.”

– Tom Garrett

#FilmDuJour #May #FritzLang #DanaAndrews #JoanFontaine #HerschelBurkeGilbert #WilliamESnyder #crime #drama #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-rpt6 Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-unholy-three-1925 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 6/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Unholy Three (1925)/div div class="caption" Tweedledee (Harry Earles), Hercules (Victor McLaglen), and Echo - The Ventriloquist (Lon Chaney). DP: David Kesson./div div class="txt" "It's spooky! It sounds… unholy!" ### – Echo /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #TodBrowning #LonChaney #HarryEarles #VictorMcLaglen #DavidKesson #SilentFilm #crime #PreCode #USA #1920s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925)

May

6

The Unholy Three (1925)

Tweedledee (Harry Earles), Hercules (Victor McLaglen), and Echo – The Ventriloquist (Lon Chaney). DP: David Kesson.

“It's spooky! It sounds… unholy!”

– Echo

#FilmDuJour #May #TodBrowning #LonChaney #HarryEarles #VictorMcLaglen #DavidKesson #SilentFilm #crime #PreCode #USA #1920s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-unholy-three-1925 Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="X" /div div class="img" My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)/div div class="caption" Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey./div div class="txt" – You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion? – You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross! ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)

May

5

My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Nina Foch as Julia Ross… or is she… Julia's lying on a made bed, looking over her shoulder at two middle-aged men and an elderly woman standing in the doorway to her room. DP: Burnett Guffey.

– You haven't forgotten us again, have you, Marion?

– You know perfectly well I'm Julia Ross!

#FilmDuJour #May #JosephHLewis #NinaFoch #AnthonyGilbert #BurnettGuffey #crime #suspense #drama #mystery #thriller #BookAdaptation #1940s #USA ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-c3bh Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0xr7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 03/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Japanicky (1928).png)/div div class="caption" A cheeky looking Felix stands in a doorway with a bamboo roller shutter. Inside the room a woman in Japanese dress sits in front of a tea bowl and pot on top of a small platform. From the ceiling hangs a (Chinese) lantern and from the wall a large scroll that reads May 3 in stereotypical Oriental lettering./div div class="txt" and May 4. &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #OttoMessmer #surrealism #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #animation #USA #1920s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Japanicky [Felix the Cat in Japanicky] (Otto Messmer, 1928)

May

03

Japanicky (1928)

A cheeky looking Felix stands in a doorway with a bamboo roller shutter. Inside the room a woman in Japanese dress sits in front of a tea bowl and pot on top of a small platform. From the ceiling hangs a (Chinese) lantern and from the wall a large scroll that reads May 3 in stereotypical Oriental lettering.

and May 4.

 

#FilmDuJour #May #OttoMessmer #surrealism #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #animation #USA #1920s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0xr7 Sun, 03 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200 The Kirlian Witness (Jonathan Sarno, 1978) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-kzmb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Kirlian Witness (Jonathan Sarno, 1978)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Kirlian Witness (1978)/div div class="caption" A ficus hooked up to a polygraph. DP: João Fernandes./div div class="txt" "Based on a true occult event" ### – tagline /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #JonathanSarno #NancySnyder #NancyBoykin #JoelColodner #HarryManfredini #JoãoFernandes #occultism #paranormal #telekinesis #KirlianPhotography #plants #thriller #crime #USA #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Kirlian Witness (Jonathan Sarno, 1978)

Apr

27

The Kirlian Witness (1978)

A ficus hooked up to a polygraph. DP: João Fernandes.

“Based on a true occult event”

– tagline

#FilmDuJour #April #JonathanSarno #NancySnyder #NancyBoykin #JoelColodner #HarryManfredini #JoãoFernandes #occultism #paranormal #telekinesis #KirlianPhotography #plants #thriller #crime #USA #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-kzmb Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Распад [Raspad / Collapse / Decay] (Mikhail Belikov, 1990) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-vgz7 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Распад [Raspad / Collapse / Decay] (Mikhail Belikov, 1990)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="occasion" 1986/div div class="img" Распад (1990)/div div class="caption" A young boy looks over his shoulder into the camera. He's seated at an extended table, set with food for many. A man in the back is on the phone; a woman walks around cradling a newborn child. In the corner of the room a baby cot. DP: Vasiliy Trushkovskiy./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #MikhailBelikov #IgorStetsyuk #VladimirVysotskiy #VasiliyTrushkovskiy #absurdism #Pascha #Chernobyl #SovietUnion #USA #1990s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Распад [Raspad / Collapse / Decay] (Mikhail Belikov, 1990)

Apr

25

1986

Распад (1990)

A young boy looks over his shoulder into the camera. He's seated at an extended table, set with food for many. A man in the back is on the phone; a woman walks around cradling a newborn child. In the corner of the room a baby cot. DP: Vasiliy Trushkovskiy.

#FilmDuJour #April #MikhailBelikov #IgorStetsyuk #VladimirVysotskiy #VasiliyTrushkovskiy #absurdism #Pascha #Chernobyl #SovietUnion #USA #1990s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-vgz7 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hzvg <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Notorious (1946)/div div class="caption" Devlin (Cary Grant) and Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman). DP: Ted Tetzlaff./div div class="txt" And January 9.\ "Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character." ### – Devlin\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #AlfredHitchcock #CaryGrant #IngridBergman #ClaudeRains #RoyWebb #TedTetzlaff #thriller #mystery #romance #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

Apr

24

Notorious (1946)

Devlin (Cary Grant) and Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman). DP: Ted Tetzlaff.

And January 9.

“Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.”

– Devlin

#FilmDuJour #April #AlfredHitchcock #CaryGrant #IngridBergman #ClaudeRains #RoyWebb #TedTetzlaff #thriller #mystery #romance #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-hzvg Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-02kk <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, 1977)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="occasion" 11:42 A.M./div div class="img" The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)/div div class="caption" Scratched-up film stock showing an arid landscape with ISLE OF LUCY APRIL 9, 11:42 A.M. in bold red letters superimposed over it. DP: Stephen M. Katz./div div class="txt" "Moscow in flames, missiles headed toward New York. Film at eleven." ### – newscaster /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #JohnLandis #DavidZucker #JimAbrahams #JerryZucker #MarilynJoi #EvanCKim #GeorgeLazenby #DonaldSutherland #RickBaker #ForrestJAckerman #StephenMKatz #TinaLouise #comedy #MartialArts #Bruceploitation #Blaxploitation #AnthologyMovie #satire #USA #1970s ★★★★★/div /section ]]>

The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis, 1977)

Apr

9

11:42 A.M.

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Scratched-up film stock showing an arid landscape with ISLE OF LUCY APRIL 9, 11:42 A.M. in bold red letters superimposed over it. DP: Stephen M. Katz.

“Moscow in flames, missiles headed toward New York. Film at eleven.”

– newscaster

#FilmDuJour #April #JohnLandis #DavidZucker #JimAbrahams #JerryZucker #MarilynJoi #EvanCKim #GeorgeLazenby #DonaldSutherland #RickBaker #ForrestJAckerman #StephenMKatz #TinaLouise #comedy #MartialArts #Bruceploitation #Blaxploitation #AnthologyMovie #satire #USA #1970s ★★★★★

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-02kk Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200