1970s

  • Károly Makk – Szerelem AKA Love [+Extras] (1971)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaHungaryKároly Makk

    Makk’s haunting, atmospheric and beautifully performed film, brilliantly shot by Janos Toth, captures exactly the fear and uncertainty of the time. It is, above all, a treatise on how such times affect fidelity, faith, illusion, love. It deals specifically with Hungary but has an absolutely universal appeal… completely unsentimental, but catches precisely what its characters face and how they feel…an outstanding film.Read More »

  • Jean-Gabriel Albicocco – Le Coeur Fou AKA The Mad Heart (1970)

    1961-1970CrimeCultFranceJean-Gabriel Albicocco

    Synopsis
    Georges Menessier, a 45-year-old celebrity press writer, smuggles into a mental hospital to take pictures of…his ex-wife Clara Noël, once a great film star now confined to this clinic for alcoholism and nervous trouble. Once inside the place he meets Clo, a beautiful twenty-year-old woman, another inmate. They fall in love but madness is synonymous with tragedy not happiness…Read More »

  • Françoise Prenant – Paradis perdu (1975)

    1971-1980FranceFrançoise PrenantQueer Cinema(s)Short Film

    A 1975 French language short film written and directed by Franssou Prenant, starring Hélène Hazéra, Marie-France and René Schérer.

    Young transgender women turn the streets of Paris into their cabaret. Their dreams are quickly overtaken by reality.Read More »

  • Luigi Filippo D’Amico – Il Presidente del Borgorosso Football Club AKA The President of the Borgorosso Football Club (1970)

    1961-1970ClassicsComedyItalyLuigi Filippo D'Amico

    Hilarious comedy on the world of football fans !
    16 March 2002 | by skulli99 – IMDB review

    Albero Sordi is known in Italy, not only for his many comical and dramatic film roles but also for playing parts which reflected the new realities of Italian society.In 1970 the football sports industry was nothing new , but a comedy/comical film about it definitely was.

    Albero Sordi plays the part of Benito Fornaciari, a pale, religiously devout Catholic Upper Middle class Italian, who inherits from a long lost uncle a minor league football club , of all things !! He decides to visit the club so as to sell it.But the local population has other ideas ,through an almost armed uprising they “force” him not to sell the club, but rather, lead it to other glories on the football field.Read More »

  • George Lucas – American Graffiti [+commentary] (1973)

    1971-1980ComedyDramaGeorge LucasUSA

    It’s the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them are Steve (Ron Howard) and Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), college-bound with mixed feelings about leaving home; nerdy Terry “The Toad” (Charles Martin Smith), who scores a dream date with blonde Debbie (Candy Clark); and John (Paul Le Mat ), a 22-year-old drag racer who wonders how much longer he can stay champion and how he got stuck with 13-year-old Carol (Mackenzie Phillips) in his deuce coupe. As D. J. Wolfman Jack spins 41 vintage tunes on the radio throughout the night, Steve ponders a future with girlfriend Laurie (Cindy Williams), Curt chases a mystery blonde, Terry tries to act cool, and Paul prepares for a race against Bob Falfa (Harrison Ford), but nothing can stop the next day from coming, and with it the vastly different future ushered in by the 1960s.Read More »

  • Giuliano Montaldo – Sacco e Vanzetti AKA Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)

    1971-1980DramaGiuliano MontaldoItalyPolitics

    Synopsis:
    In 1920, the anarchist Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volonté) are sentenced to death, falsely accused of a robbery and murder. Indeed they are condemned due to their political beliefs, in one of the most shameful and hypocrite judgments of the human history.Read More »

  • Elaine May – The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

    1971-1980ComedyElaine MayRomanceUSA

    Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly…Read More »

  • Mrinal Sen – Interview (1970)

    1961-1970ArthouseDramaIndiaMrinal Sen

    Synopsis:
    Ranjit is a young man who has been assured a lucrative job in an Indo-British firm by a family friend. All he has to do is turn up for the interview dressed in a western-style suit. As luck would have it, all city laundries are on strike that morning, and his only suit is dirty. The film is a frantic search for a new suit to be borrowed from any of his friends, to make it in time for the interview.Read More »

  • Tun Fei Mou – The End of the Track (1970)

    1961-1970DramaTaiwanTun-Fei Mou

    Quote:
    Tong and Yong-sheng are inseparable playmates, but after Yong-sheng dies in an accident, Tong falls into a dark spiral. At the time, this film was banned due to its homosexual overtones and ideology, while some felt that certain segments drew comparison with CHEN Ying-zhen’s short story The Noodle Stall.Read More »

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