Review: ‘Blanche’
[Originally published in Movietone News 46, December 1975] I think I would find Borowczyk’s feature films insupportable if they weren’t so much fun. Come to think of it, I did find Goto, île d’amour...
View ArticleReview: ‘Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter’
[Originally published in Movietone News 46, December 1975] Brian Clemens did some of the funniest, spiffiest episodes of the delightful British TV series The Avengers. In this first feature film, an...
View ArticleReview: ‘Le Secret’
[Originally published in Movietone News 46, December 1975] Le Secret bears a 1974 copyright and yet it seems much more dated than that. The films of Costa-Gavras notwithstanding, political paranoia...
View ArticleMad Rooms: Shot Composition in Two Films of Bernard Girard
[Originally published in Movietone News 46, December 1975] MAD ROOMS Shot Composition in Two Films of Bernard Girard -Main Title- For nearly three decades, Bernard Girard has been one of the invisible...
View ArticleReview: ‘Capone’
[Originally published in Movietone News 46, December 1975] While the gangster genre has its fair share of anti-heroes portrayed as psychotic delinquent types (perhaps a fair working definition of the...
View ArticleHell Italian Style
[Originally published in Movietone News 46, December 1975] Deus ex machina, in the form of a lawyer with clout, at long last yanks a broken Alberto Sordi up and out of the hellish Italian prison...
View ArticleOut of Season: The 19th International San Francisco Film Festival – Take 2
[Originally published in Movietone News 46, December 1975] Mine has been a sheltered existence: I never attended a film festival before. And as a matter of fact I attended only four days of this one....
View ArticleIn Black and White: The World of Entertainment
[Originally published in Movietone News 46, December 1975] THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT. By Hugh Fordin. Doubleday. 566 pages. $15.00. By packaging and presentation, Hugh Fordin’s book is a sheep in...
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