This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 1970s.
Title | Director | Cast | Nation | Notes | ||
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1970 | ||||||
The American Soldier | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George | West Germany | [1] | ||
The Animals of Eden and After | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Berlin Horse | Malcolm Le Grice | United Kingdom | Soundtrack by Brian Eno | |||
L'Eden et après | Alain Robbe-Grillet | Catherine Jourdan, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Pierre Zimmer | France Czechoslovakia |
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Even Dwarfs Started Small | Werner Herzog | Helmut Döring | West Germany | |||
Fog Line | Larry Gottheim | United States | ||||
Gods of the Plague | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer | West Germany | [2] | ||
I Don't Know | Penelope Spheeris | United States | ||||
It is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives | Rosa von Praunheim | West Germany | ||||
The Machine of Eden | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Out 1 | Jacques Rivette | Hermine Karagheuz, Michèle Moretti, Karen Puig | France | TV series | ||
Performance | Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg | United Kingdom | [3] | ||
Remedial Reading Comprehension | Owen Land | United States | ||||
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle | |||
Serene Velocity | Ernie Gehr | United States | ||||
Sexual Meditation No. 1: Motel | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |||
Thomas Bernhard: Three Days | Ferry Radax | Thomas Bernhard | Austria | |||
El Topo | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Maria Lorenzio, David Silva | Mexico | [4] | ||
Trash | Paul Morrissey | Joe Dallesandro, Jane Forth, Holly Woodlawn | United States | [5] | ||
Unfolding | Coni Beeson | United States | ||||
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jireš | Helena Anýžová, Karel Engel, Jaroslava Schallerová, | Czechoslovakia | |||
Vladimir et Rosa | Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne Wiazemsky | France | [6] | ||
The Weir-Falcon Saga | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Zorns Lemma | Hollis Frampton | United States | ||||
1971 | ||||||
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" | |||
Angels' | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Beware of a Holy Whore | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla | West Germany | [7] | ||
Carriage Trade | Warren Sonbert | United States | ||||
Critical Mass | Hollis Frampton | Barbara DiBenedetto, Frank Albetta | United States | Part of Hapax Legomena cycle | ||
Deus Ex | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" | |||
DIrty | Stephen Dwoskin | United Kingdom | ||||
Door | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Dresden Dynamo | Lis Rhodes | United Kingdom | ||||
Eyes | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" | |||
Football as Never Before | Helmuth Costand | George Best | United Kingdom West Germany |
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Fox Fire Child Watch | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Hand Grenade | Gill Eatherley | United Kingdom | Soundtrack by Neu! | |||
I'm Too Sad to Tell You | Bas Jan Ader | United States | ||||
A Journey to Avebury | Derek Jarman | United Kingdom | ||||
Meditation | Jordan Belson | United States | Abstract, color[8] | |||
N. a pris les dés (N. Took the Dice) | Alain Robbe-Grillet | Catherine Jourdan, Richard Leduc, Pierre Zimmer | France | |||
(nostalgia) | Hollis Frampton | Michael Snow | United States | Part of Hapax Legomena cycle | ||
The Peaceable Kingdom | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Poem | B. S. Johnson | William Hoyland | United Kingdom | |||
Punishment Park | Peter Watkins | Paul Alelyanes, Carmen Argenziano, Stan Armsted, Harold Beaulieu, Jim Bohan | United States | |||
La Région Centrale | Michael Snow | Canada | ||||
Sexual Meditation: Room with View | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |||
Travelling Matte | Hollis Frampton | United States | Part of Hapax Legomena cycle | |||
The Trip to Door | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Viva la Muerte | Fernando Arrabal | Mahdi Chaouch, Núria Espert, Anouk Ferjac | France Tunisia |
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Western History | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism | Dušan Makavejev | Milena Dravić, Jagoda Kaloper, Ivica Vidović | Yugoslavia | [9] | ||
1972 | ||||||
Chakra | Jordan Belson | United States | Abstract, color[10] | |||
La Cicatrice Interieure | Philippe Garrel | Nico, Pierre Clémenti, Philippe Garrel | France | [11] | ||
Clocktime Trailer | Stuart Pound | United Kingdom | ||||
The Death of Maria Malibran | Werner Schroeter | Ingrid Caven, Candy Darling, Christine Kaufman, Magdalena Montezuma | West Germany | |||
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Luis Buñuel | Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran | France Italy Spain |
[12] | ||
Dreamwood | James Broughton | United States | [13] | |||
Dyn Amo | Stephen Dwoskin | United Kingdom | ||||
Ecstasy of the Angels | Kōji Wakamatsu | Michio Akiyama, Masao Adachi, Rie Yokoyama | Japan | [14] | ||
Eye Myth Educational | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Garden of Luxor | Derek Jarman | United Kingdom | ||||
Hats Off to Hollywood | Penelope Spheeris | United States | ||||
Hotel Monterrey | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | ||||
Letter to Jane | Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin | France | [15] | |||
Ordinary Matter | Hollis Frampton | United States | Part of Hapax Legomena cycle | |||
Poetic Justice | Hollis Frampton | United States | Part of Hapax Legomena cycle | |||
Portraits | Barbara Meter | Netherlands | ||||
The Presence | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
The Process | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Red Psalm | Miklós Jancsó | Lajos Balázsovits, Bertalan Solti, Janos Koltai | Hungary | [16] | ||
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania | Jonas Mekas | Soviet Union United States |
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Remote Control | Hollis Frampton | United States | Part of Hapax Legomena cycle | |||
Requiem für einen Jungraulichen Koenig | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Peter Kern | West Germany | [17] | ||
The Riddle of Lumen | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |||
Sexual Meditation: Hotel | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |||
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |||
Sexual Meditation: Open Field | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Sexual Meditations cycle | |||
The Shores of Phos: A Fable | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Special Effects | Hollis Frampton | United States | Part of Hapax Legomena cycle | |||
Threshold | Malcolm Le Grice | United Kingdom | ||||
The Wold Shadow | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
1973 | ||||||
Can Dialectics Break Bricks? | René Viénet | France | ||||
The Embassy | Chris Marker | France | ||||
F for Fake | Orson Welles | Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten | France Iran |
[18] | ||
Fat Man on a Beach | Michael Bakewell | B. S. Johnson | United Kingdom | TV film | ||
Ganja & Hess | Bill Gunn | Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Leonard Jackson | United States | [19] | ||
Gift | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
H is for House | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom | ||||
The Holy Mountain | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky, Richard Rutowski, Jose Flores | Mexico United States |
[20] | ||
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse | Fernando Arrabal | Emmanuelle Riva, George Shannon | France | |||
Iluminacja | Krzysztof Zanussi | Edward Zebrowski, Marcin Latallo, Włodzimierz Zonn | Poland | [21] | ||
Immoral Tales | Walerian Borowczyk | Lise Danvers, Paloma Picasso, Charlotte Alexandra | France Hungary Italy |
[22] | ||
Mann & Frau & Animal | Valie Export | Austria | ||||
Occasional Work of a Female Slave | Alexander Kluge | Alexandra Kluge | West Germany | |||
Reel Time | Annabel Nicolson | United Kingdom | Expanded cinema | |||
... Remote ... Remote | Valie Export | Austria | ||||
The Second Coming of Suzanne | Michael Barry | Sondra Locke, Jared Martin, Paul Sand, Gene Barry | United States | |||
Sincerity I | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Sincerity cycle | |||
The Society of the Spectacle | Guy Debord | France | ||||
Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen | Derek Jarman | United Kingdom | ||||
Television Delivers People | Richard Serra | United States | ||||
Themroc | Claude Faraldo | Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Jeanne Herviale | France Italy |
[23] | ||
World on a Wire | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin | West Germany | |||
Year of the Woman | Sandra Hochman | United States | ||||
1974 | ||||||
Aquarien | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Céline and Julie Go Boating | Jacques Rivette | Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier | France | [24] | ||
Clancy | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Dominion | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Dyketactics | Barbara Hammer | United States | ||||
Edvard Munch | Peter Watkins | Gro Frås, Geir Westby | Norway Sweden |
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Les Filles de Kamare | René Viénet | France | ||||
Flight | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
He Was Born, He Suffered, He Died | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Hymn to Her | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
The Phantom of Liberty | Luis Buñuel | Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur | France Italy |
[25] | ||
Skein | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Sol | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Space Is the Place | John Coney | Sun Ra, Erika Leder, Barbara Deloney | United States | [26] | ||
Star Garden | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
The Stars Are Beautiful | Stan Brakhage | Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Brakhage | United States | |||
Suite (212) | Nam June Paik | United States | ||||
Sweet Movie | Dušan Makavejev | Carole Laure, John Vernon, Anna Prucnal | France | [27] | ||
The Text of Light | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
They Do Not Exist | Mustafa Abu Ali | Palestine | [28][failed verification] | |||
Vase de Noces | Thierry Zéno | Dominique Garny | Belgium | |||
The Wait | Uzi Peres | Israel | ||||
1975 | ||||||
Bataille de Waterloo | Marcel Broodthaers | Belgium | ||||
Black Moon | Louis Malle | Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart | France | [29] | ||
Circling | Peter Donebauer | United Kingdom | ||||
Condition of Illusion | Peter Gidal | United Kingdom | ||||
Evrydiki BA 2O37 | Nikos Nikolaidis | Vera Tschechowa, John Moore, Niki Triantafillidi | Greece West Germany |
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India Song | Marguerite Duras | France | ||||
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | Chantal Akerman | Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | Belgium France |
[30] | ||
Light Music | Lis Rhodes | United Kingdom | ||||
The Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | Margarita Terekhova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko | Soviet Union | [31] | ||
Nightcleaners, Part 1 | Berwick Street Collective | United Kingdom | ||||
Number Two | Jean-Luc Godard | Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudrey | France | [32] | ||
Refutation of All the Judgements on Guy Debord's Film 'The Society of the Spectacle' | Guy Debord | France | Situationist film | |||
Semiotics of the Kitchen | Martha Rosler | United States | ||||
Short Films 1975 | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Sincerity II | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Sincerity cycle | |||
The Tree of Guernica | Fernando Arrabal | Cosimo Cinieri, Ron Faber, Mariangela Melato | France Italy |
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Untitled No. 9 | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Untitled No. 10 | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
1976 | ||||||
A Malgam A | Iván Zulueta | Spain | ||||
Absence | Stan Brakhage | United States | Silent.[33][34][35] | |||
Airs | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Comment ça va? | Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville | Anne-Marie Miéville | France | [36] | ||
Crossroads | Bruce Conner | United States | ||||
Desert | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
The Dream, NYC, The Return, The Flower | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
The Girl Chewing Gum | John Smith | United Kingdom | ||||
Heart of Glass | Werner Herzog | Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba, Volker Prechtel | West Germany | [37] | ||
Highs | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 | Alain Tanner | Jean-Luc Bideau, Myriam Boyer, Myriam Mézières | France Switzerland |
[38] | ||
Leo es pardo | Iván Zulueta | Spain | ||||
Migration, for Jack Nelson | Bill Viola | United States | ||||
Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Short Films 1976 | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Tragoedia | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Trio | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Wienfilm 1896-1976 | Ernst Schmidt Jr. | Austria | ||||
Window | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
1977 | ||||||
Le Camion (The Lorry) | Marguerite Duras | Gérard Depardieu, Marguerite Duras | France | |||
The Domain of the Moment | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Eraserhead | David Lynch | Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates | United States | [39] | ||
The Governor | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
A Grin Without a Cat | Chris Marker | France | ||||
Hitler: A Film from Germany | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Heinz Schubert | West Germany | [40] | ||
House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | Kimiko Ikegami | Japan | |||
I, an Actress | George Kuchar | George Kuchar, Barbara Lapsley | United States | |||
Music of the Spheres | Jordan Belson | United States | Abstract, color. A revised version was edited in 2002.[41] | |||
Reflecting Pool | Bill Viola | United States | ||||
Riddles of the Sphinx | Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen | Merdelle Jordine, Dinah Stabb, Riannon Tise | United Kingdom | |||
Sentimental Journey | Anne Rees-Mogg | United Kingdom | ||||
Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Thames Barrier | William Raban | United Kingdom | ||||
That Obscure Object of Desire | Luis Buñuel | Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Fernando Rey | France Spain |
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Unsichtbare Gegner (Invisible Adversaries) | Valie Export | Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Josef Plavec | Austria | [42] | ||
1978 | ||||||
Bird | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Burial Path | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Centre | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Césarée | Marguerite Duras | France | ||||
Duplicity | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Duplicity cycle | |||
Duplicity II | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Duplicity cycle | |||
Forza Bastia! | Jacques Tati, Sophie Tatischeff | France | ||||
Hand Exercises | Uzi Peres | Israel | ||||
Jubilee | Derek Jarman | Jenny Runacre, Jordan, Nell Campbell | United Kingdom | [43] | ||
Light Reading | Lis Rhodes | United Kingdom | ||||
Nightmare Series | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Often During the Day | Joanna Davis | United Kingdom | ||||
Purity, and After | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Sincerity III | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Sincerity cycle | |||
Sluice | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Thot-Fal'N | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Visions of a City | Lawrence P. Jordan | United States | ||||
A Walk Through H: Reincarnation of an Ornithologist | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom | ||||
1979 | ||||||
@ | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Allegoria | Stéphane Marti | France | ||||
Cartoon Le Mousse | Chick Strand | United States | ||||
The Cartoon Theatre of Dr. Gaz | Jeff Keen | United Kingdom | ||||
Creation | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||||
Ear to the Ground | David Van Tieghem | United States | ||||
Fever Dream | Chick Strand | United States | ||||
Orchestra Rehearsal | Federico Fellini | Balduin Baas, Elisabeth Labi, Ronaldo Bonacchi | France Italy West Germany |
[44] | ||
Race d'Ep (The Homosexual Century) | Guy Hocquenghem, Lionel Soukaz | France | TV film | |||
Radio/On | Chris Petit | David Beames | United Kingdom | |||
Roman Numeral: I | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Roman Numeral Series (also called the "Romans") | |||
Roman Numeral: II | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Roman Numeral Series (also called the "Romans") | |||
Roman Numeral: III | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Roman Numeral Series (also called the "Romans") | |||
Sincerity IV | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Sincerity cycle | |||
Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko | Soviet Union | |||
Tale of Tales | Yuri Norstein | Soviet Union | [45] | |||
Tally Brown, New York | Rosa von Praunheim | Tally Brown | West Germany United States |
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Thriller | Sally Potter | United Kingdom | ||||
The Wretches Are Still Singing | Nikos Nikolaidis | Alkis Panagiotidis, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Rita Bensousan | Greece |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Koresky, Michael (26 August 2013). "Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ Koresky, Michael (26 August 2013). "Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ Wiener, Tom. "Performance". Allmovie. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Blaise, Judd. "El Topo". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Pavlides, Dan. "Trash". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "Vladimir et Rosa". Allrovi. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
- ^ Koresky, Michael (26 August 2013). "Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ CVM Belson Filmography
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "WR: Mysteries of the Organism". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ CVM Belson Filmography
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "La Cicatrice Interieure". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Voorhees, John. "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Dreamwood". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Crow, Jonathan. "Ecstasy of the Angels". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Schwartz, Louis. "Letter to Jane". Allrovi. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "Red Psalm". Allrovi. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "Requiem fur einen Jungraulichen Koenig". Allrovi. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ^ Blaise, Judd. "F for Fake". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ "Ganja & Hess". Brooklyn Academy of Music.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "The Holy Mountain". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "Iluminacja". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "Immoral Tales". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "Themroc". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
- ^ Charney, Leo. "Celine and Julie Go Boating". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Voorhees, John. "The Phantom of Liberty". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ "Sun Ra: Space Is the Place". Allmovie. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
- ^ Southern, Nathan. "Sweet Movie". Allrovi. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ^ LeVasseur, Andrea. "They Do Not Exist: Remembering Palestinian Filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali". Muftah.org. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Black Moon". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 17, 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Charney, Leo. "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "The Mirror". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Schwartz, Louis. "Number Two". Allrovi. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
- ^ http://www.cfmdc.org/node/110 CFMDC entry
- ^ http://www.fredcamper.com/Brakhage/Filmography.html Fred Camper: Stan Brakhage filmography
- ^ http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=276 Canyon Cinema entry
- ^ Schwartz, Louis. "Comment ça va?". Allrovi. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Heart of Glass". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "Jonah, Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Ankeny, Jason. "Eraserhead". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "Hitler: A Film from Germany". Allrovi. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ^ CVM Belson Filmography
- ^ Kehr, Dave. "Invisible Adversaries". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ^ Blaise, Judd. "Jubilee". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Orchestra Rehearsal". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ LeVasseur, Andrea. "Tale of Tales". Allrovi. Retrieved June 30, 2011.