1971-1980

  • Jean-Claude Brisseau – Des jeunes femmes disparaissent (1972 – 2014)

    1971-1980ExperimentalFranceJean-Claude BrisseauThriller

    The three versions and a film about by JCB.
    — Des jeunes femmes disparaissent (1974, 20 minutes, 8 mm, NB) IMDb
    — Des jeunes femmes disparaissent (1976, 20 minutes, S8 mm, couleur) IMDb
    — Des jeunes femmes disparaissent (2014, 30 minutes, HD, couleur) IMDb
    — Des jeunes femmes disparaissent – Origine et fabrication (2018, 30 minutes)

    Quote:
    Je savais depuis un moment que je devais faire quelque chose que je voulais totalement différent. Récemment, je me suis mis à regarder une série de films en relief. J’ai alors eu envie de faire le remake d’un film, Des jeunes femmes disparaissent, que j’ai tourné il y a 40 ans, d’abord en 8 mm puis en Super 8. C’était un film à suspense, en noir et blanc, qui avait foutu la trouille à Eric Rohmer et Maurice Pialat.Read More »

  • Arturas Barysas – Sakyti tik tiesa AKA To Tell Only The Truth (1978)

    1971-1980Arturas BarysasExperimentalLithuaniaShort Film

    Arturas Barysas “Baras” (May 10, 1954 – January 28, 2005) was a Lithuanian “counter-culture” actor, singer, bibliophile, record collector, photographer, and filmmaker, known as the father of modern Lithuanian avant-garde. His works were declared “apolitical and immoral” by the cultural nomenklatura of the Soviet Union.Read More »

  • Don Coscarelli – Phantasm (1979)

    1971-1980Don CoscarelliHorrorUSA

    Quote:
    Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, is afraid to lose his brother. This fear causes him to follow his brother to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lift a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate and discovers a horrible world where the Tall Man, along with his flying spheres, shrinks the dead to half their normal size and reanimate them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man.Read More »

  • Claude d’Anna – L’Ordre et la sécurité du monde aka Last In, First Out (1978)

    1971-1980Claude d'AnnaFranceThriller

    Synopsis:
    In the film, Helen (Laure Dechasnel), a married woman, leaves Paris for Zurich after breaking up with her lover. Near the border, a fellow passenger, mistakenly takes her passport. This sets up a situation which plunges her into the midst of international intrigue, a violent struggle between multinational corporations abetted by national secret agencies. This production features such international stars as Joesph Cotten, Donald Pleasence, Dennis Hopper and Bruno Cremer.Read More »

  • Paul Mazursky – An Unmarried Woman (1978)

    1971-1980ComedyDramaPaul MazurskyUSA

    Quote:
    Erica is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale’s. The film shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in its own right rather than as an extension of somebody else’s personality, and finally going out with another man. Erica refuses to drop everything for Saul, an abstract expressionist painter, simply out of love for him because he expects her to. It is not so much loneliness that is her problem, and the problems that men, flitting around this newly “available” woman like moths round a flame, bring to her sense of independence.Read More »

  • Arthur Penn – The Missouri Breaks (1976)

    1971-1980Arthur PennDramaUSAWestern

    Synopsis:
    When vigilante land baron David Braxton (John McLiam) hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson), Logan’s gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton’s ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton (Marlon Brando), who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan’s gang.Read More »

  • Peter Fleischmann – La faille AKA Weak Spot (1975)

    1971-1980FrancePeter FleischmannThriller

    Greece 1974 – during the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. Two secret agents (Michel Piccoli and Mario Adorf) are bringing the innocent victim to Athens.Read More »

  • Cynthia Beatt & Rudolf Thome – Beschreibung einer Insel AKA Description of an Island (1979)

    1971-1980Cynthia BeattDocumentaryGermanyRudolf Thome

    Quote:
    This film with a marked ethnographic nature, which was filmed without a pre-established plan and with a script that crosses the lines of documentary and fiction, tells the story of a group of five Germans who arrive on a remote island in the South Pacific called Parapara and belonging to Vanuatu. Their aim is to prepare a publication on the lives of the inhabitants of this remote island. The tasks were personally assigned: one would study the language, another would study the fauna; another the traditions, institutions and family systems; another the plants and another the songs and stories.Read More »

  • Jerzy Hoffman – Tredowata AKA The Leper (1976)

    1971-1980DramaJerzy HoffmanPolandRomance

    Quote:
    A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.Read More »

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