settima

1970s

Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh [The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh] (Sergio Martino, 1971)

Aug

22

1970

Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh (1971)

A German tabloid writes EIN NEUES OPFER DES IRREN MÖRDERS (“A new victim of the insane killer”). It's Saturday, August 22, 1979. DPs: Emilio Foriscot & Florian Trenker.

“Now I know you're trying to get away from me —– but your vice is like a room locked from the inside and only I have the key…”

– bouquet card

Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)

Aug

22

1972

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Sal (John Cazale) and Sonny (Al Pacino) in the bank, holding out with their increasingly impatient hostages. DP: Victor J. Kemper.

“He won't listen to anybody. He's been very crazy all summer. Since June he's been trying to kill me.”

– Leon

Marquette Park I (Tom Palazzolo + Mark Rance, 1976)

Aug

21

1976

Marquette Park I (1976)

A snotty kid – who, like all kids in the 70s, looks like Mick Jagger – holds up a xeroxed pamphlet calling out to the “white voter”.

 

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)

Aug

18

1973

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Cast and crew in the back of their motorhome. From LtR: Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Allen Danziger, Teri McMinn, Tobe Hooper, Dottie Pearl, and William Vail (via). DP: Daniel Pearl.

“Travel in the country, long-range plans, and upsetting persons around you, could make this a disturbing and unpredictable day. The events in the world are not doing much either to cheer one up.”

your August 18 horoscope

Top of the Heap (Christopher St. John, 1972)

Aug

16

10 A.M.

Top of the Heap (1972)

An invitation via telegram dated August 10 for astronaut George Lattimer to Waltersville Alabama on August 16 at 10 A.M.. DP: Richard A. Kelley.

Le 15/8 (Chantal Akerman + Samy Szlingerbaum, 1975)

Aug

15

Le 15/8 (1975)

Chris Myllykoski. DPs: Chantal Akerman & Samy Szlingerbaum.

The Outfit (John Flynn, 1973)

Jul

31

bread

The Outfit (1973)

A white man in a dark coat in an undefined room. A concrete wall, a metal pipe, a loaf of white bread on a walnut counter. DP: Bruce Surtees.

“I don't talk to guys wearing aprons.”

– Earl Macklin

Goodbye & Amen (Damiano Damiani, 1977)

Jul

25

cereal

Goodbye & Amen (1977)

Mrs. De Mauro (Claudia Cardinale) peeks around her hotelroom door. Waiting for her is a room service cart with coffee, coffee cups, and numerous boxes of Post Toasties. DP: Luigi Kuveiller.

“Twelve boxes of cornflakes – all for himself?”

– Jack

Sinong lumikha ng yoyo? Sinong lumikha ng moon buggy? [Who Invented the Yoyo? Who Invented the Moon Buggy?] (Kidlat Tahimik, 1979)

Jul

20

1969

Sinong lumikha ng yoyo? Sinong lumikha ng moon buggy? (1979)

A Bavarian onion dome with the date July 20, 1969 superimposed over it. DP: Kidlat Tahimik.

“Fantastic! You are a first class dilettante!”

– Kidlat's proud parents

Die glücklichen Minuten des Georg Hauser [The Happy Minutes of Georg Hauser] (Mansur Madavi, 1974)

Jul

20

Die glücklichen Minuten des Georg Hauser (1974)

A smiling Georg Hauser (Walter Bannert) with one of his many attractive secretaries. DP: Mansur Madavi.

“Grünes Licht für ehrgeizige, strebsame und arbeitswillige junge Menschen.”