Within a interwar France struggling with deep political and social change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the limits of her working-class (and potentially incestuous) household, with troubling consequences. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
The Iron Crown (1972) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Hideo Kanze, Meg Flower, Drama
Dependent on the Noh play with the identical title, The Iron Crown is about a girl plotting revenge against her husband that leaves her for a younger girl. Read More »
That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) Andrzej Zulawski, Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Drama, Romance
Servais Mont, a photographer, matches Nadine Chevalier who makes her cash starring in economical soft-core films. Read More »
N. Took the Dice (1971) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Drama, Horror
A reshuffling of Grillet’s Eden and afterwards, the name an anagram of the film Read More »
Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor (1973) Giuseppe Pellegrini, Peter Lee Lawrence, Erika Blanc, Ivana Novak, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Stefano, the son of a wealthy businessman, meets a gorgeous woman called Lidia while accompanying his father to a meeting using a cardinal. Read More »
Painters Painting (1973) Emile de Antonio, Philip Leider, Leo Castelli, Willem de Kooning, Documentary
The definitive documentary on the New York School Painters. Featuring footage of all the major figures of the New York Art Scene between 1940-1970 Read More »
Tout va bien (1972) Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli, Drama
Jean-Luc Godard dissects the structure of society, movies, love and revolution. He asks compelling questions: Can love survive a relationship? Read More »
A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) Sergio Leone, Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli, War, Western
In Mexico at the time of the Revolution, Juan, the leader of a bandit family, meets John Mallory, an IRA explosives expert on the run from the British. Read More »
One Hamlet Less (1973) Carmelo Bene, Luciana Cante, Sergio Di Giulio, Drama
Bene’s version of Hamlet celebrates the power and beauty of Shakespeare’s theatricality, while attempting to strip the piece of the morbid piety that has come to cling to it over the centuries. Read More »
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) Melvin Frank, Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Comedy
The story of Mel and Edna (Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft), a middle-class, middle-aged, middle-happy couple living in a Manhattan high rise apartment building. Read More »