1970s

  • Bolotbek Shamshiyev – Alye maki Issyk-Kulya AKA The scarlet poppies of Issyk-Kul (1972)

    1971-1980Bolotbek ShamshiyevDramaKrygyzstan

    Based on the novella “The Smugglers of the Tian Shan”, this popular Kyrgyz film takes place in the 1920s and uses the basic formula of the Red Western: a Bolshevik superman fights a violent native gang of opium traffickers.
    Somewhere in Kyrgyzstan in the 1920s, the pro-Soviet guard Karabalta (‘Black Axe’) detects secret paths in the mountains used by smugglers to transport opium across the Soviet border.
    Meanwhile, a strange man named ‘Golden Mouth’ offers to accompany a patrol unit led by the Russian commander Kondraty, promising to help find these smugglers and their camp. A mission to find the opium cache is complicated by kidnappers and other disasters. […]
    The film is distinguished by superb camera work, praising the beauty of Kyrgyzstan’s wild nature in lavish widescreen images.Read More »

  • Jim McBride – Hot Times AKA A Hard Day for Archie (1974)

    1971-1980ComedyJim McBrideUSA

    Sex comedy about Archie Anders, a horny teen who can’t help but think about sex all day. When even his own sister starts looking attractive to him, Archie realizes it’s high time to leave the house and find the right girl for himself.Read More »

  • Nicholas Ray – We Can’t Go Home Again (1973)

    USA1971-1980ExperimentalNicholas RayVideo Art

    Quote:
    A decade after quitting Hollywood, legendary director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause, In a Lonely Place) accepted a teaching contract at Harpur College in Binghamton, NY. There, with the intensive collaboration of his students, he began work on a project unlike anything he had done before, the making of which would consume his creative energies for the remainder of his life. Entitled We Can’t Go Home Again, that film is Ray’s enormously ambitious, profoundly personal, wildly experimental magnum opus – a collection of notes on Vietnam-era America, the generation gap and the filmmaking process itself, conceived in a dizzying kaleidoscope of split screens, superimpositions and other radical image manipulations that anticipate later trends in video art and digital effects.Read More »

  • Piotr Szulkin – Golem (1980)

    Piotr Szulkin1971-1980ArthousePolandSci-Fi

    Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He’s released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven. Pernat’s odyssey to find out who he is, and what it is to be human, will force his path to cross with all of them.Read More »

  • Erwin C. Dietrich – Die Stewardessen AKA Stewardesses Report (1971)

    1971-1980ComedyEroticaErwin C. DietrichSwitzerland

    Synopsis:
    This 70’s soft-core sex comedy chronicles the exploits of several flight attendants whose favorite perk-of-the-trade is the ability to flit from one sexual adventure to the next. The mile high club takes on a new meaning as the swingin’ German heroines make their way throughout Europe.Read More »

  • Antonio Bonacin Thome – Belinda dos Orixás na Praia dos Desejos (1979)

    1971-1980Antonio Bonacin ThomeBrazilDramaThriller

    The story unfolds from the arrival of young Belinda and her friends, a group of university students looking for leisure, to a camping area at the seaside. In another tent, the family of Adilson, a young man who is interested in Belinda, tries to get close to the group by offering help in case of any eventuality. During an evening stroll, Belinda and Adilson, attend a religious ritual, in which the fate of the girl is definitely marked. Meanwhile, a dangerous bandit and his cronies manage to escape from a prison where they serve time and seek refuge in the camping. The arrival of the gang unleash scenes of sex and violence.Read More »

  • Erwin C. Dietrich – Ich, ein Groupie AKA Me, a Groupie (1970)

    1961-1970DramaEroticaErwin C. DietrichGermany

    Synopsis:
    A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe to track him down. On the way, however, she gets mixed up with everyone from a gang of nasty bikers to a ring of devil worshipers.Read More »

  • Erwin C. Dietrich – Blutjunge Verführerinnen 2 AKA The Young Seducers 2 (1972)

    1971-1980ComedyEroticaErwin C. DietrichGermany

    Pretty young girls get involved in humorous sexual situations.Read More »

  • Marguerite Duras – Le Camion AKA The Truck (1977)

    1971-1980DramaFranceMarguerite DurasRomance

    Quote:
    In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That’s all — there is no action, there are no location shots, no one pretends to be anything else. The script itself tells about an encounter between a blank-slate of a woman hitchhiker, and a communist truck driver. As the reading progresses, Duras comments bitterly about the failed ideals of communism and the glorious revolution that will probably never happen.Read More »

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