The Power of '73 Compels Us!: A Year in Film Pod – Details, episodes & analysis

Our very first episode! We get our feet wet in the wide world of podcasting. Dig into the podcast's origins, our excitement, our nerves, and the entire slate of 1973 double features we will be covering over the next several years!

Letterboxd list of our lineup

Katie's Year in Film Zines

Our first proper episode! We take a look at two films about haunted women failing to keep their past lives at bay. First up is Mario Bava's Lisa and the Devil, the only film he ever made with total creative freedom. Next up is Jess Franco's The Other Side of the Mirror, a less sleazy affair than what you'd expect from the exploitative legend, featuring an astonishing lead performance by Emma Cohen.

Sources & Clips:Telly...Who Loves Ya, Baby? (TV Special, 1976)

Emma Cohen as La Gallina Caponata (a Big Bird equivalent) on Barrio Sésamo) (1979-1980)

Barranco, Mario, and Sergi Sánchez Martí. "Oblique desires: Late-Francoist Spanish Fantaterror according to queer phenomenology1." Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas 21.1 (2024): 99-123.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, University of Minnesota Press, 1986.

Lucas, Tim. Mario Bava : All the Colors of the Dark. Video Watchdog, 2007.

Thrower, Stephen and Julian Grainger. Murderous Passions, Volume 1: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. 2015

This month, Katie & Bri dive into two labor of love films about California killers, Christina Hornisher's Hollywood 90028 and Richard Bare's Wicked, Wicked.

Sources:

Hollywood 90028. Directed by Christina Hornisher, Grindhouse Releasing, 2024. Blu-ray.Broomer, Stephen. "Simultaneous Tensions: The Duo-Vision of Wicked, Wicked." Vimeo, 2022.

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This month, Katie & Bri take a look at two films from Hong Kong production company Golden Harvest: The Fate of Lee Khan, directed by King Hu, and Enter the Dragon, directed by Robert Clouse.

Sources & Clips:

Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. Harvard University Press, 2000. Chang, Jeff. Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. Mariner Books, 2005.

Fu, Poshek, and David Desser, editors. The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Teo, Stephen. Booklet essay, The Fate of Lee Khan blu-ray, released by Film Movement Classics in 2019.

This month, Katie & Bri take a look at two mythic & manly 1973 films set in the 1930s. First up is Robert Aldrich's purely symbolic Emperor of the North, followed by John "I Love Guns" Milius' Dillinger.

Sources & Clips:

Aldrich, Robert. "I CAN'T GET JIMMY CARTER TO SEE MY MOVIE!". Film Comment. Vol. 13, no. 2, Mar/Apr 1977, pp. 46–52.

Kirby, Lynn. Parallel Tracks: The Railroad and Silent Cinema. Duke University Press, 1997.Plume, Ken . "Interview with John Milius". IGN.Thompson, Richard, “Stoked" (Interview with John Milius), Film Comment 12, no. 4 (1976): 10–21.

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