“Punishment Park” is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews’s news coverage Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
The Courage of the People / El coraje del pueblo (1971) Jorge Sanjinés, Domitila de Chungara, Eusebio Gironda, Federico Vallejo
A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners Read More »
Five Leaf Clover / Le trèfle à cinq feuilles (1972) Edmond Freess, Philippe Noiret, Liselotte Pulver, Micha Bayard
Alfred, a fancy country doctor, can no longer provide for his family and his two friends. Read More »
Letter from the Wife / Streer Patra (1972) Purnendu Pattrea, Nimu Bhowmick, Ashim Chakarbarti, Santosh Dutta
A worthy companion to Ray’s Charulata, the film is based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore Read More »
Sanatorium pod klepsydra / The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) Wojciech Has, Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska
The film depicts its protagonist, Joseph (Jan Nowicki), traveling through a dream-like world Read More »
Judge Roy Bean / Le juge (1971) Federico Chentrens, Jean Girault, Pierre Perret, Robert Hossein, Silvia Monti
The Judge is a parody western about Judge Roy Bean. Read More »
The Bamboo Incident / Hoa-Binh (1970) Raoul Coutard, Phi Lan, Huynh Cazenas, Le Quynh
A small Vietnamese boy grows up during the horrors and hardships of The Vietnam War era. Read More »
The Love Garden (1971) Mark Haggard, Linda York, Jason Yukon, Barbara Mills
Mike, a freelance journalist, falls head over heels for Claire, a pretty blonde who lives in his apartment building. Read More »
The Bell Jar (1979) Larry Peerce, Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Jameson Parker
Details a young woman’s summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine Read More »
The Black Gestapo (1975) Lee Frost, Rod Perry, Charles Robinson, Phil Hoover
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People’s Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. Read More »