I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Even with his first feature I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director Robert Zemeckis is taking popular history and repackaging it as something intimate and personal. This process was reductive… Read more »
Even with his first feature I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director Robert Zemeckis is taking popular history and repackaging it as something intimate and personal. This process was reductive… Read more »
Michael J. Murphy was nineteen years old the first time he adapted the twelfth century chivalric romance Tristan and Iseult. Murphy’s first Tristan & Iseult (1970) only exists in a… Read more »
Obsession (1976) is director Brian De Palma and writer Paul Schrader’s homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). The title suits the plot of the film, but it also addresses De… Read more »
What are the cheerleaders of Rambling University to do when their star football players are looking at another college? Why, they’ll follow them on their campus visit and sabotage it!… Read more »
In Keoma (1976) the past and the present share a space and characters can walk in and out of memories. In Keoma interiority exists in songs on the soundtrack to… Read more »
Violated! (1974) is a once thought lost exploitation film written, produced and directed by Albert Zugsmith. Before turning to directing exploitation films in the early sixties, Zugsmith had been a… Read more »
Sasquatch, The Legend Of Bigfoot (1976) is the product of producer Ronald Olson’s lifelong belief in Sasquatch. The film, made on a low budget, was destined for the regional drive-in… Read more »
Joy (Sharon Mitchell in her debut) is a high school girl on summer break who is saving herself until she gets married. That is until she is sexually assaulted by… Read more »
In many ways Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) is the quintessential Steven Spielberg film. It dares to dream that there is magic in the suburbs. It codifies Eastern… Read more »
Filmmaker Roberta Findlay has always maintained that her film A Woman’s Torment (1977) was not feminist. Yet the film lends its self to such a reading very easily. Immediately A… Read more »