The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued “Benshi”, a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to ‘doing jobs’ for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group’s activities. Her name was Shino.Read More »
1971-1980
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Tatsumi Kumashiro – Yoi-machi-gusa AKA Evening Primrose (1974)
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Eloy de la Iglesia – Nadie oyó gritar AKA No One Heard the Scream (1973)
1971-1980Eloy de la IglesiaHorrorSpainSpanish cinema under FrancoThriller“No One Heard the Scream” is another terrific Spanish horror film from the troubled director Eloy de la Iglesia. The film stars two of his strongest performers, Carmen Sevilla (from de la Iglesia’s “The Glass Ceiling”) and Vincente Parra (from de la Iglesia’s “Cannibal Man”), and so with these two tried-and-true leads it is hard for this film to fail. While it is not as overtly frightening as the other two aforementioned films, “No One Heard the Scream” definitely has its moments. Sevilla plays a professional mistress who bids farewell to her older lover when she meets the handsome man next door (Parra); unfortunately for Sevilla, Parra has just murdered his wife.Read More »
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Joan Micklin Silver – Between the Lines (1977)
1971-1980ComedyDramaJoan Micklin SilverUSAThe staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the ’70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.Read More »
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Iosif Demian – O lacrima de fata AKA A Girl’s Tears (1980) (HD)
1971-1980DramaIosif DemianRomaniaQuote:
The discovery of a drowned young girl’s body makes the local authorities start an investigation.The film tells the story of a suspicious death investigation at Sălcioara, a village near the Mureş Valley. The Major and his help, Panaitescu, accompanied by a film crew that wants to record the case, manage to understand the circumstances in which young Ana Draga, an agronomist engineer, was killed. As it turns out, it was not a love crime, as originally thought, but a consequence of old conflict between villagers.Read More »
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Stéphane Marti – La cité des neuf portes (1977)
1971-1980ExperimentalFranceQueer Cinema(s)Stéphane MartiFilmmaker and teacher, Stéphane Marti has been researching experimental cinema as an art form liberated of aesthetic codes and the economics of big budget cinema. His work is primarily focused on the themes of the sacred and the human body. An avid supporter of the Super-8 format, he has been fighting for its merits as a tool. He has used this format film after film and has been sharing his experiences with new filmmakers during his workshops at the Sorbonne’s College of the Arts (Paris I).Read More »
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Roger Watkins & Robert Michaels – Her Name Was Lisa (1979)
1971-1980EroticaRobert MichaelsRoger WatkinsUSAShown in flashbacks by those who now show remorse at her at her funeral, a photographer invites a prostitute to pose for him. They sleep once and he treats her fair, but both his publisher and a stranger woman called Carmen lead to her degradation and untimely demise.Read More »
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Peter Collinson – The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
1971-1980DramaPeter CollinsonTVUSAAfter World War II, many important figures in Hitler’s command escaped Germany and were rumored to be living in South America. Adolf Eichmann, wanted in connection with millions of deaths, is suspected to be living incognito in Argentina. Mossad, Israel’s secret intelligence organization is determined to bring Eichmann (if it is him indeed) to justice.Read More »
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Yannick Bellon – L’amour violé AKA Rape of Love (1978)
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Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend’s advice, she decides to file a lawsuit.Read More » -
Matt Cimber – The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
1971-1980CultHorrorMatt CimberUSAMillie Perkins is a disturbed young woman plagued by disturbing visions. She hates men and castrates them because she was the victim of incest during her childhood. “The Witch Who Came from the Sea” is a strange and moody exploitation flick with dream-like atmosphere and strong symbolism. Millie castrates two popular football players in fantastically oneiric sequence of sexual violence. The film is slow-moving and deeply unpleasant character study of woman’s torment.Read More »