A metaphysical mystery involving a university student’s camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
The Audience AKA L’udienza (1972) Marco Ferreri, Enzo Jannacci, Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope. Read More »
In The Name of the Father AKA Nel nome del padre (1971) Marco Bellocchio, Yves Beneyton, Renato Scarpa, Piero Vida
In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector Read More »
The Stud Farm (1978) András Kovács, József Madaras, Ferenc Bács, Ferenc Fábián
A new supervisor arrives at a horse ranch, but he is not at all well liked Read More »
Hanzo the Razor: Who’s Got the Gold? AKA Goyôkiba: Oni no Hanzô yawahada koban (1974) Yoshio Inoue, Shintarô Katsu, Kô Nishimura, Mako Midori, Mikio Narita
Follow the money. In a time of economic disaster for wage earners, Hanzo discovers a conspiracy among high officials Read More »
Pope Joan (1972) Michael Anderson, Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Kemp, Natasa Nicolescu
A present-day female evangelist strongly feels that she resembles the legendary Pope Joan Read More »
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice AKA Goyôkiba (1972) Kenji Misumi, Shintarô Katsu, Yukiji Asaoka, Mari Atsumi, Kô Nishimura
Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Read More »
Bootleggers (1974) Charles B. Pierce, Paul Koslo, Dennis Fimple, Slim Pickens
In 1921, 10-year-old Othar Pruitt witnesses his bootlegger father murdered by a member of a rival bootlegger family. Read More »
Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979) René Cardona Jr., Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones Read More »
The Poor AKA Zavallilar (1975) Yilmaz Güney, Atif Yilmaz, Yildirim Önal, Güven Sengil
The Poor Ones tells the semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. Read More »
Zero Hour AKA Stunde Null (1977) Edgar Reitz, Kai Taschner, Herbert Weissbach, Günter Schiemann
The narrative is set in the summer of 1945 in a small village outside Leipzig Read More »
Don’t Touch the White Woman! AKA Touche pas à la femme blanche (1974) Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli
Director Mario Fererri reenacts the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in this wild Read More »
Welcome to Blood City (1977) Peter Sasdy, Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar
A group of people find themselves as slaves in what looks like a Wild West town Read More »
Cry of the Heart AKA Le cri du coeur (1974) Claude Lallemand, Stéphane Audran, Maurice Ronet, Delphine Seyrig
Cry of the Heart is a passionate story about love, hate, and forgiveness. Read More »
Karl May (1974) Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. Read More »