The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973)

Oct

26

1972

Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) and Dillon (Peter Boyle) at the Boston Bruins game. DP: Victor J. Kemper.

A key scene takes place at an NHL game between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Boston Bruins at the Boston Garden. Bobby Orr and Eddie Johnston are seen playing for the Bruins, and Keith Magnuson, Tony Esposito, Bill White, Pat Stapleton, and Cliff Koroll are seen playing for the Blackhawks. The real game took place on October 26, 1972, and Chicago won 6-3 (via).

#FilmDuJour #October #PeterYates #GeorgeVHiggins #RobertMitchum #PeterBoyle #RichardJordan #StevenKeats #AlexRocco #DaveGrusin #VictorJKemper #drama #crime #heist #BookAdaptation #Boston #USA #1970s ★★★★½

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of October 24:

Il caso Valdemar [The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar] (Gianni Hoepli + Ubaldo Magnaghi, 1936)
A man agrees on being hypnotised while in the state of dying. This particularly haunting and efficiently gory film – the first in the genre – is the result.
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-z9sl

#GianniHoepli #UbaldoMagnaghi #EdgarAllanPoe #CarloBissi #IberiaBollain #GinoEprisi #horror #mystery #gore #hypnotism #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #BookAdaptation #cinemastodon #film

狂った一頁 [Kurutta ichipėji / A Page of Madness] (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)

Oct

14

silent cinema

A masked inmate (Eiko Minami) dances. The shot of the dancer is superimposed over a shot of her cel's bars, putting the viewer in the position of the husband witnessing – or is he hallucinating – an inescapable nightmare (via). DP: Kōhei Sugiyama.

A [favourite] silent horror film*

Incomplete and, despite the generally accepted popular Occidental opinion, not a horror film. Oh, to have seen this narrated by Musei Tokugawa…

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #TeinosukeKinugasa #YasunariKawabata #MasuoInoue #AyakoIijima #YoshieNakagawa #HiroshiNemoto #EikoMinami #MisaoSeki #KōheiSugiyama #drama #fragment #AvantGarde #SilentFilm #ExperimentalFilm #BookAdaptation #Japan #1920s ★★★★★ ♥︎

ノーライフキング [No raifu kingu / No Life King] (Jun Ichikawa, 1989)

Sep

23

Nintendo – 1889

Makoto and his friends play with their video game console (via). DP: Osame Maruike.

Home video games: Nintendo was founded on this day in 1889.

It's the late 80s and Japan is in the midst of an economic and technological bubble. Like so many kids, Makoto (litt. “truth”) and his friends are obsessed with their game console. In anticipation of the release of the fourth instalment of their favourite game, rumours start doing the rounds. Some cartridges are cursed with the “No Life King”, meaning players who cannot complete the game, will die. The curse appears to spill over into the boys' real world. What if when you die in the game, you really really die…?

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #JunIchikawa #SeikōItō #RyoTakayama #NekoSaito #NobuoNakamura #IsseyOgata #SaekoSuzuki #SaekoSuzuki #OsameMaruike #drama #SciFi #games #VideoGames #horror #BookAdaptation #Japan #1980s

IT: Welcome to Derry (2025-): Season 1 - Official Trailer #1

#ITWelcomeToDerry #StephenKing #Horror #HBOMax #Bookadaptation http://youtube.com/watch?v=oKa6u7LT0qE&feature=youtu.be https://mackansfilm.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/it-welcome-to-derry-2025-season-1-official-trailer-1/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

L'argent [Money] (Robert Bresson, 1983)

Jul

22

A man at an ATM holds on to a Visa credit card with tweezers. DPs: Pasqualino De Santis & Emmanuel Machuel.

Everything's expensive: someone is a at bank or ATM*

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for July is, for unknown reasons, mostly not date-related and follows some sort of vacation narrative.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #RobertBresson #LevTolstoy #ChristianPatey #VincentRisterucci #CarolineLang #SylvieVanDenElsen #PasqualinoDeSantis #EmmanuelMachuel #money #drama #crime #BookAdaptation #France #Switzerland #1980s ★★★★★/♥︎

Binged *The Flatshare* on a whim and ended up fully invested. It's soft, sincere, and surprisingly grounded for a rom-com setup built on Post-its. Think slow-burn romance meets emotional healing with solid performances.

#TheFlatshare #TVReview #CozyWatch #BookAdaptation #RomanceDrama

Full review👇

http://wornoutspines.com/2025/07/17/the-flatshare-season-review/

妻は告白する [Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru / A Wife Confesses] (Yasuzō Masumura, 1961)

https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-3gm4

Should You Try to Turn Your Book into a Film or TV Series? The Self-Publishing with ALLi Member Q&A Podcast Featuring Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black

In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Member Q&A podcast, host Michael La Ronn discusses whether it's worth an author’s time to pursue turning a book into a film or TV series—and why…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-film-or-tv-series/

#Podcast #bookadaptation #indieauthors #MichaelLaRonn #SachaBlack
@indieauthors