A decade under the influence

Where were you, when we did our Movie Reviews #62?!
Right here apparently. Sorry that’s the tag line for American Graffiti in case everyone didn’t get it.
Movin on, 8 movies today 
 1.(Traffic 1971)
Here we have a film by the Famous French director Jacques Tati. I guess Jaques did some amazing and ground breaking films in the 40’s 50’s and 60’s, annnnd then there’s this one about people goin on a...

Movie Reviews #61 8 movies to review today so Autobots rollout. 1 (Wanda 1970) here we have a Writer, director, and actor with no money kicking ass. Her name is Barbara Loden, and we had all never seen this movie before, a buried early feminist film finally unearthed, and by Criterion who has been quick to resurrect  some crud like that Nazi porn film, and leave a lot of the women, people of color...

Movie reviews number sixty. Seven films to review today so let’s get goin.
1. (Deadhead Miles1972)
Terrence Malick is the writer here and this is an early work of his. Alan Arkin is here in the starring role along with support from the butler from the Jeffersons, Doc Hopper from the Muppet movie, and Jaws from the Bond movies. The film cinematically answers the burning question, “Did they ever mak...

Movie reviews number fifty nine!
Diving in with the heavy today we have Otto Preminger’s (Tell me that you love me, Junie Moon 1970)
Starring Liza Minnelli and Pete Seeger. A very brave and early film with Queer content, and like Boys in the Band, it can get a bit rough.
next is (The Neon Ceiling 1971) “Your Turning Violet, Violet!” Denise Nickerson, Lee Grant, and Gig Young star in this hot mess...

Movie reviews #58
 it’s happening now.
1 (Bed and Board 1970) AKA that Francis Truffaut film with the douche and the flowers in the courtyard.
 2 (The city 1971) AKA The first hispanic mayor tries to do his job, also he wants to bridge the generation gap, he doesn’t want to change his campaign poster, annnnnnnd he hates talking elevators.
 3 (The Season of the Witch 1972) AKA That one where Joan i...

Movie reviews #57- 1 (Pied Piper 1972) This be a rated G movie about the Black Death with an obviously stoned looking Donovan as the Pied Piper. surprising that Donovan never wrote a song called “get the cash up front”. 2 (Watch out we’re Mad 1974) Your decade under the influence crew has watched several Italian 70’s films that had some good political and even queer representation, but they all al...

Special movies reviews today! It’s #56 and it’s all Streisand movies. Barbra Streisand made 9 movies in the 70,s and we have already reviewed 3, (The Way we were 1973-For Pete’s sake 1974-and A Star is Born 1976) So now you get our reviews of the remaining 6. 1 (On a Clear Day 1970) Here rad director Vincent Minnelli (yes Liza’s dad) gives us a weird musical about a woman with esp who can also mak...

Movie reviews #55 Eight movies today, can you believe it. 1 (Brewster Mcloud 1970) Very early Robert Altman film here where the amazing Margret Hamilton plays a racist jerk. Another early 70’s offering that’s quite trippy and political 2 (Three sisters 1970) A hard to watch production of an Anton Chekhov novel, I may have slept through this in high school. It is cool to me only because It stars th...

Movie reviews #54 7 more 70’s films we chuckin in the (Done) pile. 1 (Heartbreak Kid 1972) Elaine May directs this strong movie, I just wouldn’t, call it a comedy. We can all see in Jeannie Berlin’s acting, that it is not funny how she is treated by said Heartbreak Kid. 2 (The mad adventures of Rabbi Jacob 1973) This was a fake out for me, as it is not a movie about a Rabbi gettin into adventures,...

We got movie reviews number #53 today. Let’s do a little roll call, hmm. 1.(The go between 1971) Julie Christie and Alan Bates star in this British film, shocker. There’s a whole darn movie full of plot but it really kind of is about just what the title sez, Boring! 2.(The Final Comedown 1972) Long time hard ta get Lando film is here and it delivers the goods. Studio and distribution versus revolu...

Movie Review #52 Comin right at you. First up today yer crew takes on (Ryan’s Daughter 1970) here famous British director David Lean makes a movie with Robert Mitchum about Ireland in the early 20th century “Brit’s out now!” Next up Al Pacino and Kitty Winn are working hard for their medication in (Panic in Needle Park 1971) “Vice cops out!” Moving on we review Diana Ross in (Lady sings the Blues...

Movie reviews #51
seven today so let’s go
1. Airport 1970. This one started them all. To me it’s just a less funny movie than airplane movie, but still funny. You don’t get the icky pedophile jokes, but you do get asshat men who live to cheat and cheat to live, this had a nice rad woman surprise that I am quite grateful for. Airport stars Helen Hayes!!!!
2. Scarecrow 1972. Many many 70’s films are...

Seven more 70’s movies, we can scratch off our list. Welcome to Reviews number #50.
Done over 70 movie showcases, and now 50 episodes of movie reviews equalling over 400 films.
Amazing, great work team.
 1. (Dusty and Sweets Mcgee 1971) Here is neat documentary style look at drug addiction as people walk around L.A. looking to score.
 2. (1776 1972) A musical I had not seen, annnnnd I’m a musical...

Movie reviews #49 coming in hot today.
Just 5 70’s movies to review, sooooo let’s review the review.
1. (The Andromeda Strain 1971) Epic movie Director Robert Wise is at the helm here, with a movie Based on a Michael Crichton novel way before it was a 90’s standard thing to do. 
That statement is dead wrong though, there are 9 MC novels or short stories adapted into films in the 70’s, 3 in the 80’...

Howdy film fans, today yer Decade under the influence crew takes on 1973’s 
American Graffiti. Much has been said about this movie by Director George Lucas. Here of course is 2 hours more of it. I believe we have some interesting perspectives to add, but ultimately you the nice listener will get to decide.
It definitely one of the best films ever made on a dare.
You could also call this film, the...

Howdy film fans, today yer Decade under the influence crew takes on 1973’s 
American Graffiti. Much has been said about this movie by Director George Lucas. Here of course is 2 hours more of it. I believe we have some interesting perspectives to add, but ultimately you the nice listener will get to decide.
It definitely one of the best films ever made on a dare.
You could also call this film, the...

8 more 70’s movie reviews in the can, and they are
1. (A Late Liz 1971) Campy “god can stop yer drinking” movie, that made me an even bigger fan of Anne Baxter. I want her to blow into many of my life’s situations and read the room.
2. (A New Leaf 1971) Elaine May stars and directs this dark comedy classic. Even in 73 Walter Matthau was gettin too old for this shit. This is quite good, but he’s be...

8 Movies again, annnnnnnd here goes.
1. (Halls of Anger 1970) Calvin Lockhart, a young Jeff Bridges and Janet MacLachlan star in this serious look at racism and teaching. Ed Asner makes yet another appearance too.
2. (Skin Game 1971) Same director here as the first movie. Rockford Files and Iron Eagle star with Mom from Webster in yet another film having a heavy dialogue about racism. This one tri...

Eight movie reviews today, Punch it. Body blow body blow.
#1(Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971)As always for me, this one looks so very much better than it is. Don’t get me wrong it’s got murder she wrote and Witches, but it still puts me to sleep in the middle sadly.
#2(Death takes a holiday 1971)
Gee whiz V did not love the dialogue here, not wrong, yet for me it kinda added to the oddness of the wh...

Let’s review some more 70’s movies now!
Today we start with 
 #1(Bloody Town Hall 1979) This documentary filmed in 1971 was a labor of love to edit and get it released by 79. This is a bloody mess that at least I found super interesting. BTH captures an important time, by way of an extremely odd event in NYC where Feminists take on Douchey Norman Mailer, a whole lotta chaos, and someone filmed it....

Hi friends, today we showcase -Turning Point 1977-
Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft star here, with some big help from rad defector Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott Marshall Thompson, and James Mitchell too.
The mad scientist that makes evil robot Kiss members in Kiss meets the Phantom of the park pops in for a bit, dressed like Tom Skerritt’s character, and it got confusing for a...

Hi friends, today we showcase -Turning Point 1977-
Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft star here, with some big help from rad defector Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott Marshall Thompson, and James Mitchell too.
The mad scientist that makes evil robot Kiss members in Kiss meets the Phantom of the park pops in for a bit, dressed like Tom Skerritt’s character, and it got confusing for a...

Flying out the gate like the Ultimate Warrior, today we gots 7 more 70’s movie reviews, and here…they…are!
first up is (The Yakuza 1974) With Robert Mitchum (I’m just starting the whole chapter about him in Roger Eberts book- Life Itself) Ken Takakura, The best friend of Logan in Logan’s Run, The Dad who hired Mr. French in Family Affair, and Stanley from the Golden Girls are all here with Mitchum...

Seven more movie reviews, let’s go! Gee this is simply not the best batch. I said it.
Today we start with (The Feminist and the Fuzz 1971) Barbara Eden stars with the good Morning America guy in this wacky film with some serious ideas that they bring into America’s living room, giving us the representation, and radical crumb many were literally dying for, but you just, as always knew they were gon...

Seven more 70’s movie reviews in the can today, putting us at a grand total of 337 movies we have showcased or reviewed. Today we start out with (Colossus the Forbin project 1970) Dammit, first off we are all not perfect in general, and here ME in particular got 2 actors screwed up and said a bunch of wrong shite. Look up actors Eric Braeden, and Ken Berry circa 1970 and give me the slightest bit...