Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Frauen In New York / Women in New York (1977) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eva Mattes, Angela Schmid, Margit Carstensen, Comedy
The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdresser, the manicurist Read More »
Hong quan xiao zi / Disciples of Shaolin (1975) Cheh Chang, Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi, Ming Li Chen, Action, Drama
Impetuous young martial arts master Kuan takes a job at a textile factory where another disciple of the revered Shaolin discipline warns him about the rival Manchu clan, who run another nearby mill. Read More »
Saigo no tokkôtai / The Last Kamikaze (1970) Jun’ya Satô, Kôji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Shin’ichi Chiba, Drama, War
Saigo no Tokkotai (The Last Kamikaze) is set in the final months of World War II, when it was increasingly obvious that Japan was going to lose the war. Read More »
The Greatest (1977) Tom Gries, Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Biography, Drama, Sport
Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. Read More »
The White Dawn (1974) Philip Kaufman, Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr., Adventure, Drama, History
In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Read More »
At Long Last Love (1975) Peter Bogdanovich, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Comedy, Romance, Musical
This film was Peter Bogdanovich’s homage to musical comedies of the 1930s. A millionaire named Michael Oliver Pritchard III and a singer named Kitty O’Kelly meet and fall in love. Read More »
Saint Jack (1979) Peter Bogdanovich, Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Drama
Compelling character study, revolving around Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. Read More »
Hirttämättömät / The Unhanged (1971) Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Spede Pasanen, Western, Comedy
Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. Read More »
La victoire en chantant / Black and White in Color (1976) Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jean Carmet, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser, Comedy, Drama, War
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Read More »