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Duelle (no 1)

Posted in Allan's 70s Countdown on July 30, 2009 | 91 Comments »

by Allan Fish
(France 1976 121m) not on DVD
Aka. Duelle – une quarantaine
The Fairy Godmother
p  Stéphane Tchalgadjieff  d  Jacques Rivette  w  Eduardo de Gregorio, Marilu Parolini  ph  William Lubtchansky  ed  Nicole Lubtchansky  m  none  art  Eric Simon
Bulle Ogier (Viva), Juliet Berto (Leni), Jean Babilée (Pierrot), Hermine Karagheuz (Lucie), Nicole Garcia (Jeanne/Elsa), Claire Nadeau (Sylvia Stern),
Imagine if [...]

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Stalker (no 2)

Posted in Allan's 70s Countdown on July 29, 2009 | 36 Comments »

by Allan Fish
(USSR 1979 161m) DVD1/2
Welcome to The Zone
d  Andrei Tarkovsky  w  Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky  novel  “Roadside Picnic” by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky   ph  Aleksandr Kynazhinsky  ed  Ludmila Feganova  m  Eduard Artemyev  art  Andrei Tarkovsky, R.Safiullin
Aleksandr Kaidanovsky (stalker), Anatoli Solonitsin (writer), Nikolai Grinko (professor), Alissa Freindlikh (stalker’s wife), Natasha Abramova (stalker’s daughter),
My first encounter [...]

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Hitler – a Film from Germany (no 3)

Posted in Allan's 70s Countdown on July 28, 2009 | 13 Comments »

by Allan Fish
(West Germany 1977 429m) DVD1/2 (Germany only)
Aka. Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland
You are the executioner of the western world
p  Hans-Jurgen Syberberg  d/w  Hans-Jurgen Syberberg  ph  Dietrich Lohmann  ed  Jutta Brandstaedter  m  Gustav Mahler, W.A.Mozart, L.Van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Joseph Haydn  art  Hans Gailling
Heinz Schübert, Andre Heller, Helmut Lange, Amelie Syberberg, Harry Baer, Peter [...]

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Barry Lyndon (no 4)

Posted in Allan's 70s Countdown on July 27, 2009 | 47 Comments »

by Allan Fish
(UK 1975 187m) DVD1/2
Saraband for Embalmed Lovers
p  Stanley Kubrick, Bernard Williams  d/w  Stanley Kubrick  novel  “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon” by William M.Thackeray  ph  John Alcott  ed  Tony Lawson  md  Leonard Rosenman  m  Franz Schubert, W.A.Mozart, George F.Handel, J.S.Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Paisiello, Frederick the Great, Irish folk music  art  Ken Adam, Roy [...]

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Scenes from a Marriage – TV version (no 5)

Posted in Allan's 70s Countdown on July 26, 2009 | 12 Comments »

by Allan Fish
(Sweden 1973 299m) DVD1 (only shorter 168m version on DVD2)
Aka. Scener ur ett Aktenskap
Love in an earthly and imperfect way
p  Ingmar Bergman  d/w  Ingmar Bergman  ph  Sven Nykvist  ed  Siv Lundgren
Liv Ullmann (Marianne), Erland Josephson (Johan), Bibi Andersson, Jan Malmsjö, Anita Wall, Gunnel Lindblom,
When Ingmar Bergman made Saraband, his swansong to the cinema [...]

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A Clockwork Orange (no 6)

Posted in Allan's 70s Countdown on July 25, 2009 | 20 Comments »

by Allan Fish
(UK 1971 137m) DVD1/2
A bit of the old ultraviolence
p  Stanley Kubrick, Bernard Williams  d/w  Stanley Kubrick  novel  Anthony Burgess  ph  John Alcott  ed  Bill Butler  m  Walter Carlos (including Henry Purcell, Edward Elgar, Giacchino Rossini, L.Van Beethoven, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)  art  John Barry, Russell Hagg, Peter Shields  cos  Milena Canonero
Malcolm McDowell (Alex de Large), [...]

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The Hourglass Sanatorium (no 7)

Posted in Allan's 70s Countdown on July 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »

by Allan Fish
(Poland 1973 124m) DVD2
Aka. Sanatorium podklepsydra
Here he hasn’t yet died
p  Wojciech Has  d/w  Wojciech Has  stories  Bruno Schulz  ph  Witold Sobocinski  ed  Wojciech Has  m  Jerzy Maskymiuk  art  Andrzej Plocki, Jerzy Sjarzynski
Jan Nowicki (Józef), Gustaw Holoubek (Dr Gotard), Tadeusz Kondrat (Jakub, Józef’s father), Halina Kowalska (Adela), Irena Orska (Józef’s mother), Mieczyslaw Voit (blind [...]

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World on Wires (no 8)

Posted in Allan's 70s Countdown on July 23, 2009 | 14 Comments »

by Allan Fish
(West Germany 1973 205m) not on DVD
Aka. Welt am Draht 
Wo ist Güenther Lause?
p  Peter Marthesheimer, Alexander Wesseman  d  Rainer Werner Fassbinder  w  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fritz Müller Scherz  novel  Daniel F.Galouve  ph  Michael Ballhaus, Ulrich Prinz  ed  Ursula Elles, Marie Anne Gerhardt  m  Gottfried Hünsberg  art  Horst Giese, Walter Koch, Kurt Raab
Klaus Löwitsch [...]

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Don’t Look Now (no 9)

Posted in Allan's 70s Countdown on July 22, 2009 | 20 Comments »

by Allan Fish
(UK 1973 110m) DVD1/2
What is it you fear?
p  Peter Katz  d  Nicolas Roeg  w  Allan Scott, Chris Bryant  story  Daphne du Maurier  ph  Anthony Richmond  ed  Graeme Clifford  m  Pino Donaggio  art  Giovanni Soccol 
Donald Sutherland (John Baxter), Julie Christie (Laura Baxter), Hilary Mason (Heather), Celia Matriana (Wendy), Massimo Serrato (Bishop), David Tree (Anthony [...]

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (no 10)

Posted in Allan's 70s Countdown on July 21, 2009 | 17 Comments »

by Allan Fish
(Czechoslovakia 1970 74m) DVD1/2
Aka. Valerie A Tyden Divu
Valerie the Vampire Slayer
p  Jaromil Jires  d  Jaromil Jires  w  Jaromil Jires, Ester Krumachova  story  Viteslav Nezval  ph  Jan Curik  ed  Josef Vausiak  m  Lubos Fiser  art  Jan Oliva
Jaroslava Schallerova (Valerie), Jan Klusak (Gracian), Helena Anyzova, Petr Kopriva, Juiri Prymek,
Well, it’s certainly more of a mouthful [...]

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