Zeynep lives with his old father. She has lost her ability to speak because of an accident. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Cuba (1979) Richard Lester, Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Jack Weston, Adventure, Romance, Thriller, War
End fifties a British hireling is send to Cuba to train the Basistas. They must be trained to fight Castro’s army. Read More »
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975) Thom Andersen, Fay Andersen, Dean Stockwell, Eadweard Muybridge, Documentary, Biography
Thom Andersen’s remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Read More »
Tendre poulet / Dear Detective (1978) Philippe de Broca, Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Action, Comedy, Thriller
Romance in the prime of life. When Lise’s car bumps Antoine’s bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. Read More »
Murphy’s War (1971) Peter Yates, Peter O’Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Drama, War
Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. Read More »
Addio fratello crudele / ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1971) Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Charlotte Rampling, Oliver Tobias, Fabio Testi, Drama
In an amoral home, where a man lives in sin with a woman, his daughter and his son fall in love, and have incestuous relations even after the young woman marrys. Read More »
Io Ho Paura / I Am Afraid (1977) Damiano Damiani, Gian Maria Volontè, Erland Josephson, Mario Adorf, Crime, Drama, Thriller
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who’s already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. Read More »
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) Gilbert Moses, Julius Erving, Jonathan Winters, Meadowlark Lemon, Comedy, Sport
The Pitsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologicly compatable players, they can become winners. Read More »
Haunts of the Very Rich (1972) Paul Wendkos, Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Edward Asner, Drama, Thriller
A group of people, all of whom, we can only assume, are very rich, are on a plane flying to an island resort. Read More »
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) Joseph Losey, Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Comedy, Drama
What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer’s block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself Read More »