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Tag Archives: 1970s
Rich Kids (1979) Robert M. Young
Two ultra-precocious Upper West Side twelve-year-olds, Franny and Jamie, are best friends. Read More »
The Ferocious One AKA Lyutyy (1974) Tolomush Okeev, Kambar Valiyev, Suymenkul Chokmorov, Aliman Zhankorozova
This visually stunning Kazakh movie tells a tragic tale of absent and misplaced compassion. Read More »
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death AKA Atunci i-am condamnat pe toti la moarte (1972) Sergiu Nicolaescu, Amza Pellea, Cristian Sofron, Ion Besoiu
During World War II, just before the events of August 23rd 1944, a German soldier is found murdered in a Romanian village. Read More »
Events (1970) Fred Baker, Ryan Listman, Joy Bang, Frank Cavestani
Young filmmaker Listman rounds up some friends to make a pornographic film. Read More »
The Great Chase AKA Karei-naru tsuiseki (1975) Norifumi Suzuki, Etsuko Shihomi, Hisako Tanaka, Mach Fumiake
A female plays a race car driver lends her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Read More »
Sandakan 8 AKA Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo (1974) Kei Kumai, Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution Read More »
Pastoral: To Die in the Country AKA Den-en ni shisu (1974) Shûji Terayama, Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa
A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange Read More »
Ryan’s Daughter (1970) David Lean, Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills
World War I seems far away from Ireland’s Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy (Sarah Miles) Read More »
Trails AKA Veredas (1978) João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Luís de Sousa Costa, Francisco Domingues, Carmen Duarte
A poetic journey in the heart of Portugal. They were two. A man and a woman that met and traveled down from the Tras-os-Montes to the sea. Read More »