Tag: 1970s
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The Slow Descent of ‘Fox and His Friends’
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1975 black comedy is rivetingly bleak.
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‘Desperate Living’ Feels Like the End of an Era
John Waters’ last movie before making his foray into the mainstream is among his most underrated.
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‘Twins of Evil’ is Sharper Than You’d Think
Though mostly made to capitalize on the newly minted sex symboldom of identical-twin sisters Mary and Madeleine Collinson, this 1971 horror movie ends up being a decent critique of puritanical hypocrisy.
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The Shops Around the Corner
On Agnès Varda’s ‘Daguerréotypes.’
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‘The Black Stallion’’s Beautiful Surfaces
Though Carroll Ballard’s 1979 movie is one of the most ravishingly shot children’s films ever made, one might wish its storyline were as carefully crafted as its aesthetic splendor.
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‘Chilly Scenes of Winter’’s Post-Breakup Blues
Writer-director Joan Micklin Silver potently examines how lost love can push a once-stable person off their rocker.
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‘The Anderson Tapes’ Can’t Transcend Its Gimmick
And it doesn’t even use its gimmick that effectively.
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The Emotional Brutality of ‘The Boys in the Band’
This landmark 1970 adaptation of the Off-Broadway play often feels like the cinematic equivalent of rubbing salt into a wound — for better and for worse.
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‘Scorchy’ Makes the Most of Seattle
This cheaply made procedural is dramatically inert, but it beautifully captures the Northwest city in the mid-1970s.
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Pam Grier, in Charming Amateur Detective Mode, in ‘Friday Foster’
Grier’s final movie with American International Pictures is among her most effortlessly enjoyable vehicles.
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‘The Doll Squad’: An Inept Spy Thriller with an Undeniable Vision
Ted V. Mikels’ 1973 movie squanders its early promise, but it at least has the intriguing germ of an idea ‘Charlie’s Angels’ would soon improve on.
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How Pam Grier Elevates ‘Coffy’
The revenge thriller almost always feels a little off by virtue of being a sleazy piece of work that happens to host a premier-quality performance.
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