#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

#LGBT #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

#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.

☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/491-1964

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

Note: this is *not* a mid-60s promotional picture for Trainspotting.

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon

#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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

- 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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

#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

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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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film @art_film

#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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

#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)

#cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

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

#SciFi #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

#BalesBonus: for #ArtificialIntelligenceAppreciationDay, watch Stuart Hamisch's terrifying #StudentFilm Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? (1958) https://archive.org/details/HaveITol1958

#SciFi #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film #AI

#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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon

#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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

#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.

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

#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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

CW: stroking

Für die deutschen Leser unter euch gibt es hier einen hervorragenden 4-teiligen Artikel über 3D-Filme. #3D-Schwulenporno, oooh Boy! #CSD

https://evil-ed.de/kritik/666-wir-sehn-in-3d-teil-1

#film #porn

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/

#film #ColdWar #booom

*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)

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

#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

#film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

#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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon @film

#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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

#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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon @film

#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

#LGBT #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

#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

#FilmNoir #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

#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

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film @art_film