d. Alexander Kluge
c. West Germany
y. 1976
description:
"Ferdinand Rieche (Heinz Schubert) was a policeman, but found the legal constraints of that profession too stifling. He gets into the business of protecting manufacturing plants and outfits and trains his men like a private army expecting an invasion. After his excesses prove too much for his bosses, he is fired, and Ferdinand takes his strong opinions back into public life." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.1 (34)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 1360MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes
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Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970s. Show all posts
Strongman Ferdinand
The Lion Has Seven Heads
d. Glauber Rocha
c. Brazil
y. 1971
description:
"This disturbing story of religious and political confusion in Latin America finds the CIA trying to infiltrate rebels loyal to a puppet government. A local guerilla fighter is tortured by a priest and his cronies who take sadistic pleasure in the torment of their victims. A blonde woman loyal to a shadowy operative is stripped naked, thrown in a cage and crucified by the sinful and sadistic spiritual scum. The guerilla eventually escapes to exact revenge on the enemy." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.9 (26)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 570MB
qlty: VHS
subs: ?
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Impressions de la haute Mongolie
d. Salvador Dali
c. West Germany
y. 1976
description:
"An elaborate yarn about a search for giant hallucinogenic mushrooms." (IMDB comment)
IMDB... 6.4 (23)
_AMG... n/a
size: 500MB
qlty: ?
subs: ?
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Last Day of a Rainy Summer
d. Aleksandr Sokurov
c. USSR
y. 1978
description:
n/a
IMDB... n/a
_AMG... n/a
size: 300MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Pozyvnye R1NN
d. Aleksandr Sokurov
c. USSR
y. 1975
description:
"In the 20's an enthusiast radio amateur, Fyodor Lbov, experiments one of the first short-waves radio in the city of Gorky." (IMDB)
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 340MB
qlty: ?
subs: no (Italian)
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The Pig
d. Jean Eustache
c. France
y. 1970
description:
"In the French countryside it's the day for peasants to kill a big fat pig. The slaughter goes on for a great part of the day as they work to store 140kg worth of meat." (IMDB)
IMDB... 7.3 (16)
_AMG... n/a
size: 650MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Swords of Death
d. Tomu Uchida
c. Japan
y. 1971
description:
"This film, based on a novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, details exploits in the life of the legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto. Musashi, whose life has been the subject of countless Japanese novels, developed the art of swordsmanship to a very high level and is thought to have originated a technique involving the use of two swords, though Musashi's own writings make no reference to this technique. In the story, a fighter using chains and sickles as weapons joins with eight allies to avenge himself on Musashi." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.0 (12)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: yes
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Happy Birthday to John
d. Jonas Mekas
c. USA
y. 1972
description:
"October 9, 1972 an exhibition of John Lennon/Yoko Ono's art, designed by the Father of Fluxus movement, George Maciunas, opened at the Syracuse Museum of Art (curated by David Ross, presently director of the Whitney Museum). Same day an unusual group of John's and Yoko's friends, including Ringo, Allen Ginsberg and many others gathered to celebrate John's birthday. This film is a visual and audio record of that event. We hear a series of improvised songs, sung by John, Ringo, Yoko Ono, and their friends,--not a clean studio recording, but as a birthday singing, free and happy. This is the only recording of that event. There are other images that are included in the film that develops like a "music video": the John & Yoko party at Klein's /their agent/ June 12, 1971; August 1972 at the Madison Square Garden; the Central Park Vigil on the day John was shot; and some other rare footage that I have taken on different occasions of John and Yoko. The soundtrack, besides the unique recording of the Birthday Party singing, contains John's comments on his own film-making, his "home movies" he did on 8mm. The most catchy song, sung in an improvised manner, in the film, is the Attica Blues. The drummer for the last part of the film is Dalius Naujolaitis." (ubuweb)
IMDB... n/a
_AMG... n/a
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
d. Jonas Mekas
c. UK & West Germany
y. 1972
description:
"This film, and its companion piece Going Home are documentaries in the form of home movies. It records the return visit of brothers Jonas and Adolfas Mekas to their homeland of Lithuania. They apparently left the country near the end of World War II, and suffered various hardships on their way to America. Until the time of this film (1972), they had never been back to Lithuania." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.9 (64)
_AMG... 4.5 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: VHS
subs: yes
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Les bleu des origines
d. Philippe Garrel
c. France
y. 1979
description:
"Les Bleu des Origins is an uncompromising example of old school avant-garde cinema at its most cryptic, enigmatic and inscrutable. Made by Philippe Garrel in 1979 using a hand-cranked silent camera, Les Bleu represents absolute year zero in film-making, a return to the starkest basics of film's origins in early silent cinema, replacing any trace of narrative or even dialogue with an emphasis almost exclusively on close-ups of women's faces. The film is black and white, and absolutely silent for its full 50-minute duration. " (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 6.8 (8)
_AMG... n/a
size: 710MB
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subs: no
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Secret Child
d. Philippe Garrel
c. France
y. 1979
description:
"Four chapters based on the birth of a 'secret child', or a film, with chapter titles: "La séction Césarienne" (Caesarian section: a descriptive detail introducing the mother); "Le dernier guerrier" (the last warrior: how the father sees himself); "Le cercle ophydique" (the serpent's closed circle: the couple reunites at the psychiatric ward); "Les forêts désenchantées" (unfairy forests: the film in the making). " (IMDB)
IMDB... 8.0 (34)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 980MB
qlty: DVD
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Berceau de cristal
d. Philippe Garrel
c. France
y. 1976
description:
"A weird and dreamy minimalist underground art movie, Le Berceau de Cristal offers no joy whatsoever to mainstream film buffs - but doomed romantics, drug takers and fans of director Philippe Garrel may find it hypnotic and profoundly moving. An androgynous poet/dreamer (played by Nico - Velvet Underground singer, Eurotrash icon and Garrel's other half) sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life. Hieratic and semi-mythical beings show up to haunt her dreams. Dominique Sanda as a fleshy Pre-Raphaelite earth goddess. Anita Pallenberg as an impishly grinning, emaciated drug diva - shooting up live on camera. An early icon of 'heroin chic.' Not one of these figures utters a word to disturb Nico's reverie. Beyond the poet's voice is only silence and an intermittent, achingly lovely music score. (Uncredited, but perhaps the work of Garrel's frequent collaborator, the Velvet Underground guitarist John Cale.) Impossible to say what any of this is about, only that - in the last few seconds - Nico takes out a revolver and blows a hole in her skull. By that time, you may be so bored that you have an overwhelming desire to do the same, or you may be - as I was - curled up in a primal ball, gazing raptly at the screen and silently sobbing. So if you are a morbid manic-depressive neo-romantic, Le Berceau de Cristal is the film for you. If you value your sanity, stay well clear." (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 7.2 (14)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: VHS
subs: ?
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Speak, Little Mute Girl
d. Manuel Gutierrez Aragon
c. Spain
y. 1973
description:
"This Spanish drama explores an encounter between a well-educated mountain-climber and a young shepherdess who has been kept mute by her suffocating family. Lost during a climbing expedition, Don Ramiro (Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez) finds shelter and safety through the help of the speechless girl (Kili Manyer). Though her brother is deaf and half-mad, there is nothing wrong with the girl, and Ramiro begins to teach her how to speak. This interferes with the established pattern preferred by the girl's family, and Ramiro is accused of rape and carted off to prison." (AMG)
IMDB... 4.5 (9)
_AMG... n/a
size: 730MB
qlty: Sat
subs: no
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Far West
d. Jacques Brel
c. France
y. 1973
description:
"This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process." (AMG)
IMDB... 3.8 (17)
_AMG... 1.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Franz
d. Jacques Brel
c. France
y. 1971
description:
"In this French romantic tragedy, introverted soldier Leon and the lovely Leonie fall in love, but unfortunately, poor Leon has been emotionally damaged by his overbearing mother and the horrors he endured while at war and is unable to keep their love alive." (AMG)
IMDB... 5.6 (19)
_AMG... 1.0 / 5.0
size: 600MB
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subs: no
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Agnus dei
d. Miklos Jancso
c. Hungary
y. 1970
description:
"This is one of the more inscrutable works by famed Hungarian director Miklos Jancso, better known for his film epic on the Russian Revolution, The Red and the White. His films still upset authorities in Eastern Europe, and he is considered to be both a political maverick and an extraordinary film stylist. This film, Egi Barany, or Agnus Dei, deals with the period in Hungary's history immediately following the overthrow of the Bela Kun Commune in 1919. Hungary, like the other units of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, suffered from chaos and civil war following the breakup of the empire at the end of World War I. For a short time, the Commune, a communist faction, governed Hungary. It had considerable military support from the new Bolshevik regime in Russia. The movie shows communards attempting to hold on to power in a rural area. They have (but do not welcome) the support of a wild, epileptic priest. The story is told using dialogue from Hungarian folklore and the Bible. Peasants are swept up in waves of violence as supporters of Admiral Horthy and the Reds struggle for control." (AMG)
IMDB... 8.2 (19)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 900MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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The Amulet of Ogum
d. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
c. Brazil
y. 1974
description:
"Ogum is one of the deities of Brazil's many voodoo-related folk religions. This story is narrated by an ubiquitous folk singer and tells of a young boy whose mother arranges for him to have an amulet bearing Ogum's blessings which would make him immune to gunfire. The amulet apparently works, for the boy becomes a member of a mobster's hit-team and then joins with a group of people who resist his original employers. He is betrayed by a woman who, ironically, possesses a similar amulet of her own." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.2 (28)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Di Cavalcanti
d. Glauber Rocha
c. Brazil
y. 1977
description:
"This is a very rare movie, but the story is very spread among brazilian cinema people. When brazilian art master Di Cavalcanti died, Glauber Rocha went to his funeral... with a camera. The short movie shows Cavalcanti`s corpse in the coffin, the funeral, and his family yelling at Rocha to get out of there with that camera, while in the background we hear Jorge Ben singing "Umbabarauma, homem gol", a famous samba-funk song about a famous brazilian soccer player. The guts make the myth." (IMDB Comment)
IMDB... 6.9 (40)
_AMG... n/a
size: 60MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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Cutting Heads
d. Glauber Rocha
c. Brazil
y. 1970
description:
"This uneven and hastily produced film suffers from many technical difficulties and is plagued by meaningless improvisation. Some attempt is made by the director to talk of some of the social problems in Brazil, but this entry qualifies as one itself. A narrator tells tales of the poverty stricken, and the filmmaker's many attempts at symbolism are confusing and pretentious." (AMG)
IMDB... 4.8 (25)
_AMG... 2.0 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: ?
subs: no
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