All Films

Light and the City

1970 • 16 min • United States of America

A film by Leo Hurwitz & Peggy Lawson.

Upon This Rock

1970 • 52 min • United States of America

Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.

End of the Commune?

1970 • 49 min • Germany

A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his movies for the next years. The movie shows rehearsals for his play "The Coffeehouse," which also became a television movie, and you can watch unique footage from the 19th Film Festival in Berlin (1969) where "Love is Colder Than Death" was shown. As told in this documentary, his first feature movie was given a cold shoulder by many of the journalists and visitors at the festival. You can in "End of the Commune" watch Fassbinder and actor Ulli Lommel walk out on stage after the opening of "Love is Colder Than Death,” while a man in the audience is shouting "Out with the director!” In this documentary, Fassbinder also talks a lot about his father, who was a respectable doctor.

Moon Rock

1970 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A short film inspired by lateral thinking that sees an astronaut explore "the monsters of mass society and mass media."

Monidło

1970 • 32 min • Poland

An unexpected guest shows at the door of an apartment of a working-class family, at first asking just for a glass of water.

Septuagenarian Substitute Ball

1970 • 32 min

Fame is too heavy for Ralph McCartney (John Ford Noonan) when he becomes an accidental rock star. Shot in New York, premiered June 1970. Winner: Third Prize at the National Student Film Festival.

The Night the Animals Talked

1970 • 30 min

Common farm animals in the stable of Christ's birth begin to talk and communicate for the first time upon Mary and Joseph's arrival. They realize a miracle is about to take place, but lose their ability to speak following the birth of Christ as they rush to tell all about the Savior's birth.

Kralların Öfkesi

1970 • 53 min • Turkey

A gang of thieves is in conflict due to loot sharing. The gang leader takes half of the loot, while the rest of the gang has to share the other half. Considering it unfair, they revolt against their leader.

Raquel!

1970 • 48 min • United States of America

Raquel! was an April 26, 1970 CBS television special starring Raquel Welch, Tom Jones, Bob Hope and John Wayne executive produced, directed and choreographed by David Winters produced by Winters' company Winters-Rosen for CBS-TV, originally co-sponsored by Coca-Cola and Motorola. On the day of the premiere, the show received a 51% share on the National ARB Ratings and an impressive Overnight New York Nielsen Rating of 58% share.

Montatorja

1970 • 35 min • Albania

Hëna, who works in a construction site, falls in love with another worker, Agim.

The Pimp Primer

1970 • 52 min

Carl, a low-end hustler and pimp, uses his girlfriend to start his own prostitution ring. Trouble begins when Carl recruits Sherrie, a local waitress who likes sex. A cheesy narrator relates this morality tale. Features early cameos by adult super-stars John Holmes and Uschi Digard!

Fårö Document

1970 • 57 min • Sweden

Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow inhabitants of his adopted home, the island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, this documentary investigates the sometimes deleterious effects of the modern world on traditional farming and fishing communities. The young, especially, voice doubts about remaining in such a remote, quiet place.

The Glory of Their Times

1970 • 51 min

Documentary using still photographs, vintage film footage and interviews with some of the early stars of American baseball to trace the development of the sport from the end of the 19th Century through the first decade and a half of the Twentieth.

The Stone Age

1970 • 30 min • France, United States of America

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

La Pomme de son œil

1970 • 50 min • France

What father doesn't care for his daughter unconditionally? It's a real question for Roland de Mailly, a divorced father who, in spite of himself, is subjected to the extravagances of his beloved daughter. By turns religious, hippy, extra-lucid, circus performer, will she overcome her father's love?

Livin' Easy

1970 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Dick Emery and dance troupe The Young Generation invite you to "simply pay through Giro" in this musical money promo.

The Giants

1970 • 10 min • United States of America

A blue dwarf and a red dwarf get into a vicious argument. Each ultimately calls upon a matching giant to protect them, with unexpected results.

Ride, Ride

1970 • 25 min • United Kingdom

An art student encounters a mysterious girl at a psychedelic party. She insists he give her a ride home on his motorbike, when something very strange occurs.

Der Apfel

1970 • 13 min • East Germany

Everything started with a forbidden apple. The independent and intellectual man is responsible for continuous progress. But when profit-greedy people use his new inventions to exploit others a revolution starts because people want to create their Garden of Eden here and now.

Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town

1970 • 45 min

An evening at Wilton's Music-Hall, Grace's Alley, Wellclose Square, London, 1860 starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Keith Michell, Pat Kirkwood, Warren Mitchell, Ronnie Barker, Bill Fraser, Gina Astralita, Eric Robinson. Introduced by Billy Russell. Tonight, 90 years after it closed, this famous Music-Hall opens again to bring you a picture of the stars, the singers, the dancers, and the people who once went there.

The Diamond

1970 • 8 min • France

The cruel Professor Savantas invites himself into an oasis cut off from the world to recover a huge diamond, which is the totem of the indigenous population and the keystone of the magical balance of the place.

Canyon

1970 • 6 min • United States of America

“A silent perusal of the Grand Canyon, morning to night, from a single, fixed camera position, by means of constant dissolves spaced a few seconds apart. Man — entirely absent — is no longer the center of the universe; the canyon exists outside of him. Despite the invisible photographer and his technologically-caused dissolves, this is a creditable approximation of the true foreign-ness of nature.” — Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art (1974)

The Weird World of Weird

1970 • 47 min • United States of America

Exploitation documentary, not to be confused with the Something Weird compilation of the same name, which amongst others contains a copy of this film.

Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo

1970 • 50 min • United States of America

George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Western "Rio Lobo." In this special we see him talking to Hawks about whether he'll be killed off or not, to Wayne about how to cultivate a special walk to make oneself a star in movies and to himself as he attempts to rehearse his tiny part and while doing so is caught in the frame of a setup for another scene and chastised by Wayne. Wayne calls Plimpton "Pimpleton" throughout this special.