Mad Dog Morgan
Philippe Mora’s Mad Dog Morgan (1976) is a film that is at once very much in love with the Romantic depiction of the Australian bushranger while also being a kind… Read more »
Philippe Mora’s Mad Dog Morgan (1976) is a film that is at once very much in love with the Romantic depiction of the Australian bushranger while also being a kind… Read more »
Les liaisons perverses (1975) follows Hélène’s (Mona Heftre) affair with a photographer (Pierre Oudrey) who shoots pornographic layouts for adult magazines. Hélène’s bourgeois attitudes are quietly subverted as she embarks… Read more »
Skin Of Roses (1978) is that classic kind of pinku film. It’s erotic and brazenly violent while also being beautifully photographed and well acted. Director Katsuhiko Fujii is best known… Read more »
Werner Herzog’s Woyzeck (1979) adapts Georg Büchner’s nineteenth century play as an excruciatingly close-up look at a man’s psychological deterioration. Herzog shot the film immediately after wrapping Nosferatu Phantom der… Read more »
Rynn (Jodie Foster), an orphan, lives alone, carrying on the charade that her late poet father is still alive. On her thirteenth birthday (which also happens to be Halloween night),… Read more »
Crown International Pictures (CIP) sold Noel Nosseck’s Best Friends (1975) as pure exploitation fare. The ad copy as well as the poster illustrations implied that the premise of the film… Read more »
Don Coscarelli’s films, no matter their genre, feel uniquely personal to the filmmaker; these are the films Coscarelli always wanted to make. In a manner similar to that of John… Read more »
Danièle Huillet’s and Jean-Marie Straub’s Moses und Aron (1975) is the duo’s dialectical masterpiece. Their joint career was spent exploring the limitations of the cinema and mapping out its possibilities…. Read more »
Helma Sanders-Brahms’ Das Erdbeben in Chili (1975) is a made for television film based upon a novella of the same name by Heinrich von Kleist. Both the film and the… Read more »
The titular character of Bobby Deerfield (1977) is a Formula One racer working the European circuits. After a fellow racer is killed and another injured in a freak accident, Deerfield… Read more »