Tag Archives: Drama
Viva La Muerte (1971)
Viva La Muerte belongs on the shelf between Buñuel’s Viridiana and Pasolini’s Saló, but it is by far the angriest film I have ever seen. Shot during Franco’s regime, there is no way it could have been filmed in Spain … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Drama, Fernando Arrabal, Midnight Movie, Surreal
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The Movie Orgy (1968-197?)
Before Joe Dante established a Hollywood career as the director of Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Gremlins (1984), Explorers (1985), and Innerspace (1987), among many others, he was a cinephile collecting 16mm footage along with his friend Jon Davison. They … Continue reading
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Tagged 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, Abbott and Costello, Action, Animation, Beatles, Comedy, Drama, Elvis, giant animals, horror, Joe Dante, juvenile delinquent, lovable animals, Marx Brothers, Psychedelic, Ray Harryhausen, Science Fiction, slapstick, Vietnam, Walt Disney, Western
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Early Hitchcock-Related Silent Discovered
The National Film Preservation Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive this week announced that they have uncovered the first thirty minutes of The White Shadow, a 1924 silent film for which a young Alfred Hitchcock served as writer, assistant … Continue reading
