plato's cave thirty seven (being a film journal)

George Lucas - American Graffiti - 1973

Cinematography by Jan D'Alquen & Ron Eveslage

Film Editing by Verna Fields, Marcia Lucas, and George Lucas

Climactic Seventies Nihilism

A race between Paul Le Mat (John) and Harrison Ford (Bob Falfa).

Not unlike Two‑Lane Blacktop or Rebel Without a Cause.

philip kaufman - the white dawn - 1974
stock footage, and
footage from cinematographer michael chapman

john cassavetes' husbands distilled into 23 blurs, streaks and abstractions
(discovered while listening to toru takemitsu)

edvard munch, the flaming sky, like blood

red images from:
peter watkins: edvard munch, 1974 (long version)
cinematography by odd-geir sæther

i saw the flaming sky
like blood, like a sword over the fjord and the town (image 35)

also, see earlier entry on munch, ending with:

i felt as if there were invisible threads between us,
i felt as if invisible threads from her hair still twisted themselves around me,
and when she completely disappeared there over the ocean,
then i felt still how it hurt where my heart bleed,
because the threads could not be broken