1971-1980

  • Dan Wolman – Floch (1972)

    Drama1971-1980CampDan WolmanIsrael

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    From imdb: I believe Hanoch Levin is Israel’s only great playwright. He’s best known for stark, stylized black humor about petty people who are unaware of their own pettiness. It’s a little as if Samuel Beckett were writing about Ralph Kramden. I’ve never seen a good translation of his work. The best representation on film is _Floch_. While not exactly sugar-coated, it’s a mite more pleasant than many of his stage plays. Read More »

  • Nathan Schiff – Weasels Rip My Flesh (1979)

    1971-1980CultHorrorNathan SchiffUSA

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    An IMDB hater wrote:
    This movie is a total piece of junk. It was shot on what looks like 8 millimeter film(not sure though). It looks like it was somebody’s student film. I think that this is the worst movie I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen some pretty bad movies. I can’t believe that this movie is out on DVD, it’s so bad. The plot has something to do with a giant rabbit or something, I don’t know. I pretty much fast forwarded through the movie because it was so unbelievably bad. This movie has to be one of the worst ever made. I believe that the sound quality is bad and messed up too. The movie also had bad edits, I believe and poor special effects. I guess that the movie would be decent for a student film. They say that Ed Wood’s movies are bad. This movie makes Wood’s movies look like “Casablanca”. It’s a no-budget movie. I would recommend this movie to people only for them to see the world’s worst film. It should have remained buried. Take care.Read More »

  • Andrzej Zulawski – Trzecia czesc nocy aka The Third Part of The Night (1971)

    1971-1980Andrzej ZulawskiArthouseDramaPoland

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    “Andrzej Żuławski is one of the true mavericks of European cinema and his wild, imaginative and unique films have won awards at many international film festivals over the years. A nightmarish and surreal masterpiece, The Third Part of the Night is his highly influential debut feature film. Set during the time of the Nazi-occupation of Poland and rich with multilayered symbolism and apocalyptic imagery, it shows one of Europe’s most uncompromising and visionary directors at his best.Read More »

  • Peter Bogdanovich – Saint Jack [+Extras] (1979)

    1971-1980DramaPeter BogdanovichQueer Cinema(s)USA

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    After a couple of major studio flops, Peter Bogdanovich returned to his 1960s filmmaking roots with this Roger Corman-produced low budget film. Easygoing expatriate Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara) makes his living in early-1970s Singapore legally and illegally looking after the needs of American and British businessmen, such as the mild-mannered William Leigh (Denholm Elliott). With his gift for putting clients and girls at ease, Jack opens a successful brothel, but pressure from local mobsters soon puts him out of business. Ever the survivor, he starts working for the shady, Cuban-cigar-smoking Eddie Schuman (Bogdanovich) as a pimp for GIs on breaks from Vietnam. But Jack’s conscience starts to dog him when Schuman hires him to take compromising pictures of a visiting Senator (George Lazenby). Adapted by Bogdanovich, Howard O. Sackler, and Paul Theroux from Theroux’s novel, Saint Jack offers a pimp with a heart of gold, who is less an ugly colonial American abroad than an outsider trying to make the best of a bad situation.Read More »

  • Richard Elfman – Forbidden Zone (1980)

    1971-1980CultMusicalRichard ElfmanUSA

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    Oingo Boingo fans and midnight movie mavens will love this bizarre black-and-white feature packed with music, madness, and members of the Elfman clan. The story revolves around the Hercules family, who live in a house that just happens to hide a secret entrance to the Sixth Dimension in the basement. When daughter Frenchy (Marie-Pascale Elfman) skips school one afternoon, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the forbidden door, and winds up a prisoner in this alternate world. King Fausto (Herve Villechaize), the diminutive leader of the Sixth Dimension, is enamored with the beautiful young Frenchy and keeps her in the same cell as his favorite concubines, despite the disapproval of Queen Doris (Susan Tyrrell).Read More »

  • Marguerite Duras – Des journées entières dans les arbres aka Entire Days in the Trees (1977)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaFranceMarguerite Duras

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    A woman whose son has been estranged from her for years travels to visit him in Paris. Despite offers of money and position, he would prefer to remain a petty thief, gigolo, and paid dancer rather than have anything to do with his mother. She has factories in Indochina which, despite political reverses, still run under her direction, and they could have been put under his control. The lad is happy enough to steal the jewels and money she has left lying around for just that purpose, knowing that he is too proud to accept gifts. His unhappy childhood in Indochina has left him too bitter to be approached.

    Based on her novel and prior to directing a film version of the novel, Duras had already modified it into a stageplay that had enjoyed a theatrical run.Read More »

  • Yuri Vorontsov; Igor Rachuk – The phenomenon of the Soviet cinema (1980)

    1971-1980BooksIgor RachukUSSRYuri Vorontsov

    Author: Yuri Vorontsov; Igor Rachuk
    Publisher: Moskva : Progress Publishers, 1980
    Edition/Format: Print book : English

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    Motion pictures — Soviet Union — History.
    Cinéma — URSS — Histoire.
    Motion pictures.
    Soviet Union.Read More »

  • Erwin C. Dietrich – She Devils of the SS (1973)

    1971-1980Erwin C. DietrichExploitationSwitzerlandWar

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    In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they start having sex with each other, things get complicated. Especially with the increasing danger from the revengeful Soviet army!Read More »

  • Ferdinando Baldi – Una vita lunga un giorno (1973)

    1971-1980DramaExploitationFerdinando BaldiItaly

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    An unsual thriller with gialloesque themes Andrea Rispoli a desperately poor Genoese sailor, Anna, the sick wife (Ewa Aulin) needs an expensive treatment to escape death.
    The only way ‘exit for the poor Andrea is yielding to the proposal of a rich and bored businessman played by Philippe Leroy which suggests under lavish compensation of victims to participate as a fierce fighter all’ man from the hills to the port of Genoa where a group of ruthless killer hinder him in every way.Read More »

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