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Tag Archives: 1970s
The Policeman AKA Ha-Shoter Azulai (1971) Ephraim Kishon, Shaike Ophir, Zaharira Harifai, Avner Hizkiyahu
Azulai is a policeman in Jaffa, whose incompetence is only matched by his soft-heartedness. Read More »
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery
Minnie breaks up with her married boyfriend and becomes disillusioned. Read More »
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) Val Guest, Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen
Set in the ancient past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe is struggling to survive by giving Read More »
Blood of the Iron Maiden (1970) Ben Benoit, Marvin Miller, Peter Duryea, Carole Kane
A crazed movie director (John Carradine) gives LSD to aspiring actresses before murdering them with an iron maiden in his torture chamber. Read More »
Dodes’ka-den AKA Dodesukaden (1970) Akira Kurosawa, Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura
An anthology of overlapping vignettes exploring the lives of a variety of characters who happen to live Read More »
Sunnyside (1979) Timothy Galfas, Joey Travolta, John Lansing, Stacey Pickren
Nick Martin, a young street tough, has a change of heart and attempts to stop the gang violence in his neighborhood. Read More »
Letter from the Wife AKA Streer Patra (1972) Purnendu Pattrea, Nimu Bhowmick, Ashim Chakarbarti, Santosh Dutta
A worthy companion to Ray’s Charulata, the film is based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore Read More »
Grass Labyrinth AKA Kusa-meikyû (1979) Shûji Terayama, Hiroshi Mikami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Keiko Niitaka
A young man’s determination to recover the lyrics and music to a song he loved Read More »
Strongman Ferdinand AKA Der starke Ferdinand (1976) Alexander Kluge, Heinz Schubert, Vérénice Rudolph, Joachim Hackethal
The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory Read More »
The Middle of the Road Is a Very Dead End AKA In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod (1974) Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz, Dagmar Bödderich, Jutta Winkelmann, Alfred Edel
Two women with different goals in life are independently out on the town of Frankfurt am Main. Read More »
The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978) Silvio Narizzano, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy
In the tradition of classic classroom dramas such as To Sir, with Love (1967), comes the story of dedicated teacher Read More »
The Little Prince (1974) Stanley Donen, Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Joss Ackland
Based on the story by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, this magical musical fable begins as a pilot makes a forced landing on the barren Sahara Desert. Read More »
Bilitis (1977) David Hamilton, Patti D’Arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Bernard Giraudeau
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation. Read More »
Petey Wheatstraw (1977) Cliff Roquemore, Rudy Ray Moore, Jimmy Lynch, Leroy Daniels
Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is a candidate to become the devil’s son-in-law. Read More »