Colloque de chiens
Colloque de chiens (1977) is an experimental short film by the late Raúl Ruiz shot (by Denis Lenoir) shortly after the filmmaker’s move to France from Chile following Augusto Pinochet’s… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
Povestea dragostei
Povestea dragostei (1977) is a “photo-mix” Romanian fairytale film by Ion Popescu-Gopo that freely adapts Ion Creangă’s classic tale Povestea porcului. Popescu-Gopo’s lifelong interest in the early animated features produced… Read more »
Cops vs. Thugs
Auteur Kinji Fukasaku is the quintessential director of yakuza films. Fukasaku helmed films across genres, but it is his work in the yakuza film that he is best known for… Read more »
The Cat From Outer Space
The same year that Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) came out Walt Disney Studios unleashed their own science fiction adventure film about an extra-terrestrial visitor called The Cat… Read more »
Sorcerer
Escalating costs and the well publicized strife between director and crew poisoned the public reception of Sorcerer (1977). It took years for Sorcerer to find its audience and carve a… Read more »
The Point!
I can’t imagine my childhood without The Point! (1971). In general the music of Harry Nilsson was very much a part of the soundtrack of my youth, but The Point!… Read more »
Shock Waves
Adrift at sea in a small boat for weeks, Rose (Brooke Adams) is finally rescued. As she recovers in a hospital she gradually remembers her ill fated voyage. Rose was… Read more »
The Mutations
Jack Cardiff, the legendary cinematographer turned director, helmed the sleazy science fiction film The Mutations (1974) which attempts to combine Tod Browning’s classic film Freaks (1932) with the mad scientist… Read more »
Schoolgirls In Chains
Cheap, sleazy, offensive, and a little creepy; Schoolgirls In Chains (1973) is a classic exploitation film. It bridges the gap between Psycho (1960) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) in its… Read more »
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Sometimes you stumble upon a film that seems so weird and unique that you just have to watch it even if you know, deep down, it’s going to be awful…. Read more »
