Tag: 70s movies
Play Misty For Me: The California Blueprint for Fatal Attraction
Although the era of “free love” that commenced in the 1960s was initially looked upon by men with salivation over the opportunity to “get the [Read More…]
The Madhouse Instigator in Quills & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
In every “madhouse” (even though we’re all mad here on Earth), it seems as though there’s one “ringleader” who is a bit more “sane” than [Read More…]
Emma and Rayette/Marcello and Bobby: A La Dolce Vita/Five Easy Pieces Parallel
Carole Eastman’s screenwriting career might have spanned decades, but there were only so few scripts she was able to give us considering the amount of [Read More…]
Lina Wertmüller At Last Given Some Overdue Credit With Honorary Oscar at Governors Awards
While an Oscar appears to become increasingly meaningless with each passing year, the sentiment behind it was not lost on veteran Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller [Read More…]
Sometimes, You Just Can’t Kill Your Wife: A New Leaf
“We had been married three months and I rather thought it was time to get rid of my wife.” So begins the original story from [Read More…]
A Futile and Stupid Gesture Usefully Explores the Life & Death of Doug Kenney
Of all the people who you wouldn’t expect to have a biopic made about them, Doug Kenney is among the men who top the list. [Read More…]
Money Changes Everything for Fox and His Friends
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is not the person to turn to for “light fare” or reassuring statements about the nature of humanity. He is there, in [Read More…]
Are We All Carrie White?
Forget about identifying with Carrie Bradshaw. The original Carrie had far more relatable problems, chief among them being a misunderstood social pariah. Yes, Carrie White [Read More…]
3 Women Embodies Elements of All About Eve, Persona, Desperately Seeking Susan and Single White Female
Perhaps among Robert Altman’s most bizarre (which is saying a lot) works, 1977’s 3 Women stemmed from a dream the auteur had and then decided [Read More…]
Barbra Streisand Was Railing Against Basic Bitches in The Way We Were Long Before There Was a Term For It
As Carrie Bradshaw once pointed out in the finale of season two of Sex and the City, “The world is made up of two types [Read More…]
