Every 70s Movie
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Gang Wars (1976)

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The best thing about this wretched hybrid of crime, horror, and martial arts is the name of the leading actor, becau...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The Triple Echo (1972)

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          Adapted from a short story by H.E. Bates, offbeat WWII drama The Triple Echo would be easier to swallow h...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Fox and His Friends (1975)

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          Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends offers the sad parable of a simple man who realizes his dreams, only ...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Skateboard (1978)

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Cheap-looking, derivative, and superficial, Skateboard borrows myriad elements from The Bad News Bears (1976), but fails to m...
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Sunday, October 9, 2016

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

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          Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, stately drama The Garden of the Finzi-Continis explores tensions ...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978)

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          Offering a seriocomic look at troubles plaguing a British school for maladjusted students, The Class of Mi...
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Friday, October 7, 2016

Going Places (1974)

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          In some ways, the loathsome protagonists in French director Bertrand Blier’s gonzo dramedy Going Places are cousins ...
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Thursday, October 6, 2016

A Labor of Love (1976)

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          Analyzing the documentary A Labor of Love is a tricky business. Brief but focused and interesting, it’s a movie abou...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

The Inheritance (1976)

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          Despite Anthony Quinn’s top billing, this trashy melodrama is a vehicle for glamorous French actress Dominique Sanda,...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)

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          This low-rent Floridian exploitation flick presents an offbeat pastiche of crime, gore, melodrama, and same-sex relat...
Monday, October 3, 2016

Savages (1974)

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          Months after playing a howling-mad psycho in the telefilm Pray for the Wildcats , Andy Griffith took more subdued app...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

The Twist (1976)

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Recalling the production of this obscure European sex comedy in his memoirs, Bruce Dern admits “I didn’t really get what the mo...
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Saturday, October 1, 2016

Three Tough Guys (1974)

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          Partly a blaxploitation thriller but mostly a failed attempt to give European star Lino Ventura some international cr...
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Friday, September 30, 2016

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Promise at Dawn (1970)

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Clearly imagined as a tribute to a colorful sort of woman whose zest for life is eclipsed only by her steadfast belief in her s...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) & The Cat o’ Nine Tails (1971) & Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)

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          Around the same time that Alfred Hitchcock’s career began to wane, potential successors for his “Master of Suspense” ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Patrick (1978)

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          An above-average shocker from Down Under, Patrick employs the creepy premise of a seemingly comatose character using...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

No Drums, No Bugles (1972)

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          Given his lifelong commitment to humane causes, it’s no surprise Martin Sheen agreed to star in this sincere melodram...
Monday, September 26, 2016

The Night of the Strangler (1972)

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Employment options for ex-Monkees being what they were, it’s understandable that Micky Dolenz had to venture outside the mainst...
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