One for the Ladies: How The Beguiled Is A Perfect Female Empowerment Film
When you think of the career of Don Siegel two items readily spring to mind: he helmed the...
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Tag: 1970s cinema
Defiant Fairytales: The Prague Spring and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Despite finding itself under the thumb of Stalin’s Soviet Union after World War II, grey and...
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Bruce in Bollywood: Dharmendra Meets Bruce Le in Katilon Ke Kaatil
Try to imagine that, like me, your life has become a steady parade of disappointments and...
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Death might be final, but it still looks fake: a love letter to ‘Faces of Death’ (1978)
If YOU have never thought about death, it’s time you started thinking.” As the trailer for Faces...
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Legacies of Sade: Cruelty as Romance in Fassbinder’s Martha
Greatest director of all time (fight me) Rainer Werner Fassbinder covered a range of genres...
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An Error of Comedy: ‘Four Candles for Garringo’ (1971) [Film Review]
I really hate to say this, but Four Candles for Garringo (1971) is not very good. Let me say this...
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The Gold and its Consequences: Dead Men Ride (1971)
Dead Men Ride (Anda muchacho, spara!) premiered in Italy on August 8, 1971 and would return less...
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The Seduction of Giancarlo Giannini: Lina Wertmüller in the 1970s, Part 2
“I feel swept by destiny into a strange, beautiful dream.” —Swept Away The first part of this...
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The Seduction of Giancarlo Giannini: Lina Wertmüller in the 1970s, Part 1
Known for her explorations of political and sexual themes—with onscreen sexual and romantic...
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Total Depravity: The Infernal Odyssey of Paul Schrader’s Hardcore (1979)
Though scoffed at by its creator—writer and director Paul Schrader—and eclipsed by his...
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The Clergyman’s Collar: Rites of Intimacy in Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris
In the opening sequence of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972), the two...
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Post-War Perversion in Italian Cinema: From Visconti to Pasolini, Part Three
In 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini executed the final blow of his long career as an artist, intellectual,...
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