A metaphysical mystery involving a university student’s camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
In The Name of the Father AKA Nel nome del padre (1971) Marco Bellocchio, Yves Beneyton, Renato Scarpa, Piero Vida
In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector Read More »
The Stud Farm (1978) András Kovács, József Madaras, Ferenc Bács, Ferenc Fábián
A new supervisor arrives at a horse ranch, but he is not at all well liked Read More »
Hanzo the Razor: Who’s Got the Gold? AKA Goyôkiba: Oni no Hanzô yawahada koban (1974) Yoshio Inoue, Shintarô Katsu, Kô Nishimura, Mako Midori, Mikio Narita
Follow the money. In a time of economic disaster for wage earners, Hanzo discovers a conspiracy among high officials Read More »
Pope Joan (1972) Michael Anderson, Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Kemp, Natasa Nicolescu
A present-day female evangelist strongly feels that she resembles the legendary Pope Joan Read More »
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice AKA Goyôkiba (1972) Kenji Misumi, Shintarô Katsu, Yukiji Asaoka, Mari Atsumi, Kô Nishimura
Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Read More »
Bootleggers (1974) Charles B. Pierce, Paul Koslo, Dennis Fimple, Slim Pickens
In 1921, 10-year-old Othar Pruitt witnesses his bootlegger father murdered by a member of a rival bootlegger family. Read More »
The Poor AKA Zavallilar (1975) Yilmaz Güney, Atif Yilmaz, Yildirim Önal, Güven Sengil
The Poor Ones tells the semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. Read More »
Zero Hour AKA Stunde Null (1977) Edgar Reitz, Kai Taschner, Herbert Weissbach, Günter Schiemann
The narrative is set in the summer of 1945 in a small village outside Leipzig Read More »
Don’t Touch the White Woman! AKA Touche pas à la femme blanche (1974) Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli
Director Mario Fererri reenacts the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in this wild Read More »