Chicken Out Herzog is important to me. He seeks out situations that have recoil, he takes chances and makes honest choices. His being is broken, and that means the choices and the power of the situations affect me. But sometimes he works with a situation that doesn’t have psychic danger. Sometimes he makes bad choices.… Continue reading Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
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Films released in 1970
Be Glad… (1970)
Woven Tongues I encountered one of those popular psychology ideas recently, the one that says that the music that was on the radio when you were 13 determines your taste in music. I supposed it could be true. I have a deeply sculpted life in cinema but music just flows in to be ‘liked’ or… Continue reading Be Glad… (1970)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Tamer Wilder I like the fantasy of a superartist, someone who knows what they are doing, someone who knows where the levers to my soul are. But I know that’s extremely rare, that most art that I see as art is the result of someone just following their own urges, intuitive or accidental. Its okay,… Continue reading The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
7 Plus Seven (1970)
We Discover The way I think of films is that every film is first about other films and incidentally about life. In referencing or extending our film experience — and at the same time providing tools for folding that experience into life — movies give us tools for life. Or for dreaming, which is much… Continue reading 7 Plus Seven (1970)