Category: 70s flicks or films of depth where with impossibilities comes love…

The influence of 1970s films had a deep impact on society as art imitating life, or life imitating art. It is the imitation of life. This time in history brought us films that had a defiant motif. In a place of chaos, uncertainties or stagnation, love comes a calling. A person finds a friend or lover for a brief time within the impossibility of life. A transformation takes place even as the world goes on with a life and death struggle. Bliss, peace, and love all found within a cocoon of time to open into the impossibilities of life again. Included in this category of films some are on the border line from 1960s towards the 1970s…. with the same motif I am referring to.

The Wild West and The Gospel of Thomas

The Hired Hand (1971) directed by Peter Fonda starring himself, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom. We’ve been watching a lot of westerns these days. I said to my man that we should start a western film blog. Last night I viewed a film called The Hired Hand. The soundtrack and images are unique for a western. … Continue reading The Wild West and The Gospel of Thomas

You’re A Big Girl Now

When the film Love Story came out in 1970, I was around twelve years old. As a tom boy everything in the film repelled me. My nemesis and best friend Lynn looked just like that annoying woman Ali MacGraw, "Love means never having to say you're sorry,” PLEASE??!! The guys followed Lynn around like puppy … Continue reading You’re A Big Girl Now

A Cold Wind in August

A Cold Wind in August (1961) is a low-budget independent film directed by Alexander Singer and adapted from the eponymous novel by Burton Wohl. The film stars a Lola Albright as a mentally unbalanced burlesque show stripper in her thirties who becomes involved in a torrid romance with a 17-year-old boy played by Scott Marlowe … Continue reading A Cold Wind in August

Buffalo & geeks, misfits and nerds

Bless the Beasts & Children It is an anti-gun film before its time. Growing up is finding out that the good guys don’t always win. felixhoward.net In 1971 Bless the Beasts & Children exploited a unique and overwhelming sad focus on how geeks, misfits and nerds were treated. Boys go to Box Canyon Summer Camp … Continue reading Buffalo & geeks, misfits and nerds

A glass of grappa please

The Sandpiper 1965 “Only freedom can tame the wild, rebellious, palpitating heart of man.” ~Dr. Edward Hewitt “All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper – just running down the edges of different countries and continents, ‘looking for something.' ” ~Laura Elizabeth Taylor is a bit pretentious … Continue reading A glass of grappa please

I’d have to stay alone, keep out of trouble and make myself very small in the world.

The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm. ― Laird Koenig, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane A young Martin Sheen as a pervert. I avoided The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane for almost thirty years. … Continue reading I’d have to stay alone, keep out of trouble and make myself very small in the world.

She is a good girl who breaks away from her family to find a kind of freedom.

Looking For Mr. Goodbar, The real deal 1970s flick!! jdbrecords.blogspot.com Theresa: I'm alone, I'm not lonely. I'm depressed - you're depressing me. Memories fade. I know the theater was on Ventura Blvd in the San Fernando Valley. Was it in Tarzana no I think it was further out in Sherman Oaks. I believe it was … Continue reading She is a good girl who breaks away from her family to find a kind of freedom.

A “Cinderella Liberty” is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight…

At that time in my life I never looked at the possibility of poverty and prostitution as a way for a woman to be independent. John Baggs Jr.: Would you call yourself a “Champagne cocktail-sippin’, cock-teasin’, downtown barroom whore? Maggie Paul: [bursting into tears] Second generation! We saw this film in 1973. We applied the usual antics of youth … Continue reading A “Cinderella Liberty” is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight…

Don’t always manifest as we hope !!

The first X rated film I viewed was during the early 1970s at the Movies of Tarzana in Tarzana California. The first theater in our area to have multiple viewing rooms. As youngsters we would buy one ticket and watch as many films as we could. This meant being smart and sneaking into films that … Continue reading Don’t always manifest as we hope !!