All Films

Archaic Torso

1971 • 30 min • Hungary

A twenty-year-old young man believes that sport and philosophical books help him to be strong enough to meet life, but his determination and will give way to depressing memories.

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 9 - Ghost Story of the Evening Mist Tower

1971 • 60 min • Japan

Ninth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters

1971 • 48 min • Japan

A theatrical release of The Return of Ultraman episodes 13-14. It was released on December 12, 1971 as part of the Toho Champion Festival along with Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Earth's Greatest Battle (edited from Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster) and shorter versions of The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee, and The Little Match Girl.

I Miss Sonia Henie

1971 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot over a single night at the international film festival FEST in Beograd in 1971.

Iran

1971 • 20 min • France

Claude Lelouch presents in his own vision of Iran. Between tradition and modernity, the movie reveals all the country's vision contrasts, under the very precise and aesthetic eye of Lelouch : veil and miniskirt, caviar and oil, ancestral Islamic art and the Shah of Iran.

Clean Sweep

1971 • 30 min

The death of a factory owner signals a change for all of the staff, none more so than a sheet metal worker called Watson, who is denied a promised promotion and finds his position as the unofficial leader of the sheet metal workers challenged by Gregg, a new apprentice who joins the factory and isn't willing to follow the accepted order.

Welcome Home

1971 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Dr Frank Bowers has been looking forward to returning home after a long stay in a psychiatric ward. But when he gets there, he finds that not only does no one recognize him, but another man called Frank Bowers is living in his place.

Deathday

1971 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Adam Crosse is a reporter for a local paper. A neurotic under-achiever, the last straw comes when he discovers his wife Lydia is having an affair and she coolly tells him she has no intention of either giving up her lover or divorcing Adam. The top crime story of the moment is a serial murderer nicknamed "The Kitchen Killer". Adam sets out to murder his wife and blame it on this shadowy psycho

Neighbors

1971 • 60 min • United States of America

Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem. Fielder Cook directs this Broadway staging of playwright Arkady Leokum's exploration of lingering racial prejudice in 1970s America.

A Miracle

1971 • 55 min • Yugoslavia

A drama set in the Middle Ages, based on the folk poem 'Bolani Dojcin', about a sick nobleman who uses the last ounce of strength to put a knight's armor and go, alone, to fight a gang who ravaged his city and drove his sister to death.

Pink-In

1971 • 7 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther reads some old letters from his army friend Loud-Mouth Louie.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1971 • 55 min • Japan

A peasant boy and 38 cats band against the tyrannical Ali Baba the 33rd and his cat-phobic genie.

Pink Pranks

1971 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther arrives at Nome instead of Rome, and meets a friendly seal, an unfriendly polar bear and a hunter trying to catch the seal.

Office Party

1971 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.

Cat Ballou

1971 • 30 min • United States of America

A pretty ranch owner hires a drunken gunslinger and his two companions to protect her ranch from outlaws and build a school for local children.

City Limits

1971 • 29 min • Canada

Author and activist Jane Jacobs talks about the problems and virtues of North American cities.

Lemonade

1971 • 33 min • United States of America

A perceptive and funny study about the fantasies, inhibitions and dreams of two frustrated and lonely middle-class matrons who set up competing lemonade stands along a jammed highway. This short play incorporates comedy and tragedy, a touch of the bizarre, and ultimately, a sincere compassion in both women.

Frank Zappa: A Day With Frank

1971 • 51 min • Netherlands

The Documentary centers around Zappa at home, and on Tour. The amazing thing is that Zappa allowed a guy with a camera to film the band at the Fillmore West w/ Flo and Eddie. There are times when the camera man seems to be on the stage. The performance is recorded from only one camera angle. There are only 4-5 songs presented here.....and Zappa referring to the Fillmore West as the ‘Psychedelic Dungeon’ is priceless………..It is a great piece of history.

Before the Mountain Was Moved

1970 • 60 min

The struggle by the inhabitants of Raleigh County, West Virginia, to preserve their land from the ravages of strip mining, and their efforts to pass state legislation to this end.

Walkings 1-6

1970 • 20 min

Series of six short 16mm films by artist KP Brehmer examining physical dimensions and spatial expression of capital.

Religions in Iran

1970 • 26 min

Introduces the official religions and denominations in Iran and It depicts the performance of various religious ceremonies in mosques, prayer rooms, churches and fire temples.

World

1970 • 6 min

In fluid sequence the birth of a world depicted as a bio-astronomical event.

Jameh Mosque of Isfahan

1970 • 12 min

Directed by Manuchehr Tayyab.

Visão de Juazeiro

1970 • 19 min • Brazil

In 1969, the city of Juazeiro do Norte inaugurated a large concrete statue to honor its most famous and beloved resident: Father Cicero Romão Batista. On that year's All Souls' Day, the pilgrimage and devotion, trade and politics around the figure of Father Cicero. Archive footage shows the city of Juazeiro and the figure of the priest in contact with the faithful.