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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 BruxellesJeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Recommended
Dir. Chantal Akerman
Feat. Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte
Delphine Seyrig plays a repressed housewife whose rigid domestic routine – with, secretly, the occasional trick turned on the side –…
Lost Honor of Katherina Blum, TheLost Honor of Katherina Blum, The (1975)
Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Angela Winkler, Jurgen Prochnow
Taken from the novel by Heinrich Boll, this reproach to the powers–that–be in mid–70s West Germany portrays the hardheaded…
Mother Kuesters Goes to HeavenMother Kuesters Goes to Heaven (1975) Recommended
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Bohm
A furiously witty political black comedy from New German Cinema iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder, heavily inspired by the melodramas of Douglas…
Seven BeautiesSeven Beauties (1975) Recommended
Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Shirley Stoler
Wimpish Casanova Giancarlo Giannini is cast wherever the winds of WWII fling him: eventually into a German concentration camp run by Shirley Stoler…
Story Of Adele H.,TheStory Of Adele H.,The (1975)
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott
A towering performance by Isabelle Adjani anchors this moody, but somewhat turgid romance. Based on the diaries of Victor Hugo's daughter that…
Wrong MoveWrong Move (1975)
Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Rudiger Vogler, Nastassja Kinski
A young writer works through his artistic angst and laments the decline of German society in Wenders disquieting road movie. Downbeat, but compelling…
XalaXala (Impotence) (1975) Recommended
Dir. Ousmane Sembene
When a government official (Thierno Leye) in newly–independent Senegal marries a third wife he finds himself struck down with impotence, in…
Alice in the CitiesAlice in the Cities (1974)
Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Rudiger Vogler, Yella Rottlander, Lisa Kreuzer
A German journalist's homeward trek is diverted through various cities when he helps a young companion re–locate her family. Wenders'…
AmarcordAmarcord (1974) Recommended
Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armendo Brancia
Fellini's last bonafide masterpiece – an inspired recreation of his memories of growing up in small–town Italy during the Fascist 1930s…
Arabian NightsArabian Nights (Il Fiore Delle Mille e Una Notte) (1974) Recommended
Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Tessa Bouche
For the final part of his “Trilogy of Life”, Pasolini interweaves several of the tales of the ‘Thousand and One Nights’,…

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