They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for July, 1979
The Amityville Horror (1979)
The poster for The Amityville Horror tells us – practically screams at us – the words “For God’s Sake, Get Out!” Having seen the movie, I’m not sure if that is meant for the characters or the audience. The Amityville Horror is a haunted house movie with termites. It doesn’t really move so much as […]
Dracula (1979)
With the production code safely gone, the 1970s became fertile ground for all manner of previously taboo content. Nudity, violence, foul-language, scandalous situations – they are all on the table and every low-budget producer with a camera wanted to put something together just to feel his way. This revolution fell on no genre quite like […]
Lost and Found (1979)
I was not a fan of Melvin Frank’s A Touch of Class, which made a lot of money and was lauded by critics back in ‘73. People seemed to love the comic energy of the movie, which coupled a nice family man (George Segal) with a flirty dress designer (Glenda Jackson) who fall in lust […]
Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
Peering through the murky, silly and woefully underwritten screenplay for Just You and Me, Kid, it is possible to actually sit and enjoy the movie if you just focus on the laid-back comic energy of George Burns. He’s such a joy, a charming elder stateman of comedy who was afforded a fourth stage to his […]
The Wanderer (1979)
Watching The Wanderers, I kept thinking back to American Graffiti, not in accusing the film of being a rip-off but in the need to catch the youth culture that existed just before the murder of John Kennedy and before Vietnam really got out of control. It is apparent that filmmakers really want to zero in […]
