All Films

A Life's Work – Carl Th. Dreyer's Jesus Film

1970 • 42 min • Denmark

Documentary exploring the thirty-seven years of preparatory work that director Carl Th. Dreyer did for "Jesus of Nazareth" – a film that was never produced.

The Waterfowl People

1970 • 55 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the histoy and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric, and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari, and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The footage was shot in Altai Krai, the Nenets Okrug, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari el, Karelia, and Estonia. The first documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Ugricarum (1970 - 1997)" series.

Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending

1970 • 50 min

Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending is the eighth album by the Incredible String Band, featuring Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie and Rose Simpson. It is the soundtrack for a film of the same name, and was released on Island Records in March 1971, failing to chart in either the UK or US. It would be the first album from the band on the Island label and the last to feature Joe Boyd as the producer.

Father Dan Berrigan: The Holy Outlaw

1970 • 57 min

This documentary deals with the 4 months that Father Daniel Berrigan was underground from the FBI, due to participating in and leading the burning of draft records in an act of civil disobedience.

Scent of Love

1970 • 52 min

Two scientists work on an aphrodisiac potion that will turn women sex-crazy.

Pear-Shaped Hill

1970 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Filmed version of Irving A. Leitner and Bernice Myers' children's book.

1985

1970 • 60 min

Fictionalized news documentary portraying the US in the midst of a worldwide environmental crisis.

Well, Just You Wait! 2

1970 • 9 min • Soviet Union

This time the Volk stumbles upon Zayats while Zayats is marching while playing a drum.

The Phallic Forest

1970 • 38 min • Australia

A lady flees her failing relationship

A Young Man Named Engels – A Portrait in Letters

1970 • 20 min • East Germany, Soviet Union

With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique cinematic portrait is created. The viewer thus gets to know the young Engels personally, learning about the significant moments of his development from a bourgeois-liberal upbringing to the theoretical partner of Karl Marx. Later be awarded the Gold Dove at the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week.

The Site in the Sea

1970 • 35 min • United Kingdom

Building a new harbour at Port Talbot - it’s a man’s world in which the only females are a dredger and two seafaring vessels.

Kinder sind keine Rinder

1970 • 42 min • Germany

The film documents the work of an anti-authoritarian and self-organized school store in Witzlebenstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg, which emerged as a critique of the development of children's stores. The film shows how the teachers discuss the conversion of open spaces into playgrounds with the children and how the children jointly prepare the publication of their newspaper "Radau". The concept of the children's stores was developed by the Action Council for the Liberation of Women, which emerged from the Socialist German Student Union (SDS), at the Free University of Berlin (FU) and was organized as self-help from January 1968. Helke Sander was one of the co-founders of the Action Council.

Hi-Rise Wise Guys

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

Hi-Rise Wise Guys is the 177th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically in 1970, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.

Night Call

1970 • 60 min • Soviet Union

At the heart of the plot - the erroneous message about the death of Varvara Antonovna gathers around her son, daughter-in-law and grandson. They feel a sense of deep guilt, so carelessly treating a loved one for a number of years

Pierre de Ronsard, Gentleman from Vendôme

1970 • 51 min • France

We follow Ronsard to the Loire Valley, listening to him evoke his loves through odes and sonnets. Thus, Cassandre, Marie d'Angevine, Hélène de Surgères come back to life for a few moments for us. This evocation does not forget the friendship between Ronsard and another great poet of the 16th century, also born on the banks of the Loire, Joachim du Bellay. It takes us to the castles of Blois and Taley, to the manor of La Denysière, to Couture, Ronsard's birthplace, and to the priory of Saint-Cosme-les-Tours, where the poet died.

Bad Bad Jo Jo

1970 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Kayo Hathaway created a wildly successful comic strip featuring "Bad Bad Jo Jo", a murderous hulking white racist, and his cackling mother. Hathaway is about to go into tax exile but decides to entertain a couple of fans. Hathaway is louche and cynical. The two fans like to dress up as the characters and act out their fantasies. Hathaway is their next victim.

Wild Bill Hiccup

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

Wild Bill Hiccup chases Woody around a haunted house.

Female Human

1970 • 23 min • Sweden

A collage about gender roles. Collective film by Janne Brodin, Arne Hedlund, Per Lundkvist and Maj Wechselmann.

Caged Woman

1970 • 60 min • United States of America

New inmates arriving at a brutal womens prison are shown exactly what's expected of them by a succession of mean, and horny, male and female guards and other inmates.

Coo Coo Nuts

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody Woodpecker ends up on an island inhabited by Robinson Crusoe, who has somehow managed to survive for years eating nothing but coconuts.

Godard in America

1970 • 45 min

Spring 1970: Godard and Gorin, on the road, visiting colleges, speaking with Andrew Sarris, and explaining, through illustrated notebooks, their newest Dziga Vertov Group project, a film on Palestine.

Felt TV

1970 • 10 min • Germany

"As a contribution to Gerry Schum's 'Identifications', Beuys adapted for television the 'Felt TV' action previously staged for a live audience at a Happening festival in Copenhagen in 1966. It was the only Beuys action executed specifically for the camera. It opens with Beuys seated in front of a TV set showing a programme which is invisible because the screen is covered by felt. The boxing-gloves used later in the action lie at the ready beneath his chair."

How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser

1970 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

A fanciful apocryphal tale about the famous Greek scholar, who is determined not to have his mind taken off educating young Alexander the Great, until Cupid makes him succumb to the temptations of a light-hearted young woman.

The People's War

1970 • 40 min

Shot in Vietnam in the summer of 1969, this documentary creates a vivid portrait of the countryside and ways of life during the war.