Egghead western, written by the Scottish novelist Alan Sharp, largely devoted to the esoteric military tactics involved in rounding up a small Apache raiding party. You realize how unfamiliar you are with the fine points of Indian fighting when you hear one cavalryman eulogized as "a good man," shortly after …
Anemic European-made gangster movie, based on the Peter Maas bestseller, goes in more for yakety-yak than bang-bang. Charles Bronson is impressive for keeping his body and spirits in peak condition despite the lethargy surrounding him. Directed by Terence Young.
Barbet Schroeder's heady blend of Old World adventure and Jet Age angst has a band of hippie-types seeking metaphysical truths on a journey to New Guinea's terra incognita. Nestor Almendros's location photography of plains, jungle, tent interiors, and cloud-shrouded mountain sides caresses the settings for their tactile properties, most notably …
Robert Young directs this Hammer horror...classic?
A carbon copy of his Phenix City Story (1955), this Phil Karlson wingding tells about an ex-soldier who returns to his Southern roots and decides to clean up the organized vice that has settled in during his absence. This is a somewhat regrettable decision, because the tacky roadside gambling-hustling joints …
A gym teacher at a Catholic Girls School becomes the main suspect in a series of brutal murders. Giallo, a lurid, uniquely sadistic strain of Italian horror film, emerged in the early 70's sandwiched snugly between Norman Bates and Michael Meyers. This elite group of slasher films is known for …
Peter Bogdanovich has unhocked dozens of gambits from old screwball comedies, and they go over so big it puts in question the assumed advancement of today's audience. It is a comedy that tastes of research rather than invention. The pointlessness of the entire enterprise is intriguing, sort of. But watching …
Also known, and probably more accurately known, as Revolting Women. Directed by Andy Warhol, who bears a bullet wound as a souvenir of the sex wars, this is a bitchy but wholly inoffensive mimicking of the forms of expression taken by the women's lib movement on talk shows, as sisterhood …
Elio Petri's labor satire about an assembly-line worker (we never see the end product on which he is working, and neither does he), who, like Chaplin in Modern Times, is turning into a piece of machinery himself. Instructed to treat his machine with love and tenderness, he imagines his machine …
Sergio Martino’s giallo take on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” is similar to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, but much twistier and trashier and about an hour shorter. (The Shining still wins for sheer quantities of blood, but Vice has more lovingly depicted violence.) As in Kubrick’s classic, you’ve got …