1970s

  • Liliana Cavani – I cannibali AKA The Year of the Cannibals (1970)

    1981-1990ArthouseItalyLiliana Cavani

    Synopsis:
    The streets of a big city are full of dead bodies but people seem not to notice and pass by indifferently. At the behest of the authorities, the bodies of those citizens who were killed because the rebels should serve as a warning. Antigone wants to bury her brother. A young foreigner who speaks a foreign language and will offer his cooperation. Together, they try to bury the dead, but are discovered and killed. However, the example of the two is followed by other young people who take to the streets to continue to bury the corpses, again defying the authoritiesRead More »

  • Nils Malmros – Drenge AKA Boys (1977)

    1971-1980DenmarkDramaNils Malmros

    Boys (Drenge) is Nils Malmros’ first movie made in collaboration with a professional film crew. Even so, the movie has a very mature feel to it and the feeling of authenticity from Malmros’ earlier film “Lars Ole, 5C” remains. Boys is, together with “Lars Ole, 5C” and “Tree of Knowledge” part of Malmros’ “Ole”-triology.Read More »

  • Joseph Losey – Figures in a Landscape (1970)

    1961-1970ActionJoseph LoseyThrillerUnited Kingdom

    THE BIRD HAS COME FOR ITS PREY.

    Two escaped convicts (Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell) are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.Read More »

  • Bob Dylan – Eat the Document (1972)

    1971-1980Bob DylanDocumentaryMusicalUSA

    Quote:
    This film is a documentary on Dylan’s tumultuous and historic 1966 tour of Europe with the Band – the one where he was roundly booed and reviled for “going electric” (and from which the recently released “Royal Albert Hall” album was taken). The legendary nature of these shows alone makes it worth having a document of them.Read More »

  • Marguerite Duras – Baxter, Vera Baxter (1976)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaFranceMarguerite Duras

    Vera Baxter is talking to a woman. It seems that the woman was attracted to her by hearing her name called out: “Baxter, Vera Baxter.” In response to her new friend’s queries, Vera recounts the story of her life.
    The story begins with his marriage to Jean. Vera is a faithful wife to the point that her husband pays a man to be unfaithful to him, according to him, adultery paid revitalize the desire of the couple. But this does not happen and Vera will not see him anymore.Read More »

  • Andy Milligan – Guru, the Mad Monk (1970)

    1961-1970Andy MilliganCultHorrorUnited Kingdom

    A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.Read More »

  • Roy Ward Baker – The Vampire Lovers [+commentary] (1970)

    1961-1970EroticaHammer FilmsHorrorRoy Ward BakerUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    The Countess is called away to tend a sick friend and imposes on the General to accept her daughter Marcilla as a houseguest. Some of the villagers begin dying, however, and the General’s daughter Laura soon gets weak and pale, but Marcilla is there to comfort her. The villagers begin whispering about vampires as Marcilla finds another family on which to impose herself. The pattern repeats as Emma gets ill, but the General cannot rest, and seeks the advice of Baron Hartog, who once dealt a decisive blow against a family of vampires. Well, almost.Read More »

  • Grzegorz Królikiewicz – Na wylot AKA Through and Through (1973)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaGrzegorz KrólikiewiczPoland

    Quote:
    “Through and Through” is a legendary feature focusing on radicalization of cinematic language. The film transgresses traditional methods of narrative construction, which is characteristic of its genre. This non-conentional treatment of the cinematic form places this film somewhere between experimental art and cinema, in a domain that does not properly belong to either field. Krolikiewicz’s radical debut is representative of his parallel pursuits – as a filmmaker as well as film theorist – and employs his crucial theory of “out – of – frame cinematographic space.” The first film in his trilogy (together with Dancing Hawk and Endless Claims), which portray typical Polish anti-heroes imprisoned by reality, “Through and Through” criticizes the nihilism and depravity created by the socio-political system.Read More »

  • Freddie Francis – Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly AKA Girly (1970)

    1961-1970ComedyFreddie FrancisHorrorUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Sexy, teenaged, immature Girly and her camera-wielding brother Sonny bring home unsuspecting men to Mumsy and Nanny, where they play games, and if they don’t follow the rules, they’re sent to the angels. One day they bring home a New Friend who has a few ideas for games of his own, though, and he begins to turn the foursome against each other.Read More »

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