Films byTexts by 1977
Article NL EN
26.04.2023

His films are irritating, off-putting, somewhat repulsive. Admirers of his work should not brush off this negative, backward contact between Fassbinder and his audience but rather depart from it. In this oeuvre, an aesthetic of irritation is essential.

Article NL EN
26.04.2023

Zijn films irriteren, stoten af, zijn een beetje weerzinwekkend. Bewonderaars van zijn werk moeten dit negatieve, averechtse contact tussen Fassbinder en zijn publiek niet wegpraten, maar er juist van vertrekken. In dit oeuvre is een esthetiek van de irritatie essentieel.

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Tribute to the Teachers
Abbas Kiarostami, 1977, 20’

An assignment from Iran’s Ministry of Education, this documentary from the last years of the Pahlavi dynasty includes interviews with officials who predictably praise teaching as a sacred, noble, and honorable profession.

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Harun Farocki, 1977, 3’

Two sisters, portrayed by Farocki’s twin daughters Anna and Lara, play through their visual impressions at bedtime before falling asleep: “I’ve seen a man who had claws on his feet and could climb up the trunk of a tree with them.” Or: “Have you ever seen a car that grew out of a wall?” And t

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Harun Farocki, 1977, 3’

Two sisters, portrayed by Farocki’s twin daughters Anna and Lara, play through their visual impressions at bedtime before falling asleep: “I’ve seen a man who had claws on his feet and could climb up the trunk of a tree with them.” Or: “Have you ever seen a car that grew out of a wall?” A

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John Cassavetes, 1977, 144’

Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) rehearses for her latest play about a woman unable to admit that she is aging. When she witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, she begins to confront the personal and professional turmoil she faces in her own life.

Article EN
2.06.2021

It would be more than fair to say that in American films, the motif of adventure is one of the favorite story-telling devices. So many films come to mind – from the most banal to the most memorable of the western, detective, and war genre films of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s to the rash of modern-day science fiction films patterned on the Star Wars or Close Encounters formulas. (...) Two other films stand out in my mind that take the adventure story theme to another level, and therefore deserve a closer look: Charles Lane’s A Place in Time, and Charles Burnett’s Killer Of Sheep.

Article EN
31.03.2021
Josie Fanon 1977
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What does it mean to make a film when you are a woman, an Algerian, a novelist (writing in French) and you decide to make it in your own country, for the people of that country, with the widest distribution possible, as it is a film for television?

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Charles Burnett, 1977, 81’

Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.

 

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Robert Bresson, 1977, 95’

Charles, Michel and a few of their friends form a small environmentalist group, concerned about famine, pollution and the future of the world.

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Ingemo Engström, Gerhard Theuring, 1977, 217’

“The theme of the film is the escape route of the German emigrés in France in 1940/41. It describes a research of the past against the background of landscapes and towns which once were scenes of persecution. The leitmotif of the journey is Anna Seghers’ novel Transit.

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Jon Jost, 1977, 75’

“Jost’s outsider is Frank Goya, a guy with a red shirt, a far-fucking-out-in-the-morning-man delivery, and a fist full of Polaroid snapshots. Ever-cool Goya peers into the camera, announces that he’s a motel-haunting divorce-dick and from then on Angel City is kabuki Raymond Chandler.

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Dario Argento, 1977, 98’

“To begin with, I imagined the story set in a children’s school, not of teens. I thought that it could be interesting that the school was for very young girls, eight, ten years old. This was the first version.

ARTICLE NL FR
31.01.2018

Dit verhaal is eerst en vooral geluid: geluiden van de bus en de metro, geluiden van neervallende bomen en van creperende dieren, geluiden van deuren die langs alle kanten klapperen en kraken, het finale geluid van de revolver van ‘de vriend’ die door Charles betaald is en hem doodt in de duisternis van Père-Lachaise. Kwellend geknars en geknal. Tevergeefs bedekt Charles zijn oren. De wereld waarin hij leeft, is gemaakt van kabaal zonder betekenis, absurd en overweldigend. Het overschreeuwt de menselijke stemmen, die zijn als korte zinspelingen tussen al het gekrijs van brutale en gebrutaliseerde dingen.

ARTICLE NL FR
31.01.2018

Cette histoire, ce sont d’abord des bruits : bruits de bus et de métro, bruits d’arbres et d’animaux abattus, bruits de portes qui de tous côtés claquent et grincent, bruit final du revolver de « l’ami » qui, payé par Charles, le tue dans l’obscurité au Père-Lachaise. Craquements et claquements obsédants. En vain Charles se bouche les oreilles. Le monde où il vit est fait de ces bruits sans message, absurdes, envahissants. 

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The Hunters
Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1977, 168’

The Hunters reflects how a man of my generation sees Greek history, a history whose continuation blends with the years of my own life. It is a study of the historical conscience of the Greek bourgeoisie. In Greece, the ruling class is afraid of history and, for this reason, hides it.

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Chantal Akerman, 1977, 85’

News from Home consists of long takes of locations in New York City, set to Akerman’s voice-over as she reads letters her mother sent her between 1971 and 1973, when the director lived in the city.

 

Dear child,

Article NL
18.05.2016

Verwijdering is het onderwerp van de film die António Reis en Margarida Cordeiro hebben gemaakt in de streek van Trás-os-Montes (waaraan de film zijn titel ontleent) in 1976. In de dubbele betekenis van het ver zijn (ballingschap) en de daad zelf van het (zich) verwijderen (uit het zicht, vervolgens de vergetelheid in). Verwijdering, zeggen Reis en Cordeiro ons beetje bij beetje, is de geschiedenis van het noordoosten van Portugal.