Every 70s Movie
Thursday, July 17, 2014

1980 Week: Heaven’s Gate

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          Writer-director Michael Cimino’s magnum opus about greed, which has ironically become shorthand for the profligate e...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

1980 Week: Windows

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Although Gordon Willis’ directorial debut deserved each one of its five Razzie Award nominations, the movie is noteworthy exac...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

1980 Week: Can’t Stop the Music & Xanadu

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          Since disco was already dying by the time these two spectacularly bad dance-themed movies were released, it’s not ...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

1980 Week: The Empire Strikes Back

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          Heretical though my viewpoint might be among old-school fans of a galaxy far, far away, I don’t subscribe to the bel...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

The Cremators (1972)

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A year after subjecting the world to the awful creature feature Octaman , which is indeed about an octopus that walks like a m...
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Saturday, July 12, 2014

Tilt (1979)

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          Even though the main bullet point for any discussion of Tilt should be the brazenness with which cowriter/producer/...
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Friday, July 11, 2014

Born Innocent (1974)

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          After starring in perhaps the most controversial theatrical feature of 1973, The Exorcist , perhaps it was fitting f...
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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Dogs (1976)

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          One could easily program an entire film festival comprising nothing but grade-B (and grade-Z) horror movies that wer...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Scavenger Hunt (1979)

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          Producers have spent years trying to mimic It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), the all-star comedy epic about a...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)

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          Based on a popular nonfiction book by real-life criminal-turned-activist Robert “Sonny” Carson, this deeply flawed d...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

Luther (1973)

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          In addition to starring in some of the darkest and strangest Hollywood films of the ’70s, the extraordinary actor St...
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Sunday, July 6, 2014

Rabbit Test (1978)

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          Among the many impressive accomplishments in comedienne Joan Rivers’ long and multifaceted career, she was one of th...
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Saturday, July 5, 2014

The Villain (1979)

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          Revered stuntman Hal Needham made a successful transition to directing by helming a pair of hit comedies starring hi...
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Friday, July 4, 2014

The Plumber (1979)

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          Seeing as how Australian director Peter Weir has long been ranked among the best living filmmakers, even the seeming...
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Devil Rider (1970)

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Seeing as how the major tropes of the biker-movie genre were clearly established by 1970, it’s amazing how badly the ma...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Butley (1974)

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          Literature professor Ben Butley (Alan Bates) is a horror show of a human being. Possessed of singular wit tha...
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