Smile
Michael Ritchie’s film Smile (1975) is one of the great American portraits produced by the New Hollywood. 1975 saw the release of two other great national portraits, Altman’s Nashville and… Read more »
Michael Ritchie’s film Smile (1975) is one of the great American portraits produced by the New Hollywood. 1975 saw the release of two other great national portraits, Altman’s Nashville and… Read more »
After the increasing successes of Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and the underrated Women In Revolt (1971) Paul Morrissey’s films for producer Andy Warhol reached their zenith of mainstream acclaim with… Read more »
De Sade 70 (1970) or Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion is Jesús Franco’s second film adaptation of a work by the Marquis de Sade. For a long… Read more »
Stroszek (1977) is one of Werner Herzog’s greatest films. It’s a darkly comic character study and indictment of American culture. If the American dream is an open road of limitless… Read more »
Meir Zarchi’s I Spit On Your Grave (1978) is one of the most infamously violent films ever made. Even by the standards of the late seventies genre picture I Spit… Read more »
Bob Clark’s film Black Christmas (1974) is one of the earliest masterpieces of the slasher genre. It’s a film whose legacy and influence is indisputable. Not only did Black Christmas… Read more »
Daryl Duke is one of those truly underrated directors. In the seventies Duke directed two bonafide classics; the first was Payday (1973) and the second was The Silent Partner (1978)…. Read more »
Yu Kuan Jen’s Woman Of The Night (1973) is an erotic triptych produced and released by Shaw Brothers Studio. Though best known for their kung-fu pictures the Shaw Brothers Studio… Read more »
Marie-poupée (1976) is generally considered to be Joël Séria’s finest feature film. For Marie-poupée Séria re-teamed with actress Jeanne Goupil whom he had worked with on the far better known… Read more »
Chinesisches Roulette (1976) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s macabre marriage farce. It’s a film of cold spaces occupied by unloving individuals caught in a series of maneuvers attempting to gain the… Read more »