Every 70s Movie
Sunday, January 15, 2017

1980 Week: The Hollywood Knights

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          The career of writer, producer, and director Floyd Mutrux took another strange turn with The Hollywood Knights , a s...
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Saturday, January 14, 2017

1980 Week: Bronco Billy

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          As the ’70s gave way to the ’80s, Clint Eastwood was ready to expand his range as an actor and as a director, often ...
Friday, January 13, 2017

1980 Week: No Nukes

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          In the wake of the 1979 meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, a gaggle of politica...
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Thursday, January 12, 2017

1980 Week: The Ninth Configuration

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          Scary, strange, surreal, and yet also very funny at times, the offbeat drama/thriller The Ninth Configuration marke...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

1980 Week: The Jazz Singer

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          A mega-hyped remake of the famous 1927 Al Jolson movie, The Jazz Singer  was doomed to derision before it even opene...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

1980 Week: Little Darlings

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          Despite being utterly conventional in terms of storytelling and technical execution, Little Darlings is unus...
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Monday, January 9, 2017

1980 Week: Raging Bull

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          Alongside Nashville (1975), Martin Scorsese’s almost universally revered character study Raging Bull is one of the...
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Sunday, January 8, 2017

The Black Moses of Soul (1973)

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          Setting aside the question of whether the world truly needed a full-length concert movie from Isaac Hayes, The Black...
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Saturday, January 7, 2017

Freedom Road (1979)

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          First off, the most interesting thing about this epic-length historical telefilm is the man playing the leadi...
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Friday, January 6, 2017

Effi Briest (1974)

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          Watching this black-and-white period drama from iconoclastic German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, I found mysel...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Up in the Cellar (1970)

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          Perverse, saucy, and sly, Up in the Cellar tells the satirical story of a college student who takes revenge ...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Beyond Death’s Door (1979)

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          Enjoyably dumb fictional entertainment from Sunn Classic Pictures, the company that made a mint off pseudoscience documentaries ...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

What? (1972)

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          A snarkier person than I could repurpose the title of this film as the entire content of the review, since watching thi...
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Monday, January 2, 2017

The Night of the Cat (1973)

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Only the hardiest of bad-movie fans will be able to endure all 77 minutes of The Night of the Cat , a crime thriller ma...
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Sunday, January 1, 2017

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977)

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          Made at a time when stereotypes about gays were prevalent in popular culture, pioneering documentary Word Is Out: St...
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