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  • Jia-qi Ma & Gui-zhen Sun & Fulin Wang – Hong lou meng AKA A Dream in Red Mansions (1987)

    1981-1990ChinaClassicsFulin WangGui-zhen SunJia-qi MaTV

    Plot Summary
    Based on the mid-eighteenth century novel by Cao Xueqin, Beijing’s CCTV’s version of “A Dream in Red Mansions” (aka Dream of the Red Chamber) is known by many to be the ultimate and best adaptation of the story either on TV or film. It is a story about the tragic love of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, and the prosperity and decline of the four notable feudal ruling-class families of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue. Daiyu is a beautiful and talented girl, but prone to ill health. The intelligent and carefree Baoyu, nonetheless, shows love toward her over the years and puts up with her sensitivity and ill-tempered personality. They, along with their family-favored and tactful cousin Xue Baochai, reside in the Grand View Garden. Read More »

  • Lee H. Katzin – Savages (1974)

    1971-1980Lee H. KatzinThrillerTVUSA

    A hunting expedition becomes a deadly game of cat-and-mouse when a big-game hunter decides to eliminate the only witness to an accidental shooting: his guide.Read More »

  • Roberto Rossellini – Socrate AKA Socrates French (1971)

    1971-1980ItalyPhilosophyPhilosophy on ScreenRoberto RosselliniTV

    A false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.

    It was filmed in Spain with French actors in the principal roles — including Socrates and his wife Xanthippe. These actors spoke French during the shooting and dubbed themselves afterward. It is therefore much more authentic than the Italian dubbing currently available, and reveals a far more intelligent Socrates.Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Faut pas rêver AKA Dream On (1977)

    1971-1980FranceJean-Luc GodardShort FilmTV

    As a model, one can see working the essential virtues of the Godardian question in a relatively unknown work from 1978 [recte 1976]—a two-minute video clip for a popular song by Patrick Juvet, Faut Pas Rêver.

    As is the case with all the brief forms invented by Godard, this little opus is not in the least a minor work. It is made up of two shots: first, a medium fixed shot of a little girl who is eating an apple for her afternoon snack after coming home from school; she is responding to her mother, whom we don’t see (the voice of Anne-Marie Miéville is recognisable) and who asks her about her day, while the little girl watches, distractedly, a television set that is supposedly broadcasting the song of Patrick Juvet (whom we don’t see either) In this everyday dialogue, we find the emergence of a fundamental critical question that, in the mid-1970s, must have been perceived as quite violent (at that time we were right in the middle of the Giscardian regime, and it would take seven more years for the left to come to power).Read More »

  • Vittorio Cottafavi – Antigone (1971)

    1971-1980DramaItalyTVVittorio Cottafavi

    Vittorio Cottafavi’s 1971 adaptation of the Sophocles play (he had adapted it earlier in 1958). Fans of Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub should be most impressed.Read More »

  • Dino Risi – Vita coi figli AKA Life With The Kids (1990)

    1981-1990Dino RisiDramaItalyTV

    Vita coi figli is a 1990 Italian television film directed by Dino Risi. It marks the screen debut of Monica Bellucci.
    The story of one man dealing with an unexpected series of events, discovering his youth once again in the relationship with a much younger woman and finally coming to grips with his age, and the fact that he hasn’t been there for his family like he should have.Read More »

  • Tatyana Lioznova – Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny AKA Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)

    1971-1980Tatyana LioznovaThrillerTVUSSR

    A 1973 Soviet twelve-part television series, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the novel of the same title by Yulian Semyonov. The series portrays the exploits of Maxim Isaev, a Soviet spy operating in Nazi Germany under the name Max Otto von Stierlitz, depicted by Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Stierlitz is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies. The series is considered the most successful Soviet espionage thriller ever made, and is one of the most popular television series in Russian history.Read More »

  • Waris Hussein – Callie & Son (1981)

    1981-1990DramaTVUSAWaris Hussein

    Callie was a teenage mother in trouble. Fresh out of the delivery room, her son was taken from her and sold on the black-market. Vowing to find him some day, this is her story.Read More »

  • Hugo Santiago – Un siècle d’écrivains : Maurice Blanchot (1998)

    1991-2000DocumentaryFranceHugo SantiagoTV

    Quote:
    Very rare documentary about writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot, it’s based on the important book by Christophe Bident “Maurice Blanchot. Partenaire invisible” about the life and work of the author. Bident himself is present in the film as co-writer of the screenplay and as interviewed. Important philosophers and writers talk about Blanchot: Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Michel Surya, Roger Laporte, Louis-René des Forêts, Marguerite Duras, etc.Read More »

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