Saturday, November 2, 2019

Summer 1973

June: SPECTRE, the truncated four-hour-fifteen minute version of Jacques Rivette's twleve hour 1971 Blazacian conspiracy opus OUT 1 plays the Internationales Forum des Jungen Films in Berlin. July: Harry Matthews claims to have witnessed Natalia Makarova fall on her ass during a production of SWAN LAKE, the central event of a new Paris Opera Ballet festival known as Les Nuits du Louvre. August: with the support of the Christian Democrats and National Party members, the Chamber of Deputies passes 81–47 a resolution that asks "the President of the Republic, Ministers of State, and members of the Armed and Police Forces" to "put an immediate end" to "breach[es of] the Constitution . . . with the goal of redirecting government activity toward the path of Law and ensuring the Constitutional order of our Nation, and the essential underpinnings of democratic co-existence among Chileans."