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Space Coast (Ross McElwee + Michel Negroponte, 1979)
Jan
26
NASA Day Of Remembrance
Cape Canaveral space journalist Mary Bubb, 59, determined to never miss a launch – shows up at a rocket launch.
“I'll take you to the horses. I'll take you to the Moon.”
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The Noah (Daniel Bourla, 1975)
Jan
25
Burns Night
Noah (Robert Strauss) singing Auld Lang Syne. DP: Jerry Kalogeratos.
“On old long syne my Jo,
On old long syne,
That thou canst never once reflect,
On old long syne”
– Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne (1788)
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Numéro zéro [Odette Robert] (Jean Eustache, 1971)
Jan
21
Dzień Babci
Jean Eustache holds up a clapperboard while interviewing his grandmother Odette Robert. DPs: Adolfo Arrieta & Philippe Théaudière.
“These are not pretty stories but they need to be recorded.”
– Odette Robert
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Pamela and Ian (David Greene, 1971)
Jan
18
National Michigan Day
Filmed on campus of the University of Michigan and inspired by Alain Robbe-Grillet's concept of characters being born at the start of the film, and dying at the end.
Outside of this framework, the characters do not exist.
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にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活 [Nippon Sengoshi – Madamu onboro no Seikatsu / History of Postwar Japan (Shōhei Imamura, 1970)
Jan
17
Customer Service Day
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書を捨てよ町へ出よう [Sho o suteyo machi e deyō / Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets] (Shūji Terayama, 1971)
Jan
9
成人の日
Young adults rally in the streets. DP: Masayoshi Sukita.
“What the hell are you doing?”
