Hallmarks of the “New Hollywood” film movement of the 60s/70s as summed up by author Todd Berliner:
Seventies films show a perverse tendency to integrate, in narrative incidental ways, story information and stylistic devices counterproductive to the films' overt and essential narrative purposes.
Hollywood filmmakers of the 1970s often situate their film-making practices in between those of classical Hollywood and those of European and Asian art cinema.
Seventies films prompt spectator responses more uncertain and discomforting than those of more typical Hollywood cinema.
Seventies narratives place an uncommon emphasis on irresolution, particularly at the moment of climax or in epilogues, when more conventional Hollywood movies busy themselves tying up loose ends.
Seventies cinema hinders narrative linearity and momentum and scuttles its potential to generate suspense and excitement.
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Everybody asks me what’s my ideal wedding and well it’s actually just the disturbing marriage scene from Salo the 120 Days of Sodom.
Not the whole “sadistic aristocrats kidnapping and torturing youth” part but just the getting married in a silver silk dress with a matching floral headdress and bouquet in front of a bored nude audience in an Italian mansion/villa/castle while appearing grim and depressed. I feel like Pasolini was channeling Botticelli X Van Eyck for this film’s aesthetics.
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I’m like the opposite of sustainable... every time I buy an outfit and wear it once I’m like omg… I can’t wear this ever again I need new clothes I’m a celebrity and an aristocrat! When I’m actually just a broke loser bitch who can barely afford new socks yet my tastes and habits are lavish and extravagant like those of Jayne Mansfield and Ludwig II of Bavaria.
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Me Me Lai in Ultimo mondo cannibale (1977)
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Uschi Obermaier in the Bahamas by Francis Giacobetti, 1970
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