1973 Poll 2.0

[niminy-piminy]

https://letterboxd.com/samnc/film/the-lacey-rituals/

Why were people in the 70s so weird and disgusting

[rischka]

i watched a couple of italian anti-fascist pictures

La villeggiatura (marco leto) - about a history professor who won't sign an oath to mussolini and so is sent to exile on an island (the title is translated as 'black holidays'). soon he's allowed his own house and even brings his wife and daughter to live there. he's a respected man and the local capo cultivates him, until he stands up for other prisoners being brutalized. never trust a fascist

Il delitto Matteotti (florestano vancini) is an excellent backgrounder on mussolini's rise, relations with the church and suppression of his critics, culminating in murder of a rival who tries to draw attention to massive election fraud, such as proud boys brownshirts intimidating people from voting. gramsci is a character in this. 'that courageous little man,' as someone says. 'thank god the communist is gone,' someone else. mario adorf is excellent as mussolini

i didn't even realize that italy still had a king in this period who both appointed and could have removed mussolini but preferred to do nothing bc he feared the left

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Matteotti

i find great relevance to our current climate of political threats and intimidation coming from one so-called party that wants to throw democracy aside by any means necessary i might be done now, will make a list in a bit

[rischka]

payday - duke
the spook who sat by the door - dixon
spirit of the beehive - erice
hotel monterey - akerman
duvidha - kaul
touki bouki - mambety
the hourglass sanitorium - has
na wylot/through & through - krolickiewicz
messiah of evil - huyck/katz
part-time work of a domestic slave - kluge

the vow (a promessa) - de macedo
willow springs - schroeter
ganja & hess - gunn
stone wedding - veroiu/pita
fotografia - zolnay
the wicker man - hardy
the fate of lee khan - hu
world on a wire - fassbinder
ward six - pintilie
black caesar - cohen

i watched stuff but couldn't part with most of my original list ♥

[Lencho of the Apes]

Esoterica roundup, KJK-style

Armenian deep-cut: at first glance, it looked like a feature-length version of Healthy People For Fun. Also points toward a future with Kusturica in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVtGsLBKZeU



Czech fairy tale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIFCIArJrCc



Sovietica, adaptation of Bulgakov:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3xVdxDWFWU



some German thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRK2GapMuCI



There's also a 12-hour Soviet miniseries about WWII espionage called Seventeen Moments Of Spriung, if anyone wants such a thing. Seems to have a lofty reputation.

https://www.youtube.com/@cfrancocnjap/videos

[ofrene]

A River Called Titas
F for Fake
Ludwig
The Spirit of the Beehive

Duvidha
Sanrizuka: Heta Village
The Mother and the Whore
World on a Wire

A Simple Event
Badlands
Stone Wedding
The Long Goodbye

Day for Night
The Fate of Lee Khan
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Touki Bouki

Don't Look Now
Paper Moon
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Day of the Jackal

gonna see more(perhaps) but it's concrete already so this is final

[rischka]

i subbed de macedo for ferreri

and i WOULD watch a 12 hr soviet espionage miniseries but i'm focussing on horror this week

[niminy-piminy]

https://kinometer.com/?list=520

Photography (Pál Zolnay, 1973, 82m)
The Stone Wedding (Dan Piţa, Mircea Veroiu, 1973, 90m)
The Birth of a Nation (Klaus Wyborny, 1973, 70m)
The Legend of the Old Shepherd Xeudi and His Friend Reimann (Hans-Jakob Siber, 1973, 54m)
The Lacey Rituals (Jill Bruce, Bruce Lacey, Fred Lacey, etc., 1973, 63m)
Home Sweet Home (Benoît Lamy, 1973, 91m)
Hello, Kohlrabi (Břetislav Pojar, 1973, 15m)
Waves (Patrick Carey, 1973, 25m)
Those Wonderful Bubbles In Those Pulsating Lymphocytes (Julian Józef Antonisz, 1973, 8m)
Raven (Nikola Đurić, 1973, 6m)

Party for Ten People Plus Three (Jerzy Gruza, 1973, 54m)
Narita: Heta Village (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1973, 146m)
Child of Resistance (Haile Gerima, 1973, 36m)
Images of Silence (Luiz Rosemberg Filho, 1973, 65m)
Juvenile Court (Frederick Wiseman, 1973, 144m)
Through and Through (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, 1973, 70m)
Television Delivers People (Richard Serra, 1973, 6m)
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973, 212m)
Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973, 72m)
Man & Woman & Animal (Valie Export, 1973, 10m)

[Silga]

Final list

Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann)
Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
The Sting (George Roy Hill)

Breezy (Clint Eastwood)
High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty)

The Offence (Sidney Lumet)
The Seven-Ups (Philip D'Antoni)
F for Fake (Orson Welles)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)

Sleeper (Woody Allen)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner)
The Laughing Policeman (Stuart Rosenberg)

Magnum Force (Ted Post)
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (Robert Lamoureux)
Le Magnifique (Philippe de Broca)

[karl]

melodies of the vera quarter (shengelaya)
the duel (kheifits)
monologue (averbakh)
nirmalyam (vasudevan nair)

illumination (zanussi)
field lilies (havetta)
photography (zolnay)
we're cursed, irina! (angelovski)

blow, wind! (piesis)
25 fireman's street (szabo)
a brief vacation (de sica)
defying everybody (ilyenko)

duvidha (kaul)
the wicket gate (różewicz)
father (malyan)
kamouraska (jutra)

distant thunder (ray)
krystyna m. portrait sketches (karabasz)
kokoro (shindo)
ward 6 (pintilie)

[frisson]

first poll I'm participating in, hopefully I'm doing it right

Last Grave at Dimbaza, dir. Chris Curling, Nana Mahome, Pascoe Macfarlane
The Long Goodbye, dir. Robert Altman
Le cousin Jules, dir. Dominique Benicheti
Los Traidores, dir. Raymundo Gleyzer

Fantastic Planet, dir. René Laloux
The Politics of Perception, dir. Kirk Tougas
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, dir. René Viénet
The Spook Who Sat by the Door, dir. Ivan Dixon

El castillo de la pureza, dir. Arturo Ripstein
Battles Without Honor and Humanity, dir. Kinji Fukasaku
Joe Bullet, dir. Louis de Witt
Le Rançon d'une alliance, dir. Sébastien Kamba

Global Groove, dir. Nam June Paik, John Godfrey
Cosmic Cartoon, dir. Steven Lisberger, Eric Ladd
Il boss, dir. Fernando di Leo
Light, dir. Jordan Belson

Heavy-Light, dir. Adam Beckett
Animation from Cape Dorset, dir. Solomonie Pootoogook, et. al.
El hombre de Maisinicú, dir. Manuel Pérez
F for Fake, dir. Orson Welles

The Dupes was listed as '73 on letterboxd but it seems like it isn't wholly accurate so I'll be safe and omit it.

[sally]

final ballot:

the legend of the old shepherd xeudi and his friend reimann - hans-jakob siber
stone wedding - mircea veroiu, dan pița
mamad - sjuman djaya
the hare census - eduard sachariev
the hourglass sanatorium - wojciech jerzy has
defying everybody - yurii illienko
methods of egg-viewing - yoichi nagata
repertory - ian breakwell
solar flares burn for you - arthur johns
duvidha - mani kaul
h is for house - peter greenaway
ludwig - luchino visconti
audition - frans zwartjes
the house of 72 tenants - chor yuen
through and through - grzegorz królikiewicz
my ain folk - bill douglas
a river called titas - ritwik ghatak
the lacey rituals - bruce lacey
touki bouki - djibril diop mambéty
the mother and the whore - jean eustache

[Lencho of the Apes]

Whoops, almost forgot about this.

Final list:


The Hourglass Sanatorium
The Mother And The Whore
We Can't Go Home Again - Nick Ray
World On A Wire

Juvenile Court - Wiseman
Black Caesar - Larry Cohen
Don Quixote Cabalga De Nuevo - Gavaldon
Lisa And The Devil - Bava

Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein - Franco
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession - L. Gaidai
J'Irai Comme Un Cheval Fou - Arrabal
Messiah Of Evil

The Crazies - Romero
High Plains Drifter - Eastwood
The Petrified Forest - Shinoda
A River Called Titas - Ghatak

Last House On Dead End Street
Photography - Zolnay
Die Sage vom alten Hirten Xeudi und seinem Freund Reiman
The Spook Who Sat By The Door