#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 17: someone sets a world record on #GuinnessWorldRecordsDay
#DavidCobham's #Muloorina (1964) tells about a small, arid town in #Australia that one day finds itself on the world's stage. Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, a local salt lake that hasn't seen a drop of rain in nine years, is the perfect spot for a landspeed record attempt by British daredevil #DonaldCampbell and his #Bluebird ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/muloorina-1964
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 17: someone sets a world record on #GuinnessWorldRecordsDay
#DavidCobham's #Muloorina (1964) tells about a small, arid town in #Australia that one day finds itself on the world's stage. Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, a local salt lake that hasn't seen a drop of rain in nine years, is the perfect spot for a landspeed record attempt by British daredevil #DonaldCampbell and his #Bluebird ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/muloorina-1964
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 18: an adoption on #NationalAdoptionDay
#JohannesSchaaf Tätowierung [Tattoo aka The Delinquent] (1967)
16 year old Benno (#ChristofWackernagel) lives in reformatory until the Lohmanns, a rich altruistic #WestBerlin business couple decides to adopt him. For the teenager, this neatly regulated new bourgeois life feels all wrong. With his ne'er-do-well mate Sigi, Benno traverses #Berlin ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tatowierung-1967
– Get the #OuijaBoard.
– It's got the Bible on top of it, keeping it quiet.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 19: play a #boardgame on #PlayMonopolyDay
Two neat little ladies playing that quirky 1891 novelty game in #RolandWest's The Bat Whispers (1930) summon the aforementioned bat, black-clad fiend and #Batman predecessor. Who is he? What does he want? And how can he be stopped? Do you know the answer?
YES NO
GOOD B Y E
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 20: a #BeautifulDay
Two hopeless lonely hearts meet each other at #ConeyIsland, spending the most wonderful day in each other's company.
#PálFejős' joyful Lonesome (1928) was made just when motion pictures became talkies, and new and more modern novelties were expected by the audience. Fejős delivers, with sound and musical inserts, and the occasional – almost shocking – burst of colour ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/lonesome-1928
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 21: an entrepreneur for #NationalEntrepreneursDay
In my book, entrepreneur is just a fancy talk for conman. A famous one, the one who may've tried to sell you the #BrooklynBridge, was George C. Parker. #MaeWest's Peaches O'Day bamboozles it her way in #AEdwardSutherland's Every Day's a Holiday (1937). And boy, does she have a bridge to sell you!
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/every-days-a-holiday-1937
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 22: a #birthday party for #BalesBirthday!
Happy birthday, @bales1181!
Screenshot from satirical allegory #JanNěmec's O slavnosti a hostech [A Report on the Party and Guests] (1966)
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 23: family dinner for #Thanksgiving
While mother Scorsese's famous meatballs in gravy is working its way to perfection, son Martin interviews his parents Catherine and Charles. For those unsure what to cook, and for those who don't celebrate Thanksgiving at al, mama's recipe is included in #MartinScorsese's #Italianamerican (1974) end credits. And here ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/italianamerican-1974
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 24: holiday shopping on #BlackFriday
A little boy takes in the magic of pre-Christmas, while the adults rush and worry about all that must to be bought in #RolandKlick's Weihnacht (1963) > https://write.underworld.fr/settima/weihnacht-1963
#holidays #Christmas #ShortFilm #documentary #docudrama #capitalism #WestGermany #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 25: protecting a woman on #WhiteRibbonDay
In #AkiraKurosawa's 隠し砦の三悪人 [The Hidden Fortress] (1958), a couple of greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines after the man has promised them a share of the gold they're carrying. Unknowingly, the fools not only protect their bounty, but a general and princess trying to escape an enemy clan so they can rebuild their kingdom ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/yin-shizhai-nosan-e-ren-1958
be (Toshirō Mifune) facing us with Princess Yuki (Misa Uehara) seemingly standing high above him on the fortress' wall, facing away. #Bales2023FilmChallenge November 25: protecting a woman on #WhiteRibbonDay Leave it to popular media to create a fashion for helplessness. In the 110 years that have passed since William Rando...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 26: a koala for #WorldLewisDay
It's not possible to be in #nature, one can only be absorbed by it. This is Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).
#film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #PeterWeir #JoanLindsay #BookAdaptation #Australia #koalas #animals #drama #1970s
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 27: online shopping on #CyberMonday
- What year is it now? I forgot.
In the soul crushing future of 1999, one heroic nuclear family bravely fulfils their gender-specific duties. While Father Mike works in his computer-aided office, Son Jamie fails at computer homeschool and Mother Karen slavishly shops, cooks, and cleans the cyber way. Thankfully, the future turned out to be even bleaker than #LeeMadden could've imagined in his 1999 A.D. (1967).
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 28: someone is given something special for #GivingTuesday
#JeanCocteau & #RenéClément's La Belle et la Bête (1946)
Just before leaving home, a father asks his three daughters what he can bring them as a return gift. The eldest two ask for silly, extravagant things, but the youngest simply wishes the most beautiful flower. The father finds it in an enchanted garden, guarded by a terrible beast… ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/la-belle-et-la-bete-1946
Peace is at hand.
— Henry #Kissinger,1972
#Bales2023FilmChallenge Nov 30: #warcrime
Over an 11 day period, the 1972 #Christmas bombings resulted in 20000 tons of American shells being dropped on #Hanoi & #Haiphong, killing at least 1624 civilians. During this unmentionable carnage, #HảiNinh directed The Little Girl of Hanoi (1974), which gave the people of North #Vietnam not only a face, but a voice ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/em-be-ha-noi-1974 #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #warcrimes
#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 1: #Christmas lights for #NationalChristmasLightsDay
It took experimental filmmaker #MarieMenken three years to shoot Lights (1966). From midnight until 1 AM, she filmed New York's window displays during the holiday season, using her camera, motion, colour, and available light sources as her paintbrush ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/lights-1966 #ShortFilm #ExperimentalFilm #ArtFilm #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film @art_film
y of what appear to be red, yellow, green and blue bell-shaped Christmas decorations among silhouetted tree branches. #Bales2023FilmChallenge December 1: Christmas lights for #NationalChristmasLightsDay It took experimental filmmaker Marie Menken three years to shoot Lights (1966). From midnight until 1 AM, she filmed New York's window displays during the holiday season, using her camera, motion, colour, and available light sources as a paintbrush. Filming at night helped to avoid unwanted interruptions of people and cars, but turned out to be problematic...
If you have a #Vimeo account, you can watch #MarieMenken's Lights (1966) on The #Film-Makers' Coop channel here https://vimeo.com/230187590
#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 2: shaving on #SafetyRazorDay
Accompanied by the sweet tunes of I Can't Get Started, a young man shaves. The Big Shave (1967) is short but contains many of the hallmarks of #MartinScorsese's later work. #Scorsese's theme here is the carnage laid upon so many young men sent off to the smouldering battlefields of the East. There'd be another 6 years of that. And meanwhile, some young men came back. And became cabbies ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-big-shave-1967
g man (Peter Bernuth) shaving. #Bales2023FilmChallenge December 2: the main character shaves on #SafetyRazorDay Accompanied by the sweet tunes of Bunny Berigan and Ira Gershwin's I Can't Get Started, a young man shaves his face. The Big Shave (1967) [aka The Big Shave… or, Viet '67] is a short commissioned film which contains many of ...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 3: hugged on #LetsHugDay
Nanon (#JoanCrawford) is mortally afraid of men. Of their grabbing, grasping, groping hands. She only trust knife thrower Alonzo the Armless (#LonChaney) but he and accomplice (#TufeiFilhela) use the #circus to hide from the long arm of the law. Who'd suspect an armless man? The Unknown (1927) is arguably #TodBrowning and Chaney Sr's pinnacle of silent #precode #horror. 14 minutes are still missing. Check your attic!
#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 4: a letter to Santa on #SantasListDay
3615 code Père Noël (#RenéManzor, 1989)
France's proto-Internet #Minitel used codes, not URLs. Dial 3615ULLA to text with a sexy lady – some telecom employee pretending to be one – and 3615PERENOEL for #Santa Claus. The real one, of course. 9 yr old Thomas is dead set on proving that Santa is real and not some weirdo looking for a gullible kid to play with. A trap is set, and the boy waits ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/3615-code-pere-noel-1989
#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 5: digging in soil on #WorldSoilDay
Mr. Hayashi (Bruce Baillie, 1963)
#BruceBaillie #ArtFilm #documentary #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film @art_film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 7: a Judith/Judy for #NationalJudithDay
#BenMaddow, #SidneyMeyers, & #JosephStrick's The Savage Eye (US, 1959/60) follows divorcée Judith X's lonely exploration of a gritty, hopeless LA. Filmed over 4 years by #HaskellWexler, #HelenLevitt, and #JackCouffer in #CinémaVérité style, Eye feels naked and raw, and broke ground for the American New Wave that came crashing in a decade later ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-savage-eye-1959
Oof, what a dud. Curious about what #western our lead's watching at (I assume) Autokino Rudow though. CC @spaghettiwesterndb
#cinemastodon #film #SpaghettiWestern
EDIT removed part of the image description of screenshot two because of spoilers. See follow-up.
Holy sh*t, I actually found it via facecheck.id! It's #EugenioMartín's El precio de un hombre: The Bounty Killer aka El precio de un hombre aka The Ugly Ones (1966) and it points right to @spaghettiwesterndb's homepage! https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/The_Ugly_Ones_-_Wild_East_release
I'm so #faceblind…
#TomasMilian #HalinaZalewska #SpaghettiWestern #cinemastodon #film
settima
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲
