Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

Deformed form by which the word "beast" (medieval weapon) is pronounced in the north of the Brazilian state of Bahia and was still present in the cultural memory of the region.

This film is an introductory exploration of Dallas, Texas, narrated by Walter Miller. It highlights various aspects of the city, including its location in north-central Texas, 250 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Dallas is portrayed as a bustling metropolis, nicknamed "Big D," known for its towering buildings, extensive new construction, thriving industries, and comprehensive city services. The film emphasizes the city's rich transportation infrastructure and abundance of recreational opportunities, with special mention of attractions like Six Flags Over Texas. Accompanied by lively music and visuals, the film paints Dallas as a vibrant and dynamic urban hub.

This comedy tells the story about a father who refuses to agree to his daughter's marriage to a wealthy man. The story chronicles the conflict between a family in post-colonial Ghana as they struggle to choose between love and money.

Renowned English painter, David Hockney, takes us on a visual journey as he shares with us his treasured photo diaries. Consisting of polaroids Hockney has been collecting since 1967, the diaries act as both a tribute and an artist's notebook, often times including images the painter used for his large canvas works. A fine example of Hockney's pictorial inspiration are several photographs of castles he took during a boat trip down the Rhine that were later adapted for a suite of etchings to accompany six Grimm's fairy tales. Seeing his projects long before the work begins, Hockney used his camera to slow time and capture images that would go on to boast his unique style of realism. In David Hockney's Diaries the artist is seen at work on a large canvas of his friends Celia and Ossie Clark and their cat Percy, commissioned by the Tate Gallery.

A straight-laced married couple become involved in wife swapping after gettting involved with a hippie flower child.

Nyoman Regeg's asceticism was one day short of what his teacher had recommended. Therefore, the teacher sent another student, Sugriwa, to find and persuade Regeg to complete his asceticism. Regeg seemed to have other intentions. He meditated and sought supernatural powers only to take revenge.

Thai horror film.

Fame is too heavy for Ralph McCartney (John Ford Noonan) when he becomes an accidental rock star. Shot in New York, premiered June 1970. Winner: Third Prize at the National Student Film Festival.

The emotional conflict of Africans in Paris.

Doc and Chapagua are two rogues who acquire a large stash of gold before the Civil War. They agree to hide it together, blindfolding each other on the way so they'll need each other to find the hiding place. After the War, double-crosses abound as Doc and Chapagua not only have to deal with the army, but with the seductive, gold-hungry Moira as well.

Sei, after murdering Ji-young for her inheritance and unintentionally causing the death of Ji-young's driver, is lured into a trap by the driver's fiancée, Hye-sook, who deceives Sei by making it seem as though Ji-young is still alive, leading to an escalating confrontation where they eventually become fugitives and lovers, but their brief happiness ends when Hye-sook falls to her death, and Sei is arrested.

Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way.

In the distant future, a spaceship inhabited by a group of young descendants of a "subversive" minority who escaped the destruction of the Earth, recovers a capsule in which the hibernating body of a reactionary warmonger has been preserved, who after having caused war and death, it has abandoned the now unlivable Earth. The visual experimentation aimed at the liberation of the gaze is intertwined with psychedelic visions on the one hand and with the orgone theory of Reichian memory on the other.

Namma Kuzhandaigal is a 1970 Indian Tamil-language children's film directed by Srikanth and produced by D. Ramanaidu. It is based on writer Poovannan's novel Aalam Vizhudhu. The film stars Major Sundarrajan, Pandari Bai and Vennira Aadai Nirmala in the lead roles.

Toula, a young woman from a Greek migrant family living in Sydney, struggles to balance her family’s expectations with her own desire for independence and a modern Australian identity. As these pressures collide, she seeks a way to reconcile both aspects of her life. (Note: This film is one segment of the anthology feature "Three to Go" (1971).)

Ambitious young woman thinks she's on he fast track to fame and fortune, but her manager's a sleazeball who gets her hooked on IV drugs and pimps her out at random.

A performance of Hermann Nitsch's "7th Abreaction Action", which was initially banned by police, is put on the following morning instead. The action consists of gutting a lamb, pouring the innards over a recumbent woman, mating with a dildo, crucifixion and a concluding scuffle. The action is accompanied by electric organ, percussion and recorded music.

Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall.

This portrait of the great Austrian writer combines a brilliant monologue delivered by Thomas Bernhard and the artful film work of Ferry Radax.

A mysterious “Queen of the Skies” arrives on Earth, likely transplanted from exotic American sci-fi footage, wandering in desert attire, singing alongside scantily clad dancers. The film stitches together these bizarre imported alien sequences with new Turkish desert scenes, resulting in a surreal sci-fi/comedy mash‑up Yeşilçam cinema.

The soldier Alessio escapes from the horrors of the war. He meets a young woman and hide in her home.

Two elderly people live in a large house, following a dull and predictable routine. They are stalked by another elderly man—tall, dressed in a black coat, and with a ghostly presence—who eventually takes up residence in one of the rooms of the house. Based on Julio Cortázar’s short story of the same name, *Casa tomada* was one of the most important short films produced within the film department of the National University of La Plata between the 1960s and the early 1970s.

A twisted take of a psychodrama session where the participants believes that liberation of the mind travels via the body.

“Coming Attractions” looks backward into the memories and forward into the future of Francis Francine, an elegantly dowdy transvestite of, and indeed beyond, a certain age. The memories, haunted by a Spirit of Seductions Past (played by a quite glorious naked young lady who fortunately bears absolutely no resemblance to Francis Fran cine) suggest a generally lurid life of sumptuous sex and questionable liaisons. The future, presented by an ancient fortune teller with a wonderful crystal ball that holds a lively go‐go dancer and that seems to mediate between interchanging black and white halves of the screen, follows Francis Francine through the reactivation of an ancient affair, to her death (a jealous ex‐lover) and her triumphant entrance into a pastoral paradise that looks like a cross between several scenes from “81/2” and “The Embarkation for Cythera” in drag.

Sandra, a teenager who lives in the countryside, is brutally abused by her neurotic and alcoholic father. After his death, Sandra goes to San Francisco to experience the free love.

Desamante Manushuloyi is a 1970 Telugu, political social problem film. The film was directed by C. S. Rao. It received the 1970 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu.

Çarşambayı Sel Aldı is a 1970 film directed by Mehmet Aslan, starring Yıldıray Çınar in the lead role.

A documentary on Dwight Eisenhower shown at the Eisenhower library.

The film is a study of Anton Szandor LaVey, leader of a cult of devil worshipers in San Francisco. He and his Church of Satan are shown performing a black mass, in which a nude woman serves as an altar and a boa constrictor wraps itself around a naked witch. Newsreel footage is included in which LaVey's neighbors are interviewed about the lion which he kept in his house until complaints resulted in the animal's removal to a zoo. The ideology of the Church of Satan is discussed--guilt rejection, sexual freedom, and self-indulgence.

A bizarre don't-even-try-to-make-sense-of-it bombardment of sexual imagery that plays like stream of consciousness from a degenerate: threesomes, foursomes, lesbians, bondage, hair-whipping (!) and, believe it or not, even kung-fu. Avant-garde masterpiece or pure gutter trash? Perhaps both.

Antenna gives a snapshot of the 1970s. The film is a typical work by Ditvoorst: freedom of the individual, the desire for a utopia that does not come true, the lonely and misunderstood artist, the aversion to the state, bureaucracy and religious authorities, absurd side characters etc. The film has little dialogue and is largely told through the images of cameraman Jan de Bon

The movie is about what happens to Osman, who manages to get into a mansion as an in-law to get rid of his poverty. Osman is unemployed and penniless. He is engaged to Ayşe, the sister of his friend Mehmet. But they have no money to get married. Ayşe goes to work in Australia to save money. Osman marries the daughter of Dehri Bey, widowed with four children when her husband dies, and settles in Dehri Bey's mansion. Dehri Bey asks Osman to hire a foreign governess to teach his spoiled children to behave. Mehmet secretly writes a letter to Ayşe and invites her to Istanbul to play a trick on Osman, who has forgotten his sister and married. Ayşe enters the mansion as a governess under the name Angel. All the men of the mansion come after Ayşe.

After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering to the soviets.

African couple Silvianus and Makeba arrive in Brazil, seeking to tourist around the country and take part in an International Music Festival

The series of portrait films that the Heins made between 1970-73 attest to their deepening interest in the movement generated solely through cinematic processes of reproduction. [...] Portraits (1970) is a collection of three of these films, Manson, Biggs, and Wilhelm Hein, that each underwent distinct processes of development so as to highlight different perceptual and aesthetic effects.

A documentary about the miners' strike in Kiruna, Sweden, 1969.

Rahimah is forced into prostitution by her stepfather. While she solicits at a bar, it is raided by the police. But Rahimah is able to escape thanks to Nor, a sympathetic policeman who takes her into his home. A romance soon blossoms between them, and they begin to yearn for a new life together. However, Rahimah is haunted by her past, and she lives in fear of her stepfather catching up to them.

Lawyer and his secretary enter into a midlife marriage, deal with complications coming from their adult children and the former partners of each.

In a woodland, a foolish, bungling magician prepares a potion to aid Hildur, the fairy queen, in rescuing her ward, a princess, who has been abducted by a gnome. The wicked "mortal queen" has threatened the princess with death. By an accident, the magician's potion causes Hildur to become mortal, although subliminal recollections of her mystic existence remain to haunt her.

Documentary covering the counter-culture in London in 1970. Featuring Marc Bolan, Linda Lewis, The Faces, Matthews Southern Comfort and Fairport Convention.

A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.

An early morning in a quiet suburban railroad station, where middle class men depart for jobs in the city and female domestics arrive to work in the middle class suburban homes.

They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration. They visit Weimar, the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the Schwedt petrochemical combine, and decide to go into business after the eighth grade, stay until the tenth, or take the Abitur in the district town.

Short film by Martin Müller

In 1970, Rob Fothergill released Canada’s own War of the Worlds—Countdown Canada, a TV news simulation dramatizing the day in which Canada becomes part of the United States. The broadcast included prominent public figures commenting on the last gasp of Canadian sovereignty, some debating the merits of such an assimilation, others engaging in a plea for an independent Canada.

A timelapse short film that chronicles Bombay of the 1970s. Used as educational tool to understand time-lapse, sound sync and lighting apart from historical chronicle of a city.

A film by Jerome Laperrousaz, showing the festival at Amougies, October 1969.

One day in the life of Mr Hrstka, a blue collar worker and occasional pose model at the Prague academy of arts. Through this portrayal of an outsider, Paskaljevic explores the subject of isolation.

A Swiss political documentary about the Zurich youth unrest of 1968

Film-Am Edgar falls in love with Vilma. The two had a set back that ended with Edgar returning all Vilma’s love letters that he regreted and wanted it back. He went to Vilma’s house to retrieve it but was caught and accused of stealing. The whole misunderstanding ended up in court but was settled eventually. Edgar left the country but returned for Alona Alegre’s wedding to Victor Wood. He also reunited Vilma.