1971-1980

  • Alberto Cavallone – Zelda (1974)

    1971-1980Alberto CavalloneCultEroticaItalyQueer Cinema(s)

    From imdb:
    Henry Davis and Zelda are a couple with peculiar sexual tastes. In order to have more freedom, they send their daughter Ingrid to study in a school away from home. They have a relationship with Ursula but, after some time, when they get tired of her, they involve Christian and his wife Clarissa in their erotic games. When Ingrid comes to spend some time home, her presence becomes the catalyst of profound transformationsRead More »

  • Mate Relja – Vlak u snijegu AKA Train in the Snow (1976)

    1971-1980AdventureDramaMate ReljaYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    Plot:
    The year is 1932. At the behest of their teacher, fourth grade schoolchildren in a small Croatian village found an old-style Slavic Zadruga and organize a field trip to Zagreb. On their way back, their teacher gets ill and must stay in a hospital. As the children travel back on their own, the train gets blocked by a snowdrift. With the help of the children, the railroad workers manage to clear the way.Read More »

  • Han Hsiang Li – Jin yu liang yuan hong lou meng AKA The Dream of the Red Chamber (1977)

    1971-1980Han Hsiang LiHong KongMusicalRomance

    Quote:
    Li Han-Hsiang’s adaptation of the classic Qing Dynasty novel will take viewers to the heightened pleasures of love and the despairing depths of betrayal. Timeless beauty Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia appears as Chia Pao-yu in her first attempt at a gender-bending role, an art she will wield complete mastery over in later films. Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu (Sylvia Chang), but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.Read More »

  • Robert Fuest – The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

    1971-1980CultHorrorRobert FuestUnited Kingdom

    Doctors are being murdered in bizarre manners – bats, bees, a killer frog mask, etc. – which represent the nine Biblical plagues of Egypt. The crimes are orchestrated by an organ-playing, demented madman (from his home base, replete with a clockwork orchestra and help from a beautiful, mute assistant). Detectives are stumped until they find that all the slain doctors once assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of organist Dr. Phibes, killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife’s death. He couldn’t be the culprit, could he?Read More »

  • Kôji Wakamatsu – Hika AKA Secret Flower (1971)

    1971-1980AsianEroticaJapanKoji Wakamatsu

    A very rare ATG distributed Wakamatsu, starring Ken Yoshizawa and Rie Yokoyama as two pieces of a destructive love-triangle. Has all the usual Wakamatsu themes of politics, suicide and twisted love, as well as stylish Hideo Ito cinematography and great use of the more or less single set (a beach with an abandoned boat on it).Read More »

  • Mario Pinzauti – Emmanuelle bianca e nera aka Passion Plantation (1976)

    Drama1971-1980EroticaItalyMario Pinzauti

    imdb comment : Racial and sexual tensions haunt a Southern plantation. Hilariously overwrought Eurotrash sex-n-violence fest is apparently part of the notorious, ubiquitous Emmanuelle series in name only, sharing none of the stars or characters of the main series, which is fine, because this then comes across as a wild-n-wooly little nothing that stands brilliantly on its own. The premise itself is classic: a Mandingo-like Southern plantation romp filmed in Italy, replete with bitch-nymphos, black slaves with huge afros, white landowners with bad hats and mustaches, slave rape, bathtub masturbation, slave torture, black-n- white love, etc. The two “Emanuelles” (Maria Luisa Longo, Rita Manna) are both pretty homely. Read More »

  • Kôji Wakamatsu – Sei kazoku AKA Sex Family (1971)

    1971-1980AsianEroticaJapanKoji Wakamatsu

    Quote:
    It’s supposed to be a political critique of the japanese patriarchal family structure. The father wearing his military uniform is dominating his family sexually and violently. And while his daughter keeps saying that everything is normal, nothing is normal in this family.Read More »

  • Kirk Browning & Stephen Porter – A Touch of the Poet (1974)

    1971-1980ClassicsDramaKirk BrowningStephen PorterUSA

    Quote:
    “I first saw “A Touch of the Poet” at a small theatre in New York City, a wonderful production that had the audience completely in its power for the play’s entire duration. It’s widely seen as one of his four late classics, the others being The Iceman Cometh, A Moon for The Misbegotten, and Long Day’s Journey Into Night.Read More »

  • Floyd Mutrux – The Hollywood Knights (1980)

    1971-1980ComedyCultFloyd MutruxUSA

    Synopsis:
    It’s Halloween 1965 in Hollywood and is also the last day that a drive in which the hang out of some youths who call themselves the Hollywood Knights will be open. It is being closed because most of the local snobs don’t like them so they decided to close the drive in to get rid of them. Now the Knights decide to lash back at those who were responsible. And they try to make the best of the drive in’s last night. They also have some new pledges and they have to perform a very daring task which includes making a song request and an announcement about the closing of Tubby’s Drive In which is the Home of the Hollywood Knights Car Club before Midnight with the Local DJ played by none other than Wolfman Jack. Also one of the Knights is going to Vietnam, so he is making the best of his last day. And another member is having problems with his girlfriend.Read More »

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