usa &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:usa @settima@zirk.us Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:59:49 +0200 Red & Rosy (Frank Grow, 1989) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-99qk <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Red & Rosy (Frank Grow, 1989)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Red & Rosy (1989)/div div class="caption" Big Red (Rico Martinez) in his hotrod. DPs: Frank Grow, Ralph Hawkins & Rico Martinez./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #FrankGrow #RicoMartinez #RalphHawkins #drugs #addiction #DragRacing #HotRods #cars #CarCrash #ShortFilm #LowBudget #comedy #horror #puppetry #USA #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Red & Rosy (Frank Grow, 1989)

Jun

3

Red & Rosy (1989)

Big Red (Rico Martinez) in his hotrod. DPs: Frank Grow, Ralph Hawkins & Rico Martinez.

#FilmDuJour #June #FrankGrow #RicoMartinez #RalphHawkins #drugs #addiction #DragRacing #HotRods #cars #CarCrash #ShortFilm #LowBudget #comedy #horror #puppetry #USA #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-99qk Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 1999 A.D. (Lee Madden, 1967) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-llbr <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" 1999 A.D. (Lee Madden, 1967)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="occasion" 1999/div div class="img" 1999 A.D. (1967)/div div class="caption" Mother Karen (Marj Dusay) busy with online meal planning, her husband supervising her from the other screen. While she scheduling for Tuesday, June 2, 1999 in reality fell on a Wednesday. DP: Vilmos Zsigmond./div div class="txt" "What year is it now? I forgot." ### – Jamie /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #LeeMadden #MarjDusay #KerryMacLane #WinkMartindale #AlexanderScourby #MichelLegrand #VilmosZsigmond #capitalism #ShortFilm #documentary #SciFi #futurology #USA #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

1999 A.D. (Lee Madden, 1967)

Jun

2

1999

1999 A.D. (1967)

Mother Karen (Marj Dusay) busy with online meal planning, her husband supervising her from the other screen. While she scheduling for Tuesday, June 2, 1999 in reality fell on a Wednesday. DP: Vilmos Zsigmond.

“What year is it now? I forgot.”

– Jamie

#FilmDuJour #June #LeeMadden #MarjDusay #KerryMacLane #WinkMartindale #AlexanderScourby #MichelLegrand #VilmosZsigmond #capitalism #ShortFilm #documentary #SciFi #futurology #USA #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-llbr Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +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 Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-b6f1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Compulsion (1959)/div div class="caption" Straus (Bradford Dillman) with Steiner (Dean Stockwell) behind the wheel. They're beaming. DP: William C. Mellor./div div class="txt" "Murder's nothing. It's just a simple experience. Murder and rape? Do you know what beauty there is in evil?" ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #May #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959)

May

16

Compulsion (1959)

Straus (Bradford Dillman) with Steiner (Dean Stockwell) behind the wheel. They're beaming. DP: William C. Mellor.

“Murder's nothing. It's just a simple experience. Murder and rape? Do you know what beauty there is in evil?”

#FilmDuJour #May #RichardFleischer #MeyerLevin #BradfordDillman #DeanStockwell #OrsonWelles #DianeVarsi #LionelNewman #WilliamCMellor #BookAdaptation #LGBT #crime #drama #USA #1950s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-b6f1 Sat, 16 May 2026 09:00:00 +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