SCFZ

Pick your favourite movies of 1970 (according to IMDB), up to 20 films.

20-film ballots must be ranked as follows (with point totals assigned):
Five tiers 5-4-3-2-1
Four tiers 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5
Three tiers 5-3-1
Two tiers 4-2
One tier (aka unranked) 3

Ballot totals that aren't divisible by the number of tiers must be unranked. So 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19 film ballots are unranked.

The Nude Vampire 1970 La Vampire Nue Directed by Jean Rollin
Earth Light 1970 Le Clair de terre Directed by Guy Gilles
Adelheid 1970 Directed by František Vláčil
Baal 1970 Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Unfolding 1970 Directed by Coni Beeson

Multiple Maniacs 1970 Directed by John Waters
U.S.S. 1970 Directed by Alain Montesse
Spectator 1970 Directed by Frans Zwartjes
Gods of the Plague 1970 Götter der Pest Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stop! 1970 Directed by Bill Gunn

Five Easy Pieces 1970 Directed by Bob Rafelson
Times For 1970 Directed by Stephen Dwoskin
Female Human 1970 Kvinnomänniska Directed by Maj Wechselmann, Janne Brodin...
An Artistic Couple 1970 Un couple d'artistes Directed by Bruno Gantillon
A Swedish Love Story 1970 En kärlekshistoria Directed by Roy Andersson

Der Bomberpilot 1970 Directed by Werner Schroeter
Dance of the Seven Veils 1970 Directed by Ken Russell
Eugenie 1970 De Sade 70 Directed by Jesús Franco
The Body Beneath 1970 Directed by Andy Milligan
The Triadic Ballet 1970 Das Triadische Ballett Directed by Franz Schömbs, Margarete Hasting …



Probably in need of a rewatch tbh:

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Directed by Russ Meyer
The Butcher 1970 Le Boucher Directed by Claude Chabrol
Claire’s Knee 1970 Le genou de Claire Directed by Éric Rohmer
Deep End 1970 Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Eden and After 1970 L'Éden et après Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Gimme Shelter 1970 Directed by Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Performance 1970 Directed by Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
Woodstock 1970 Directed by Michael Wadleigh
Zabriskie Point 1970 Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

[provisional list deleted]

a touch of zen - hu
once a singing blackbird - iosseliani
le cercle rouge - melville
la rupture - chabrol
othon - straub/huillet

earth light - gilles
the strangler - vecchiali
wanda - loden
witchhammer - vavra
petit a petit - rouch

i'll work on it

Tentative, though my schedule is pretty full. Hopefully I can revise this.

There Once Was A Singing Blackbird - Otar Iosseliani
Five Easy Pieces - Bob Rafelson
Claire's Knee - Eric Rohmer
Performance - Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammel
Le Cercle Rouge - Jean-Pierre Melleville

Soleil O - Med Hondo
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders - Jaromil Jires
The Butcher - Claude Chabrol
Even Dwarfs Started Small - Werner Herzog
The Watermelon Man - Melvin Van Peebles

Wanda - Barbara Loden
El Topo - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Deep End - Jersey Skolimowski
Donkey Skin - Jacques Demy
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - Billy Wilder

Like most years in the 60s-70s, especially at the intersection, this is one of the strongest years of all-time:

Rengoku eroica / Heroic Purgatory (1970, Yoshishige Yoshida)
Il Conformista (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
L'Éden et après / Eden and After (1970, Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Ucho / The Ear (1970-1990, Karel Kachyna) - It is 1970 again on IMDb now

Szerelmesfilm / A Film About Love (1970, Istvan Szabo)
Valerie a týden divu / Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970, Jaromil Jires)
Le vent d'est / Wind from the East (1970, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin & Gérard Martin)
Le clair de terre / Earth Light (1970, Guy Gilles)

Baal (1970, Volker Schlöndorff)
o.k. (1970, Michael Verhoeven)
Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini / The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970, Vittorio de Sica)
Tristana (1970, Luis Bunuel)

Mikreh Isha / A Woman's Case (1970, Jacques Katmor)
Brewster McCloud (1970, Robert Altman)
El Topo (1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu onboro no Seikatsu / History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970, Shohei Imamura)

Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970, Jerry Schatzberg)
Chi no mure / Apart from Life (1970, Kei Kumai)
Catch-22 (1970, Mike Nichols)
Prípad pro zacínajícího kata / Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970, Pavel Jurácek)

Honourable mentions:

Domicile conjugal / Bed & Board (1970, François Truffaut)
Vamos a matar, compañeros / Companeros (1970)
Kladivo na carodejnice / Witches' Hammer (1970, Otakar Vávra)
Copacabana Mon Amour (1970, Rogério Sganzerla)
Sem Essa, Aranha (1970, Rogério Sganzerla)
Die Niklashauser Fart / The Niklashausen Journey (1970, Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Michael Fengler)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970, William Wyler)
Dodesukaden (1970, Akira Kurosawa)
Utazás a koponyám körül / Trip Around My Cranium (1970, György Révész)
There Was a Crooked Man… (1970, Joeseph L. Mankiewicz)

Le Cercle rouge / The Red Circle (1970, Jean-Pier Melville)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970, Billy Wilder)
Performance (1970, Donald Cammell & Nicholas Roeg)
La rupture (1970, Claude Chabrol)
L'aveu / The Confession (1970, Costa-Gavras)
Uski Roti / Our Daily Bread (1970, Mani Kaul)
Das Millionenspiel / The Millions Game (1970, Tom Toelle)
L'étrangleur / The Strangler (1970, Paul Vecchiali)
Little Big Man (1970, Arthur Hiller)
Mujo / This Transient Life (1970, Akio Jissoji)

The Landlord (1970, Hal Ashby)
Nachalo (1970, Gleb Panfilov)
Deadlock (1970, Roland Klick)
Adelheid (1970, Frantisek Vlacil)
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1970, Freddie Francis)
The Great White Hope (1970, Martin Ritt)
Uomini contro / Many Wars Ago (1970, Francesco Rosi)
Sladké hry minulého léta (1970, Juraj Herz)
Grazuole / The Beautiful Girl (1970, Arunas Zebriunas)
Goin' Down the Road (1970, Donald Shebib)

Les choses de la vie / The Things of Life (1970, Claude Sautet)
Vlyublyonnye / Tenderness / The Lovers (1970, Elyer Ishmukhamedov)
Solo (1970, Jean-Pierre Mocky)
Khlib i sil / Bread and Salt (1970, Grigori Kokhan)
Kevade / Spring (1970, Arvo Kruusement)
Mosaico (1970, Néstor Paternostro)
...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren... (1970, José Antonio Sistiaga)
MASH (1970, Robert Altman)
Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski)
O Happy Day (1970, Zbynek Brynych)

Le voyou (1970, Claude Lelouch)
Cenata na gradot / The Price of a Town (1970, Ljubisa Georgievski)
Pao dao zhong dian / The End of the Track (1970, Tun-Fei Mou)
Brzezina / The Birch Wood (1970, Andrzej Wajda)
Le coeur fou / The Mad Heart (1970, Jean-Gabriel Albicocco)
Camarades (1970, Marin Karmitz)
Sport, Sport, Sport (1970, Elem Klimov)
Prea mic pentru un razboi atît de mare / Too Little for Such a Big War (1970, Radu Gabrea)
Apa ca un bivol negru / Water Like a Black Buffalo (1970, Various)

Hopefully I'll get to watch some, although my ability to DL might be in limbo for a bit as I move.

I watched two 1970 movies a couple of days ago, both by British horror director Freddie Francis. Naturally, I loved the one everyone hates and hated the one everyone loves: (1) the cult fav Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (Francis's own favourite of his own pictures, included on TSZDT) was just too fucked up for my taste. Eeek!, but (2) the notorious bad movie classic Trog is deeply endearing for my taste: Joan Crawford, in her final screen appearance, earnestly performing the maternal melodrama of an anthropology scholar raising a murderous Ice Age-era troglodyte as her adopted child!!! Of course, Joan is even scarier than the movie monster.

Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
Les Choses de la Vie (Claude Sautet)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg)
Berlin Horse (Malcolm le Grice)

Donkey Skin (Jacques Demy)
L'Eden et Apres (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Earth Light (Guy Gilles)
Inhabitants (Artavazd Peleshian)

Witchhammer (Otakar Vavra)
Why Does Herr R Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder)

The Ear (Karel Kachyna)
Das Millionenspiel (Tom Toelle)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)

On The Move (SNS Sastry)
Oh, Protector of the Gazelle (Parviz Kimiavi)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Falcons (Istvan Gaal)

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 11:01 am Reconstituirea / Reconstruction (1970, Lucian Pintilie)

i'd include this in my list too, but it's 1968 on imdb

flip wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 1:41 pm

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 11:01 am Reconstituirea / Reconstruction (1970, Lucian Pintilie)

i'd include this in my list too, but it's 1968 on imdb

Thanks, removed. Let's hope it doesn't bounce back to 1970 during the poll.

I'll start with these:

Of Gods And The Undead - Guerra
Porque Naci Mujer? - Rogelio Gonzalez
Soleil O

The Ballad Of Cable Hogue -
Hope - Guney
King Lear - Kosintsevs

A Hole In The Ground - Kongratiuk
Samskara - Reddy
You Can't Win Em all - Collinson

Crates - Joskowicz
El Quelite - Fons
Wild Child - Truffaut
Zabriskie Point

Lots to look forward to!

Evelyn Library P.I. wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 12:45 pm Trog is deeply endearing for my taste: Joan Crawford, in her final screen appearance, earnestly performing the maternal melodrama of an anthropology scholar raising a murderous Ice Age-era troglodyte as her adopted child!!! Of course, Joan is even scarier than the movie monster.

Ah... I love Joan, and have kind of been ignoring this one out of fear it would kind of just be sad. Didn't realize it was 1970, so maybe I'll have to finally bite the bullet.

The 1970 Reconstruction is the Angelopoulos one.

It'd be difficult for me to cut the following down to 20, but these're the contenders:

Days and Nights in the Forest (Ray)
The Adversary (Ray)
The Price of a Town (Georgievski)
Adelheid (Vláčil)
Where Spring Comes Late (Yamada)
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (Iosseliani)
A Touch of Zen (Hu)
Too Little for Such a Big War (Gabrea)
King Lear (Kozintsev)
The Beginning (Panfilov)
Handcuffs (Papić)
The Birch Wood (Wajda)
Landscape after Battle (Wajda)
Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (Shindo)
One Song a Day Keeps the Mischief Away (Golik)
Tchaivkosky (Talankin)
Uncle Vanya (Kochalovsky)
Lovefilm (Szabó)
Samskara (Reddy)
A Quiet Day at the End of the War (Mikhalkov)
Behold Homolka (Papoušek)
The Lovers (Ishmukhamedov)
The Land (Chahine)
The Ear (Kachyňa)
Taste of the Black Earth (Kutz)
Tristana (Buñuel)
The Green Wall (Robles Godoy)
MASH (Altman)
The Falcons (Gaál)
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jireš)
Many Wars Ago (Rosi)
Red (Carle)

othon - jean-marie straub, danièle huillet
hope - yılmaz güney
why does herr r. run amok? - rainer werner fassbinder, michael fengler
the penal colony - raúl ruiz
arcade - tony sinden
there once was a singing blackbird - otar iosseliani
fruit of paradise -věra chytilová
king lear - grigori kozintsev
private imaginings and narrative facts - edward owens
zorns lemma - hollis frampton
the land - youssef chahine
the cruise - marek piwowski
little by little - jean rouch
case for a rookie hangman - pavel juráček
the reconstruction - theo angelopoulos
the hart of london - jack chambers
uski roti - mani kaul
the strangler - paul vecchiali
the spider's stratagem - bernardo bertolucci
the ear - karel kachyňa

everyone - adelheid is 1969 on imdb

Looked it up

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122371/re ... tt_ov_rdat

Czechoslovakia 1969 (Filmed)
Argentina March 1970 (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
Czechoslovakia April 6, 1970

Filmed does not a release date make.

Yeah but the official IMDb date on the main page is what we go by. Unfortunately, often.

king lear is spectacular not least cuz of this guy. thxx ♥♥♥ i'll be checking out trog as well

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.

that looks incredible and i will watch!!







borsalino (jacques deray) - an epic bromance! not much of a film tho. and it caused a rift between these two - delon said belmondo was extremely petty about the number of close-ups and who would get top billing lol. they both seemed to enjoy playing gangsters in natty suits in 1930s marseilles

A Journey Around My Skull AKA Trip Around My Cranium (György Révész)

a cinematic adaptation of the eponymous book by Frigyes Karinthy
→ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165 ... d_My_Skull

The distinguished Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy thought, it had been years since Budapest had streetcars. Only then did he realize he was suffering from an auditory hallucination of extraordinary intensity.

The Deer Garden: The Romantic Forest (Per Kirkeby, Jørgen Leth)

an idyllic film with dispensable moments when idyllic exorbits into creepy

Jægersborg Dyrehave → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A6gersborg_Dyrehave
Hermitage Hunting Lodge → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitage_Hunting_Lodge

Q-bec My Love (Jean-Pierre Lefebvre) looks interesting, looks like it might be going in a toned-down Sweet Movie/WR: Mysteries direction... but it's in Quebecois and no subs. Maybe for Flip...

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2024 6:44 pm Q-bec My Love (Jean-Pierre Lefebvre) looks interesting, looks like it might be going in a toned-down Sweet Movie/WR: Mysteries direction... but it's in Quebecois and no subs. Maybe for Flip...

interesting! i couldn't find that film, but i found an earlier lefebvre, and watched about ten minutes, and the makavejev comparison seems right on. i was partly watching to judge whether i could understand the language well enough to watch a full movie (or even subtitle one) and i could only get about 80% of it, sometimes because my french isn't perfect, and sometimes because the audio quality isn't great. so i don't think i'll be able to watch, but i'd definitely be interested if a subbed version becomes available.

zabriskie point

amazing year

The Conformist (Bertolucci)
A Swedish Love Story (Andersson)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jires)
Claire's Knee (Rohmer)
Vamos a matar, companeros! (Corbucci)

Le boucher (Chabrol)
Bed and Board (Truffaut)
Le cercle rouge (Melville)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni)
Ucho (Kachyna)

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Argento)
7 Plus 7 (Apted)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer)
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (Siegel)

To see:
Deep End
The Landlord
Husbands
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
El topo
Days and Nights in the Forest
Wanda
Even Dwarves Started Small
Eden and After
Hi, Mom!

german spaghetti western deadlock (sauerkraut western?)



THE can???? very dirty sweaty gritty etc

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:04 pm THE can????

also watched a 1970 film with THE CAN tune!

“Mother Sky” recorded in July 1970 for the soundtrack of Jerzy Skolimowski's film Deep End

[Verse 1]
I say madness is too pure like mother sky
I say madness is too pure like mother sky
I say madness is too pure like mother sky
I say madness is too pure like mother sky

[Verse 2]
I say madness is too pure like mother sky
I say madness is too pure like mother sky
Tell me what's the price of your life
Tell me what's the price of your life

[Bridge]
I say madness is too pure like mother sky
Tell me what's the price of your life
Tell me what's the price of your life
Tell me what's the price of your life

[Chorus]
Life and mother sky
And mother sky
And mother sky
And mother sky

[Verse 3]
I say madness is too pure like mother sky
Tell me what's the price of your life
I say madness is too pure like mother sky
I say madness is too pure like mother sky

[Outro]
Turning to desert
Turning to desert
Turning to desert
Shine like you

Critics also lauded Skolimowski's strategic use of colour. In an interview with NME in 1982, David Lynch said of Deep End: "I don't like colour movies and I can hardly think about colour. It really cheapens things for me and there's never been a colour movie I've freaked out over except one, this thing called Deep End, which had really great art direction."

i need to watch that one again. so it really was THE can... altho there's no mention of this on their wiki page

suggested backronym: communism, anarchism, nihilism

the name appears as 'the can' on their first album monster movie from 1969, 'the' was dropped for tago mago 1971

They have a Soundtracks album which features music from both films mentioned. I have both and will bump them up in my queue for sure!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtracks_(Can_album)