Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art
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3 of the list items from the list source consist of 2 films:
I Am Curious Yellow / Blue
Olympia Part 1 / 2
The Archives Testify (Holiday On Sylt, Operation Teutonic Sword)
Holiday On Sylt is also listed by itself. The Round-Up (aka The Hopeless Ones) is listed twice.
Films that are mentioned in the book but are missing from the list source:
A Free Ride (1915)
Missing from IMDb:
Acupunctural Anaesthesia, (Peking Television, 1971, China)
Beaver Films (Stag, 1970, USA)
Demonstrations (Strahov) (Anonymous, 1967, Czechoslovakia)
Meditation On The End Of Human Life (Posledni Veci Cloveka) (Jovan Kubicek, 1967, Czechoslovakia)
None Story, The (Stag, 1950s, USA)
Palestine (Nick Macdonald, 1971, USA)
Prune Flat (Robert Whitman, 1965, USA)
Race, The (William Copland, 1970, Australia)
What Goes On At Sex Therapy Clinics (Community Medical Cable Casting, 1972, USA)
Information about the films with no IMDb entry: [link]http://www.listology.com/baalman/list/films-amos-vogels-book-film-subversive-art-no-imdb-entry[/link]
3 of the list items from the list source consist of 2 films:
I Am Curious Yellow / Blue
Olympia Part 1 / 2
The Archives Testify (Holiday On Sylt, Operation Teutonic Sword)
Holiday On Sylt is also listed by itself. The Round-Up (aka The Hopeless Ones) is listed twice.
Films that are mentioned in the book but are missing from the list source:
A Free Ride (1915)
Missing from IMDb:
Acupunctural Anaesthesia, (Peking Television, 1971, China)
Beaver Films (Stag, 1970, USA)
Demonstrations (Strahov) (Anonymous, 1967, Czechoslovakia)
Meditation On The End Of Human Life (Posledni Veci Cloveka) (Jovan Kubicek, 1967, Czechoslovakia)
None Story, The (Stag, 1950s, USA)
Palestine (Nick Macdonald, 1971, USA)
Prune Flat (Robert Whitman, 1965, USA)
Race, The (William Copland, 1970, Australia)
What Goes On At Sex Therapy Clinics (Community Medical Cable Casting, 1972, USA)
Information about the films with no IMDb entry: [link]http://www.listology.com/baalman/list/films-amos-vogels-book-film-subversive-art-no-imdb-entry[/link]
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- DirectorZbynek BrynychStarsMiroslav MachácekOlga ScheinpflugováZdenka ProcházkováA Jewish doctor in Nazi-occupied Prague risks his life by assisting a gravely injured member of the resistance.
- DirectorCarmen D'AvinoDick GerendasyTom McDonoughUses live action and animation in presenting a political and social comment on American society.
- DirectorJean CocteauHans RichterStarsJean ArpPaul BowlesCeal BrysonIt is a fairy tale for the subconscious based on the game of chess. Partly Sigmund Freud, partly Lewis Carroll.
- DirectorA. Wise GuyStarsThe Jazz GirlsA mustachioed wise guy picks up two hitchhikers in his Model-T, where they drive out to the desert and engage in coitus.
- DirectorStan VanderbeekAn experimental short film centered around a collage of magazine and sound clips.
- DirectorBoris KaufmanJean VigoWhat starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsBarbara SteeleRobert FlemyngSilvano TranquilliIn 1897 London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances - and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAt a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsEva RasSlobodan AligrudicRuzica SokicA young female starts a love relationship with a serious young man. However, while he is away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's desires.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsGaston ModotLya LysCaridad de LaberdesqueA surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
- DirectorRichard MyersStarsRobert OhlrichPat MyersJake LeedMade during Myers' tenure as a film professor at Kent State University, AKRAN is a "collage of dreamy images of restless youth, landscapes of alienation, the Vietnam War, consumerist civilization, and overt racism." It represents the hopes, fears and frustrations of a young couple struggling to make it in a corrupt world. A statement about the 1960s, the film unfolds as a stream of consciousness that draws inspiration from some of Myers' Dadaist and surrealist heroes.
- DirectorWerner Koenig
- DirectorWalter HeynowskiCompilation film, tracing the political career of Dr. Hans Globke, allegedly a former Nazi, now Secretary of State in West Germany.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsNildo ParenteIsabel RibeiroArduíno ColassantiA new priest comes to a Brazilian coastal town and builds an insane asylum. Eventually the whole population ends up in the asylum.Alienist
- DirectorGeorge C. StoneyStarsMary ColeyConceived as an educational film for rural midwives, the film presents a beautifully humane profile of the life and work of the midwife "Miss Mary" Coley.
- DirectorJordan BelsonAn experimental short film by Jordan Belson which combines various colors and shapes.
- DirectorVince Lakatos
- DirectorWladyslaw SlesickiA short film which documents the life of a stray dog.
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsBrigitte BardotCurd JürgensJean-Louis TrintignantIn sunny St. Tropez, a young woman loves one brother but marries the other.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJames OlsonArthur HillDavid WayneTop scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
- DirectorMarcel DuchampA spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsBarbara LassRoman PolanskiHenryk KlubaA church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men's lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out -- of illness, assignation, and routine -- a few tips her only acknowledgment. The sound of footsteps on the floor above her brings a reverie of her youth, when she was a beauty, the day a platoon of soldiers marched into her valley. As the day in the basement proceeds, she completes a set of memories that takes her from passion to maternal love to rejection and tragedy. Could there be more awaiting her on this day of remembering the fruit of her womb?An Angel Has Fallen
- DirectorStan BrakhageNotes of journey life of Stan Brakhage like a befits of a diary book in a very strong sense of experimentation, romantic, modernist and abstract.
- DirectorGlauber RochaStarsMaurício do ValleOdete LaraOthon BastosIn this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsIvan KrausJuraj HerzA nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.The Apartment
- DirectorJohn LennonYoko OnoStarsJohn LennonYoko OnoThis short follows Lennon and Ono as they take a hot-air balloon ride over snow-covered countryside.
- DirectorOctavio CortázarApropos Of A Person Variously Called Holy Lazarus Or Babaiu
- DirectorAndrzej BrzozowskiArcheologists excavate numerous items on the site of the crematorium at former Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. These objects help us remember and understand what happened there.
- DirectorJirí TrnkaA joyful puppet film based on a story from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It is a story of a philandering monk and a beautiful but dull lady who surrenders only to archangel Gabriel. A story full of medieval humor which takes place in a bizarre atmosphere of medieval Venice. The puppets used in the picture are some of the most beautiful by Jirí Trnka.Archangel Gabriel
- DirectorAndrew ThorndikeAnnelie ThorndikeStarsIrmgard DürenRaimund SchelcherGerry WolffShort film which documents the discovery of an SS general living in obscurity as the mayor of a West German resort town.The Archives Testify Part 1: http://www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de/en/453-910.htm
- DirectorAndrew ThorndikeAnnelie ThorndikeStarsEckart FriedrichsonThe Archives Testify Part 2: http://www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de/en/453-910.htm
- DirectorPeter KubelkaAn experimental short from Peter Kubelka in which the film flickers between periods of light and sound.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsSemyon SvashenkoGeorgi KhorkovAmvrosi BuchmaA soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- Evaluation of the atom bomb strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsGabriele FerzettiMonica VittiLea MassariA woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
- DirectorAndrzej MunkStarsBogumil KobielaMaria CiesielskaHelena DabrowskaThe story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero's childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer's uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.Bad Luck
- DirectorFernand LégerDudley MurphyStarsKiki of MontparnasseFernand LégerDudley MurphyA pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, kitchen objects in concentric circles or rows - pots, pan lids, and funnels, cars passing overhead, a spinning carnival ride. Over and over, a heavy-set woman climbs stairs carrying a large bag on her shoulder. An Art Deco cartoon figure appears, dancing. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.
- DirectorHans BertramStarsHerbert GernotHermann GöringAdolf HitlerPoland was the first victim of Hitler's infamous blitzkrieg. Combat cameramen filmed the aerial campaign, showing preparations for flight, massive air strikes, and the appalling devastation wreaked upon Polish towns and armies. 'Norbert Schultze (I)''s original score lyrically enhances this Nazi propaganda vehicle.Baptism Of Fire
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsJane FondaJohn Phillip LawAnita PallenbergIn the 41st century, an astronaut partakes in sexy misadventures while seeking to stop an evil scientist who threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
- DirectorPeter SolanStarsMilena DvorskáLubomír DobrovodaMartin PetrenkoBe Sure To Behave
- DirectorElliott ErwittIn 1940, the Kilgore College Rangerettes became the first dancing drill team in the nation. They have been performing at half-time shows during college football games ever since.
- DirectorAbram RoomStarsVladimir FogelNikolay BatalovLyudmila SemyonovaA married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.Bed and Sofa
- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsFlorence AllenGavin ArthurImogen CunninghamA short film by James Broughton capturing the various activities of people around the same bed.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsAdriana AstiFrancesco BarilliAllen MidgetteFollowing the death of his friend, an Italian youth grows increasingly closer to his young aunt.
- DirectorLars WallenStarsClaes WirsénLennart NilssonBernt BernholmReport on fetal development, from sperm to the newborn, based on Lennart Nilsson's photo suite.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsCatherine DeneuveJean SorelMichel PiccoliA frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
- DirectorPeter FleischmannStarsVitus ZeplichalReinhard KolldehoffSilke KulikPollution, disaffection, moral decay and social unrest surround a church and its pastor's family heading toward a celebration over the return of its bells.The Bells of Silesia
- DirectorGuy L. CotéStarsTutte LemkowSara LuzitaSam KanerA short film in which a male and female dancer are separated by an impenetrable barrier.
- DirectorNorman MailerStarsRip TornGeorge PlimptonNorman MailerA night in a Manhattan police station.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
- DirectorJames W. HorneLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJames FinlaysonOllie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner.Release year on Amos Vogel's list is 1924. Different film?
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsPeter BernuthIn the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsPhilippe AvronJirí SýkoraMagda VásáryováThree adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.Birds, Orphans And Fools
- DirectorArthur BarronStarsBruce NorthDebbie North
- DirectorRichard Bartlett
- DirectorRichard Preston
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsBill BrentHuey P. NewtonStokely CarmichaelA short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.Black Panthers
- DirectorNancy EdellA surreal animation of erotic images.
- DirectorAldo TambelliniA short experimental film in which the viewer sees the violence of the world through a TV.
- DirectorRobert BreerRob Breer blazing the trail.
- DirectorJean-Daniel PolletStarsFrançois BertinMicheline BovetEva FarkasLe Sang re-enacts the utopia of the Living Theater, a theatrical company founded in 1947 and boasting collective creation, the liberation of bodies (the actors played naked) and the counterculture. But happiness is dangerous and the utopia mortal: Leon drowns in the dance, believing to find freedom.Blood
- DirectorJean CocteauStarsEnrique RiveroElizabeth Lee MillerPauline CartonTold in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.
- DirectorGeorges FranjuStarsGeorges HubertNicole LadmiralAlfred MacquartBucolic scenes from the outskirts of Paris are contrasted with stark footage from slaughterhouses.Blood of the Beasts
- DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsMarcelino YanahuayaBenedicta MendozaVicente Verneros SalinasThe reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.
- DirectorRoland LethemStarsTo KatinakiPierre LampeJean-Pierre BouyxouA man gets delivered a barrel containing a fairy who goes around happily murdering all kind of upstanding citizens.The Bloodthirsty Fairy
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsDeVeren BookwalterWillard MaasAndy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsDavid HemmingsVanessa RedgraveSarah MilesA fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsMarlene DietrichKurt GerronAn elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlBéla BalázsStarsLeni RiefenstahlMathias WiemanBeni FührerWhen the moon is full, young men die attempting to reach the mysterious blue light in the mountains.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsRobert BensonAn early experimental black and white animated film from artist Stan Brakhage.
- DirectorJoris IvensHenri StorckDocumentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsFumio WatanabeAkiko KoyamaTetsuo AbeA young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
- DirectorSaul LandauHaskell WexlerStarsMaria Auxiliadora Lara BarcellosFrei BetoJean Marc von der WeidWhile living in the exile, students and civilians share their stories about the torture and violence they suffered as victims of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergVan DoudeA small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
- DirectorJonas MekasJudith MalinaStarsWarren FinnertyJim AndersonHenry HowardA ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
- DirectorJoël SériaStarsJeanne GoupilCatherine WagenerBernard DhéranTwo bored Catholic schoolgirls spending summer in the countryside decide to become Satanists, and begin committing a series of morbid and increasingly dangerous crimes.But Do Not Deliver Us From Evil
- DirectorMiro BernatDrawings by the children of the Terezín ghetto, who were later executed by the Nazis.Butterflies, do not Live Here
- DirectorLev KuleshovStarsAleksandra KhokhlovaSergey KomarovVladimir FogelA five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two of the others. The two survivors, a husband and wife, subdue the killer but are then faced with an agonizing dilemma. With no chance of turning him over to the authorities for many weeks, they must decide whether to exact justice themselves or to risk trying to keep him restrained until they can return to civilization.By The Law
- DirectorRobert WieneStarsWerner KraussConrad VeidtFriedrich FeherHypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
- DirectorDick RobertsJacques VausseurLa Cadeau
- A short film created by the U.S. Army Signal Corps which documents the Nazi concentration camps.
- DirectorJon JostA experimental short from Jon Jost in which a canyon is filmed.
- DirectorCarmelo BeneStarsCarmelo BeneTonino CaputoAnne WiazemskyAfter a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a poisoned picture, the old Arden to allow the latter's wife, Alice to live with her lover Mosbie.
- DirectorAlexandre VolkoffStarsIvan MozzhukhinSuzanne BianchettiDiana KarenneA flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.Casanova
- DirectorJoe Pasternak
- DirectorPaul LeniStarsLaura La PlanteCreighton HaleForrest StanleyRelatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.
- DirectorDaniel SzczechuraA short animated film about fighting over seating in an auditorium.The Chair
- DirectorJean GenetStarsBravoJean GenetJavaTwo prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.Un chant d'amour.
Release year on Amos Vogel's list is 1960. - DirectorAlvaro RamírezStarsHéctor NogueraA short film which examines the issue of infant malnutrition.
- DirectorWill HindleHindle 's prize-ladened work of cataclysmic visual and mental schisms stands as one-of-a-kind. Chinese Firedrill is a romantic, nostalgic film. Yet its nostalgia is of the unknown, of vague emotions, haunted dreams, unspoken words, silences between sounds. It's nostalgic for the oceanic present rather than the remembered past. It is a total fantasy, yet it seems more real than the coldest documentary, The action occurs totally within the mind of the protagonist, who never leaves the small room in which he lives... Through the door/mirror is the beyond, the unreachable, the unattainable
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsAnne WiazemskyJean-Pierre LéaudJuliet BertoA small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.