1971-1980

Beginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a person’s hand.Read More »

Essential Hindi popular cinema classic and a pioneer entry of the 1970’s Indian crime films. This is the breakthrough film of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, seen here in his “angry young man” persona for the first time. The people behind this was Salim-Javed, a screenwriting team who were responsible for bringing in a hardhitting socially-slanted style in Hindi cinema, penning such classics as Deewar, Sholay and Trishul.

The plot is a revenge story in the mould of the spaghetti western Death Rides a Horse, with Bachchan witnessing the murder of his parents as a child, and a chain on the murderer’s wrist acting as a flashback device…Read More »

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Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.Read More »

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Visiting her mother’s cousin Lennart in a small town, Maria (an 11-year-old child) discovers a strange figure in the city, Jon – a large, dirty and old man. He is somewhat of an old pariah in the eyes of the townspeople, who reject him due to his slovenly appearance and drinking habits. Jon lives in a remote house on the edge of a village and is considered dangerously abnormal and Maria is not permitted to go near him. But one day he is struck by a car and Maria, independent and unafraid, helps him home. There she makes a wonderful discovery: Jon paints marvelous and unusual pictures, a real world of imaginative, naive painting. He makes her a gift of one and all too quickly becomes an unwilling celebrity, unable to handle the reaction of the townspeople and, especially, the media. Maria is the only one he trusts. Through her caring, the old man allows his life to take a different direction.Read More »

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters.Read More »

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This is one of those hard-to-find drive in movies of the 70s which is worth seeking out. The basic story concerns a young woman (Fontaine) who comes to the French Quarter, badly in need of work and ends up dreaming that she is back in another century, or is she in fact an 19th century woman dreaming that she is in the future? The other characters around Fontaine are played by the same actors from the contemporary story. The sets, costumes and ambiance are incredibly detailed (it was shot on location).Read More »

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During the Meiji era, a gambler named Ochô takes revenge on the three dignitaries who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist, and crosses paths with a British femme fatale.Read More »

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.Read More »

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The Eustachian intervention within his Rosières would perhaps not be strictly that of a filmmaker behind the camera, but that of a collagist-editor who plays with the film material and temporality to make a meaning spring forth from it. And if there is an erasure in the director, Eustache makes a conscious gesture of a programmer affirming, at the time of making the second Rosières, that he prefers that his two documentaries be viewed in reverse chronology: the first last, and the last first. Read More »