1971-1980

  • Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter (1978)

    Michael Cimino1971-1980DramaUSAWar

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    Structures within the time frame of empirical perspectives have a tendency to unknowingly look in the wrong direction. Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter (1978) overcomes this problem by focusing on an intensely felt portrayal of the characterisation within a closed community that allows us to see the universality of a doom-inflected generation that blindly followed the path shown by the state. Time allows the peaceful reign to negate the demand for instantaneous discourse and the setting up of ideological walls that soon become entrenched. Over 30 years since it was first released, The Deer Hunter has become what it always was: a deep-rooted immersion into American blue-collar life.Read More »

  • Mario Bianchi – Provincia violenta AKA Violent Province (1978)

    Mario Bianchi1971-1980ExploitationItalyThriller

    Franco Sereni, a captain of carabiniers, is dismissed from service for being the proponent of “the law of the gun”. He is asked to hold a private investigation of several cases of blackmailing wealthy women. Soon Sereni finds out that there is much more then just blackmailing.Read More »

  • Hugues Burin des Roziers – Blue Jeans (1977)

    1971-1980DramaFranceHugues Burin des Roziers

    Love found and lost, and found again and the promiscuity of European youth in the 1970’s is the premise behind Blue Jeans. Director Hugues Burin des Roziers’ first feature length film tells the story of Julien Morin, an 11-year-old boy from an affluent area of Paris who takes a summer-long trip with his class to England to learn English. Along with his friends Talimard, Picolet and Dupont, the class seems more interested in meeting girls and having fun than learning English. Julien’s attentions soon turn away from his English classes and to Janet, a local girl he meets in an arcade. When she spurns him for Jean-Pierre, an older French boy, Julien too finds a physical attraction to this handsome boy. Labeled as a queer and laughed at, Julien is at first unaffected by these hurtful remarks and yearns to spend more time with his new friend. Jean-Pierre, however, is unaware of Julien’s true feelings.Read More »

  • Peter Sasdy – Doomwatch AKA Island of the Ghouls (1972)

    1971-1980MysteryPeter SasdySci-FiUnited Kingdom

    The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.

    A doctor is called in by the authorities to investigate the effects of pollution on the residents of a small island off the Cornish coast. He discovers that pollutants have caused mutations among the island’s populace and that covert MOD activities may be responsible.Read More »

  • Maurice Pialat – La maison des bois (1971)

    Maurice Pialat1971-1980FranceTVWorld War One

    Quote:
    Made in 1971 for French TV, the epic LA MAISON DES BOIS
    comes from early in the Pialat’s belated
    feature-filmmaking career. Rather like Loach’s DAYS OF
    HOPE (Cinémathèque 2004) or Edgar Reisz’s HEIMAT
    series, it begins in costume drama and an ethnographic
    view of rural French life during World War One, and in
    an apparently sentimental tale of war orphans. But
    then it irises out from costume drama conventions into
    the transcendental, exploring Pialat*s spiritual
    themes, as well as the social dynamics, trauma and
    collective experiences of war.Read More »

  • Marcell Jankovics – János vitéz AKA Johnny Corncob (1973)

    Marcell Jankovics1971-1980AnimationHungary

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    A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic, and death.Read More »

  • Robert Enrico – Le vieux fusil AKA Vengeance One by One AKA The Old Gun (1975)

    Robert Enrico1971-1980FranceThrillerWar

    In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decided to meet then for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.Read More »

  • Hong-joon Kim & Joo-ho Hwang – Seoul 7000 (1976)

    1971-1980ExperimentalHong-joon KimJoo-ho HwangShort FilmSouth Korea

    Quote:
    According to the information written in the credit roll of “Seoul 7000,” the film was filmed in Seoul in November 1976 with an ‘Elmo 108’ 8mm camera using Kodachrome 40 film. It was also stated that “it was filmed frame by frame, and the shooting speed was adjusted differently for each shot,” and “the number 7000 in the title of this film represents the total number of frames in all parts except for the title.”Read More »

  • Newsreel (Geri Ashur, Peter Barton, Marilyn Mulford, Stephanie Pawleski) – Janie’s Janie (1971)

    1971-1980DocumentaryGeri AshurMarilyn MulfordPeter BartonShort FilmStephanie PawleskiUSA

    In this personal documentary, Jane Giese, a working class woman in Newark, comes to realize that she has to take control of her own life after years of physical and mental abuse.

    One of the most moving documentaries of the era, Newsreel’s Janie’s Janie breaks with their usual format for a more personal approach, following one woman’s journey to self-determination, or as Janie says, “First I was my father’s Janie, then I was my Charlie’s Janie, now I’m Janie’s Janie.”Read More »

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