the first festival 1972

Overview of films

• Targets

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  Peter Bogdanovich | 92' | USA | -

  Psychopath opens fire on the audience at a drive-in movie theatre. With Boris Karloff.
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  Der Tod der Maria Malibran

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  Werner Schroeter | 104' | Germany | -

  Lyrical film about a nineteenth-century prima donna. With Maria Montezuma, Warhol actress Candy Darling, and Fassbinder actress Ingrid Caven.

• Tomato kechappu kotei

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  Terayama Shuji | 28' | Japan | -

  Surreal and anarchic short farce about children who take up arms against adults. Filmhouse classic.See also: Sho o suteyo machi nu devo/Throw Away You

• Weekend à Sochaux

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  55' | France | -

  Docu-drama made in cooperation with Théâtre des Habitants in the Peugeot factories, Clermoulin.

• Wilmington

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  15' | USA | -

  Documentary about beleaguered city. By political film collective. See also: The Earth Belongs to the People, Only the Beginning, Felix Revolts & The W

• Winter Soldier

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  96' | USA | -

  Revealing documentary about American war crimes in Vietnam.

• The Woman’s Film

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  Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith, Ellin Sorrin | 40' | USA | -

  Women talk about a hard life. By political film collective.See also: The Earth Belongs to the People, Wilmington, Only the Beginning and Felix Revolts

• Women in Revolt

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  Paul Morrissey | 97' | USA | -

  Three theatrical transvestites in an anti-feminist film from Andy Warhol’s factory.

• Yawar mallku

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  Jorge Sanjinés | 105' | Bolivia | -

  Hard-hitting political feature. Indians castrate ‘gringos’ as revenge for sterilising their wives.See also: Para recibir el canto de los pajaros.

• Les yeux fermés

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  Joël Santoni | 120' | France | -

  Actor so consumed by his role as a blind man that he can no longer see.