Taste Of Fear
Hammer Productions’ Taste Of Fear (1961) sees director Seth Holt working at the height of his powers. Taste Of Fear, like Holt’s best films for Hammer, is a thriller rather… Read more »
Hammer Productions’ Taste Of Fear (1961) sees director Seth Holt working at the height of his powers. Taste Of Fear, like Holt’s best films for Hammer, is a thriller rather… Read more »
David Greene’s belatedly en vogue film I Start Counting (1969) isn’t so much a coming of age picture as it is a meditation on the role that imagination and fantasy… Read more »
Privilege (1967) was Peter Watkins final film made entirely in England. After making the films Culloden (1964) and The War Game (1965) for the BBC, Watkins was given the chance… Read more »
Uptight (1968) is one of the most criminally underrated pictures of all time. This reimagining of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel The Informer is so close to the reality of Fred Hampton’s… Read more »
Meg (Gigi Darlene) is a Bunny Yeager type housewife. One Saturday, when her husband Ted (Alan Feinstein) is at work, Meg is raped by the janitor in her building. After… Read more »
During World War II, an American G.I. is forced to parachute and lands outside of a remote Japanese village. Very quickly the soldier is captured by the villagers and imprisoned…. Read more »
“This is a dirty case and a dirty little man.” The Love God? (1969) is easily the best of Don Knotts’ comedies. Unlike The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), The Ghost… Read more »
Karl May looms large in the landscape of German culture. His nineteenth century western adventure novels, influential in their day, re-entered German popular culture in the post-war period as the… Read more »
It wouldn’t be a stretch to call Alexander Kluge the “father” of New German Cinema. Kluge was an original signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto and it was his early films… Read more »
The Belle Starr Story (1968) is an early directorial effort from Lina Wertmüller before she found international success in the mid-seventies. This relatively early effort (which she directed under the… Read more »