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Jubilee (1978)

Sex, drugs and punk rock. Add violence and time travel and you have Jubilee.

Filmmaker(s): Derek Jarman

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

01 Dec Jubilee (1978)

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The Deep, Vacuous Meditations of Angels Feeding Dogs amazed that anyone would think this is similar to “Clockwork Orange.” Kubrick’s world was one of too much sense: strong minds of people and institutions creating realities that compete, even clash with each other. His worlds are...

Published December 1, 2022

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Island of Death (1978)

The lucky ones got their brains blown out!!

Filmmaker(s): Nico Mastorakis

Horror

Thriller

A British couple on a break on a small Greek Island spreads terror beyond anything the Islanders could ever have imagined, only stopping every once in a while to shag anything that moves, be it man, woman or animal. But will they go unpunished, or will the inspector from London be able to put an end to their killing spree?

05 Mar Island of Death (1978)

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Photos have a growing respect for Jess Franco. Some of his stuff is rather clever. But to my mind, this is much better. It doesn’t suffer from that Spanish notion of the scowling bigbreasted vamp. And it has some moody photography when it is not...

Published March 5, 2023

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Bilitis (1977)

A boarding school teenager on the verge of full erotic awakening.

Filmmaker(s): David Hamilton

Drama

Romance

A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.

31 Oct Bilitis (1977)

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Wonder collecting my old IMDB comments for moving to this site, I find a few hundred missing — possibly a thousand. There was an era in IMDB history — before Facebook and Twitter — where IMDB was a social media hub. My comments were an...

Published October 31, 2022

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

We are not alone.

Filmmaker(s): Steven Spielberg

Science Fiction

Drama

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

22 Jan Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

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The Third Narrative give Spielberg little credit, even claim that he has taken us several steps backward in how we use our visual imagination. And for that he deserves distain. But he was not always excessively vulgar, visually lowbrow. Before ‘ET,' he did some strongly...

Published January 22, 2024

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Jabberwocky (1977)

Jabberwocky: the monster so horrible that people caught the plague to avoid it

Filmmaker(s): Terry Gilliam

Fantasy

Comedy

A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?

13 May Jabberwocky (1977)

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Bonecrushing Display of Phosphorescence assured that there is little relationship between this film and Carroll’s poem about his father’s crusade against French etymology. Instead, we have the first chapter in Gilliam’s quest for an appropriate vehicle for his imagination. That imagination isn’t comic in the ordinary...

Published May 13, 2022

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Annie Hall (1977)

A nervous romance.

Filmmaker(s): Woody Allen

Comedy

Drama

Romance

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

09 Dec Annie Hall (1977)

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The Story about the Story is an intelligent man who worries about the issues of film-making. The primary concern, the very first problem, is always to decide what the relationships are among the audience, the camera, the narrator if any, and the characters. Woody was on...

Published December 9, 2024

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Maladolescenza (1977)

Filmmaker(s): Pier Giuseppe Murgia

Drama

Laura and Fabrizio have been meeting every summer in the forest by her parent's summer home. Fabrizio is a solitary boy with only his dog for company; Laura a sweet but unconfident child. This summer new aspects enter into their story as both are growing up. Laura is falling in love with Fabrizio, while he displays a new sexual awareness of her masked by his malice. Things develop further when they meet Sylvia who, unlike the innocent Laura, is confident and assertive. Fabrizio develops a fascination with her, eventually bribing Laura to fetch her to the forest to join them in play.

28 Feb Maladolescenza (1977)

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Tame Stuff think I saw this when it was new. Hard to remember, because I don’t think it had much effect on me. If it did, it has far less now. The idea here is that we see creeping malevolence made crisp by showing it among...

Published February 28, 2023

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My Brilliant Career (1979)

Filmmaker(s): Gillian Armstrong

Drama

Romance

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

09 Dec My Brilliant Career (1979)

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Transucent Space, Layered Face a life in film brings an experience like this. Its oddly tense in some dimensions and relaxed in others and the balance between the two seems distinctly Australian. I hadn't seen this when it was new, and I'm glad. Seeing a...

Published December 9, 2024

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Tagged: 1970s, f1976, p2006

Black Velvet (1976)

A NEW EXPERIENCE IN SENSUALITY. No one is ever the same after ...

Filmmaker(s): Bitto Albertini

Drama

Romance

Adventure

Internationally-renowned photographer Mae Jordan, professionally known as 'Emanuelle', is hired by a wealthy British expat to go to Nairobi to shoot the ruins and wildlife. While there, she explores sexual situations with her hosts and their friends.

19 Jan Black Velvet (1976)

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Math Porn is a pretty interesting twist on the by then settled formula. The Emanuelle formula is: lots of nudity, with the women being trim, suggesting innocence. shot as softcore with two or three hardcore inserts, so that multiple versions can be marketed. the women are portrayed as in...

Published January 19, 2024

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The Tenant (1976)

Apartment for rent: Quiet building. Furnished. 2 rooms. Previous tenant committed suicide.

Filmmaker(s): Roman Polanski

Thriller

Horror

Mystery

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

09 Dec The Tenant (1976)

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Front Window a pretty old dude, old enough to remember the taste of Oreos and Coke as they were 50-55 years ago, when every taste for a kid was fresh. I wish I have somehow set some aside then is some magical suspended locker, so...

Published December 9, 2024

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Tagged: 1970s, f1976, p2008