Harold & Maude
Harold & Maude (1971) is the first of three films directed by Hal Ashby in the first half of the seventies that deals with death. The explicit nature with which… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
Imagine
John Lennon is known to most as the leader of The Beatles. In addition to being a songwriter, Lennon was a poet, a humorist, an illustrator and play-write. However, with his… Read more »
Agony
Shot between 1973 and 1975, and released in 1982, Elem Klimov’s film of the life of Grigori Rasputin, titled Agony, is one of the watershed films with regard to the… Read more »
That Obscure Object Of Desire
Human beings are irrational; it’s a fact that emotion dictates the better half of our actions and our beliefs. This irrationality allows us to behave in some of the most… Read more »
Jubilee
Jubilee (1978) was Derek Jarman’s much anticipated follow-up to Sebastiane (1976), and like Sebastiane, Jubilee was shot on a low-grade color film stock with shots composed to evoke the classic… Read more »
Ten Days’ Wonder
Claude Chabrol’s film Ten Days’ Wonder (1971) is about a young man named Charles (Anthony Perkins), his domineering father Theo (Orson Welles) and their romantic involvement with Helene (Marlene Jobert)…. Read more »
Hi, Mom!
This film is much more radical than Greetings. It deals with the obscenity of the white middle class. And we are white middle class, Chuck and I and everybody we… Read more »
Eugénie de Sade
Jess Franco was one of the most prolific filmmakers who ever lived; completing an average of eight films a year during his most productive period in the early seventies. Though… Read more »
Lancelot du Lac
The narrative of Lancelot du Lac (1976) is a familiar one. The film begins with the Knights of the Round Table returning from their quest for the Holy Grail in… Read more »
Kramer vs. Kramer
In 1979, Columbia Pictures released Robert Benton’s film Kramer Vs. Kramer. Almost immediately the film became a hit, and even garnered Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor,… Read more »
