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Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)
Welcome to prison, Ladies!
Filmmaker(s): Jesús Franco
Crime
Drama
Horror

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.

16 May

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Captured been involved in a dangerous business, diving into the catacombs of film, digging around in trash pits and seeing grand things. Part of this endeavour comes from my appreciation for the vitality of film today which in large part is anchored by Spanish and Spanish-speaking...


Published May 16, 2023
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One of My Wives is Missing (1976)
12 million reasons for murder!
Filmmaker(s): Glenn Jordan
Thriller
Mystery
TV Movie

Vacationing in a small town, a frantic Daniel Corban shows up at the local police station, declaring that his wife has disappeared. Corban imperiously demands that the easygoing police inspector drop everything and find his missing spouse. Within a few days, a woman claiming to be his wife shows up, but Corban insists that he's never met the woman before.

14 Apr

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Switched Narratives are spoilers here for this filmed stage play that in the end is not worth it. The basic idea is appealing. We are presented with a man who seems to be the target of a massive scam involving a switched wife. We...


Published April 14, 2023
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Storm Boy (1976)
Wild things should be free.
Filmmaker(s): Henri Safran
Drama
Family

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

16 May

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Mockingbird had the advantage of being old, and living in both the US and Australia and raising kids in each. That gives me a perspective on the book before seeing the film. Every so often, a young adult book hits a sweet spot in the...


Published May 16, 2023
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A Real Young Girl (1976)
A surreal voyage into adolescent sexuality.
Filmmaker(s): Catherine Breillat
Drama

Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, a local sawmill worker. When not lusting after him, Alice fills the hours with such pursuits as writing her name on a mirror with vaginal secretions and wandering the fields with her underwear around her ankles. And, in true teenaged tradition, she spends a lot of time writing in her diary.

24 Dec

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Another Alice blunt and clumsy, this film transports one — especially a male — to a place never visited. That's in part because of the unflinching honesty of the narrative stance; never wavering from the girl’s perspective. It it were more familiar territory, like Jane...


Published December 24, 2022
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Storm Boy (1976)
Wild things should be free.
Filmmaker(s): Henri Safran
Drama
Family

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

01 Dec

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Internal Weather had the advantage of being old, and living in both the US and Australia and raising kids in each. That gives me a perspective on the book before seeing the film. Every so often, a young adult book hits a sweet spot in...


Published December 1, 2022
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Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy (1976)
The world's favorite bedtime story
Filmmaker(s): Bud Townsend
Comedy
Fantasy

Alice offends her would-be lover William by rejecting his advances. Upset, she falls asleep reading Alice in Wonderland. The white rabbit appears to her in a dream and takes her into a sexual wonderland. The story loosely follows Carroll's original plot, and includes many of his characters, but with considerable sexual license.

30 Nov

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Mock Turtle appears in scores of films, and many of the appearances are subliminal. I’ve made a hobby of collecting all the references and looking to see how cleverly they exploit the story. As it happens, there is a natural fit between Alice and sex,...


Published November 30, 2022
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Three Days of the Condor (1975)
His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.
Filmmaker(s): Sydney Pollack
Thriller
Mystery

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

22 Nov

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Books, Binding Pollack recently died, and I dredged this up to watch. It is a strange relic of a time when we really liked these spy stories — and the stories were allowed to be simple. The characters had no life outside the confined story....


Published November 22, 2022
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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Never before had a man and a woman loved each other so intensely.
Filmmaker(s): Nagisa Ōshima
Drama
Romance

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

08 Mar

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Pudendal Space Japanese notion of space is highly developed: abstract but visceral, refined but applicable to a daily, graceful life. That notion, and the philosophy of beauty through balance ('katachi') is what makes the Japanese sense of architecture worth incorporating into one's life. Many good...


Published March 8, 2025
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Murder by Death (1976)
By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!
Filmmaker(s): Robert Moore
Comedy
Crime
Mystery
Thriller

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

19 Jul

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Simple Mind Games mystery is like no other narrative device because it challenges the viewer to a duel. You the viewer or reader are invited to outguess the detective character, the crook and even the writer. But since the created world depends on the writer,...


Published July 19, 2025
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Fawlty Towers (1975-1979)
Don’t mention the war!
Filmmaker(s): Richard Donner
Comedy

Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to run their hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding guests.

24 Feb

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Silly Walk I have been trying to better understand humour. So because I am old enough to be able to, I have been thinking about Monty Python and in particular which of the Pythonistas mattered more to me. I was lucky enough to find a...


Published February 24, 2024
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