All Films

The Gentlemen of Titipu

1973 • 49 min • Australia

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko.

As Above, So Below

1973 • 52 min • United States of America

The film opens in 1945 with a young boy playing in his Chicago neighborhood, and then follows the adult Jita-Hadi as a returning Marine with heightened political consciousness.

The Reformation: Age of Revolt

1973 • 23 min • United Kingdom

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of Martin Luther as a part and/of these conditions as indications of future trends.

Acts of Love and Other Comedies

1973 • 52 min • United States of America

A funny anthology featuring various sketches about people having trouble with love and sex.

Me

1973 • 58 min • United States of America

Tomby, a challenged teenage boy, manipulates his family who cater to his every desire. Only his twin brother Greg treats him as a human being capable of development. A powerful drama / dark comedy with a surprising ending.

Caravan Park

1973 • 15 min • Australia

When their car breaks down on the way to Queensland, a family is forced to take up residence at a caravan park while the father tries to earn enough money to get the car repaired.

Someone Moving

1973 • 5 min

Super 8 footage of a moving figure (Lis Rhodes), broken down into still frames and reanimated in superimposed layers. Soundtrack by Peter Cusack.

Nutcracker

1973 • 25 min • Soviet Union

A young chambermaid finds a neglected nutcracker under a Christmas tree. It comes to life, but the Nutcracker is really an enchanted prince.

Vérité

1973 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A married couple have their preconceptions of life tested by their guest

The Boa Friend

1973 • 6 min • United States of America

A singing bee gives Blue Racer suggestions on how to win back his girlfriend.

A Diary of a Woman Doctor

1973 • 52 min • Japan

1973 Toei movie.

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

1973 • 57 min • United States of America

A documentary filmography of Howard Hawks, including lengthy footage of Hawks himself discussing his films and many clips from his best-known pictures.

Radio Wonderful

1973 • 30 min • United Kingdom

This documentary is about the first five years of BBC Radio 1 and contains interviews with the disc jockeys and other folk who were involved in the station's inception. It also contains footage from the previous pirate radio era as a means of explaining why Radio 1 came about.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1973 • 60 min • Australia

Cartoon adaptation of the classic of world literature by Alexandre Dumas, which tells the dramatic odyssey of Edmond Dantes since he's unjustly accused and sentenced for life.

Boggy Depot

1973 • 17 min • United States of America

A musical for the whole family. A rural operette starring Ainslie Pryor and Geore Kuchar, told through song and rhme.

Over

1973 • 26 min

A woman ruminates about her ex-partner. He is involved in a new relationship. She is alone.

The Panda's Great Adventure

1973 • 53 min • Japan

A young panda prince is found unworthy by his mother the Queen, and expelled from the forest. In his journey, he battles dangerous enemies and gets captures and forced to work in a circus.

Very Funny

1973 • 18 min • Yugoslavia

Short fiction film about a practical joke played on an unsuspecting victim, on a summer day in Split.

The Family That Dwelt Apart

1973 • 8 min • Canada

A family of seven lives on a New England island with nobody else. One winter, they got stranded because the bay froze over. This didn't much matter to them, but someone on the mainland remembered them and launched an aerial rescue mission; an unfounded story that one boy had appendicitis results in a larger rescue mission, with the situation rapidly escalating into a major catastrophe all because of the rescue mission.

Sondheim: A Musical Tribute

1973 • 13 min • United States of America

A short documentary concerning the preparations and rehearsals for the March 11, 1973 benefit tribute to Stephen Sondheim. Includes a photo-montage of the concert finale in which Sondheim sings Anyone Can Whistle.

Flying at Ya', Android Kikaider

1973 • 33 min • Japan

A sinister organization launches a wave of audacious attacks in an attempt to gain world domination. Commanded by the evil Professor Gill, masked androids and fearsome DARK Destructoid monsters terrorize innocent victims and wreak havoc throughout Japan. A solitary figure emerges to combat the menace. Whenever DARK attacks, a denim-clad road warrior appears, strumming a haunting refrain on his guitar. His name is Jiro, and a secret lies at the heart of his lonely existence. Jiro is a mechanical man. Vulnerable to Professor Gill's shrill flute wooing him to the DARK side, Jiro battles the evil menace by transforming into the mighty red-and-blue android known as...Kikaida.

Intertect

1973 • 50 min

John McKennon, a former FBI agent who runs Intertect, an international investigative agency, is followed as he tackles various assignments.

Warhol

1973 • 52 min

David Bailey, self-taught photographer and one of the prime architects of the Swinging Sixties, broadened his horizons in the early 1970s by making high-profile documentaries for ATV. With his standing among the artistic community, Bailey was given unprecedented access to Pop Art legend Andy Warhol and his followers, in an attempt to penetrate behind the expressionless exterior of a man who was one of the most controversial figures of his generation.

Starblanket

1973 • 27 min • Canada

At twenty-six, Noel Starblanket was one of the youngest Indigenous chiefs in North America--twice elected chief of the Starblanket Reserve, and also elected vice-president of all-Saskatchewan Indigenous organization. His great-grandfather's advice was to "learn the wit and cunning of the White man." That he did. Here he is seen in action, a chief with a briefcase, working with government officials for grants, running for public office, talking down his opposition, and solving the domestic problems of his reserve.