1970s

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Lis Rhodes uses often mysterious, dangerous and highly personal images. –Amy Taubin, ‘Village Voice’ New York, 1978‘The film begins in darkness as a woman’s voice is heard over a black screen. The voice is questioning, searching. She will act. But how? Act against what? The bloodstained bed suggests a crime. . . could it be his blood? Could it be her blood? The voice searches for clues. . . . The clues suggest it is language that has trapped her, meanings that have excluded her and a past constructed to control her. Light Reading ends with no single solution. But there is a beginning. Of that she is positive. She will not be looked at but listened to…’ –Felicity Sparrow, ‘Her Image Fades as Her Voice Rises’, publ. The Arts Council 1982, reprinted in ‘Films for Women’, Charlotte Brunsden, Ed., publ. British Film Institute, 1986‘Light Reading is the possibility of a new direction in film, not to be co-opted by an overriding definition.’ –Peter Gidal ‘Materialist Film’ 1989‘Rhodes manipulation of, and dexterity with, cinematic techniques is a constant throughout her work.Read More »

John Carpenter was a student at the University of Southern California when he and fellow students Nick Castle, Trace Johnston, John Longnecker and James Rokos made this Oscar winning short.

John Carpenter was credited as Writer, Editor and Composer.Read More »

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It is a surreal combination of images, music and symbols – a film collage so characteristic of Rybczyński’s work. The film is full of joy, a dance of objects and characters that scroll across the screen to the rhythm of stanzas of Julian Tuwim’s poem. The author of the music for the film was Mieczysław Janik – an outstanding sound operator connected with the studio in Łódź and, first of all, the initiator of creating a professional sound studio at Se-Ma-For.Read More »

A fantasy about a woman’s attempts to exorcise the influence of her sexually domineering father.

“What began as a documentary on sculptress Niki de St. Phalle finished up as a fantasy about a woman’s attempts to exorcise the influence of her sexually domineering father. It provides an excuse for a whole ragbag of Freudian neuroses, six-foot phalluses in coffins, nubile girls in nun’s habits stripping in front of altars, masturbation, some obvious jokes, pretty photography, abysmal acting, and a commentary that reads and sounds like a Home Service children’s story for adults” (Chris Petit, Time Out)Read More »

A black high school student is caught dating a white girl by the girl’s brother. He and his biker gang beat the boy to death. The boy’s brother, who is a member of a black biker gang, hears about it and comes to town to avenge his brother’s death.Read More »

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Jean stars as an angel who has fallen from heaven and landed in a picturesque French village.
Nursed back to health by the local priest and his helper, he returns the favor in a surprising fashion.

Un matin, le recteur d’un petit village breton découvre le corps d’un jeune inconnu gisant nu sur la grève.
Au presbytère où on l’a transporté, l’inconnu retrouve ses esprits et déclare
qu’il est un ange tombé du ciel. Précisément la nuit de la Saint-Jean.Read More »

Siddhartha Chowdhury, a brilliant medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father’s sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job.Read More »

A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.Read More »

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“A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series ‘An American Family’. However, instead of remaining unobtrusive and letting the family be themselves, he can’t help himself from trying to control every facet of their lives ‘for the good of the show’.”Read More »