The Story of Film Episode 10 – Movies To Change the World

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
  • displays directors personal life on screen
• All That Heaven Allows (1955) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Douglas Sirk
  • a glossy movie about class
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (a.k.a. Angst essen Seele auf) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • a less glossy movie about class
• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (a.k.a. Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • about the darkness of human identity
  • people move slowly and expressively
• All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • about two women controlling eachother
• Alice in the Cities (1974) (a.k.a. Alice in den Städten) dir. Wim Wenders
  • about the agonies of love
• An Affair to Remember (1957) dir. Leo McCarey
  • has homeless photographer under a boardwalk
  • uses a crane shot to reveal
• 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
  • least tense robbery
  • bank teller and robber forgive eachother
• Burden of Dreams (1982) dir. Les Blank
  • in the film, they haul the hull of a ship over a hill
• Arabian Nights (1974) (a.k.a. Il fiore delle mille e una notte) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • about sexuality
  • director was murdered by a male prostitute
• The Spider’s Stratagem (1970) (a.k.a. Strategia del ragno) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • uses tracking shot to follow character
  • uses lighting well
    • blue light of the sky and lantern at the same time
• The Conformist (1970) (a.k.a. Il conformista) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • about fascism and identity
  • camera and leaves sweep at the same time
• Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • films a violent moment with a graceful shot
• Women in Love (1969) dir. Ken Russell
  • films a sex scene as a vertical outdoor dance
• Performance (1970) dir. Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg
• Mean Streets (1973) (introduced in Episode 9) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • about a narcissist
  • has two faces that dissolve into each other because personalities are similar
  • characters switch at the end
• Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman
• Walkabout (1971) dir. Nicolas Roeg
  • about kids fleeing into the outback
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir
  • girls in Victorian dresses in the outback
  • girls filmed in slight slow motion then they dissepear
• My Brilliant Career (1979) dir. Gillian Armstrong
  • about a womans relationship with nature
• Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) dir. Noriaki Tsuchimoto
  • filmed over 17 years
  • about a company who caused thousands of deaths and denied everything
  • people protested the company
  • used a small camera to make the documentary
• The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987) dir. Kazuo Hara
  • filmed with a handheld camera
  • hires actors to replace people in the documentary
  • uses slow motion during a fight
• Black Girl (1966) (a.k.a. La noire de…) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Ousmane
• Sembène
• Tarzan’s Secret Treasure (1941) dir. Richard Thorpe
  • the post polular images of Africa at the time
• La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1971) dir. Assia Djebar
  • Africa in a realistic lense
• Xala (1975) dir. Ousmane Sembène
  • about the end of colonial rule
• Sinemaabi: A Dialogue with Djibril Diop Mambéty (1997) dir. Beti Ellerson Poulenc
  • repetition of cava shows chattiness
• Badou Boy (1970) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
• Hyènes (1992) (a.k.a. Hyenas/Ramatou) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
  • a village comes to love capitalism
  • a town kills a man to get products
• Kaddu Beykat (1975) (a.k.a. Lettre paysanne) dir. Safi Faye
  • low contrast black and white film
• Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976) (a.k.a. Mirt sost shi amit) dir. Haile Gerima
• Umut (1970) (a.k.a. Hope) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
• Yol (1982) dir. Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören
  • a man is released from prison
  • filmed with a wide lens as he prances through a field
  • director was imprisoned during the film
  • escaped during the end of production
• The Battle of Chile (1975/1977/1979) (a.k.a. La batalla de Chile) dir. Patricio Guzmán
  • filmed from rooftops
  • a documentary of a violent coup
• The Holy Mountain (1973) (a.k.a. La montaña sagrada) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • about identity
  • facists compare a man to christ
  • a man climbs into the maze of his own mind