Synopsis:
A magician makes money by charging people to cast love spells on the objects of their affection. Complications arise when he decides that he wants a customer’s bride for himself.Read More »
1971-1980
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Meng Hua Ho – Jiang Tou aka Black Magic (1975)
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Vittorio De Sica – Lo chiameremo Andrea AKA We’ll Call Him Andrew (1972)
1971-1980ComedyItalyVittorio De SicaQuote:
Nino Manfredi and Mariangela Melato are a couple who teach at the same elementary school and are dying to have a child of their own. At this school all the little students wear uniforms that make them look like miniature Austin Powers’. They also accompany the soundtrack with insipid songs that tell you what you are looking at. Whether you understand Italian or not, it soon gets on your nerves.Read More » -
Eloy de la Iglesia – Juego de amor prohibido AKA Forbidden Love Game (1975)
1971-1980ArthouseDramaEloy de la IglesiaQueer Cinema(s)SpainSynopsis:
‘The film begins with a school teacher played by Javier Escriva bidding farewell to his students, who are leaving for the summer. As he is heading home he notices two of his students are hitch-hiking (a boy and a girl, played by John Moulder-Brown and Inma de Santis), and picks them up. He invites them over for dinner and lodging, which they accept. The majority of the film from this point on is set at the mansion, where the two students turn from guests to prisoners under the teacher’s command. The teacher has a thuggish (yet sensitive) henchman played by Simon Andreu, who enforces the teacher’s wishes. The teacher begins to sexually humiliate and torture the two students until he has mentally brainwashed them into his way of thinking […] Eventually there is a reversal of roles…’
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Natuk Baytan – Kiliç Aslan AKA Lion Man AKA The Sword and the Claw (1975)
1971-1980AdventureCultNatuk BaytanTurkeySynopsis:
When the king is murdered, his baby son and heir is hidden in the forest where he is abducted and raised by a pride of lions. As an adult he uses his beastly strength and claw-like hands to take revenge against the new king and his armies.Read More » -
Laurent Heynemann – Le Mors aux dents aka The Bit Between the Teeth (1979)
1971-1980CrimeFranceLaurent HeynemannPoliticsIMDB:
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Anne Chapman, Jorge Prelorán & Ana Montes – Los Onas, Vida y Muerte en Tierra del Fuego (1977)
1971-1980Ana MontesAnne ChapmanArgentinaDocumentaryJorge PreloránDocuments the life of the last generation of Selk’nam’s. Their way of life, economy, rituals, chants, traditions, and their slow extinction after the colonization…Read More »
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James Ivory – The Europeans (1979)
1971-1980DramaJames IvoryUSAQuote:
This entertaining film, from a delicious early novel by Henry James, takes place in a New England Arcadia that stands for everything beautiful, pure, and good. Into this Eden come a sophisticated European brother and sister who turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of their staid American cousins, the Wentworths. The fortune-hunting Eugenia (Lee Remick) and her high-spirited brother Felix (Tim Woodward) turn this Puritan world upside down.Read More » -
Joe Gibbons – Confidential Part 2 (1980)
1971-1980ExperimentalJoe GibbonsShort FilmUSAA portrait of a filmmaker confessing his remorse at the scandalous manner in which he gathered material for his voyeuristic film, Spying. here an eerie interpersonal relationship is developed between the filmmaker and his camera which culminates in violence…Read More »
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Paul Morrissey – Heat AKA Andy Warhol’s Heat (1972)
1971-1980Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtCultDramaPaul MorrisseyUSAFrom Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
A bizarre, yet mild version of “Sunset Boulevard” a la Warhol, with a bevy of voracious females of varying proportions vying for the casual favors of a passive Joe Dallesandro. The dialogue is fresh, simple, funny, as is the relaxed, improvised acting. Fellatio and demythologized sex make their usual appearance, though – for Morrisey – in a curiously reserved manner. While these desperate people and their always-interrupted sex acts are perhaps too small really to engage one’s concern, Morrisey’s talent for a new, weird kind of naturalism (as in his Trash) now seems fully established. Most notably, sex is both ubiquitous and joyless, an almost inevitable chore that can neither be avoided nor really enjoyed.Read More »