1970s

A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director herself. Chantal Akerman, although she sympathizes with the mother, does not say a word.Read More »

Synopsis:
Making a rare visit to Canada, Claude Chabrol cowrote and directed the low-pressure psychological melodrama Blood Relatives (Les Liens de sang). Donald Sutherland and Donald Pleasence head the cast in this story of the aftermath of a brutal murder. The victim, a 17-year-old girl, was apparently raped before she died, leading Carella (Sutherland) to believe that she was killed by a sex maniac. Pedophile Doniac (Pleasence) tops the suspect list, but don’t be too sure. The truth is much “closer to home” than anyone realizes at first. Lisa Langlois, who made something of a career of Canadian scare flicks, makes her screen debut in Blood Relatives; also appearing, is Chabrol’s wife Stephane Audran. Blood Relatives was based on a novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), of 87th Precinct fame; the film was released in the US in 1981, three years after its completion.Synopsis:

Making a rare visit to Canada, Claude Chabrol cowrote and directed the low-pressure psychological melodrama Blood Relatives (Les Liens de sang). Donald Sutherland and Donald Pleasence head the cast in this story of the aftermath of a brutal murder. The victim, a 17-year-old girl, was apparently raped before she died, leading Carella (Sutherland) to believe that she was killed by a sex maniac. Pedophile Doniac (Pleasence) tops the suspect list, but don’t be too sure. The truth is much “closer to home” than anyone realizes at first. Lisa Langlois, who made something of a career of Canadian scare flicks, makes her screen debut in Blood Relatives; also appearing, is Chabrol’s wife Stephane Audran. Blood Relatives was based on a novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), of 87th Precinct fame; the film was released in the US in 1981, three years after its completion.Read More »

Evan wrote:
It is for the film Hi wa shizumi, hi wa noboru AKA Sunset, Sunrise (1973) by Koreyoshi Kurahara. The soundtrack was composed by Nino Rota in between the first two Godfather films. Unfortunately the film is not available online, but at least we have this to remember it by (at least until someone finally releases the film itself…maybe someday).Read More »

Gote and Eli are two aging friends who don’t want to age. Gote is a lifeguard who’s fighting peepers on the Tel-Aviv beach. Eli is a guitar player who dreams of building a night club in Altman’s restaurant.Read More »

Original title: 青春の門　自立篇
This is the second film adaptation of Hiroyuki Itsuki’s epic novel of the same title, following the previous film “The Gate of Youth. Ibuki Shinsuke (Tanaka Ken) was born in the Chikuho coal mine in Kitakyushu and moved to Tokyo to enter university. Through his friendship and love with his drama club friends, a prostitute in Shinjuku, and his childhood friend Orie (Shinobu Otake), the film depicts the adolescent life of a dedicated young man.
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The relevance of being a young parson in the modern life of the early 1970s.Read More »

Synopsis:
Leo, the owner of the stocking product “Discrete”, has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt. (imdb)Read More »

Nearly 1,000 people – even tiny babies and children – lay dead and rotting in the morning sun in the South American country of Guyana, all victims of sect leader Jim Jones, who had ordered the mass execution of his followers in the 1978 incident called by many “The Crime of the Century”.Read More »

The infamous haunted movie from the mad English painter David Fleas.Read More »