My Childhood
There’s something about 16mm high contrast black and white film stock that is at once both tactile and dream-like. One can see this duality exploited obviously in David Lynch’s Eraserhead… Read more »
There’s something about 16mm high contrast black and white film stock that is at once both tactile and dream-like. One can see this duality exploited obviously in David Lynch’s Eraserhead… Read more »
Filmmaker Emilio Miraglia always infused his forays into giallo with Gothic trappings and tropes. La dama rossa uccide sette volte (1972) is no different, and may just be Miraglia’s most… Read more »
Jeunes filles impudiques (1973), released in english as Schoolgirl Hitchhikers, was Jean Rollin’s first forray into exclusively erotic material. Though most of his films are horror pictures with erotic soft-core… Read more »
In Rolling Thunder (1977) screenwriter Paul Schrader imports many of the themes and ideas present in his script for Taxi Driver (1976) into the context of an American International exploitation… Read more »
Rolls-Royce Baby (1975) is essentially a film documenting Lina Romay (playing Lisa) tooling around in her fancy car looking for sex. Which, despite how it sounds, is pretty incredible. When… Read more »
Szerelmem, Elektra (1974) is a reinvention of the Greek myth Electra by filmmaker Miklós Jancsó. Jancsó continues to strip back the medium even more than his previous films, staging the… Read more »
Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter (1978) remains a cinematic touchstone for a generation traumatized by the Vietnam War. The Deer Hunter‘s high regard has diminished slightly since, when reevaluations in… Read more »
We must find a way to eliminate the erotic element that is imposed upon us. But it is very difficult to make fantasy films here. It is a genre which… Read more »
It’s always interesting to see a filmmaker depart from their modus operandi. I have always felt that The Alley Cats (1966) was Radley Metzger’s best film, not because it adhere’s… Read more »
Nora-neko rokku: Mashin animaru or Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970) is the fourth film in the Stray Cat Rock series. This time out, Maya (Meiko Kaji) and her gang… Read more »