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Tag Archives: 1970s
Follow the Star / Da sha xing yu xiao mei tou (1978) John Woo, Roy Chiao, Chi-Shen Chung, Rowena Cortes
Miss Chen (Rowena Cortes) is a rich pop singer, her father (John Woo) is a former criminal. Read More »
The Dragon Tamers / Nu zi tai quan qun ying hui (1975) John Woo, James Tien, Carter Wong, Chang-suk Kim
A young Chinese martial arts student travels to Korea to learn Taekwondo. Read More »
Cocaine Cowboys (1979) Ulli Lommel, Jack Palance, Tom Sullivan, Andy Warhol
Dustin (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Read More »
The Last Picture Show (1971) Peter Bogdanovich, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Read More »
Horror Rises from the Tomb / El espanto surge de la tumba (1973) Carlos Aured, Paul Naschy, Emma Cohen, Víctor Alcázar
In Medieval France a warlock is be-headed and his wife tortured and executed. Read More »
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach AKA Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach (1971) Volker Schlöndorff, Georg Lehn, Reinhard Hauff, Karl-Josef Cramer
An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Read More »
Waterloo (1970) Sergey Bondarchuk, Rod Steiger
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war Read More »
Twenty Thousand Dollars for Every Corpse AKA 20,000 dólares por un cadáver (1971) José María Zabalza, Miguel de la Riva, Dyanik Zurakowska, José Truchado
Dale and Helen Brais are a marriage of farmers who subsist on what little they manage to get from their land. Read More »
The Missing Are Deadly (1975) Don McDougall, Ed Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, George O’Hanlon Jr.
An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father’s laboratory Read More »