1970s

  • Luciano Ercoli – La morte accarezza a mezzanotte AKA Death Walks at Midnight (1972)

    1971-1980GialloItalyLuciano ErcoliThriller

    After indulging in hallucinogenic drugs as part of an experiment at the behest of her boyfriend, Valentina imagines a terrifying murder committed with a spiked metal glove. Soon the incident becomes the basis of a news story, and it’s discovered that, a few months earlier, a woman really had been viciously murdered in the same apartment and her murderer never caught. Before long, Valentina comes to believe that she, too, is being stalked by the killer, but no one will believe her, including her traitorous boyfriend.Read More »

  • Claude Chabrol – Monsieur Saint-Saëns (1978) (DVD)

    1971-1980Claude ChabrolFranceTV

    Episode of the TV serial “Il était musicien”.
    Imaginary adventure of musician Sans Saens. It shows the lack of will of a society. Isabelle Huppert plays a role as a young revolutionnary.Read More »

  • Edgar Reitz – Stunde Null aka Zero Hour (1977) (DVD)

    1971-1980DramaEdgar ReitzGermany

    Synopsis:
    The narrative is set in the summer of 1945 in a small village outside Leipzig, where the Americans have just pulled back and been replaced by Soviet troops. The film follows the inhabitants as they adjust to the new situation, in particular Joschi, a teenage Hitler Youth member who is fascinated by the Americans. (wikipedia)Read More »

  • Lautaro Murúa – La Raulito (1975)

    1971-1980ArgentinaDramaLautaro MurúaQueer Cinema(s)

    Quote:
    La Raulito is marginalized and feels that all of her actions are called into question but cannot understand why. Is it possible that she represents something that everyone fears? (“There are tomboys… but what was that that just passed by”, people say). In any case it is curious that the places where la Raulito encounters a single friend (María Vaner) should be a cabaret [rather than ???] in jail or in her home which is dominated by an abusive husband? What the film stresses again and again is that there is no place for la Raulito in a society that imposes strict [gender] roles. Toward this end, Murúa constantly undermines any definite characterization of the sexual identity of his protagonist… a decision that respects her transgressive, defiant conditionRead More »

  • Stavros Tornes – Coatti (1977)

    1971-1980DocumentaryExperimentalItalyStavros Tornes

    Synopsis:
    Stavros and Charlotte – i.e. the director and his partner in life and art, Charlotte van Gelder – are wandering the streets of a burdensome reality like immigrants, tracing the world around them through friendships, journeys and political quests. Made with minimal means with a few rolls of black and white film they managed to scrape together, this is a thoroughly unconventional film that defies traditional narrative structures, spectacularly revealing the director’s true vision: a primordial cinema full of imagery that comes out of nowhere and communicates freely, like a small wonder. A large slice of the international film critic community – including Frenchman Louis Skorecki who described the film as a comet – will adore “Coatti” and continue to support Tornes’ lonely path until the end.Read More »

  • David Attenborough – Life on Earth (1979)

    1971-1980David AttenboroughDocumentaryUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    David Attenborough’s groundbreaking study of the evolution of life on our planet. As is usual with Attenborough’s work, the camera work is outstanding and employed techniques which were ground-breaking in their day. This series was filmed in locales all across the world.Read More »

  • Lee H. Katzin – Le Mans (1971)

    1971-1980ActionDramaLee H. KatzinUSA

    Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world’s hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 kilometers of cordoned country road. Every few hours the two drivers per car alternate – but it’s still a challenge for concentration and material. In the focus is the duel between the German Stahler in Ferrari 512LM and the American Delaney in Gulf Team Porsche 917. Delaney is under extraordinary pressure, because the year before he caused a severe accident, in which his friend Lisa’s husband was killed.Read More »

  • Don Siegel – Telefon (1977)

    1971-1980ActionDon SiegelThrillerUSA

    Storyline
    The KGB is looking for one of their people, a man named Dalchimsky because he has stolen something important but, unfortunately, he manages to get through the border. Later in the U.S. some seemingly ordinary people after receiving a phone call go out and destroy key American military installations. Back in the U.S.S.R. General Strelsky and Colonel Malchenko send for Grigori Borzov, a KGB agent who has been to the U.S. on missions before. Read More »

  • Bohdan Kosinski – Jak wiele dróg (1979)

    1971-1980Bohdan KosinskiDocumentaryPolandShort Film

    Quote:
    It is 1969. Wiesiek has long hair, pants with patches, colored shirt and necklace beads. It is important for him to demonstrate rebellion.
    10 years later. Wiesiek lives in the Bieszczady Mountains and gathers around them people who, like him, are looking for their place on earth. They work together, eat together and build a house together. Creating a community with others has now become the most important for life in Wieśka. Now it is his way.Read More »

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