Paul Gégauff's "Une partie de plaisir" (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1958) and Franz Kafka's "Lettres à Milena" ("Briefe an Milena", Gallimard, 1956) in Jacques Doniol-Valcroze's "L'eau à la bouche".
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In "Mystery Junction", a group of train passengers are stranded at a snow-bound railway station with nothing but tea to drink and posters advertising liquors and Cumbrian resorts all around them.
#michaelmccarthy#mysteryjunction
Difficult to make out the title of the book on the left, but its cover features an illustration by Horacio Salinas Blanch. The same image is used elsewhere in the film as an element of set décor.
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Sheri S. Tepper's "Un monde de femmes" ("The Gate to Women's Country", J'ai lu, 1990) in Bertrand Mandico's "Ultra pulpe".
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This novel about a futuristic feminist utopia will serve as the primary inspiration for Mandico's later "After Blue (Paradis sale)".
#afterblueparadissale
Tomas Milian, Jean Bouise and Gerald Ford: can anything good come out of this threesome? Time Magazine (Vol. 105, N°16, April 21, 1975) in Yves Boisset's "Folle à tuer":
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A cosy title card illustration in Frank Launder's "Geordie" (even if the discarded kilt mostly suggests that somewhere there is a stark naked Scotsman running about):
#franklaunder#geordie
When a film editor is given the directorial reigns: this double exposure shot in "The Long Dark Hall" is sustained for full eight seconds - and then for another five with an added subshot of a huddled human body.
#reginaldbeck#anthonybushell#thelongdarkhall
A plagiarist's best friend: poetry anthologies in Tony Richardson's "The Loved One":
• "The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900" (Oxford University Press, 1925)
• "Victorian & Edwardian Poets" (Viking Press, 1950)
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