The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. The Honeymoon Killers is in a way a response to the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde in that it seeks to de-glamorize crime.
Category: Films from the 1970’s
The Terence Davies Trilogy (1976-1983)
Film review by Dan Willard. The first three films by Terence Davies, the British director known for The House of Mirth (2000) and Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988).
o.k. (1970)
An early film by Michael Verhoeven, director of The Nasty Girl (1990), based on a real event that took place during the Vietnam War.
Last Known Address (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. This French/Italian production is a noirish police procedural that has aged rather well.
Michael the Brave (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. Romanian biopic of Mihai Viteazul who united three Romanian principalities in the 16th Century.
Maidstone (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. Norman Mailer’s failed attempt to make a Cassavetes style film is an embarrassing train wreck.
Wanda (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. Barbara Loden was the first woman to write, direct, and star in her own feature film, Wanda, a character study of someone whose plight in life Loden related to.
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. The second and final feature film from one of the lesser known exponents of the Czech New Wave, Pavel Juráček, is a loose adaptation of the third part of Gulliver’s Travels and an absurdist satire of Communist rule.
Ostia (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. Cowritten and produced by Pier Paolo Pasolini, OSTIA is the story of two brothers who turn on each other after a beautiful woman comes between them.
Getting Straight (1970)
Film review by Dan Willard. Released just a week after the Kent State shootings this film which involves student activism on a college campus is more than just an attempt to exploit the then current youth movement.
