A Woman’s Torment
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 »
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 »
Before making his masterpiece Reds (1981), Warren Beatty produced, directed, co-wrote and starred in Heaven Can Wait (1978), a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). Compared to the histrionics… Read more »
Over The Edge (1979) is a film of rage on behalf of the marginalized and down trodden in our society. Although the rioters at the end of the film are… Read more »
Barbara (1970) opens with a threesome on a beach at Fire Island. This sex scene, graphic for its time, is undercut by the audio that overlays it. As the images… Read more »
The Hunting Party (1971) opens with a scene of a steer being butchered cross-cut with a scene of sex. The hefer’s savage demise is equated with the violent sex that… Read more »
The Rare Blue Apes Of Cannibal Isle (1974) is one of ten “lost” films that Vinegar Syndrome has restored and released in the commemorative boxed set The Lost Picture Show…. Read more »
A precursor to both Black Christmas (1974) and Halloween (1978), Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972) is something of an unsung classic in the Holiday Horror genre. Silent Night, Bloody Night… Read more »
William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971) is one of those films that completely revolutionized its genre and whose influence is felt even today. Entertainments that range from HBO’s The Wire… Read more »
Gniazdo (1974) opens on the eve of the decisive Battle of Cedynia in June, 972. Mieszko I (Wojciech Pszoniak) is stricken by a terrible fever. Delusional, Mieszko I hallucinates his… Read more »
Last Thursday, on Thanksgiving Day, many Americans gathered around their televisions in food induced stupors to return once again to the annual tradition of watching Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz… Read more »