Introduction
A factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts. A worker opens small bags under a spout that spews beans into the bag. The worker must open a new bag quickly before the spout…Read More »
1970s
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Pascal Aubier – La mort du rat AKA Death of the Rat (1973)
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Marcel Hanoun – L’automne (1972)
Marcel Hanoun1971-1980ArthouseExperimentalFranceSynopsis: Julien, a movie director, is on the phase of editing his new film, “Juliette sacrifiée”. Hurried by his producer, he asks for the help of a professional editor. It is Anne, with whom Julien is soon falling in love. During the whole of the movie, both are sitting in front of the editing table, where they listen to music, talk about politics and what movies should and should not be about, make love, and finally end up editing the film as was planned.Read More »
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Claudine Eizykman – V.W. Vitesse Women (1974)
1971-1980Claudine EizykmanExperimentalFranceShort FilmOne of the most important films of French avant-garde cinema, displaying Claudine Eizykman’s theory of “cinematographic energy” as well as creating kinetic movements capable of shaking up the world and revealing its heterogeneity.Read More »
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Sergio Sollima – La tigre è ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa! (1977)
Sergio Sollima1971-1980AdventureItalyTVQuote:
Following on from the successful television adaptation of Sandokan in 1976, a year later Kabir Bedi gave life to the big screen incarnation in this Sergio Sollima-directed film.Read More » -
José Giovanni – Un aller simple AKA One Way Ticket (1971)
José Giovanni1971-1980CrimeDramaFranceA small-time criminal wants to give up his life of crime. He performs a robbery with a friend, with similar feelings, and things go sour.Read More »
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David Berlatsky – The Farmer (1977)
1971-1980ActionCultDavid BerlatskyUSAKyle Martin returns as a silver star hero, but realizes running a one man farm is not profitable, and the bank wants to foreclose, despite returning as a hero. Then a gambler Johnny has a car accident near his farm, in which Kyle saves his life, in which Johnny offers him 1,5000 dollars, which still isn’t enough to save the farm. Then when Johnny past-post on a horse race for over $50,000, angering local mobster Passini as he and his three henchmen kills Johnny’s bodyguard and then blinds Johnny’s eyes with acid to “make a example out of him”, Johnny asks his girl Betty to ask Kyle to kill Prassini and his men one by one for $50,000, the money he needs to save his farm, which sets the path for revenge.Read More »
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Jean Eustache – Une sale histoire AKA A Dirty Story (1977)
Jean Eustache1971-1980DramaFranceQuote:
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies’ bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.Read More » -
Anatole Litvak – The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun AKA La dame dans l’auto avec des lunettes et un fusil (1970)
Anatole Litvak1961-1970FranceMysteryThriller

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In one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions, Danielle “Dany” Lang, a meek English secretary with an international advertising agency in Paris, drives to sun-kissed French Riviera to blow off steam, after seeing her boss, Michael Caldwell, and his wife, Anita, off at the airport. The plan was to drop them off and drive Michael’s car back to the house; however, as soon as Dany sets foot on the picturesque resort for the first time in her life, a series of chance encounters with perfect strangers, who claim that they recognise her, begin to mar her ideal weekend. Now, there’s a strange noise coming from the boot of the car. Is the lady in the car going mad?Read More » -
Satyajit Ray – Ashani Sanket aka Distant Thunder (1973)
Satyajit Ray1971-1980DramaIndia

The film is set in a village in the Indian province of Bengal during World War II, and examines the effect of the Great Famine of 1943 on the villages of Bengal through the eyes of a young Brahmin doctor-teacher, Gangacharan, and his wife, Ananga.Read More »






