#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 6: freebie: lipstick (July 29 redux)
Set in 1950s #Calcutta, #SatyajitRay's মহানগর [Mahanagar / The Big City] (1963) is a story of emancipation in a changing society. Arati (#MadhaviMukherjee) is a housewife from a traditionalist family, who – in order to support her relatives' lavish demands – goes out to work as a door-to-door saleswoman. Slowly, she discovers her independence.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 6: freebie: lipstick (July 29 redux)
Set in 1950s #Calcutta, #SatyajitRay's মহানগর [Mahanagar / The Big City] (1963) is a story of emancipation in a changing society. Arati (#MadhaviMukherjee) is a housewife from a traditionalist family, who – in order to support her relatives' lavish demands – goes out to work as a door-to-door saleswoman. Slowly, she discovers her independence.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 7: deli meat for #NationalSalamiDay
#ArnoldLaven's The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) is one of the earliest, if not thé earliest, example of this peculiar movie and television trope: the coroner's lunchbreak. Having some cold cuts over some cold cuts never gets old. Or appetising.
#TimHolt #AudreyDalton #HansConried #monsters #SciFi #horror #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 8: pardoned on #PardonDay
#AbbasKiarostami's Close-Up (1990) is a visual narrative illustrating a crime. A cinephile pretends to be a filmmaker and slowly extorts a family into believing to star in the director's next film. An article about the case intrigued director Kiarostami so much that he decided to film the court case against Sabzian, and ask the accused, Makhmalbaf and the Ahankhah family to reenact some of the events.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 9: speaking German on #GermanLanguageDay
Bruno Stroszek (#BrunoS.), Eva (#EvaMattes) and Scheitz (#ClemensScheitz) decide to leave dreary #Berlin behind and move to #Wisconsin where the latter's nephew lives. A new life, with dreams of music and animal magnetism, awaits them there. As so oft with #Herzog, the story behind #Stroszek (1977) is as engrossing as the resulting film ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/stroszek-1977
#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 10: the pet dies on #NationalPetMemorialDay
Bandiera and Rabbino, two young bumpkins, find that their pet sheep has been butchered by their father in Sergio Citti's Ostia (1970). Years later, the two share their lives with a beautiful blonde who they found believing to be dead.
#SergioCitti #PierPaoloPasolini #LaurentTerzieff #FrancoCitti #AnitaSanders #drama #animals #Italy #1970s #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 11: boss and employee
Mr R (#KurtRaab) is a hardworking, almost invisible man. He laughs along with his coworkers' stale jokes. He neatly completes his tasks and politely nods when the boss berates him. He smokes too much and is told to cut it down. His son fails at school and Mrs R. wishes nicer furniture and a skiing holiday, when Mr R.'s promoted.
So why does Herr R run amok? ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/warum-lauft-herr-r
(Franz Maron) berating Herr R. (Kurt Raab). #Bales2023FilmChallenge September 11: boss and employee on #NationalBossEmployeeExchangeDay Mr R. (Kurt Raab), his full name is irrelevant, is a hardworking, almost invisible man. He laughs along when his coworkers make stale jokes to shorten the long days. He neatly completes his draftman's assignments and politely ...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 12: a police woman on #NationalPoliceWomanDay
Rei (#MikiSugimoto) is a member of the top secret Division Zero of the #Tokyo police department. Hired to investigate a high-profile kidnapping, she infiltrates the gang and kills them off with her signature blood-red handcuffs. #YukioNoda's Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) is the first of no less than 9 instalments and based on #TōruShinohara's #manga O課の女 ⛓️ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/0ke-nonu-chi-ishou-ding-1974
#Bales2023FilmChallenge September 13: Uncle Sam for #UncleSamDay
Even before a single note had come out of Mick's mouth, someone had punched him in the head. By the time #TheRollingStones open their set, the #HellsAngels are far into their $500 beer bounty, and the audience far out of their mind. Meredith Hunter, high on drugs, had brought a gun. And the Angels did what they were ordered to: stop anyone from getting close ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/gimme-shelter-1970
Jagger seen from the back, wearing an Uncle Sam top hat. There's a sense of foreboding to it #Bales2023FilmChallenge September 13: Uncle Sam for #UncleSamDay It's December 6, 1969 and just like that, the 60s were over. It started out great, the West Coast edition of Woodstock. Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, a 300.000 strong crowd and, of course, The Roll...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 4: children behave like adults on #NationalEasyBakeOvenDay
While #JaimeHumbertoHermosillo Matinée (1977) has elements of a typical 70s #ComingOfAge movie, the more fascinating element is the role reversal of the two children and the robbers. As the kids are forced to grow up, fast, the criminals live out their childhood fantasy of never having to listen to anyone ever again. And bicker over comics ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/matinee-1977
- Come, this party is for hard-working people!
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 5: light a #bonfire for #BonfireNight
It started, #Estonians will tell you, 4000 years ago when #Kaali appeared. Ever since, come rain or shine, come socialism or capitalism, the people gather and light #bonfires in its remembrance ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/jaanipaev-1978
This is #AndresSööt magical Jaanipäev (1978)
#documentary #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #jaaniõhtu #MidSummer
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 6: play basketball on #PlayBasketballDay
Within the boundaries of #SharonLockhart's static camera, girls from Goshogaoka junior high school practice #basketball. In six uninterrupted 10 minute scenes we see them warm up and train several typical moves. With the camera set in one position, some of the action happens off-screen, resulting in unrehearsed synchronised choreography. This is *Goshogaoka* [*御所ケ丘*] (1998) ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/goshogaoka-1998
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 7: someone drinks red wine on #InternationalMerlotDay
Seconds (#JohnFrankenheimer, 1966)
At a bacchanalia, #RockHudson's Antiochus Wilson finally strips down his hesitancy and realises he has a second chance at life, as a member of the new generation. To the Queen of #wine! To Bacchus! To Pan!
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/seconds-1966 #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #DavidEly #RockHudson #JamesWongHowe #Scifi
- More shoes, more boots, more garlic.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 8: someone #cooking something special for #CookSomethingBoldDay
After boiling for five hours in a concoction of #garlic, #herbs, and stock, the shoe was ready to eat and #Herzog could keep his promise to fellow director Errol Morris. This is Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980).
#film #cinemastodon #LesBlank #WernerHerzog #ErrolMorris #ShortFilm #USA #food #documentary #1980s ★★★★½
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 9: chaos breaks out on #ChaosNeverDiesDay
Matka Joanna od Aniolów (#JerzyKawalerowicz, 1961) takes place four years after the tragic events at #Loudun. Mother superior, the titular Mother Joan of the Angels, is still possessed by the Devil & has slowly pulled in the other #nuns. A priest, the fourth, is send over to exorcise the demons who at this point have possessed all but one sister. Chaos ensues. https://write.underworld.fr/settima/matka-joanna-od-aniolow-1961
- Fame will go by, and so long, I've had you, fame.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge: November 10: a diseased actor on #ForgetMeNotDay
Everyone assumed that Ellen, swept away during a yacht race, was gone. But there she is, years later, and very much alive. Marilyn wasn't that fortunate. On August 4, 1962, 2 months after she was fired from Something's Got to Give (#GeorgeCukor, 1962), Monroe was found dead in her home. She was only 36 years old.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 11: origami for #WorldOrigamiDay
Ceremonial #origami, known as girei or #origata can be seen hanging from the altar in this scene from #NagisaŌshima's 儀式 [Gishiki / The Ceremony] (1971).
#Shinto #Shintō #神道 #Japan #1970s #cinema #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 12: #pneumonia on #WorldPneumoniaDay
In #KenRussell's Mahler (1974), the sickly composer and his wife Alma (#GeorginaHale) dwell on their shared lives while travelling to #Vienna by train. Storylines – circular like a journey, rondo like #Mahler's compositions – drift from the ordinary to the grotesque ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/mahler-1974
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 13: someone becomes orphaned on #WorldOrphansDay
Les enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950), based on a novel by Jean Cocteau.
With their mother bedridden, Elisabeth (#NicoleStéphane) nurtures her snowball-fight-injured brother Paul (#EdouardDermithe) back to health. Withdrawn in their family home, they form a strong manipulative bond, drawing others into their games ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/les-enfants-terribles-1950
The siblings sharing a bed. #Bales2023FilmChallenge November 13: someone becomes orphaned on #WorldOrphansDay With their mother bedridden, Elisabeth (Nicole Stéphane) nurtures her snowball-fight-injured brother Paul (Edouard Dermithe) back to health. They retreat in their family hom...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 14: a child reading on #YoungReadersDay
#FrançoisTruffaut explores L'enfant sauvage (1970) right when the idea of the noble savage seemed to lock on with counterculture. With #Truffaut as Victor's tutor Itard in front of the camera, directly guiding amateur child actor (and “gipsy”) Cargol, the film not only reimagines Victor's fate, but reenacts Western presumed enlightenment over The Other ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/lenfant-sauvage-1970
#Bales2023FilmChallenge November 16: an Andy for #NationalAndyDay
Everything is noise. Everything is light. Everything is dark. Everything is motion. Everything is static. Everything is energy. Everything is lethargy. Everything is rhythm. Everything is chaos. Everything is silent.
https://write.underworld.fr/settima/kick-that-habit-1989 #PeterLiechti #VoiceCrack #NorbertMöslang #AndyGuhl #film #cinema #CineMastodon #noise #ExperimentalMusic #Documentary #Switzerland @art_film
#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
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