Blood For Dracula
Blood For Dracula (1974), or Andy Warhol’s Dracula, was produced immediately following Flesh For Frankenstein (1973). Much of the same cast and crew was retained by writer and director Paul… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
Cannonball
Cannonball (1976) is the second and lesser known racing film by director Paul Bartel. It’s also overlooked as one of the films that was inspired by the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea… Read more »
Snowball Express
Dean Jones plays Johnny Baxter and his ship has just come in. Baxter leaves his dead-end job when he inherits a hotel in the Rocky Mountains. But the hotel is… Read more »
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
I first saw Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) when I was in seventh grade. I rented a VHS copy of the film from my local video store to… Read more »
To The Devil A Daughter
Before Hammer Films was revived in the 2010s, To The Devil A Daughter (1976) had the distinction of being Hammer’s final film. As such, To The Devil A Daughter was… Read more »
Penda’s Fen
Filmmaker Alan Clarke’s reputation was built on works known for their stark realism. Clarke’s films are typified as emotionally violent character portraits that are critical of British institutions. Films like… Read more »
Stay Hungry
Stay Hungry (1976) is director Bob Rafelson at his weirdest. At one point he juxtaposes the Mr. Universe contest with a sexual assault as if the masculinist bravura of bodybuilding… Read more »
Fat City
Speaking to Lillian Ross, John Huston once described the film industry as “A closed-in, tight, frantically inbred and frantically competitive jungle”. It’s an apt description that could easily be applied… Read more »
Last Embrace
With his film Last Embrace (1979) Jonathan Demme tackles the aesthetic idiom of Alfred Hitchcock and Brian De Palma with his own variation on Vertigo (1958). Demme’s film concerns a… Read more »
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Even with his first feature I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director Robert Zemeckis is taking popular history and repackaging it as something intimate and personal. This process was reductive… Read more »
