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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

We are not alone.

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 I 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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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 I 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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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 In 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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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 Rest 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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