1971-1980

  • Clint Eastwood – The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

    1971-1980Clint EastwoodUSAWestern

    Synopsis :
    A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.Read More »

  • Nils Malmros – Lars Ole, 5c (1973)

    1971-1980DenmarkDramaNils Malmros

    Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
    In the Danish film Lars Ole, 5c the “5c” refers to the boy Lars’ school class form. The film consists of many little moments from the school life of a young man, including such occasions as a skirmish among the teens for teacherly favors or for attention from a member of the opposite sex. This independently produced film was highly praised in its native Denmark and was an official entry in the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.Read More »

  • Yannick Bellon – La femme de Jean (1974)

    1971-1980ArthouseFranceYannick Bellon

    After 18 years of married life, Jean leaves his wife, Nadine, so that he can start a new life with his mistress, Christine. Nadine is distraught by this rejection and sinks into a deep depression, which she finally manages to overcome with the support of her son, Rémi. She gets herself a job with a law firm and begins a relationship with a likeable engineer named David. With the latter’s help, Nadine resumes her studies and acquires a new lease of life. When Jean returns to her, she sends him away.Read More »

  • Les Blank – Del Mero Corazon (1979)

    1971-1980DocumentaryLes BlankShort FilmUSA

    Quote:
    Using music of the genre, a short look at Tex-Mex music, how it expresses love found and love lost, and how it comes straight from the heart.Read More »

  • Erwin Keusch & Christian Weisenborn – Was ich bin, sind meine Filme AKA I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog (1978)

    1971-1980Christian WeisenbornDocumentaryErwin KeuschGermany

    Quote:
    The film is an interview done at the time of Stroszek, it has Herzog talking about each film, talking about their creation and what he hoped to achieve. Its the director explaining his films in a way that enlightens on more than just a cinematic level. Herzog not only talks about his films but also his larger ideas about what film is, both fiction and documentary.Read More »

  • John Carpenter – Elvis (1979)

    1971-1980CultJohn CarpenterTVUSA

    Quote:
    Elvis is a 1979 television film by John Carpenter and is based upon the life of Elvis Presley, starring Kurt Russell in the title role. However, it ends in 1969 and does not depict the last few years of Presley’s life and career.

    Elvis is notable in Carpenter’s career for two reasons. It was made after Halloween had wrapped, so it offered him an avenue to try his hand at a film away from the horror genre. It was also the first time Carpenter had worked with Russell, who became a frequent collaborator of Carpenter’s. Russell subsequently starred in Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1985), and Escape from L.A. (1996).Read More »

  • Roberto Rossellini – Intervista a Salvador Allende: La forza e la ragione (1973)

    1971-1980ItalyPoliticsRoberto RosselliniTV

    Quote:
    This year, the 65th edition of the Venice International Film Festival screened and restored this movie in a Golden Age retrospective. It’s a 36′ interview in 16mm with Salvador Allende, the socialist politician who had became President of Chile at that time, filmed at Allende’s villa in Santiago. Two years after the interview, Allende was overthrow and murdered by the general Augusto Pinochet, in a coup d’état which involved active C.I.A. collaboration. Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it. Rossellini’s title became prophetic and as it often happened in the History, the brute force killed the reason. This is just a Tvrip from RAI3, not the restored copy.Read More »

  • Wolfgang Reitherman – Robin Hood (1973)

    1971-1980AdventureAnimationUSAWolfgang Reitherman

    Quote:
    An imaginative Disney version of the Robin Hood legend. Fun and romance abound as the swashbuckling hero of Sherwood Forest and his valiant sidekick plot one daring adventure after another to outwit the greedy prince and his partner as they put the tax squeeze on the poor.Read More »

  • Luigi Comencini – La Donna della domenica aka The Sunday Woman (1975)

    1971-1980ComedyItalyLuigi ComenciniMysteryQueer Cinema(s)

    Synopsis:
    Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino’s high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, a homosexual platonic friend of Anna Carla. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murdering happens…Read More »

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