Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Shunya Itō’s film Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (1972) is one of the greatest exploitation films ever made. Unlike so many films of this kind, Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (and its… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
Pierwsza miłość
Pierwsza miłość (1974) is a made for television docudrama written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. The film follows Jadwiga (age 17) and her boyfriend Roman (age 20) in the wake… Read more »
House On Straw Hill
This “video nasty” (released under the titles House On Straw Hill, Trauma or Exposé) came out in 1976 and shocked audiences with its graphic depictions of sex and violence. The… Read more »
Baal
In 1970 filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff adapted Bertolt Brecht’s first play Baal into a film for West German television. Helene Weigel was so appalled by Schlöndorff’s modernist adaptation that the film… Read more »
Cuadecuc, vampir
A seminal work of avant-garde cinema, Pere Portabella’s Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) was shot in conjunction with Jesús Franco’s film Count Dracula (1970). Portabella shot his film as Franco shot his,… Read more »
Game Show Models
Filmmaker David N. Gottlieb famously envisioned Game Show Models (1976) as a vastly different kind of film. Gottlieb’s original film was titled The Seventh Dwarf (who is identified as Happy… Read more »
Boxer
Sometimes when a director is renowned for a specific style it’s almost more interesting to see that filmmaker tackle a more mainstream or traditional project. When I first discovered the… Read more »
What Have You Done To Solange?
With the tragic overturning of Roe v. Wade the giallo shocker What Have You Done To Solange? (1972) has a new found relevancy. Though a sensationalist crime thriller, What Have… Read more »
Sister Street Fighter
Sister Street Fighter (1974) is the first in a series of films by Toei Company launched as a spin-off of the popular Street Fighter franchise starring Sonny Chiba. This first… Read more »
‘Doc’
Frank Perry’s revisionist western ‘Doc’ (1971) is about as unromantic a western as one could imagine. For plot, screenwriter Pete Hamill looks to the most famous gunfight in the history… Read more »
