The Silent Partner
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 »
Tag: 1970s
Woman Of The Night
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
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
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 »
Thriller – A Cruel Picture
Bo Arne Vibenius’ Thriller – A Cruel Picture (1973) is one of the most infamous grindhouse films of the seventies and is totally deserving if its title. Thriller is a… Read more »
Hollywood Boulevard
Candy (Candice Rialson) has just arrived in Los Angeles to make it big in the movies. Almost immediately she finds an agent, Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) who gets her a… Read more »
China Girl
Dragon, an international criminal organization based in Hong Kong, is transitioning from dealing in narcotics too dealing in espionage. The first order of business is to obtain the secret formula… Read more »
Panna a netvor
Panna a netvor (1979), Juraj Herz’s re-telling of Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve’s fairytale La Belle et la Bête, is a tour de force in style and composition. In comparison to Jean… Read more »
Milano calibro 9
Caliber 9 (1972), or in Italian Milano calibro 9, is Fernando Di Leo’s masterpiece of the Poliziotteschi genre. Caliber 9 is the first film in Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy; a… Read more »
Horror Express
From the moment John Cacavas’ theme can be heard and the title card “Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing in” appears on screen, you know that Horror Express (1972) is going… Read more »
