All Films

Aibolit and Barmaley

1973 • 17 min • Soviet Union

About the adventures of the good doctor Aibolit and the evil robber Barmalei.

Shall We Go to Your or My Place or Each Go Home Alone?

1973 • 52 min • Sweden

Arne, Calle, and Gunnar are friends, probably in their twenties. One telephones the others, and they decide to visit a nightclub. They hope to meet women and have sex. After they arrive at the club, each man meets with a certain degree of success or failure. Calle particularly is frustrated, for no woman agrees to dance with him. Meanwhile, Arne and Gunnar are busily conversing with women. Eventually the friends all leave with lady friends in tow, and spend the night in various apartments. In the morning, the couples depart differently. One couple has bonded amicably, another tenuously, and the third not at all. The next day, the men reconnect, and decide to try their luck again. Written by veloc

Aches and Snakes

1973 • 6 min • United States of America

Crazylegs Crane and Blue Racer fights to get the honey bee for a meal.

Monologue

1973 • 20 min

A man sits alone remembering his love affair with the girl his best friend won.

Rx for the Defense

1973 • 60 min • United States of America

The story of Zach Clinton, a doctor turned attorney who works for a law firm that specializes in cases involving the medical profession. Clinton attempts to help free famed professor of medicine Daniel Kemper from a psychiatric hospital after his wife has him committed following an alleged suicide attempt.

Between the Anvil and the Hammer

1973 • 27 min • United Kingdom

A 1973 documentary film from the Central Office of Information about the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary.

26'1.1499" For A String Player

1973 • 42 min

This tape is Jud Yalkut's video realization of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik's concert performance of John Cage's composition 26'1.1499" For String Player. In this extraordinary performance, which is manipulated and synthesized by Yalkut, Paik and Moorman play Cage's score on a collection of "instruments" that include a pistol, a dish of mushrooms, balloons, a practice aerial bomb, and a telephone call to President Nixon.

Elementary, My Dear Watson

1973 • 30 min

John Cleese stars as Sherlock Holmes in this Comedy Playhouse pilot episode from 1973.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1973 • 60 min • Australia

Professor Arronax and Ned Land meet Captain Nemo, who reveals that the so-called sea monster they've been told about is actually his submarine The Nautilus.

Eagles: BBC In Concert

1973 • 35 min

The BBC "In Concert" TV show which aired April 5th, 1973 was filmed at the Paris Theatre in London a few days earlier on March 20th, 1973. The Eagles were in London to record the Desperado album, which was released April 17th, 1973. The band lineup included Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon.

Happy End

1973 • 17 min • Poland

A purge in the style of those of March 1968 is to take place at a party meeting. Instead, it turns into a psychodrama.

Shadow House

1973 • 11 min • United States of America

A domineering wife puts pressure on her weak-willed, submissive husband to kill an old man who she believes has a treasure trove hidden somewhere.

All in a Day: The City

1973 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Documentary film, without commentary, looking at events in Sheffield on 5th September 1973. Steelworkers retire, babies are born, there are fashion shows and council meetings, crashed lorries and policemen on the beat.

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

1973 • 55 min • United States of America

Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.

The Sex Victims

1973 • 40 min • United Kingdom

A lone truck driver who is lured into the woods by a nubile Lady Godiva discovers after he’s slept with her that all is not as it seems. The Sex Victims (1973) is very much part of the Britsploitation fold, featuring gratuitous nudity, working-class vernacular and rough sex. Yet director Derek Robbins also veers into some of the same uncanny territory directors like José Larraz would later explore at feature length, making it a unique hybrid. In fact, The Sex Victims would make a perfect bill cousin for Larraz’s Vampyres (1974) for the way in which it combines ample nudity with supernatural elements. (BFI)

The Experience

1973 • 57 min • Iran

The hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes.

The Beach Hut

1973 • 14 min • Italy

An amateur photographer watches a beautiful woman emerge from a beach hut and disappear into the sea.

“x”

1973 • 8 min • United States of America

A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from women's pain to a holistic, self-healing naming ritual.

Sex Exchange: Young Wife's Play

1973 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

Red Riding Hood

1973 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.

Night of Fear

1973 • 54 min • Australia

A young girl who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man, gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a dead-end dirt road, her car gets stuck in a ditch, where she starts getting terrorized by a drooling, gibbering psycho, who also has a colony of rats.

Hagiographia II

1973 • 60 min • Greece, Switzerland

The entire film was rephotographed and edited into Eniaios Cycle V. Filmed in Mistra, Greece.

My Ain Folk

1973 • 55 min • United Kingdom

When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and bouts of violence.

The Secret

1973 • 24 min • Northern Ireland

A spiritual fable, written by Fr Cyril Farrell, about a mysterious Christ-like figure who comes down from the mountain to visit a land shrouded in fog. The stranger remains in shadowy silhouette throughout this allegorical tale told in voiceover, accompanied by stunning images of flora and fauna.