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Aaand, the blog's back up! Still got things to do but hey, it's a start https://write.underworld.fr/settima/

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As part of my Bales catch up I'm enjoying a little trip to Space Coast (1979). And it's… something…

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#Bales2023FilmChallenge Dec 31: #NewYearsEve!

A mousy bank clerk finds himself hiding in a shady cabaret on New Year's Eve instead of spending a quiet evening alone. During his stay he comes to identify more and more with his newfound persona and assumes the role of the notorious “Drago”.

An initial box office dud, #NikosKoundouros O Drakos (1956) is now considered 1 of the top 10 all-time best Greek films.

#HappyNewYear and to many more discoveries in 2024!

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Dec 31: New Years Eve celebrated
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#PhantomThread (2017)
Alma becomes tired of sitting around the house with Reynolds and decides to go dancing on New Year's Eve, much to Reynold's chagrin.
#DanielDayLewis #VickyKrieps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWa4gflt-_s

December 31 - New Year's Eve Celebrated in Movie
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All My Friends Are Dead (🇵🇱 2020)
german title: Meine Freunde sind alle tot
Original title: Wszyscy moi przyjaciele nie zyja
IMDB: 5,8/10
/tt13723064/

Horror Comedy about an escalating New Year's Eve Party.
To avoid scenes containing violence and nudity my clip is very short and like most of the times in german:

#Bales2023FilmChallenge Dec 30: discussing an elaborate plan on #NationalResolutionPlanningDay

Destitute phaeton driver Cabbar (#YılmazGüney) his friend Hasan (#TuncelKurtiz) and imam Hodja's (#OsmanAlyanak) have a wondrous plan to go out into the Kurdish wastelands to dig up an illusive treasure that may be his only escape. Yılmaz Güney and #ŞerifGören's Umut [Hope] (1970) is #Turkey's early venture into #Neorealismo ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/umut-1970

#film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

December 30 - Someone Discussing an Elaborate Plan
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I was going for Final Destination and then realised that @thisiseuge already made the same suggestion even with the same clip, so I changed my pick of today:

Melancholia (2011)
IMDB: 7,1/10
/tt1527186/
I only have it in german, here Justine and Claire discuss how to spend the end of the world:

Dec 30: Discussing an elabrate plan
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#EscapeToVictory aka #Victory (1981)
Hatch gives the plan on how the allied P.O.W football team would win against the German National team, Luis Fernandez has other ideas.
#MichaelCaine #Pele

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 29: a clock face on #TickTockDay

Both #YukioMishima's story and #KenjiMisumi's 1964 adaptation Ken [Sword] (1964) follow arrogant #kendo student Jiro, #RaizōIchikawa who also appears in an earlier Mishima adaptation, Enjô (1958). The clock not only helps us understand the cruel punishment, but also embodies the characters' #ComingOfAge. ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/jian-1964

#film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #BookAdaptation #LGBT #sports #MartialArts #Japan #1960s ★★★★½

December 29 - Clock Face Seen in Movie

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
IMDB: 7,0/10
/tt5715874/

Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) gives Martin (Barry Keoghan) a watch

Dec 29: Clock Face 🕖
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#VForVendetta (2005)
Evey sets off the tube train full of explosives to blow up the Houses of Parliment and Big Ben and overthrow the tyrannical British government.
#NataliePortman

Dec 28: Downloading
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#Downloaded (2013)
A documentary that explores the downloading revolution; the kids that created it, the bands and the businesses that were affected by it, and its impact on the world at large. #Napster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7YnjPGIeKY

December 28 - Downloading Seen or Mentioned in Movie
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Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
IMDB: 5,6/10
/tt0113481/
Johnny downloads the data directly into his brain 💽 ➡️ 🧠
And then they fax the access code...:blobcatgigglesmirk:
https://youtu.be/0iIrTVOpguk?si=8Cyb4-NLPWLGwDN8

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 27: a zoo on #VisitTheZooDay

#DavidAttenborough's narrated and #PeterGreenaway's directed fable of life and decay, A Zed & Two Noughts [aka Z+00 or ZOO] (1985).

#film #cinema #zoo #animals #CineMastodon @film @art_film

December 27 - Zoo in Movie
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Bird on a Wire(1990)
german title: Ein Vogel auf dem Drahtseil
IMDB: 6,0/10
/tt0099141/
Action Comedy with Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn
The grand finale of the movie is set in a zoo:
https://youtu.be/idfa7VqkSOw?si=a_aaxoFfnaLtjOJd
Part 2 of the finale in the zoo:
https://youtu.be/V3RHvyrqTak?si=rR_bVxP70wKCQ8hY

Dec 27: Zoo 🦒 🦓 🦁
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#FierceCreatures (1997)
Zookeepers struggle to deal with the policies of changing directors.
#JohnCleese #JamieLeeCurtis #KevinKline
#MichaelPalin #RonnieCorbett #CareyLowell

Dec 25: Thankyou Note
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#AsGoodAsItGets (1997)
A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

The mother of all thankyou notes.

December 26 - Thank You Note Written in Movie
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Her (2013)
IMDB: 8,0/10
/tt1798709/
Theodore's Job is a letter writer for a company called "handwrittenletters.com". He dictates the letters and they are printed out in a handlettering font and sent to the clients.
In the scene around 2.05 min a coworker can be heard dictating a "thank you" letter.
https://youtu.be/p_h0VjK3Stc?si=QKZkehCmp6JABiay

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 25: a Santa for #Christmas

#Animation means “a bestowing of life“. Like his ancestor in the arts Bernard Palissy and the ancient winter solstice celebration of the return of light that long ago spawned Christmas, #WladyslawStarewicz's The Insects' Christmas (1912) breathes life into real but inanimate beetles, dragonflies, and frogs. From me to you, here's a little Christmas treat https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:The_Insects%27_Christmas_(1913)_.webm

#insects #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

December 25 - Santa seen in Movie
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Scrooged (1988)
german title: Die Geister, die ich rief...
IMDB: 6,9/10
/tt0096061/

In the opening scene Santa can be seen: 🎅 💥
https://youtu.be/rKJB0G4Tv1E?si=1i40Fe6cnkSDSO9M

Dec 25: Santa seen 🎅
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#Fatman (2020)
A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.
#MelGibson #WaltonGoggins #MarianneJeanBaptiste #ChanceHurstfield

December 24 - Night Before Christmas in Movie
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The Apartment (1960)
IMDB: 8,3/10
/tt0053604/

There she says it :blobcatgigglesmirk:

#Bales2023FilmChallenge Dec 24: the night before Christmas on #ChristmasEve

Told in #fotonovela format, we follow the pitiful account of Monique, who as a young girl learns that her mother is not who she thinks she is. Even in the short comically melodramatic breathe that is #RaúlRuiz's Colloque de chiens (1977), the map has been laid out for Ruiz's later, much more complex narrative ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/colloque-de-chiens-1977

#SilkeHumel #ExperimentalFilm #film #ShortFilm #cinema #CineMastodon @film @art_film

Dec 24: Night before Christmas 🎄
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#DieHard (1988)
A NYC police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas Eve party at the Nakatomi Plaza in LA.

#JustWatched 👀

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 23: farmers for #NationalFarmersDay in India

El-Fallâh el-fasîh / The Eloquent Peasant] (#ChadiAbdelSalam, 1970) takes place 4000 years ago, in #Egypt's Middle Kingdom. A peasant (#AhmedMarei), leading his mules past a stream of water, is tricked. With his animals gone, he pleads to the Pharaoh to restore Maʽat, harmony 𓀀 https://write.underworld.fr/settima/el-fallah-el-fasih-1970

#film #cinema #CineMastodon @film @art_film

December 23 - Farmers Seen in Movie
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Night Moves (2013)
IMDB: 6,1/10
/tt2043933/
Thriller Drama by Kelly Reichardt

Dec 23: Farmers 👩‍🌾 👨‍🌾
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#Sommersby (1993)
A farmer returns home from the Civil War, but his wife begins to suspect that the man is an impostor.
#RichardGere #JodieFoster

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 22: #mathematics on #MathematicsDay in India

Mahagonny (1980) is film maker, artist, musicologist, and alchemist #HarrySmith's mathematical analysis of #MarcelDuchamp's masterpiece The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, aka The Large Glass (1923). It is set to #Brecht and #Weill's #opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny from 1930.

#AllenGinsberg #LotteLenya #JonasMekas #PattiSmith #film #cinema #CineMastodon #ExperimentalFilm @film @art_film

– I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 21: a short girl for #ShortGirlAppreciationDay

The great Gloria Swanson (4'11” – 5ft 2 / 1,49 m) – fabulously dressed by Edith Head (5'1” / 1,55 m) with an endless parade of platform shoes – in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. (1950). Also starring, Buster Keaton, who was 5'5” / 1,65 m.

#BillyWilder #GloriaSwanson #BusterKeaton #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

Dec 22: Mathematics ➕ ➖
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#TheAccountant (2016)
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise. #BenAffleck

Dec 21: Main character is short girl
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#TheIncredibles (2004)
Bob Parr decides to get back into the superhero game and Edna Mode dosen't need much convincing to make him a new suit, but no capes.

December 20 - Someone Named Greg in Movie
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The China Syndrome (1979)
IMDB: 7,4/10
/tt0078966/

Nuclear engineer Greg Minor.🤓

Dec 20: Someone named Greg
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#HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallowsPart2 (2011)
Draco, Blaise Zabini and Gregory Goyle attack Harry, but Ron and Hermione intervene. Goyle casts a Fiendfyre curse; unable to control it, he is burned to death.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 19: hard candy for #NationalHardCandyDay

#CornellWoolrich's haunting tales of childhood lost leaped from Ireland to #Argentina in #CarlosHugoChristensen's Si muero antes de despertar (1952). With similarities of Lang's M (1931), this fairy-tale feels more oppressive; due to the helplessness of a boy's power in an adult world and his understanding of grown-up responsibilities ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/si-muero-antes-de-despertar-1952

#film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

Dec 19: Hard Candy Eaten 🍭
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#WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory (1971)
Willy Wonka takes his guests to 'The Chocolate Room' where almost everything is made of candy and a chocolate river. #GeneWilder

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 18: Arabic spoken on #ArabicLanguageDay

#GilloPontecorvo's ever-relevant La battaglia di Algeri [The Battle of #Algiers] (1966) ✊🏼

#drama #war #politics #انتفاضة #anticolonialism #Italy #cinemastodon #film #filmastodon @film

December 18 - Arabic Language Spoken in Movie
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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
IMDB: 7,2/10
/tt1714915/

The Singer is Yasmine Hamdan.
She not only sings. At the very end of the clip she also speaks 1 word. 😬

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 16: an underdog movie for #UnderdogDay

Underdog Ánimas Trujano is dead set on becoming his town's next mayordomio. It may take a moment to get comfortable with casting Japanese movie legend #ToshirôMifune as the titular important man, but from that moment on, #IsmaelRodríguez's Ánimas Trujano (El hombre importante) (1961) feels as universal as any great cinematic experience should be ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/animas-trujano-el-hombre-importante-1961

#film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #Mexico #Oaxaca

Dec 16: Underdog Movie
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#CoolRunnings (1993)
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team 🇯🇲
#JohnCandy

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 15: pearls worn on #NationalWearYourPearlsDay

No one said those pearls were to be worn in an obvious place. From Henri d'Ursel surrealist-ish folly La perle [The Pearl] (1929).

#HenridUrsel #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #cinemastodon #surrealism #Belgium

#Bales2023FilmChallenge Dec 14: filmed in Alabama on #NationalAlabamaDay

George Wallace, #Alabama governor, refused to allow Black students into the University. In Crisis (1963), #RobertDrew et al followed Pres. Kennedy and AG R.F. Kennedy. They filmed everything; from tense phone calls, private moments (one of #RFK's daughters on the phone with a perplexed Dept. Katzenbach), and many, many shots in which nothing – which is everything – is said ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/crisis-behind-a-presidential-commitment-1963-ljvd

#film #documentary #JFK

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 13: the #NationalGuard shows up for their #USNationalGuardBirthday

American dissidents are given the choice to spend decades in federal prison, or 3 days in the desert, chased by National Guardsmen et al. If they manage capture the American flag, they're free to go. While the washed-out 16mm footage and #Nixon references may tell you otherwise, #PeterWatkins' #PunishmentPark (1971) remains a gut-punching portrait of a timeless America.

@film #cinemastodon #film

Dec 13: National Guard shows up
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#FirstBlood (1982)
An over confident National Guard are called in to 'hunt' down John Rambo, how little did they know 🤣
#SylvesterStallone #BrianDennehy #RichardCrenna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97DvS0oRfKw

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 12: bad breath on #National12HourFreshBreathDay

#LesBlank explores the taste, smell, history, and myth of that stinky rose, #garlic in Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980). And manages to sneak in a little workers' rights agitprop along the way. It truly is a wonder spice!

#WernerHerzog #AliceWaters #food #documentary #USA #1980s #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film ★★★½

Dec 12: Someone Has Bad Breath 👄
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#Dragonheart (1996)
'My armour is rusting in your drool and your breath it's absolutely foul'.
'What do you expect with old Knight rocking between my walls'.
#SeanConnery #DennisQuaid

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 11: mountains travelled on #InternationalMountainDay

In #KeisukeKinoshita's highly stylised 楢山節考 [The Ballad of Narayama] (1958), a starving community has come to the agreement that the elders approaching the age of seventy are to be carried up the mountain Narayama to die. The day prior to the mountain's festival, sixty-nine year old Orin prepares to leave, carried by her son Tatsuhei ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/you-shan-jie-kao-1958

#film #cinema #CineMastodon @film

#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 10: a candle is lit for #WorldwideCandleLightingDay

Candles lit in prayer, longing, and #poetry in #AndreiTarkovsky's Nostalghia [Nostalgia] (1983).

#film #cinema #CineMastodon @film @art_film