#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 5: filmed in #Venezuela on #VenezuelaIndependenceDay
Cinematic poem Araya (1959) by Margot Benacerraf and Giuseppe Nisoli
#MargotBenacerraf #GiuseppeNisoli #documentary #poetry #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 6: someone named Daniel for #NationalDanielDay
Daniel explores his homosexuality in #WestBerlin. Initially he opts for an almost heterosexual affair. He then probes further, swings by #Berlin's public toilets and pools. Only when he encounters a leftist, gay #commune he finds that pride, not conformity, is his way to living his life. Von Praunheim's Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers… > https://write.underworld.fr/settima/nicht-der-homosexuelle-ist-pervers-sondern-die-situation-in-der-er-lebt-1971
A gay couple kissing on the street in front of a black-tiled Berlin bar. A third gay man nearby looks away. #Bales2023FilmChallenge July 6: someone named #Daniel for #NationalDanielDay Daniel (Bernd Feuerhelm) is a young man exploring his homosexuality in #WestBerlin. Initially he opts for a spießbürgerlich, petit-bourgeois, alm...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 7: forgiveness for #GlobalForgivenessDay
Forgiveness as a tool of power, a method of control. #VilgotSjöman's 491 (1964) is an extremely, bleak, aggressive, and hopeless depiction of youth in postwar Sweden.
e of the boys carving a simple arithmetical calculation into a desk during the Reverend's lecture about forgiveness. #Bales2023FilmChallenge July 7: forgiveness for #GlobalForgivenessDay Early 60s, Sweden. A social experiment. Six hopelessly criminal juveniles are packed in a guesthouse – cynically named Objectivity –...
Note: this is *not* a mid-60s promotional picture for Trainspotting.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 8: skinny dipping on #InternationalSkinnyDipDay Eva (#HedyLamarr) hangs her clothes over her horse's back, then – cut through a wonderfully voyeuristic moment – goes swimming in a lake. The foal, still carrying Eva's outfit, wanders off to find a stallion.
#GustavMachatý Ekstase [Ecstasy] (1933) is full of not so subtle but beautifully framed innuendo. ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ekstase-1933
- Good night, Gentle Jesus. Sleep well.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 9: a barn for #BarnDay
In the barn of a remote Lancashire farmhouse, three children stumble upon a stranger. Confused, they conclude that the fellow must be the Second Coming of Christ. In the world of the adults, a man is wanted by the police.
Whistle Down the Wind (1961) ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/whistle-down-the-wind-1961
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 10: filmed in the #Bahamas for #BahamasIndependenceDay
#MickyDolenz's encounter with a siren while the #PorpoiseSong plays during the opening scene of #BobRafelson's Head (1968).
More about this on a non-Monday of sleep and functioning Wi-Fi.
#TheMonkees #mermaids #drugs #psychedelic #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 13: a movie that is an oxymoron on #OxymoronDay
Submerged in #DerekJarman's Blue (1993), seeing through what was left of his eyes, we live through the artist's life, and love, and loss. When you leave the theatre, you're temporarily blinded by the physiological afterimage of a devastating disease. What remains is the voice of a filmmaker who lost his sight ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/blue-1993
#LGBT #AIDS #art #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film
A recommended read on Sabzian: O Blue come in https://www.sabzian.be/article/o-blue-come-in
#DerekJarman #LGBT #AIDS #art #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film @altfilmguide
In an interview with Jeremy Isaacs in 1993, Derek Jarman, wittingly nearing the end of his chromatic life, claimed that when he would be gone he’d like to evaporate and take his works with him: “to disappear completely.” During that interview Jarman describes his then soon to be final feature film Blue (1993) as a dedication to Yves Klein and a self-portrait of sorts. The film would be void of image and would draw its animation from a monologue performed by himself and others (Nigel Terry, John Quentin, and Tilda Swinton) on his life living with illness; and the screen would be illuminated as a rich and vibrating blue colour field – a proposal to which Isaacs cried out, “What on earth do you mean, ‘a blank blue film’?”
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#Bales2023FilmChallenge May 8: victory achieved on #VEDay
A constantly changing team of athletes coached by artist Ashley Bickerton play a baffling hybrid of craps, dodge ball, and roulette while arcade game noises and Brooke Halpin's catchy chants accompany the players. This is Ericka Beckman's You the Better (1983) ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/you-the-better-1983
#Bales2023FilmChallenge June 22: a movie that gives off positive vibes for #PositiveMediaDay
The groove is driving and the characters jammin' in J. Terrance Mitchell's Get Rollin' (1980). We follow entrepreneur Vinzerrelli who aims to become “the Muhammad Ali of #RollerBoogie” and to enter the Guinness Book of World Records as the first roller skater to make $1M, with in his tow, smooth-as-silk Pat the Cat ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/get-rollin-1980
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 14: a pandemonium on #PandemoniumDay
Dan Duyu's 盘丝洞 [The Cave of the Silken Web] (1927) is a fantastic silent interpretation of Wu Cheng'en's 西遊記 [Journey to the West]. In a vigorous display of #wuxia, #horror, monkey shenanigans, and – during the pandemonium unfolding in the final act – a small glimpse into the vast pantheon of Chinese gods and demons. ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/pan-si-dong-1927 (link to the #film in the post)
Alright, final one of today, a little write-up follows when it's not a gazillion degrees 🥵 Oh the irony, because…
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 15: arctic sea ice on #ArcticSeaIceDay
Ignacio Agüero's dreamy pseudo #documentary Sueños de hielo [Dreams of Ice] (1994)
#IgnacioAgüero #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film @art_film #GlobalWarming
> 𝛼-60: Do you know what illuminates the night?
> Lemmy Caution: #Poetry.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 16: #AI on #ArtificialIntelligenceAppreciationDay
#Godard's #Alphaville (1965) bears similarities with #Cocteau's Orphée (1950), transported to a mirror world of sorts. It also foreshadows not only our time, but also M Hulot's, whose #Tativille could be a simulacra of 𝛼-60's simulated, dehumanised world ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/alphaville-une-etrange-aventure-de-lemmy-caution-1965
Natacha von Braun (Anna Karina) and Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine). Lights reflected in the windowpane that shields the two characters suggest “the existence of an obscure reality” (after Baudrillard↗). #Bales2023FilmChallenge July 16: Artificial Intelligence on #Ar...
#BalesBonus: for #ArtificialIntelligenceAppreciationDay, watch Stuart Hamisch's terrifying #StudentFilm Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? (1958) https://archive.org/details/HaveITol1958
Imaginative film showing how automatic gadgets in homes and workplaces alienate people from one another.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 17: someone gets a tattoo on #NationalTattooDay
Otsuya's (Ayako Wakao) is forced into prostitution and marked with a large spider tattoo. As the figure slowly takes shape under horishi Seikichi's skilled hands, Otsuya too transforms. ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ci-qing-1966
#YasuzôMasumura's 刺青 [#Irezumi / Tattoo] (1966), based on the novel by #JunichirôTanizaki.
#tattoos #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film @art_film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 18: caviar for #NationalCaviarDay
Cabiria (#GiuliettaMasina), a prostitute looking for happiness, meets famous movie star Alberto Lazzari (handsomely moustachioed Amedeo Nazzari). In his plush mansion, he treats her to an opulent – if not bewildering to Cabiria – meal of lobster and caviar.
#Fellini's Le notti di Cabiria (1957) is a love letter to hope, life, Rome, and of course his Giulietta ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/le-notti-di-cabiria-1957
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 19: a Barbara for #NationalBarbaraDay
Barbara wakes up to a fireman entering her bedroom window. Her father reassures her there's nothing. Years later she sparks a scheme that forces the fire brigade to come to their house and climb through her window once again.
#AdolfoArrieta's Flammes (1978) has a strange, stilted quality with characters detached from yet devoted to their raison d'être ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/flammes-1978
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 20: space exploration on #SpaceExplorationDay
Both #AntiCapitalist and pre-Stanley space odyssey; it's Jindřich Polák's Ikarie XB 1 [Icarus XB 1] (1963). Based on #StanislawLem's The Magellanic Cloud (1955).
#JindřichPolák #SciFi #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film @art_film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 21: a fake ID to buy alcohol on #LegalDrinkingAgeDay
Henry Levin's Where the Boys Are (1960) is chock-full of characters whose names appear to be straight space-travel-lifted from various John Waters' movies: Tuggle Carpenter! TV Thompson! Lola Fandango! Dr. Raunch for Chrissakes! It's all pretty clean, but without these girls there wouldn't be any Dawn Davenport. And that would've ruined anyone's Christmas.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 22: #3D to celebrate Jaws 3-D's 40th
What would you do if someone sends you a mysterious, nightmares inducing jade mask? Well, you put it on, now! In the name of science Dr Allan Barnes does exactly that and transports him and us to a hallucinatory dreamworld with Zardoz-styled floating skulls and their robed devotees.
The Mask (1961) is an extremely watchable #psychotronic affair ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-mask-1961
CW: stroking
Für die deutschen Leser unter euch gibt es hier einen hervorragenden 4-teiligen Artikel über 3D-Filme. #3D-Schwulenporno, oooh Boy! #CSD
Could've mentioned Allen H. Miner's Doom Town (1953) too, for you #Oppenheimer* fan boys. It's on the 3-D Rarities DVD.
https://letterboxd.com/film/doom-town/
*had to switch that 5 minute trailer off 1,5 minutes in. Read a book, folks.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 23: vanilla ice cream for #NationalVanillaIceCreamDay
James Lorinz's psychodrama Swirlee (1989)
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 25: threading a needle on #ThreadingTheNeedleDay
In #VlatkoGilić's short and rather disturbing Moć [Power] (1973), Serbian hypnotist #SlobodanĆirković aka #Roko initiates a group of men to thread a needle and slowly, going from him to the next to the other, connect it through their bodies until all of them are stitched into one ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/moc-1973
#film #cinema #documentary #hypnotism #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film @art_film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 26: various countries ban together for #OneVoiceDay
William Klein's Festival panafricain d'Alger [The #Panafrican Festival in Algiers] (1969)
#WilliamKlein #documentary #CinémaDirect #photography #BlackPanthers #music #jazz #politics #neocolonialism #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrica #BLM #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 27: bagpipes heard on #BagpipeAppreciationDay
Great Highland bagpipes, or a' phìob mhòr as they're called in Gaelic, are traditionally played on the battlefield. #PeterWatkins' Culloden (1964) moves the senseless bloodshed from 60s Vietnam to the Scottish Highlands of 1746. The most clearly it's seen in the men's eyes. That stare we recognise all too well from the televised horrors from the 60s and beyond ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/culloden-1964-m6lp
John Hunt Leigh in Culloden, pìobaireachd↗ ceòl mór (litt. piping “great music”). #Bales2023FilmChallenge July 27: bagpipes heard on #BagpipeAppreciationDay Great Highland #bagpipes, or a' phìob mhòr as they're called in Scottish Gaelic, is traditionally played on the battlefield. Peter Watkins' Culloden [aka The Battle of Culloden] (1964) moves the senseless bloodshed from 1960s Vietnam to the Scottish Highland...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 28: playing soccer on #NationalSoccerDay
A lot of #soccer there's not, in #WimWenders' Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (1972). An early, perfect example of Neue Deutsche Film, cinematic thanks to #RobbyMüller's observant eye and Handke's precise language. And a very slow burning road movie, a Taxi Driver in reverse if you will, that doesn't suffer the neurotic showmanship of its Hollywood counterpart > https://write.underworld.fr/settima/die-angst-des-tormanns-beim-elfmeter-1972
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 29: lipstick
With its sweeping cinematography and #Technicolor splendour, Black Narcissus establishes a stark contrast between piety and the pull of worldly desire. The bewitching #lipstick scene works as well as it does because of the scene's photography. That red smear, like blood pulsating from a fresh wound, becomes a deeply unsettling, vulgar gesture ☞https://write.underworld.fr/settima/black-narcissus-1947
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 30: a #whistleblower movie for #NationalWhistleblowerDay
Sidney Lumet's Serpico (1973) ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/serpico-1973
#SidneyLumet #AlPacino #PeterMaas #FrankSerpico #BookAdaptation #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 31: watermelon on #NationalWatermelonDay
#MarcoFerreri's Dillinger è morto (1969) is a story of food & alienation. #MichelPiccoli's Glauco, bored of his successful career, bored of his beautiful wife, bored of his beautiful house, finds sudden vigour in the act of preparing #food and restoring an item that shouldn't be where it is and with that, essentially recreates #JohnDillinger's escape from Crown Point ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/dillinger-e-morto-1969
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 1: filmed in Colorado for #ColoradoDay
They've been planning this for months, #CanonCity's #Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility toughest inmates. It's going to happen on December 30, and all men are ready to go. Striking about #CraneWilbur's Canon City (1948) is the usage of some of the actual locations, ánd people, involved in the 1947 #prison break ☞https://write.underworld.fr/settima/canon-city-1948-yf51
#CañonCity #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film @art_film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 3: a Michael for #NationalMichaelDay
Considered one of the earliest positive cinematic depictions of (male) homosexuality, Dreyer's Michael (1924) tells the story of a lonely artist Zoret, his bright young muse and model Michael, and the more mature art critic Switt. Though its mostly suggested, its motif of the spoken and unspoken relationship between the men is definitely one of love ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/michael-1924
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 4: throw a water balloon on #NationalWaterBalloonDay
Roscoe Arbuckle just can't help himself while at the wonderfully hedonistic Oriental Café in his delightful short slapstick His Wife's Mistakes (1916) ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/his-wifes-mistakes-1916
#RoscoeArbuckle #USA #comedy #slapstick #comedy #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 5: hungover on #InternationalHangoverDay
After a lovely night out, Norah wakes up with a terrible hangover and a hunch of being a murderess. The Blue Gardenia (1953) is #FritzLang's hard-bitten take on the gruesome Black Dahlia murder case and part of his newspaper noir trilogy together with While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, both from 1956 ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-blue-gardenia-1953
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 9: a forest fire on #SmokeyBearDay
#EduardGrečner's Drak sa vracia [Dragon's Return] (1968) says all that can be said in mere whispers and smoky greys. The main characters – the fire, smoke, pottery, and composer #IljaZeljenka's often silent motif – weave their wordless presence throughout the ancient landscape; that same landscape that carved itself into the locals' being. ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/drak-sa-vracia-1968
Several of my older #Bales2023FilmChallenge posts starting August 6 were hidden from view due to me accidentality setting my account to private.
If you're interested and don't want to follow me, all posts are available as #blogposts. Those delve a bit deeper too ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/
Can't/won't read? There's #Letterboxd for that https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 10: a Mary for #NationalMaryDay
#Zouzou in a double role as (Virgin) Marie and (whore) Marie Magdalène. #PhilippeGarrel's unscripted, drug-fuelled response to the failed revolution of #May68, Le lit de la vierge [The Virgin's Bed] (1969), moves the second coming of a disillusioned Christ (Pierre Clémenti) to the Moroccan desert ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/le-lit-de-la-vierge-1969
#Mai68 #GroupeZanzibar #PierreClémenti #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film @art_film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 11: a #HipHop focussed movie on #HipHopDay
#BramVanSplunteren's obscure 1986 Dutch TV #documentary Big Fun in the Big Town is an essential snapshot of hip hop culture. It captures an optimism and fire elemental to survive Reagan's America and highlights the urge to continue the Black struggle that the Panthers and others set in motion. Happy birthday, #Hiphop. To many powerful years to come! https://write.underworld.fr/0kr3412enu
 ###### Run-DMC sitting on a limo with a NYC license plate. We only see their Adidas. Under the car a half-eaten apple #Bales2023FilmChallenge August 11: a hip hop focussed movie on #HipHopDay There's something really pec...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 12: a garage sale on #NationalGarageSaleDay
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, 1974)
After her husband is gone, Alice (Ellen Burstyn) sells her stuff and the house, picks up her son Tommy and embarks on fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a singer just like Alice Faye ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/alice-doesnt-live-here-anymore-1974
#MartinScorsese #EllenBurstyn #AlfredLutterIII #KrisKristofferson #HarveyKeitel #JodieFoster #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 13: a gay relative on #GayUnclesDay
In #ArturoRipstein's El lugar sin límites (1978) we follow the plight of La Manuela who dances with her daughter in the brothel run by Madame La Japonesa, her daughter's mother. The return of trucker Pancho disrupts the family regime. His attraction to the transsexual is at odds with his machismo and him being outed as a maricón would be the end ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/el-lugar-sin-limites-1978
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 14: a bookshop for #LoveYourBookshopDay
Umeko believes to have caught Torio redhanded shoplifting. Torio however is a performance actor and the act of stealing is part of his research. The young people's encounter sets something in motion and they embark on committing crimes in #Tokyo's labyrinthine #Shinjuku neighbourhood. #NagisaŌshima's Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/xin-su-ni-bang-ri-ji-1969
#ArtTheatreGuild #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film @art_film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 15: speak to the moon on #ChantAtTheMoonDay
In William A. O'Connor's Moonland (1926), a little boy and his dog are invited over by the #ManInTheMoon himself. The trip to the Moon is a big adventure for the drowsy duo and they meet peculiar flora, fauna and men, taken straight out of the Great Moon Hoax along the way ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/moonland-1926
ckey (Mickey McBan) and his dog looking up to the crescent moon. Spot the Milky Way. #Bales2023FilmChallenge August 15: looking at/speaking to the moon on #ChantAtTheMoonDay Post-McCay's serial Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905) and pre-Fleming & Cukor's The Wizard of Oz (1939), William A. O'Connor is heavily indebted to both. Which ...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 16: the main character shows his real self on #NationalAuthenticityDay
Humph, doing this one without spoilers…
Joseph Losey's claustrophobic The Servant (1963), based on the novel by Robin Maugham with a screenplay by Harold #Pinter.
#JosephLosey #RobinMaugham #HaroldPinter #DirkBogarde #SarahMiles #WendyCraig #JamesFox #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 17: neighbours/neighbors on #NeighborNight
Norman McLaren's short #AntiWar live action #animation (aka #pixilation) Neighbours (1952), ft #GrantMunro & #JeanPaulLadouceur. The technique was groundbreaking; even the soundtrack was painted directly onto the film stock!
You can watch this #ShortFilm on the NFB's website https://www.nfb.ca/film/neighbours_voisins/
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 18: a blind pick for #SerendipityDay
#EsterKrumbachová's feminist farce Vražda ing. Čerta [The Murder of Mr. Devil] (1970) is a delight of many flavours. Ona (Jiřina Bohdalová) is already 40 and wants a man. She remembers one from her youth, the handsome, slim, and very cultured Mr Devil (the great Vladimír Menšík), and knows that the one way to a man's heart is through the stomach ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/vrazda-ing
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 19: #potatoes eaten on #NationalPotatoDay
Jeanne Dielman (#DelphineSeyrig) routinely prepares meals, cleans the house, mothers her teenage son (#JanDecorte in his salad days), and sees clients in #ChantalAkerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). Until something breaks and her carefully nurtured practices slowly unravel ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles-1975
Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) carefully peeling potatoes for dinner. #Bales2023FilmChallenge August 19: potatoes eaten on #NationalPotatoDay Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) routinely prepares meals, cleans the house, mothers her teenage son, and sees men i...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 20: a medical transporter on the #InternationalDayOfMedicalTransporters
The boss' girlfriend falls for an ambulance driver, derailing her man's gang's carefully planned narcotics heist in William J. Hole Jr.'s #noir Hell Bound (1957) ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/hell-bound-1957
#WilliamJHoleJr #JohnRussell #JuneBlair #StuartWhitman #drugs #USA #crime #FilmNoir #1950s #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film
Paula (June Blair) and Eddie (Stuart Whitman) in nurses' uniforms taking care of an injured child on the street. Behind them, two cops unload a stretcher from an ambulance. #Bales2023FilmChallenge August 20: a medical transporter on the #InternationalDayOfMedicalTransporters The boss' girlfriend falls for an ambulance driver, derailing her man's gang's carefully planned narcotics heist in William J. Hole Jr.'s noir Hell Bound (1957). ...
> Do you want to work? What a nightmarish idea.
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 21: freebie: someone is #sleeping (March 17 redux)
#NikosPanayotopoulos' The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978) is a slow satire, wordlessly adddressing Greek #class struggle. We spend long hours in the company of a father and his sons. The four of them – rich, bourgeois – have inherited a country villa and the plan is to do nothing for the next 7 years ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/oi-tempeledes-tes-euphores-koiladas-1978
o of the sons. #Bales2023FilmChallenge August 21: freebie: someone is sleeping on #WorldSleepDay (March 17 redux) SlowCinema of a different kind. We spend long hours in the company of a father (Vasilis Diamantopoulos) and his sons Sakis (George Dialegmen...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 22: #folklore on #FolkloreDay
On May 1 an ancient procession goes around #Padstow, #Cornwall. How ancient, no one really knows. Locals may describe it as a pagan fertility rite but even their generational memory draws a blank and no living soul can put an age on it. #AlanLomax's Oss Oss Wee Oss (1953) is probably the best known visual documentation of the #ObbyOss festival ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/oss-oss-wee-oss-1953
— Padstow May Night Song (traditional) Children reenacting the adults' 'Obby 'Oss procession on a Padstow hillside. #Bales2023FilmChallenge August 22: folklore on #FolkloreDay On May 1 – in Padstow, #Cornwall – an ancient procession goes around town. How ancient, no one really knows. Locals may describ...
Here's an article on the Oss with some photos from 1975.
https://reeddesign.co.uk/wordpress/2015/02/03/the-padstow-obby-oss/
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 24: eat a waffle on #NationalWaffleDay
The city of #Liège in #Belgium's Walloon region is grey. The air seems forever stained by the heavy mining that for years made its inhabitants rich and sick. Here lives Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc #Dardenne, 1999) (#ÉmilieDequenne), a young woman trying to keep herself and her alcoholic mother above water with a measly job at a waffle stand > https://write.underworld.fr/settima/rosetta-1999
Émilie Dequenne as the titular Rosetta, eating a Gaufre de Liège (a “Liège waffle” made with brioche-based dough and pearl sugar) as part of daily normalcy. #Bales2023FilmChallenge August 24: eat a waffle on #NationalWaffleDay The city of Liège in Belgium's Walloon region is grey. The air seems forever stained by the heavy mining that for years made its inhabitants rich and sick...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 25: someone wears another person's clothes on #NationalSecondhandWardrobeDay
#EdWood's Glen or Glenda is not only an utterly unique autobiographic docudrama but also a lovingly composed pamphlet in support of transvestism and transsexualism. It's also pretty unique when it comes to the art of filmmaking. However contagiously enthusiastic, Wood didn't have the skill, weight, or budget to make movies ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/8xjgb9dypr
en or Glenda (1953)](https://i.postimg.cc/rySrwZSx/0825-clothes.png) ###### In an intimate moment, Barbara (Dolores Fuller) hands Glen (Ed Wood) her #angora sweater. #Bales2023FilmChallenge August 25: someone wears another person's clothes on #NationalSecondhandWardrobeDay In 1953, Christine Jorgensen – who had widely reported sex reassignment surgery the year before – was approached by schlocky Z movie producer George G. Weiss to be in an exploitation movie about her voyage. ...
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 26: a movie that goes the extra mile for #NationalSparkTheWorldDay
Like Rome, #Cleopatra (1963) wasn't built in a day. #JosephLMankiewicz's epic studio breaker took six years to make and, despite it being the highest-grossing film of 1963, didn't break even until 1973. Was it a #flop? A classic flop but a flop nevertheless? 𓃦 https://write.underworld.fr/settima/cleopatra-1963
#ElizabethTaylor #RichardBurton #RexHarrison #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 27: eating #soup on #CrabSoupDay
#ZbigniewRybczyński's autobiographical #animation Zupa [Soup] (1975) follows an unnamed couple's faltering monotonous relationship. Produced by the groundbreaking #SeMaForStudios in #Łódź, the dramatic story is told through colourised, analogue still #photography, and electronic music and sound effects created by PRES's #EugeniuszRudnik ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/zupa-1975
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 28: someone listens to the #radio on #RadioCommercialsDay
R… ne répond plus (1981) is Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne's exploration of the airwaves. Some is clearly political. Pirates channel their comrade cats & witches with important messages unheard of in the mainstream media. Others broadcast in languages on the verge of extinction in a world that – forty years ago – was rapidly homogenizing. ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/r-ne-repond-plus-1981
#Bales2023FilmChallenge August 29: a lemon for #NationalLemonJuiceDay
#GeorgeBlair's The Hypnotic Eye (1960) utilises what's called the #MovieGimmick. You too may laugh at that folly, that parlour trick. But who says #hypnotism isn't real? Who says you never went to see a hypnotism show…? ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-hypnotic-eye-1960
#Bales2023FilmChallenge Aug 30: grief on #NationalGriefAwarenessDay
Nyatta is not ready to have Jizō take away his big sister Nyāko to the land of the dead. They set off to retrieve her soul.
Adult #anime ねこぢる草 [Cat Soup] (#TatsuoSatô, 2001) is based on works by #Nekojiru whose crudely drawn cats caused a ripple in #Japan's underground #manga circuit (=‐ω‐=) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/nekodirucao-2001
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