Barry Lyndon
In John Russel Taylor’s book Directors & Directions: Cinema For The Seventies he profiles an eclectic number of filmmakers and their contributions to the medium. One of the director’s Taylor features in… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
Gates Of Heaven
Taking a close look at society and the lives contained within it, one often finds that our reality, in all of its absurdity, reads more like fiction than fact. This… Read more »
Buffalo Bill & The Indians
The cinema of Robert Altman is unique in the history of American filmmaking. More than any other director, Robert Altman has been able to apply his style to every genre… Read more »
The Clowns
“The clown was always the caricature of a well-established, ordered, peaceful society. But today all is temporary, disordered, and grotesque. Who can still laugh at clowns? Hippies, politicians, the man… Read more »
Nosferatu The Vampyre
When Werner Herzog remade F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece in 1979 with Klaus Kinski in the titular role he essentially bridged the gap between pre-Nazi German cinema and the determinedly nationalistic New… Read more »
La Noche de Walpurgis
Lon Chaney Jr. is probably the most iconic Wolfman in cinema, but the most prolific has to be Paul Naschy. Naschy played the werewolf character Count Waldemar Daninsky twelve times… Read more »
The Tenderness of Wolves
Before Ulli Lommel moved to the United States and began collaborating with Andy Warhol (and segueing into the direct to video market) he directed The Tenderness of Wolves (1973). Lommel’s… Read more »
Phantasm
For Don Coscarelli Phantasm (1979) was truly a labor of love (he wrote, produced, directed, photographed and edited the film) that paid off. Where would Matt and Ross Duffer be… Read more »
Kingdom of the Spiders
There are spiders, thousands of them. They don’t move very fast but they’re deadly and they’re coming to Texas! This is the premise of Kingdom Of The Spiders (1977). This… Read more »
The Roommates
If one ever wanted an example of “termite art” one needn’t look any further than the films of Arthur Marks. Each of his generic grindhouse features has one element, one… Read more »
