1970 Poll 2.0

[rischka]

Peau d'âne seems like something i should love but it's really just cinderella with incest?? also i feel like michel legrand was just coasting here

[Jürka]

Performance (Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg)

A gangster movie is gradually absorbed by a hippie pastoral

Performance also has the feel of a home movie, albeit a home movie produced by Warner Brothers

Peter Wollen on dandyism, decadence and death in Performance
(September 1995 issue of S&S)
→ https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/si ... ter-wollen

participating in this film was a life-changing experience for the main character (Chad / James Fox).
after finishing this film (with no shortage of drugs), he heard the call of the Lord!

After finishing work on Performance (released 1970, but shot in 1968), Fox suspended his acting career.
In a 2008 interview, he said: "It was just part of my journey. I think my journey was to spend a while away from acting."
He became an evangelical Christian, working with the Navigators (a worldwide Christian para-church organization based in Colorado Springs) and devoting himself to the ministry.

[rischka]

wow anita pallenberg must have really scared him

[rischka]

One of the champers here is too modest perhaps to admit to subtitling a great Czech movie from this year

in 1969, i was modest.
in 1970, i am going to promote my subbing efforts shamelessly.

Radúz and Mahulena (Petr Weigl)
→ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350027/

i see there is an upgrade available on kg and i am not sure if it uses my subs or if there are some other (official) but anyway...

i deeply admire Jan Tříska (the actor playing Raduz).
he was an excellent theater actor.
it disqualified him from being cast in the new-wave films (preference of either the non-actors or actors without big stage gestures & pathos).
as Raduz he goes full pathetic on screen and it's excellent.

O inexpressible anxiety of loneliness!
My parched brain boils within my head.
Everything gives rise to monsters.
After exhausting night, when comes the dawn, it seems, a deep wound opens on the sky and the burning world becomes submerged in blood.

after a mere 10 mins i'm ready to say this could be my new #1

THX JIRI

edit: this is a treasure ♥






now that's fairytale atmosphere

[ofrene]

The Land has the most powerful ending of any movie I've seen for the first time recently

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[Jürka]

yw, rischka! i am glad you liked it
it was shot in the ruins of Spiš Castle (Slovakia) → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spi%C5%A1_Castle

[rischka]

TY i was going to ask about it xD

[cinesmith]

I wish I could see a good print of this. It was only shown at a film festival in 2020 via the 50th anniversary. It's on youtube but in cut up episodes of a copy of a copy of a copy. [Ken Russell's 'Dance of the Seven Veils' ]

[Angel]

Adelheid
Al-ard (The Land)
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Dernier domicile connu (Last Known Address)
Goin' Down the Road
Iko shashvi mgalobeli (Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird)
Jia zai Tai Bei (Home Sweet Home)
Kelly's Heroes
Le boucher (The Butcher)
Le passager de la pluie (Rider on the Rain)
L'enfant sauvage (The Wild Child)
Les choses de la vie (The Things of Life)
Lisice (Handcuffs)
The Kremlin Letter
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Railway Children
The Reckoning
There Was a Crooked Man...
Uomini contro (Many Wars Ago)
Vlyublyonnye (The Lovers)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/Lbxd/TSPDT/S&S top 500):
Five Easy Pieces
Husbands
Il conformista
Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto
Le Cercle Rouge
Patton
Performance
Tristana
Wanda

Wanted:
Heer Ranjha
Nicht fummeln, Liebling!
Shôwa zankyô-den: Shinde moraimasu
Strannye lyudi

[greennui]

I wish I could see a good print of this. It was only shown at a film festival in 2020 via the 50th anniversary. It's on youtube but in cut up episodes of a copy of a copy of a copy. [Ken Russell's 'Dance of the Seven Veils' ]

Hopefully it will find it's way online soon, it was only aired once in 1970 before being banned and was finally able to be screened after Strauss copyright expired.

Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as "bombastic, sham and hollow", and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. The film depicts Strauss in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche's philosophy, he fights duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies.

Later, his association with Hitler leads to a graphically-depicted willingness to turn a blind eye to Nazi excesses, responding to SS thugs carving a Star of David in an elderly Jewish man's chest by urging his orchestra to play louder, drowning out the screams. Unexpectedly, Strauss is credited as co-writer, which was Russell's way of indicating that every word he uttered on screen was sourced directly from real-life statements.

[Lencho of the Apes]

America Is Hard To See - Emile de Antonio, 1970/1987

Not sure it quite qualifies for the poll, because the version I watched had a couple of insert sequences shot in 1987, where EdA explained the historical significance of one thing or another..,. but it's a very interesting documentary about Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign in 1968, up through (but barely including) the unrest at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. McCarthy comes off as approximately a Bernie type -- "If there are demonstrations out there, they're not protesting the candidates, they're protesting the war."

And this morning, the front page of the NYT had the headline "Party officials prepare for demonstrations in Chicago.'

Found it at archive.org.

[rischka]

thx i'll check it out!! mccarthy was a member of the democrat-farmer-labor party -- same as tim walz xD

also on my watchlist: colossus: the forbin project and the dance of seven veils there's a (barely) watchable copy on kg

[rischka]

colossus: the forbin project is very fun. thx angel!!

[rischka]

america is hard to see (loved the poem ♥) fascinating to watch during the current convention. i didn't know much about eugene mccarthy but i wish he had won!!



bad news bobby - your son supports trump now. i believe they'll appear together in phx tmrw



also i'm pretty sure i had never seen film of hubert humphrey - what a weird looking dude

first as tragedy, second as farce

[Lencho of the Apes]

weird looking dude

Strange voice, too.

[Jürka]

Leo the Last (John Boorman)

A social satire about the last heir of a dethroned family of European monarchs



whose plans to return to power through revolution become secondary after he becomes fascinated by the life of a poor London black girl and her boyfriend.

[pabs]

Robin Redbreast (MacTaggart)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog)
Wanda (Loden)
Husbands (Cassavetes)
Claire’s Knee (Rohmer)


Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Petri)
Le boucher (Chabrol)
Gimme Shelter (Maysles, Zwerin)
MASH (Altman)
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)

[greennui]

Not much Baal in this thread

[Jürka]

Whale (Petar B. Vasilev)

Bulgarian satirical comedy classic, filmed in 1967 but not released until 1970 in a censored version.
A fishing crew catches only a tiny fish, which eventually becomes a whale as the story passes through various layers of bureaucracy.

This film had one of the most scandalous and at the same time mythological destinies in the history of Bulgarian cinema. It was filmed in 1967 but not released until 1970 when it was shown at a few small cinema halls in an edition that had been expurgated by the communist authorities. Whale satirizes the extant defects in the economic and social structure of the state in those years. Moreover, the film unambiguously specifies the exact carriers of the negative effects. The target is the bureaucratic pathos at the different ruling levels. The pathos by means of which various data and information are manipulated in the name of non-existing achievements.

First Letter
Committee for Culture & Art
Cinematography division


Letter No. 1365
11.10.1967
VERY URGENT!
To the director of the film studio.
With reference to the studio's fulfillment of the production plan and the recently completed film "Whale".
In the unanimous opinion of the Committee of Culture and Art, the director is assigned the following outstanding corrections without which the film CANNOT (underlined), be allowed onto the screen.


1. The scene with the captain's mother is to be shortened.
2. All bleating and mooing is to be removed, as it is highly crude and naturalistic.
3. Cut the line about Khan Asparukh.
4. Shorten the vulgar scene in the head office.
5. Shorten the tasteless showing of female road (flesh) in the phone box.
6. Cut the lines about Elisaveta, Gagarin. And every hint of comparison between socialism and capitalism.
7. Shorten the parody singing of the national anthem.
8. Cut the line by Dimitur Panov "I overthrow imperialism".
9. The female Komsomol secretary's role is to be reduced as much as possible. That's a pity.
10. The final speech by Parushev is to be wholly revised.


The director of production should immediately start working on the corrections.
Signed: Head of cinematography
[confidential]

btw. notice ↑↑ that the phrase "I overthrow imperialism" was a sensitive topic (with the possible multiple readings) in the Soviet satellite state!

Second Letter
VERY URGENT!


To the director of the film studio.
Corrections to be made on the film "Whale":

1. Shorten Parushev's speech on TV played by Kaloyanchev. Applies only for frames in which Kaloyanchev's head is shown on TV.
2. Shorten Kalchev's speech in front of the portrait of Parushev.


Head of the Division,
Karakashev.
December 1967, Sofia

Shortly after Whale was filmed in 1967, the eastern Europe was shaken by the doings around the Prague Spring. So it was a very delicate moment. Of course in the direction of the Bulgarian Communist Party, which forcibly took the monocracy in the country, were aware of the bitting satire of the communist economic model represented in the film. Moreover, the authorities noticed even an allusion between the character of Parushev (Kaloyanchev) and the leader of the Bulgarian communists and President of the Republic of that time Todor Zhivkov. It was also perceived some relation between the character of Kalcho Kalchev (Panov) and Stanko Todorov another communist leader. In the film Kalchev is the general executive of the local enterprise. But before that it became clear that he was simply a hatter. As a matter of fact Stanko Todorov was a tailor in his youth.


The director Vasilev and the cinematographer Emil Vagenshtain bravely struggled with the censoring. The reel stayed more than a two years in the basement stores. At that time the big scandal with some local communist leader burst out in the country. He reported a great crop of wheat for what he was awarded. Subsequently, it turned out that the crop was below the average.

The appearance of Radoy Ralin in an episode as an ichthyologist also added oil to the flames. Being famous writer satirist and a poet he was also a well known dissident during the communist regime.

Finally the film was released but at first in only two cinema halls in the city of Plovdiv. Even without any advertisement the tickets are sold out. Afterwards Whale was shown in the small Levski cinema in the capital of Sofia again with no preliminary announcement. There were cues and frames missing even the whole episodes were cut off.

The non-censored edition was released on DVD in the 2000s.

[Jürka]

The Eloquent Peasant (Shadi Abdel Salam)

[rischka]

that looks beautiful. and it's on youtube!!

i am watching the hart of london - a tremendous film with a very difficult section in the middle so i am taking a break....



i especially enjoyed the beautiful layering in the first half.... there's a brutal transition that i watched mostly through my fingers, then some actual color sequences



very handmade quality which i love. i will certainly put it in my list

[rischka]

radúz a mahulena - weigl
king lear - kozintsev
la rupture - chabrol
there once was a singing blackbird - iosseliani
le cercle rouge - melville

the hart of london - chambers
case for a rookie hangman - juracek
petit a petit - rouch
the cruise - piwowski
zabriskie point - antonioni

colossus: the forbin project - sargent
witch hammer - vavra
mera naam joker - kapoor
robin redbreast - mactaggart
the spider's strategem - bertolucci

wanda - loden
why does herr r run amok - fassbinder
the strangler - vecchiali
earthlight - gilles
the scandalous adventures of buraikan - shinoda

[ofrene]

a touch of zen - hu

it's 1971 stuff

[rischka]

a touch of zen - hu

it's 1971 stuff

thx i'll replace it

[Jürka]

Gradiva (Giorgio Albertazzi)

another episode of the sad penis hero tales...

sad penis hero (archeologist by profession) haunted by a dream woman (of Pompeii)





if sad penis hero's penis is genuinely sad, the dream comes true

[ofrene]

average year

La Rupture
The Conformist
The Ear
Wanda

Le Cercle Rouge
The Land
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Wild Child

Heroic Purgatory
The Confession
Winter In Sanrizuka
Witchhammer

Case for a Rookie Hangman
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Othon
The Adversary

Claire’s Knee
Husbands
Uski Roti
Vengeance!

[Silga]

Final list:

Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Wanda (Barbara Loden)
The Aristocats (Wolfgang Reitherman)
Faro Document (Ingmar Bergman)

Diary of a Mad Housewife (Frank Perry)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (Joseph Sargent)
Airport (George Seaton)

Soldier Blue (Ralph Nelson)
Street Scenes (Martin Scorsese)
Cotton Comes to Harlem (Ossie Davis)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)

Distracted (Pierre Richard)
The One Man Band (Serge Korber)
The Cheyenne Social Club (Gene Kelly)
Performance (Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg)

[karl]

No clear best one. Lots of really good ones tho.

Adelheid (Vláčil)
Where Spring Comes Late (Yamada)
The Adversary (Ray)
A Touch of Zen (Hu)

Days and Nights in the Forest (Ray)
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (Iosseliani)
King Lear (Kozintsev)
The Price of a Town (Georgievski)

The Land (Chahine)
The Ear (Kachyňa)
The Beginning (Panfilov)
Uncle Vanya (Kochalovsky)

Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (Shindo)
A Quiet Day at the End of the War (Mikhalkov)
Tchaivkosky (Talankin)
The Birch Wood (Wajda)

Too Little for Such a Big War (Gabrea)
Handcuffs (Papić)
Lovefilm (Szabó)
Samskara (Reddy)

[Jürka]

https://kinometer.com/?list=543

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler, 1970, 88m)
The Ear (Karel Kachyňa, 1970, 94m)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog, 1970, 96m)
Multiple Maniacs (John Waters, 1970, 90m)
Radúz and Mahulena (Petr Weigl, 1970, 115m)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970, 73m)
The Guard (Ivan Renč, 1970, 90m)
Leo the Last (John Boorman, 1970, 104m)
Earth Light (Guy Gilles, 1970, 98m)
Ere erera baleibu icik subua aruaren (José Antonio Sistiaga, 1970, 75m)

Magic Writing (Petr Skala, 1970, 5m)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970, 92m)
On a Comet (Karel Zeman, 1970, 74m)
Behold Homolka (Jaroslav Papoušek, 1970, 83m)
Whale (Petar B. Vasilev, 1970, 76m)
The Lion Has Seven Heads (Glauber Rocha, 1970, 103m)
The Murder of Mr. Devil (Ester Krumbachová, 1970, 77m)
Ossuary (Jan Švankmajer, 1970, 10m)
Carol (Ed Emshwiller, 1970, 6m)
The Eloquent Peasant (Shadi Abdel Salam, 1970, 20m)

[cinesmith]

The Conformist (Bertolucci)
El Topo (Jodorowsky)
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
Le Cercle Rouge (Melville)
Dance of the Seven Veils (Russell)

Claire's Knee (Rohmer)
Husbands (Cassavetes)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Petri)
Brewster McCloud (Altman)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (DeSica)