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Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt, 1984)
Sep
20
cereal
“Hey! If you're going to throw those guns away, can I have one?”
– Sarah
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The Gruesome Twosome (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1967)
Sep
14
chicken
Teenage girls at a pajama party, dance, munch on the Colonel's chicken, and read the March 27, 1967 newspaper. DP: Roy Collodi.
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The Black Cat (Harold Hoffman, 1966)
Sep
9
A sad blonde (Robyn Baker) with her perfectly coiffed head on her perfectly set table. DP: Walter Schenk.
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On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
Jul
28
liquor
“You know this city's full of hawks? That's a fact. They hang around on the top of the big hotels. And they spot a pigeon in the park. Right down on him.”
– Terry Malloy
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Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
Jul
1
steak
A man dissects his steak with knife and fork at a round table with an oilcloth cover. Prominently in the centre of the table is an square cardboard box with air-holes punched in the lid. It's open and houses a small, live rattlesnake. DP: Charles Lang.
“I can handle big news and little news. And if there's no news, I'll go out and bite a dog.”
– Charles Tatum
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The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)
Jun
24
spaghetti
A man in a bathrobe (Ted de Corsia) lifts undrained, slightly overcooked spaghetti from a white enamel pan onto a plate. The overcookedness may be caused by this movie's horrible horrible AI “restoration”. DP: John Alton.
“I couldn't swallow any more salami.”
– Mingo
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Caged (John Cromwell, 1950)
Jun
20
prison chow
The girls eating their grub. It'd be Marie Allen's (Eleanor Parker) first of many. DP: Carl E. Guthrie.
“What I'd give for a sink full of dirty dish.”
– Millie
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Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
Jun
9
A man in a dark suit has his clenched hand on top of a stack of fancy gilded dinner plates. He's holding a piece of rope, just an ordinary household article. DPs: William V. Skall & Joseph A. Valentine.
“Mr. Cadell got a bad leg in the war for his courage. And you've got your sleeve in the celery, Mr. Phillip.”
– Mrs. Wilson
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Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959)
Jun
7
Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor) and a man in white, seen from the back, eating alfresco near a beach. DP: Jack Hildyard.
“My son – Sebastian – and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer.”
– Mrs Vi Venable
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Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)
May
18
tea
An almost monochrome man and woman in Edwardian costumes sit at a round table under a parasol. The couple looks out over a field with bright orange poppies. The flowers are filmed through a fisheye lens and appear to be on a grassy green planet.. DP: Jordan Cronenweth.
“She's still crazy about him. He's still crazy.”
