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Tag Archives: 1970s
Ramparts of Clay AKA Remparts d’argile (1970) Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, Leila Shenna, Kricheche, Jean-Louis Trintignant
In 1962, change comes to a Tunisian village on the edge of the Sahara. Read More »
Satanis: The Devil’s Mass (1970) Ray Laurent, Isaac Bonewits, Anton LaVey, Diane LaVey
A profile of Anton LaVey and the Satanic Church that he founded in San Francisco Read More »
ITV Playhouse: Casting the Runes (1979) Lawrence Gordon Clark, Iain Cuthbertson, Jan Francis, Bernard Gallagher
Like Night of the Demon (1957), this adaptation is only very loosely based on the original ghost story by M.R. James. Read More »
Sword of Fury AKA Miyamoto Musashi (1973) Tai Katô, Jirô Tamiya, Keiko Matsuzaka, Mitsuko Baishô
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war Read More »
Quiet Is the Night AKA Wsród nocnej ciszy (1978) Tadeusz Chmielewski, Antonina Barczewska, Henryk Bista, Jerzy Bonczak
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. Read More »
A Matter of Time (1976) Vincente Minnelli, Liza Minnelli, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer
Nina has just started working as a chambermaid in Rome’s Imperial Hotel, a once grand but now slightly run down establishment. Read More »
Tiger by the Tail (1970) R.G. Springsteen, Christopher George, Tippi Hedren, Dean Jagger
Steve Michaelis, a Vietnam war hero is unjustly framed for the murder of his brother. Read More »
Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano AKA Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino (1977) Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Evgeniya Glushenko
Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general’s widow, Anna Petrovna. Read More »
Brother of the Wind (1973) Dick Robinson, Leon Ames
Brave wilderness man lets wolves live, who later rescue him from an attacking bear. Awesome. Read More »