Barry Lyndon
After receiving death threats in the wake of A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick headed to Ireland to adapt Thackeray’s The Luck of Barry Lyndon only to be threatened by the IRA […]
Tag Archives: 1970s
Hercules in New York
In Arnie’s cinematic debut he plays Hercules, a Greek demigod whose brain has turned to muscle. Bored of the 24hr toga party on Mount Olympus he heads to earth to […]
Stay Hungry
A dodgy businessman (Jeff Bridges) tries to buy a gym in 1976 drama Stay Hungry, not a film so much as an answer to the trivia question: name the movie […]
Shivers
All this business with Dominic Cummings has got me thinking about David Cronenberg’s Shivers. Movies about viruses were spreading in the early ’70s (George A. Romero’s The Crazies and Robert […]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
When MacMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is committed to a sleepy psychiatric hospital for evaluation he shakes up their mundane routine from under the watchful eye of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). Jack […]
A Clockwork Orange
In a dystopian Britain where people roam the streets in strange face masks, Alex (Malcolm MacDowell) and his gang of droogs engage in a nightly crime spree that makes The […]
Sisters (1972)
The start of Brian De Palma’s “I’m just going to keep making Psycho” period, Sisters sees journalist Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) investigating the case of a corpse folded into a […]
Fantastic Planet
On a distant planet populated by the Draags, a race of giant blue aliens, humans are booth pets and pests. When one of their number, Terr (Jean Valmont, Eric Baugin), […]
Pink Narcissus
As a rent boy (Bobby Kendall) lies bored in his apartment he imagines a series of erotic fantasies, with himself as the central character. Made in the USA just two […]
Dolemite
After Netflix made a high-quality feature about Rudy Ray Moore, Amazon cheaply snapped up his movies in an act of opportunism worthy of the man himself. The original Dolemite movie […]
