Showing posts with label 1974. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1974. Show all posts

04 July 2011

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbender, 1974)

7/10
It was good but a little...hmm...dated? I don't know. Maybe we've been beaten over the heads too much with the "love that society frowns upon" story since the movie came out. I mean it was well-acted and all, but I was just left feeling kinda blasé about the whole thing. I think the colors in this movie impressed me more than anything, which is maybe a weird thing to say.

06 January 2010

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Werner Herzog, 1974)

8/10
Very enchanting, fun to watch, and a couple of breathtaking moments from the world of ski-flying.

22 June 2009

Sugar Hill (Paul Maslansky, 1974)

5/10
Blaxploitation/zombie flick from '74 that manages to still be fun enough despite the fact that there's virtually no gore and no nudity...considering those circumstances it could've been a lot more boring but it wasn't, it was OK. The acting was competent and the sets were funky.

14 June 2009

Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)

6/10
A "classic" slasher film (one of the first apparently) that nowdays is probably pretty dated - I can't imagine anyone being scared by it in 2009 but it probably was creepy enough back when it was released...anyway it was still interesting in its own way. The phone calls were strange and disturbing and the ambigosity of the killer's identity was a neat approach. But overall I just wasn't really into it.