As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Gokuaku bozu nenbutsu sandangiri AKA Wicked Priest 4: Killer Priest Comes Back (1970) Takashi Harada, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Bunta Sugawara, Ichirô Nakatani
This tale begins as Shinkai runs into his childhood friend, Takagano (Ichiro Nakatani) Read More »
Gokuaku bozu hitokiri kazoe uta AKA The Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder (1970) Takashi Harada, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Asao Koike, Bunta Sugawara
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai Read More »
Operation: Daybreak (1975) Lewis Gilbert, Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland
In 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich is appointed to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Read More »
Smic Smac Smoc (1971) Claude Lelouch, Catherine Allégret, Amidou, Jean Collomb
Charles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards Read More »
The American Friend (1977) Wim Wenders, Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer
Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. Read More »
Three Days of the Condor (1975) Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. Read More »
Runnin’ After Love AKA A Morte transparente (1978) Carlos Hugo Christensen, Bibi Vogel, Wagner Montes, Jaime Barcellos
Beto, a young gigolo playboy, convinces his friends to break into a house Read More »
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock (1973) Richard Schickel, Alfred Hitchcock, Cliff Robertson
A look at Alfred Hitchcock’s films. The Master of Suspense himself, who is interviewed extensively here Read More »
Blume in Love (1973) Paul Mazursky, George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when Read More »
Hoodlum Soldier: Rebel in the Army AKA Shin heitai yakuza: Kasen (1972) Yasuzô Masumura, Shintarô Katsu, Takahiro Tamura, Michiyo Ohkusu
On the Chinese front, Kisaburo, a young soldier, falls in love with a Chinese spy. Read More »
John, the Knife and the River AKA João en het mes (1972) George Sluizer, Joffre Soares, Ana Maria Miranda, Joao-Augusto Azevedo
An older man consumed by jealousy over his much younger wife decides Read More »
The Outfit (1973) John Flynn, Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker
When the small criminal Macklin is released from prison, he learns that his brother was shot by two mob killers. Read More »
Pictures of the Old World AKA Obrazy starého sveta (1972) Dusan Hanák
Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema Read More »
Utopia (1976) Raoul Ruiz, Eduardo Barr, Fosi Bendek, Germán Leitzelar
Two traveling salesmen are searching for the pieces of the body of a lost friend. Read More »