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1969-1979: Radical Directors in the 70s – Make State of the Nation Movies.

• Fox and His Friends (1975) (a.k.a. Faustrecht der Freiheit) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • the director’s idea of the new german cinema was to make films as beautiful as Americas but take them elsewhere in the world.
• All That Heaven Allows (1955) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Douglas Sirk
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (a.k.a. Angst essen Seele auf) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • this film uses different Hollywood techniques to show different emotions and ideas like using a tracking shot to show the hatred of an entire family
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (a.k.a. Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • the actors in this film were told to move in a slow expressionless way as if they were haunted
• All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Alice in the Cities (1974) (a.k.a. Alice in den Städten) dir. Wim Wenders
  • it was not the style of America that inspired Wenders film making but America itself.
• An Affair to Remember (1957) dir. Leo McCarey
• Gods of the Plague (1970) (a.k.a. Götter der Pest) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978) (a.k.a. Das Zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages) dir. Margarethe von Trotta
  • the film uses close-ups and almost center eye line shots to establish intimacy and equality between two characters
• Burden of Dreams (1982) dir. Les Blank
  • a whole ship was dragged to the site of this films shoot to do an on-location shoot
• Arabian Nights (1974) (a.k.a. Il fiore delle mille e una notte) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • this is one of the trilogy of life films made by Pasolini that were set in the past
• The Spider’s Stratagem (1970) (a.k.a. Strategia del ragno) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • this film often uses right moving pans in a sweeping shot
• The Conformist (1970) (a.k.a. Il conformista) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
• Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • this film uses its camera movements to turn an ugly event turned into a beautiful form
• Women in Love (1969) dir. Ken Russell
• Performance (1970) dir. Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg
• Mean Streets (1973) (introduced in Episode 9) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • The merging of faces scene is meant to reflect the changing of a character
• Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman
• Walkabout (1971) dir. Nicolas Roeg
  • once the character is married in this film the setting switches to a white building and chlorinated pool probably meant to represent purity
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir
• My Brilliant Career (1979) dir. Gillian Armstrong
  • this films main focus is about a woman relationship with men and hinted at how gendered films of the 70s would become
• Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) dir. Noriaki Tsuchimoto
• The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987) dir. Kazuo Hara
  • this film has an almost documentary style in the way that if films using a handheld camera
• Black Girl (1966) (a.k.a. La noire de…) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Ousmane Sembène
• Tarzan’s Secret Treasure (1941) dir. Richard Thorpe
• La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1971) dir. Assia Djebar
  • this film depicted a more realistic view of the African man
  • for some reason the film was poorly preserved
• Xala (1975) dir. Ousmane Sembène
  • this film was about the change from colonial to post-colonial identity
• Sinemaabi: A Dialogue with Djibril Diop Mambéty (1997) dir. Beti Ellerson Poulenc
• Badou Boy (1970) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
• Hyènes (1992) (a.k.a. Hyenas/Ramatou) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
• Kaddu Beykat (1975) (a.k.a. Lettre paysanne) dir. Safi Faye
• Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976) (a.k.a. Mirt sost shi amit) dir. Haile Gerima
  • this film starts at dawn and takes place over 3000 years as if all of history was just one day.
• Umut (1970) (a.k.a. Hope) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
• Yol (1982) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
• The Battle of Chile (1975/1977/1979) (a.k.a. La batalla de Chile) dir. Patricio Guzmán
• The Holy Mountain (1973) (a.k.a. La montaña sagrada) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky