Every 70s Movie
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Nasty Habits (1977)

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          Time has diminished much of the charm that the UK/US coproduction Nasty Habits might have possessed during its origi...
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Friday, June 10, 2016

Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue (1974)

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          The only feature directed by Dennis McGuire, whose sole Hollywood credit outside this project w...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

A Matter of Time (1976)

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          As talented as he was versatile, Vincente Minnelli directed a handful of great films, plus quite a few that were mere...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

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          Like a novelist practicing with short stories before attempting the grand statement of a first novel, the singular Ge...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Moonchild (1974)

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One of a handful of ’70s features that began as film-school thesis projects, writer-director Alan Gadney’s Moonchild is ambiti...
Monday, June 6, 2016

Demons of the Mind (1972)

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          Featuring plot elements culled from the historical era just prior to Sigmund Freud’s ascension, a time whe...
Sunday, June 5, 2016

The Great Waltz (1972)

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It’s easy to forget that two different Hollywood stories occurred during the early ’70s. In the more familiar narrative, the co...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Killdozer (1974)

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          Enjoyably stupid escapism with more than a tip of the hat to the iconic, Steven Spielberg-directed Duel (...
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Friday, June 3, 2016

Trackdown (1976)

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          Tough, nasty, and violent, Trackdown tells the story of a modern-day cowboy who travels to the big city b...
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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Hammersmith Is Out (1972)

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A misguided black comedy that bounces between crude farce and silly satire, Hammersmith Is Out loosely retells the ...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)

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          First things first: Ignore the advertising materials and the title of this film, which is not in any way f...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Premonition (1972)

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Before he started making idiosyncratic character studies, Alan Rudolph got his directorial career started with a pai...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Killer Force (1976)

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          A heist thriller that sacrifices believability and logic in the name of plot twists, Killer Force —also known as The ...
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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Baffled! (1973)

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          Following three years each as an ensemble player on Star Trek and Mission: Impossible , Leonard Nimoy apparently too...
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Saturday, May 28, 2016

Smokey and the Hotwire Gang (1979)

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Wretched nonsense involving criminals, hookers, and truckers, Smokey and the Hotwire Gang is passable only as the c...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Train Ride to Hollywood (1975)

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          Countless recording artists have attempted to capitalize on their popularity by appearing in movies, and the success ...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Dodes’ka-den (1970)

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          Akira Kurosawa’s dreamlike ensemble piece Dodes’ka-den is akin to an abstract painting, in that different viewers wi...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Sweet Revenge (1976)

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          Allegedly conceived and marketed as a comedy, Sweet Revenge is instead an über-’70s character study about a woman wh...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Don’t Hang Up (1974)

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Exactly as amateurish, dull, and pointless as its director’s first effort, Don’t Look in the Basement a/k/a The Forgotten (19...
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