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GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS 1970'S
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come.
Tuesday, December 23
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
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Starring: Various
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Runtime: 95-110min
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Language: English
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COLD WAVE IV: EURO SCI-FI
Director: Călin Cazan and Mircea Toia
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Starring: Ion Caramitru, Mihai Cafrița, Virgil Ogășanu
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Runtime: 95min
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Language: Romanian w/ English subtitles
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THE SON OF THE STARS 1988
A wild and surreal outer space adventure. A mid-80s mash-up of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, ALIEN, and Edgar Rice Burrough’s TARZAN. In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board ship to search for the missing astronaut – but fate intervenes, their own ship crashes – leaving their son alone – or is he?
Sunday, January 4
IN THE DUST OF THE STARS 1976
Director Gottfried Kolditz’s delirious East German gem of Socialist eye-candy ranks alongside Mario Bava’s PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES as one of the most eye-popping treats of its era. This groovy ‘70s space opera (complete with Krautrock vibes soundtrack) feels like an OG “Star Trek” or “Space: 1999” episode, but with the naughty dial cranked a little more. Consider its tacky nonstop underground space disco, where partygoers spritz hallucinogenic mouth-spray, scantily clad super-models vogue away in an abstract sculpture garden, and glam boots / glittery eyeshadow / leather spacesuits are the norm.
Sunday, January 11
Director: Gottfried Kolditz
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Starring: Zephi Alșec, Violeta Andrei, Milan Beli
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Runtime: 98 min.
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Language: German w/ English subtitles
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GOLEM 1979
In a bleak dystopian alternate future, a solitary worker suffers a breakdown after being interrogated about crimes he has no recollection of committing. Is he a real human, or a clone created by scientists in an attempt to engineer a new, more submissive race of humans? A dark satire of Communist Poland in the late 1970s, Piotr Szulkin's Kafkaesque science-fiction allegory is a precursor to Blade Runner, and evokes the post-apocalyptic landscape of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. Its troubling depiction of irresponsible science, fake news and unfettered AI now make it all the more prescient.
Thursday, January 22
Director: Piotr Szulkin
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Starring: Marek Walczewski, Krystyna Janda, Joanna Å»óÅ‚kowska
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Runtime: 93 min.
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Language: Polish w/ English subtitles
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TIME OF ROSES 1969
Set in a dystopian world of gleaming white towers, video monitors and transparent inflatable furniture – where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of LOGAN’S RUN – TIME OF ROSES follows a historian of 20th-century culture researching the mysterious death of a free-spirited erotic model. In a VERTIGO-like twist, he hires the model’s exact double to recreate the death for a TV program. Finnish director Risto Jarva was one of his country’s most acclaimed filmmakers and documentarians before his tragic early death in an auto accident returning from the premiere of his latest film in 1977.
Thursday, January 29
Director: Risto Jarva
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Starring: Arto Tuominen, Ritva Vepsä, Tarja Markus
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Runtime: 111 min.
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Language: Finnish w/ English subtitles
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