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1970s Challenge (Official, June 2023)

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1970s Challenge (Official, June 2023)

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1970s Challenge

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Welcome to the 1970s Challenge!

Challenge runs from June 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023 in your local time zone.


Goal:
Watch movies/tv episodes from the 1970s.


Rules:
- Anything you watch must have been released in the 1970s according to IMDb.
- Each feature film (at least 40 minutes) counts as one point.
- 80 minutes of short films or miniseries/TV episodes counts as one entry.
- Please include year of release when listing your viewings.
- Do not edit your posts to add new watches, just create a new one.
- Try to give an indication of how much you liked/disliked your watchings (reviews, comments, ratings,...)
- Rewatches are allowed and are good for the soul.


Previous Editions:
2012 - Won by burneyfan with 39 points.
2018 - Won by sol with 87 points.
2020 - Won by flavo5000 with 221 points.


Official Lists:
IMDb's 1970s Top 50


Unofficial Lists:
ICM Forum's Favourite Movies of the 1970s


Bonus Challenge - IMDb tags
Watch films with different IMDb tags. Some shows may deserve a tag that is not listed on IMDb, but we are only going by tags that are actually there. Feel free to submit a correction to IMDb to try and get a different tag added if you like.

You can only pick one tag per movie. If you watch The Godfather (1972) then you can choose either Crime or Drama, but not both.

You can only pick one tag per tv show, unless you watch complete seasons in which case you can choose a different tag for the next season. Example:

Barney Miller Season 1 (1975) - #Comedy
Barney Miller Season 2 (1976) - #Drama
Eligible Tags (22)
#Action
#Adventure
#Animation
#Biography
#Comedy
#Crime
#Documentary
#Drama
#Family
#Fantasy
#History
#Horror
#Music
#Musical
#Mystery
#Romance
#Sci-Fi
#Short - You need at least 80 minutes of 1970s shorts for this one
#Sport
#Thriller
#War
#Western

note - I left Film-Noir out because I couldn't find any 1970s movies with that tag
Participants
RankParticipant# of PointsBonus
1flavo5000186Second to Finish
2gunnar165First to Finish
3peeptoad44Third to Finish
4RogerTheMovieManiac8842Sixth to Finish
5Melvelet4015
6jdidaco3612
7sol30Fourth to Finish
8magnusbernhardsen2714
9Tngy22Fifth to Finish
10AB5372011
11Lonewolf20031512
12kongs_speech120
12PopperTheKungFu-Dragon1210
12VincentPrice128
15cinephage106
16maxwelldeux97
17ororama80
17Silga88
19blocho70
20DudeLanez66
20pitchorneirda60
22Ebbywebby50
23Lakigigar32
Total725
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I like the bonus challenge. Will try to watch as many tags as I can... :cheers:
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I'm definitely in on this one.
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Time to defend your title.
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Thanks for hosting, gunnar. Beginning with some shorts that I didn't get time for during the DTC Challenge:

1a. Ten Minutes Older (1978) 10min
1b. Multiple SIDosis (1970) 9min - pictured
1c. I Was a Soldier (1971) 16min
1d. Brutal Ardour (1978) 29min
1e. Vertical Roll (1972) 20min #Short

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Showing the reactions of kids watching a movie about "good and evil", Ten Minutes Older has an interesting premise for the 1970s, and with the kids sitting in a darkened room, the way their faces are illuminated is quite innovative (and I wondered if this distracted them while watching). The film got a bit repetitive for my taste though once I cottoned on to what the filmmakers were trying to achieve.

Multiple SIDosis takes more than five minutes (over half its duration!) to warm up with some very stilted drama before the memorable part gets going. But yes, once it does warm up, there is a lot of fun in watching director Sid Laverents essentially doing what Outkast did with their Hey-ya video clip as Sid becomes indeed multiple band members at the same time through creative use of split screen.

My first thought while watching I Was a Soldier was why on earth Kieslowski was interviewing all of these soldiers with the tops of their heads (forehead upwards) cut off. None of their wartime recounts interested me either until it was revealed that all of them are blind. The overall film then became kind of interesting as they each individual process their vision loss, but I still would have preferred entire faces in frame.

Brutal Ardour was indeed quite brutal (excuse the pun), consisting of blurry and out-of-focus shots, sometimes seemingly slowed down and no real discernible narrative. Some of the imagery is certainly pretty cool (silhouettes at door frames Searchers style; imagery so blurry that it looks like something in tea leaves with all of the brown/orange hues) but the accompanying music was the only thing I consistently liked here.

And then there is Vertical Roll, which is very much is that just: vertically rolling pictures without any discernible narrative or obvious purpose. The rolls come with a pretty cool drumbeat that sort of reminded me of Back and Forth, but it was only really in the last couple of minutes that the film became interesting for me as it began to change; the first 17+ minutes were a tad too really repetitive my taste.
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Spoiler
1a. Ten Minutes Older (1978) 10min
1b. Multiple SIDosis (1970) 9min - pictured
1c. I Was a Soldier (1971) 16min
1d. Brutal Ardour (1978) 29min
1e. Vertical Roll (1972) 20min #Short
2. The Mongols (1973) #History

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Making a film about the Mongolian invasion of Iran, a director hires a group of amateur actors who keep questioning what exactly cinema is (or something like that) in this confusing but intriguing drama. The meta elements at play are certainly interesting with the director protagonist having made a series about the history of cinema that he keeps referring to, and the basic idea of directing actors who have never watched TV or seen a movie is quite curious (and what the film appears to principally be about). The film is apparently intended as a blurring of dreams, fantasy and reality and I didn't quite get that.
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gunnar wrote: May 31st, 2023, 9:57 pm Time to defend your title.
I think this month I'm going to put a focus on films released by Code Red and Scorpion Releasing to honor the passing of the Olsen brothers (Bill and Walt who managed Code Red and Scorpion respectively). That won't be all I watch but I definitely have several big stacks of them to go through.
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flavo5000 wrote: June 1st, 2023, 2:03 pm
I think this month I'm going to put a focus on films released by Code Red and Scorpion Releasing to honor the passing of the Olsen brothers (Bill and Walt who managed Code Red and Scorpion respectively). That won't be all I watch but I definitely have several big stacks of them to go through.
Sounds good. I've got 40-50 films lined up and a number of tv seasons that I've been meaning to watch or rewatch.
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Short films - 81min #Short
1a. Necrology (1971)
1b. Frank Film (1973)
1c. Makimono (1974)
1d. Pause! (1977)
1e. Par desmit minutem vecaks/Ten Minutes Older (1978)
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gunnar wrote: June 1st, 2023, 2:40 pm
flavo5000 wrote: June 1st, 2023, 2:03 pm
I think this month I'm going to put a focus on films released by Code Red and Scorpion Releasing to honor the passing of the Olsen brothers (Bill and Walt who managed Code Red and Scorpion respectively). That won't be all I watch but I definitely have several big stacks of them to go through.
Sounds good. I've got 40-50 films lined up and a number of tv seasons that I've been meaning to watch or rewatch.
Btw, I just noticed you left off the #Adult tag in the bonus challenge. :D
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flavo5000 wrote: June 1st, 2023, 9:12 pm [
Btw, I just noticed you left off the #Adult tag in the bonus challenge. :D
Yeah, we don’t need to go there, though I suppose I could have knocked Debbie Does Dallas off my list this month if I had. It is an official check after all. B)
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1. Rembrandt fecit 1669 (1977, Jos Stelling) - 8/10
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01. Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält, by Michael Armstrong (1970) 4/10 #History
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1. New York, New York 1977 7/10 #Musical
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Spoiler
1a. Ten Minutes Older (1978) 10min
1b. Multiple SIDosis (1970) 9min
1c. I Was a Soldier (1971) 16min
1d. Brutal Ardour (1978) 29min
1e. Vertical Roll (1972) 20min #Short
3. The Triple Echo (1972) REVISION #War

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Lonely with her husband detained in a POW camp, a farmer's wife has an affair with a soldier who has deserted his platoon, but their simple relationship turns complex as she dresses him as her sister in this striking drama. While initially reluctant, the soldier gradually begins to like dressing as a woman - and then a gruff sergeant arrives and is immediately attracted to him. Glenda Jackson is solid in the lead female role with her unspoken jealousy well conveyed as she realises that Reed fancies her own lover, and the way Deacon allows Reed to get close to him works as both a bid for a freedom (with Jackson ironically confining him more than the army ever did) as well as a logical action of a biological male soldier discovering that he would rather be a woman.
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1. The Electric Chair (J.G. Patterson Jr., 1976) #Crime
Code Red Blu-ray #1

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2. Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Waris Hussein, 1972) #Biography

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3. La furia del Hombre Lobo a.k.a. Fury of the Wolfman (José María Zabalza, 1972) #Horror
Scorpion Blu-ray

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4. We Are All for the Fatherland (Maroun Bagdadi 1979) #Documentary
I'm pretty surprised this was randomly on US Netflix...

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5. Hachijyu-Hachi-Man Bun no Ichi no Kodoku a.k.a. Solitude of One Divided by 880,000 (Gakuryu Ishii, 1978)
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1. The Electric Chair (J.G. Patterson Jr., 1976) #Crime
2. Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Waris Hussein, 1972) #Biography
3. La furia del Hombre Lobo a.k.a. Fury of the Wolfman (José María Zabalza, 1972) #Horror
4. We Are All for the Fatherland (Maroun Bagdadi 1979) #Documentary
5. Hachijyu-Hachi-Man Bun no Ichi no Kodoku a.k.a. Solitude of One Divided by 880,000 (Gakuryu Ishii, 1978)
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Spoiler
1a. Ten Minutes Older (1978) 10min
1b. Multiple SIDosis (1970) 9min
1c. I Was a Soldier (1971) 16min
1d. Brutal Ardour (1978) 29min
1e. Vertical Roll (1972) 20min #Short
2. The Mongols (1973) #History
3. The Triple Echo (1972) REVISION #War
4. Death in Venice (1971) REVISION #Romance

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This has attracted blacklash over the years because it revolves around a grown man falling in love with a teenager, but there is far more to the film than just that. Most notably, the composer's infatuation coincides with the outbreak of a deadly plague in Venice that all of the locals are trying to keep hushed up, with a potent parallel between the city's secret and his secret desires. Dirk Bogarde also makes his character delicious less straightforward than just a man with a secret. As flashbacks alert us to a child that he lost, questions arise of whether the boy merely reminds him of his deceased daughter. In fact, Bogarde never seems to focus on the boy in sexual terms, always concentrating on his face, hair and smile, deluding himself into a not-real connection.
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1. Turks Fruit Turkish Delight (1973) 7.0 #Romance
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1. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger-1977: C+ #Fantasy
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9 participants so far with flavo and myself tied for first with sol close behind.

1 - Death Wish (1974) - 7/10 - #Action - Charles Bronson stars as an architect who was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, but served as a combat medic. When his wife and daughter are attacked in his apartment, it leads to his transformation into a vigilante who roams the streets looking for muggers. There certainly do seem to be quite a few of them in NYC. I think that I watched this back in the 1980s, but didn't remember much about it. It wasn't too bad and was certainly much less cartoonish than the sequel I watched earlier in the year.

2 - Lady Snowblood (1973) - 7/10 - #Crime - Yuki is a trained killer who is set on getting revenge on the people who raped her mother and killed her mother's husband 20 years earlier. There is a lot of violence and blood splatter. I wasn't a big fan of the Lady Snowblood manga and found it to be a disappointment compared to Koike's Lone Wolf and Cub series. The movie is okay and has decent fight scenes, music, and use of color.

3 - The Railway Children (1970) - 7.5/10 - #Family - A somewhat wealthy family's life is disrupted early in the 20th Century when the father is taken into custody the day after Christmas. The wife and three children are eventually forced to move to a home in the country due to their impoverished financial condition. The three children have a series of small adventures centered around the local train station. It's a fairly wholesome and entertaining family film. Jenny Agutter plays the oldest daughter, reprising her role from an earlier BBC adaptation. She played the mother in another adaptation 30 years later. It was a bit funny that the younger daughter was actually three years older than Agutter.

4 - The Beginning / Nachalo (1970) - 7/10 - #Romance - A young factory worker/actress falls in love with a married man and also gets offered the role of Joan of Arc in a movie. I liked the lead actress and think she did a nice job, but the film as a whole seemed a bit inconsistent.

5 - The Parallax View (1974) - 7.5/10 - #Thriller - A reporter starts looking into the assassination of a Senator when they realize that witnesses to the assassination are starting to die as well. This is a pretty good thriller.
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gunnar wrote: June 1st, 2023, 9:24 pm
flavo5000 wrote: June 1st, 2023, 9:12 pm [
Btw, I just noticed you left off the #Adult tag in the bonus challenge. :D
Yeah, we don’t need to go there, though I suppose I could have knocked Debbie Does Dallas off my list this month if I had. It is an official check after all. B)
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1. Earthquake (1974, Mark Robson) FTV #Action

I love disaster movies and I really enjoyed this one.
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2. Demon Seed (1977) 7+/8 #Horror
3. Bokusâ /The Boxer (1977) 7 #Sport
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1972) 5 #Drama
5. 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1973) 6 #Animation
6. The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) 6 #Family
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Short films - 81min #Short
1a. Necrology (1971)
1b. Frank Film (1973)
1c. Makimono (1974)
1d. Pause! (1977)
1e. Par desmit minutem vecaks/Ten Minutes Older (1978)
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Thank you for hosting, gunnar (and fot the wonderful Bonus challenge idea, hope it gets adopted in other challenges; I'll see what pops up from the other two challenges!)

(Screenshot from 'Lock-Out'),

1. João en het mes/A Faca E o Rio (João and the Knife, George Sluizer, 1972) 8/10 (Crime)
2. Lock-Out (Antoni Padrós, 1973) 9/10 (Fantasy)
3. Miss O'Gynie et les hommes fleurs (Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men, Samy Pavel, 1974) 7.5/10 (Drama)
4. Ocaña, retrat intermitent (Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait, Ventura Pons, 1978) 9/10 (Documentary)

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2. The Other Side of Midnight (1977, Charles Jarrott) FTV #Thriller

The novel by Sidney Sheldon is one of my favorite books, but the movie is lackluster in comparison, which of course is almost always the case.
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1. Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Petri, 1970) #Crime
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1. The Doll Squad (1973, Ted V. Mikels): 6.5 #Action - Exactly what one can expect from a 70s B-movie about a team of women spy in tight catsuits having to save the world; it's not very well made and definitively not acted, but it is an entertaining enough way to spent 90 minutes.
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#Adventure
#Animation
#Biography
#Comedy
#Crime
#Documentary
#Drama
#Family
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#History
#Horror
#Music
#Musical
#Mystery
#Romance
#Sci-Fi
#Short - You need at least 80 minutes of 1970s shorts for this one
#Sport
#Thriller
#War
#Western

note - I left Film-Noir out because I couldn't find any 1970s movies with that tag
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1. Cotton Comes to Harlem (Ossie Davis, 1970) 6/10 #Action
2. Live and Let Die (Guy Hamilton, 1973) 5/10 (rewatch) #Adventure
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2. The Heroin Busters-1977: C+ #Thriller
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1. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger-1977: C+ #Fantasy
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1. Airport (1970) #Drama
This would have been so much better if they cut out the whole wife subplot. But once they finally got to the action, it was a solid airplane disaster movie. Good tension through the end.

2. Airport 1975 (1974) #Thriller
This amped up the ridiculousness of the first, but not really in a good way. However, since I love Airplane!, this was super fun to see.
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1. Drive, He Said (Jack Nicholson, 1971) 3/10 ... #Sport ... wasn't really sure what to expect, but wasn't expecting it to be this bad
2. Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca) - The Pizza Triangle aka A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) (Ettore Scola, 1970) 6/10 ... #Romance ... started out fairly well but sadly ran of steam for me as it went along
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6.1 - 70 (1970) (5 minutes) - #Short
6.2 - 8 Flags for 99¢ (1970) (26 minutes)
6.3 - The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970) (31 minutes)
6.4 - Fly (1970) (25 minutes)

7 - Johnny Got His Gun (1971) - 7/10 - #War - An American soldier is injured by an artillery shell during WWI and is in a sort of coma, though his mind is aware of some of the activity going around him and his thoughts sometimes delve into his memories from before his injury. It's a decent film and I wish that I liked it more, but I didn't totally connect with it.

8 - The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) - 7/10 - #Horror - Vincent Price stars as a famous organist who is thought to have died in a car accident that left him disfigured and injured. He was on his way to his wife's side, but she died. Now he seeks revenge against those he holds responsible for her death. It's not bad and there are some interesting parts plus it is kind of stylish.

9 - The Beast (1975) - 4/10 - #Fantasy - A weird film about people who obsessed with sex and erotica. One woman can't stop trying to have sex with one of the servants. There is also a beast in the forest that apparently enjoys sex as well.

10-16 - M*A*S*H Season 5 (1976) (622 minutes) - #Comedy - This was one of my favorite series back in the 1970s/1980s and I watched the new episodes and reruns regularly. I've probably seen every episode multiple times, but hadn't watched the show in a long time before finally digging out my dvds and watching the first four seasons a while back, I'm finally getting around to watching the next few seasons and the show is still fun.
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1 - Death Wish (1974) - 7/10 - #Action
2 - Lady Snowblood (1973) - 7/10 - #Crime
3 - The Railway Children (1970) - 7.5/10 - #Family
4 - The Beginning / Nachalo (1970) - 7/10 - #Romance
5 - The Parallax View (1974) - 7.5/10 - #Thriller
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1a. Ten Minutes Older (1978) 10min
1b. Multiple SIDosis (1970) 9min
1c. I Was a Soldier (1971) 16min
1d. Brutal Ardour (1978) 29min
1e. Vertical Roll (1972) 20min #Short
2. The Mongols (1973) #History
3. The Triple Echo (1972) REVISION #War
4. Death in Venice (1971) REVISION #Romance
5. Rituals (1977) REVISION #Adventure

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Revisited after several years, the big surprise about Rituals is how different it is to chief influence Deliverance as the group here find themselves teased by a sadistic stalker whose identity remains a mystery until the end. The men here are also doctors and less-than-honorable ones at that; their early conversations all revolve around malpractice and charging exorbitant fees, and when they realise the stalking, their first thought is that is must be a vengeance ex-patient. This guilty conscious theme is very interesting with the film almost existing as a manifestation of their deepest fears and paranoia.
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3. Dying Room Only (TV Movie 1973, Philip Leacock) FTV #Mystery

A nifty little mystery thriller with some fine actors. I didn't even recognize Dabney Coleman though. Never seen him looking so young before.
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1. Rembrandt fecit 1669 (1977, Jos Stelling) - 8/10
2. Hôtel Monterey (1973, Chantal Akerman) - 4/10
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17 - Moscow-Cassiopeia (1974) - 6/10 - #Sci-Fi - A genius teenager creates a nuclear engine that can propel a spaceship to nearby stars. A mission is set up to send a group of teens on a mission to explore radio signals from Alpha Cassiopeia. The mission is supposed to take 27 years to get there. I thought the film looked interesting and I was expecting to enjoy it, but the humor didn't really work for me and I found much of it to be kind of boring. There were some neat things once they finally got on board the spaceship, but the film was a bit disappointing.

18 - Teens in the Universe (1975) - 7/10 - This film continues the story from where Moscow-Cassiopeia left off. I enjoyed it more than the first film. The teens arrive at their destination and find humanoid robots there. Unfortunately, the goal of the robots is to make people 'happy' by removing a number of emotions.

19 - Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979) - 5.5/10 - Betrayed on his wedding night, a man sees most of his family and friends slaughtered. He recruits fighters to help him get revenge. There are some semi-decent fight sequences, but the story itself is kind of a slog.

20 - Five Deadly Venoms (1978) - 6.5/10 - #Mystery - A dying master is worried that his five former students may pose a threat to the treasure that the clan has accumulated so he sends his final student to locate the five and see which ones can be trusted.

21 - The Magic Blade (1976) - 6.5/10 - A swordsman has to fend off a rival and various assassins as he goes in search of the Peacock Dart. There were some decent action sequences.

22 - Hotel Monterey (1973) - 3/10 - #Documentary - Chantal Akerman treats us to a silent tour of a dingy hotel in New York with plenty of shots of hallways, the elevator, a room or two, etc. It is very tedious. The last 10 minutes are better as the camera moves to the roof and we get a view of the surrounding part of the city.

23 - Humain, trop humain (1974) - 7/10 - The film's opening segment takes place at an automotive factory and looks at various aspects of the assembly without narration. The next segment lasts around 15 minutes and takes place at an auto show. The final segment last 40 minutes and returns to the automotive factory. I enjoyed the film, but think it would have been better to combine the two factory sections and condense it a bit, leaving the auto show segment for the end, though I see what Malle was going for with the end bringing things full circle. I started getting a bit bored with the factory segment toward the end.

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1 - Death Wish (1974) - 7/10 - #Action
2 - Lady Snowblood (1973) - 7/10 - #Crime
3 - The Railway Children (1970) - 7.5/10 - #Family
4 - The Beginning / Nachalo (1970) - 7/10 - #Romance
5 - The Parallax View (1974) - 7.5/10 - #Thriller
6.1 - 70 (1970) (5 minutes) - #Short
6.2 - 8 Flags for 99¢ (1970) (26 minutes)
6.3 - The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970) (31 minutes)
6.4 - Fly (1970) (25 minutes)
7 - Johnny Got His Gun (1971) - 7/10 - #War
8 - The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) - 7/10 - #Horror
9 - The Beast (1975) - 4/10 - #Fantasy
10-16 - M*A*S*H Season 5 (1976) (622 minutes) - #Comedy
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3. Le casse - The Burglars (Henri Verneuil, 1971) 7.5/10 ... #Action ... this was a lot of fun, especially the car chase about 1/3 of the way through
4. The Human Factor (Otto Preminger, 1979) 7/10 ... #Thriller
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Time for some weekend catchup!

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6. Steel Arena (Mark L. Lester, 1973) #Sport
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7. Gas Pump Girls (Joel Bender, 1978) #Comedy
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8. Eagle in a Cage (Fielder Cook 1972) #Drama

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9. Il lupo dei mari a.k.a. The Legend of Sea Wolf (Giuseppe Vari, 1975) #Adventure

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10. Torture Dungeon (Andy Milligan, 1970)
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11. Caravan to Vaccares (Geoffrey Reeve 1974) #Thriller
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12. Maken Liner 0011 Henshin Seyo! (Takeshi Tamiya, 1972) #Animation

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13. Summer of '42 (Robert Mulligan, 1971) #Romance

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14. Mean Johnny Barrows (Fred Williamson, 1976) #Action
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15. Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970)

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16. Record City (Dennis Steinmetz, 1978)
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17. The New Adventures of Heidi (Ralph Senensky, 1978) #Musical

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18. Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot (Ed Ragozzino, 1977) #Mystery
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1. The Electric Chair (J.G. Patterson Jr., 1976) #Crime
2. Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Waris Hussein, 1972) #Biography
3. La furia del Hombre Lobo a.k.a. Fury of the Wolfman (José María Zabalza, 1972) #Horror
4. We Are All for the Fatherland (Maroun Bagdadi 1979) #Documentary
5. Hachijyu-Hachi-Man Bun no Ichi no Kodoku a.k.a. Solitude of One Divided by 880,000 (Gakuryu Ishii, 1978)
6. Steel Arena (Mark L. Lester, 1973) #Sport
7. Gas Pump Girls (Joel Bender, 1978) #Comedy
8. Eagle in a Cage (Fielder Cook 1972) #Drama
9. Il lupo dei mari a.k.a. The Legend of Sea Wolf (Giuseppe Vari, 1975) #Adventure
10. Torture Dungeon (Andy Milligan, 1970)
11. Caravan to Vaccares (Geoffrey Reeve 1974) #Thriller
12. Maken Liner 0011 Henshin Seyo! (Takeshi Tamiya, 1972) #Animation
13. Summer of '42 (Robert Mulligan, 1971) #Romance
14. Mean Johnny Barrows (Fred Williamson, 1976) #Action
15. Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970)
16. Record City (Dennis Steinmetz, 1978)
17. The New Adventures of Heidi (Ralph Senensky, 1978) #Musical
18. Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot (Ed Ragozzino, 1977) #Mystery

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02. Obrazy starého sveta, by Dusan Hanak (1972) 8,5/10 #Documentary

Visually stunning, a true piece of art. And very interesting as well...

Children of love (01)
01. Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält, by Michael Armstrong (1970) 4/10 #History
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Short films - 81min
7a. Corridor (1970) 23min 8
7b. Vemena Goda/Four Seasons (1975) 29min 8+
7c. Matrix: First Dream (1979) 28min 7
8. Love Story (1970) 3 :yucky: #Romance
9. Turks Fruit (1973) 7
10. Santee (1973) 6 #Western
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Short films - 81min #Short
1a. Necrology (1971)
1b. Frank Film (1973)
1c. Makimono (1974)
1d. Pause! (1977)
1e. Par desmit minutem vecaks/Ten Minutes Older (1978)
2. Demon Seed (1977) 7+/8 #Horror
3. Bokusâ /The Boxer (1977) 7 #Sport
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1972) 5 #Drama
5. 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1973) 6 #Animation
6. The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) 6 #Family
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