Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art (1974)
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Original 1974 version.
This presentation of the book is very similar to the official iCM-list version. The main difference (and basically the only difference) is that this version include an additional 22 entries (examples of non-subversive films) which the official list version excludes (also, the order of the entries is slightly different). In other words, this list includes ALL films mentioned regardless if they are subversive or not. However, some films (or "entries" to be more precise) are not on IMDb yet, or appear in the book with unidentifiable stills (see bottom of list description).
Films are sorted by the order they appear in the book.
In some cases, the same film is discussed several times in different sections throughout the book (Blowup, 2001: A Space Odyssey, L'âge d'or, W.R. etc. They are listed here by their FIRST appearance in the book regardless if the film is discussed more thoroughly at a later stage in the book.
#1-24: Acknowledgements, Preface and "The World View of Subversive Cinema"
#1-2: Front cover and Back cover (and also mentioned in Acknowledgements).
#25-193 :Part One - The Subversion of Form
#25-37: Revolutionary Film Avant-garde in Soviet Russia
#38-98: Aesthetic Rebels and Rebellious Clowns
#99-117: The Destruction of Time and Space
#118-131: The Destruction of Plot and Narrative
#132-141: The Assault of Montage
#142-160: The Triumph and Death of the Moving Camera
#161-162: The Devaluation of Language
#163-193: Straining towards the Limits
#194-386: Part Two - The Subversion of Content
#194: International Left and Revolutionary Cinema
#195-257: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: the West
#258-307: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: the East
#308-332: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: Third World
#333-338: East Germany: Against the West
#339-352: Nazi Cinema
#353-386: Secrets and Revelations
#387-599: Part Three - Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema
#387-403: The Visual Taboo
#404-423: Nudity
#424-468: Erotic and Pornographic Cinema
#469-508: Homosexuality and Other Variants
#509-514: The First Mystery: Birth
#515-547: The Ultimate Secret: Death
#548-575: The Attack on God
#576-599: Trance and Witchcraft
#600-621: Part Four - Towards a New Consciousness
#600-619: Counterculture and Avant-garde
#620-621: The Subversion of Subversion
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Films mentioned in the original version but not included in the revised version and/or iCM version:
Staroye i novoye (Old and New)
Alexander Nevsky
Battleship Potemkin
Ivan the Terrible Part 1
Ivan the Terrible Part 2
The Great Train Robbery
Das blaue Licht
Intolerance
Cleopatra
Der blaue Engel
Gone with the Wind
The Sound of Music
Journal d'un curé de campagne
If...
O Lucky Man!
The Graduate
Romeo and Juliet
Lebenszeichen
Love Story
Tout va bien
¡Que viva México!
The Second in Command (The Second Coming)
...for a total of 22 additional entries compared to the iCM-version.
"Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht" page 87; never explicitly mentioned but referred to when discussing Pere Portabella's "Cuadecuc, vampir". It IS mentioned in the revised version however.
"Der geile Wotan" is included here as it is mentioned and referred to, but is in fact a faulty entry (correctly replaced by the correct film "SS und Judenstern" in the revised iCM-version), page 254.
Unidentifiable Keystone Film circa 1915 (page 50-51, featured still) is in fact "In the Clutches of the Gang".
Unknown films/entries:
UFA Newsreel, 1940 (page 194)
Unidentified Nazi documentary footage (page 278)
Unidentified Nazi documentary footage (page 280)
Entries that aren't on IMDb:
Beaver Films (Stag, 1970, USA), page 221; revised version list the years as 1967-72.
The None Story (Stag, 1950s, USA), page 225; titled "The Nun's Story" in the revised version.
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W.R. - Misterije organizma
1971 — a.k.a. WR: Mysteries of the Organism, in 12 top lists Check -
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Entr'acte
1924, in 9 top lists Check -
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Blow-Up
1966, in 20 top lists Check -
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L'eclisse
1962 — a.k.a. Eclipse, in 13 top lists Check -
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L'année dernière à Marienbad
1961 — a.k.a. Last Year at Marienbad, in 23 top lists Check -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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Blue Moses
1962, in 2 top lists Check -
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L'avventura
1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check -
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La notte
1961 — a.k.a. The Night, in 13 top lists Check -
12 new
La jetée
1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check -
13 new
Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen
1970 — a.k.a. Even Dwarfs Started Small, in 3 top lists Check -
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Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter
1972 — a.k.a. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, in 3 top lists Check -
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Masculin féminin
1966 — a.k.a. Masculine-Feminine, in 7 top lists Check -
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Rashômon
1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check -
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Relativity
1966, in 1 top list Check -
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle
1967 — a.k.a. Two or Three Things I Know About Her, in 10 top lists Check -
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Zorns Lemma
1970, in 5 top lists Check -
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Week End
1967 — a.k.a. Weekend, in 14 top lists Check -
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Po zakonu
1926 — a.k.a. By the Law, in 10 top lists Check -
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Stachka
1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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Oktyabr
1927 — a.k.a. October (Ten Days that Shook the World), in 12 top lists Check -
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Staroye i novoye
1929 — a.k.a. Old and New, in 4 top lists Check -
30 new
Aleksandr Nevskiy
1938 — a.k.a. Alexander Nevsky, in 10 top lists Check -
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Ivan Groznyy
1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check -
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Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor
1958 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, in 15 top lists Check -
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Zemlya
1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check -
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Potomok Chingis-Khana
1928 — a.k.a. Storm Over Asia, in 8 top lists Check -
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Arsenal
1929, in 7 top lists Check -
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
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Konets Sankt-Peterburga
1927 — a.k.a. The End of St. Petersburg, in 4 top lists Check -
38 new
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
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Fellini - Satyricon
1969 — a.k.a. Fellini Satyricon, in 10 top lists Check -
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Vtáckovia, siroty a blázni
1969 — a.k.a. Birds, Orphans and Fools, in 3 top lists Check -
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Big Business
1929, in 5 top lists Check -
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In the Clutches of the Gang
1914, in 1 top list Check -
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Kôshikei
1968 — a.k.a. Death by Hanging, in 8 top lists Check -
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Feu Mathias Pascal
1925, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Cat and the Canary
1927, in 5 top lists Check -
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Spalovac mrtvol
1969 — a.k.a. The Cremator, in 12 top lists Check -
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Visual Training
1969, in 1 top list Check -
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Viva la muerte
1971 — a.k.a. Long Live Death, in 2 top lists Check -
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Un chien andalou
1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check -
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Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
1972 — a.k.a. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, in 21 top lists Check -
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Las Hurdes
1933 — a.k.a. Land Without Bread, in 12 top lists Check -
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L'âge d'or
1930 — a.k.a. L'Age d'Or, in 16 top lists Check -
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Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur
1949, in 2 top lists Check -
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King Kong
1933, in 26 top lists Check -
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Our Lady of the Sphere
1969, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
1959, in 1 top list Check
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