Tag: 1970s
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Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: The inaugural film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series immediately thrust Itto Ogami into…
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Something Like a Filmography: Dersu Uzala (1975)
Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: THERE IS MAN AND BEAST AT NATURE’S MERCY.…
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Something Like a Filmography: Dodes’ka-den (1970)
Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film…
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Hooptober 11.0 – Don’t Look Now (1973)
Being Film #30 for Hooptober 2024 Something a little different. I thought I had reviewed this film before, and I did…15 years ago. It’s been sitting on a dead blog forever, and so in the interest of preservation I present it to you here, in all its childish glory. I kid…it’s pretty good if I…
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Hooptober 11.0 – The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire (1971)
Being Film #22 for Hooptober 2024 Sometimes a film is so generic, so typical of its genre trappings without standing out there’s very little to write about. I’m actually kind of curious as what the two critics on the audio commentary for Riccardo Freda’s The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire would talk about, because…
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Hooptober 11.0 – The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (1971)
Being Film #2 for Hooptober 2024 Last May I went on a big giallo kick, and out the vast number of new films discovered one of my favorites was The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, a great title for a gothic tale that had all sorts of twists and turns and some truly gorgeous cinematography.…