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Tag Archives: 1970s
The Kirlian Witness (1979) Jonathan Sarno, Nancy Snyder, Nancy Boykin, Joel Colodner
Laurie believes that it’s possible to communicate with plants via telepathy and devotes all her time and love to them. Read More »
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Monte Hellman, James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird
The Driver and The Mechanic are two car freaks driving a 1955 Chevy throughout the southwestern U.S. looking for other cars to race. Read More »
Festival Champ (1976) Noribumi Suzuki, Hiroki Matsukata, Jirô Sakagami, Etsuko Shihomi
A man working in a fish market is crazy about festivals. Read More »
The Only Game in Town (1970) George Stevens, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Charles Braswell
While waiting in vain for her married lover to get a divorce, Fran Walker, a lonely chorus girl approaching middle age Read More »
Cold Turkey (1971) Norman Lear, Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston
Reverend Brooks leads the town in a contest to stop smoking for a month, But some tobacco executives don’t want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. Read More »
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976) Bryan Forbes, Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Annette Crosbie
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Read More »
Red (1970) Gilles Carle, Daniel Pilon, Geneviève Robert, Gratien Gélinas
A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. Read More »
Umbracle (1970) Pere Portabella, Christopher Lee, Jeannine Mestre, Miguel Bilbatúa
This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the Franco dictatorship. Read More »
La nuit claire (1979) Marcel Hanoun, Lorraine Bonnemaison, Gérard Rouzier, Florence Rousseau
In a montage alternating with moments of Nigel Rogers’ interpretation of the most beautiful passages from “Orpheus,” the opera by Striggio and Monteverdi Read More »
Appointment in Bray (1971) André Delvaux, Anna Karina, Mathieu Carrière, Roger Van Hool
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. Read More »
Letters from Marusia (1976) Miguel Littin, Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregón
In the late 19th and early 20th century, working conditions in Chile are abysmal. Read More »
In the Realm of Sex (1977) Masaru Konuma, Natsuko Yashiro, Asami Ogawa, Hirotarô Honda
Naomi Tani and Yuko Katagiri appear as themselves in the film, making fun of their on-screen personas. Read More »
The Heroes (1973) Duccio Tessari, Rod Steiger, Rosanna Schiaffino, Claude Brasseur
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked “plasma.” Read More »
The Driller Killer (1979) Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day
Reno is an artist struggling to survive in NYC. He draws inspiration from scenes of daily street life and occasional random violence. Read More »