MIFF 1970

Erwin Rado

#19

Festival Program
36 feature films and 104 short films were screened from 5 June to 20 June
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Program in Focus
While a Canadian cinéma-verité film, A Married Couple (Allan King), was banned, notable films that screened included Boy (Nagisa Oshima), Calcutta (Louis Malle), Goto, Island of Love (Walerian Borowczyk), Innocence Unprotected (Dusan Makavejev), Je t'aime, Je t'aime (Alain Resnais), Killer (Claude Chabrol), Lucia (Humberto Solás), My Night With Maud (Eric Rohmer) and Antonio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha).

Featured Film
In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, 1967)
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Featured Film
Jack and Jill: A Postscript (Philip Adams, 1969)
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