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A decade under the influence
by Ashes
We watch 70's movies and do two things:1: We give commentary along with the movie that may or may not correspond with whats going on (we're the people that talk through the whole f***ing movie)2: We give a short review of the film and give our observations, some context, and how it lines up with other films of the era. We really enjoy 70's cinema and want to expose you to it as well:-)
Episodes
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Movie Review # 64 - The 5 Easy Pieces 1970 - Man in the Wilderness 1971 - Black Girl 1972 - Man on a Swing 1974 - Which Way is Up 1977 - Meetings with Anna 1978
Feelin all bare bones business today, so let’s see. Movie reviews #64. We review 6 today and they listed in order of their release. 1 (The 5 easy pieces 1970) I loved Catcher in the Rye when I was 17, and I was stuck in a boarding school when I read it first. It was pointed out later when I lived...
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Movie Review #63 - Thief in the Night 1972 - Juggernaut 1974 - Who - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea 1976 - Madame Rosa 1977 - Headin for Broadway 1979
Hey Film fans, movie reviews #63 is here in the can. Six films today and it’s nice and tight-ish. 1 (Thief in the Night 1972)- Old school Christian Apocalypse film. Just like the late 90’s poop like Left Behind, Megiddo, and that one with Gary Busey, but with longer hair and sideburns. Patty has...
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Movie Review #62 - Traffic 1971 - The Front Page 1974 - A Very Natural Thing 1974 - Between the Lines 1977 - A Bridge Too Far 1977 - The Hobbit 1977 - The Special Olympics 1978 - Sooner or Later 1979
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...
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Movie Review #61 - Wanda 1970 - See the Man Run 1971 - Man on a String 1972 - Play it as it Lays 1972 - The Man who could Talk to Kids 1973 - Watched 1974 - News from Home 1976 - Cotton Candy 1979
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…
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Movie Review #60 - Deadhead Miles 1972 - The Execution of private Slovik 1974 - My Father’s house 1975 - The Grateful Dead Movie 1977 - Spectre 1977 - Players 1979 - Sunburn 1979)
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,...
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Movie Review #59 - Tell me that you love me, Junie Moon - The Neon Ceiling - Sleuth - Day for Night - Rafferty and the Gold dust Twins - Abba the movie - Long Journey Back
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...
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Movie Reveiw # 58 - Bed and Board - The City - The Season of the Witch - The Sting - Jeanne Dielman, 23 quasi du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - The Great Smokey Roadblock
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...
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Movie Reveiw # 57 - Pied Piper - Watch Out We're Mad - Murder by Death - Amityville Horror - Strangers, The Story of a Mother and Daughter - Brubaker
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...
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Movie Reveiw # 56 - On a Clear Day - The Owl and the Pussycat - What’s Up Doc - Up the Sandbox - Funny Lady - Main Event
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...
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Movie Reveiw # 55 - Brewster Mcloud - Three Sisters - Ledgend of Boggy Creek - Man Who Fell to Earth - Sammy - Soldier of Orange - Yesterdays Child - Dummy
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...
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Movie Reveiw # 54 - Heartbreak Kid - The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mahler - Wrong Move - Nickelodeon - Lovey: A Circle of Friends Part 2
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...
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Movie Reveiw # 53 - The Go Between - The Final Comedown - The Day of the Jackel - Black Belt Jones - Shelia Levine is Dead and Living in New York - Hot Potato - Roseland
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)…
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Movie Reveiw # 52 - Ryan's Daughter - Panic in Needle Park - Lady Sings the Blues - Say Goodbye Maggie Cole - Jabberwocky - Dear Hunter
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…
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Movie Review # 51 - Airport 1970 - Scarecrow - Earthquake - The Little Prince - Grilfriends - Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. AirForce - …And your name is Jonah
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...
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Movie Review # 50: Dusty and Sweets Mcgee - 1776 - Top of the Heap - California Reich - Sorcerer - Phantasm - More American Graffiti
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…
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Movie Review # 49 - The Andromeda Strain - Boxcar Bertha - In this house of Brede - Death on the Nile - Birth of the Beatles
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...
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Episode 76 Part 2 - American Graffiti - The Wrap Up
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…
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Episode 76 Part 1 - American Graffiti - The Whole Movie
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…
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Movie Review # 48 - A Late Liz - A New Leaf - Under Milk Wood - Murder on the Orient Express - Our Winning Season - The Shout - Fatso
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…
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Movie Review # 47 - Halls of Anger - Skin Game - Aaron loves Angela - Hard Times - Special Day - Sklateboard The Movie - The Outsider - Penitentary
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...
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Movie Review # 46 - Bedknobs and Broomsticks - Death Takes a Holiday - The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - 1900 - Tracks - The Getting of Wisdom - Patrick - Who'll Stop the Rain
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)…
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Movie Review # 45 - Bloody Town Hall - Johnny got his gun - Badlands - Cassanova - North Dallas Forty - The 5.20 an hour dream
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...
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Episode 75 Part 1 - Turning Point - The Wrap Up
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...
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Episode 75 Part 1 - Turning Point - The Whole Movie
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...
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Movie Review # 44 - The Yakuza - Adventures of the wilderness family - Bullet Train - King Kong - Every which way but loose - See how she runs
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...
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Movie Review # 43 - The Feminist and the Fuzz - Elvis On Tour - Snoopy Come Home - Charlie Varrick - 3 days of the Condor - The Hindenburg - Across the Great Divide
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...
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Movie Review #43 - Colossus the Forbin Project - Don't Play Us Cheap - Property is no Longer a Theft - Barry Lyndon - Night Full of Rain - Meetings with Remarkable Men - Serial
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…
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Movie Review # 42 - Mind Snatchers - The Car - Julia - Lady of the House - Laser Blast - Best Boy
Limited word space here now. Story of my life in the cyber realm, always 568 characters too many, which is shite when you think about it. Life is longer than a soundbite. Six movies today, let’s go! (Mind Snatchers 1972) is a movie about the military doing mind experiments on violent jerks…
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Movie Review # 41 - Billy Jack - Duck you Sucker - The Outside Man - Badge 373 - Scenes from a Marriage - Racho Deluxe - Outlaw Josey Wales - Corevette Summer
8 more 70’s movie reviews in the can. Starting things off today with (Billy Jack 1971). This is a sequel to a 1967 film called Born Losers, and it is just out of our reach for us. Here is a movie written by the 2 stars in the film and directed by BJ himself. Seems like a real labor of love, and...
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Movie Review # 40 - The Trial of the Catonsville Nine - The Homecoming - Rocky - Opening Night - Rocky II - Where the Lilies Bloom
Six more movies reviews, don’t worry we have more showcases coming soon, but hey let’s dive in. Today we are doin it, ever so slightly differently. For you dear listener it is basically nothing, but for us or me specifically it feels like great fun. We have our five prepared reviews, and then we...
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Movie Review # 39 - Cold Turkey - Pink Pather Stikes Again - The Snow Goose - The Other - Don't Look Now - Conduct Unbecoming - The One and Only - Golden Girl
8 more movie reviews for you today, and lets dive right in. Wait! Hold up for just a second, cause today we also do a lil mini celebration of having reviewed over 225 films here. Just about halfway for film reviews according to my ever expanding list. So we share some of our favorites and not so...
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Holocaust - The Mini Series Review
Today, your D.U.I. crew takes on the other huge mini series of the 70’s Holocaust 1978. It aired for 4 consecutive nights form April 16 to April 19th 1978. It was created and written by Gerald Green. Very interesting person, and also mini series, to say the very least about it, because you can…
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Movie #38 - Escape from Witch Mountian - In Celebration - Mackintosh and TJ - Shampoo - Return to Witch Mountian - Touched by Love
Can you believe it peep’s? Six more 70’s movie reviews for you. 4 from 1975, one 1978 sequel to a 1975 film, and one 1980 film that’s just there to bring some fun random chaos, and that’s not sayin anything about the film itself, we’ll get there. Starting off our 4- 75’s in alphabetical order we...
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Movie Review # 37 - Watermelon Man - Sweet, Sweetbacks Badass Song - Jeremy - Five on the Black Hand Side - Hester Street - The Seduction of Joe Tynan - The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
Movie reviews forever. Seven 70’s film to review, for you, today. We’ve got three greats, one really good, one good, one with a very problematic scene, and one crappy Disney film, that one of our crew has been conditioned by Disney to enjoy more than the other 2 who are less susceptible to the...
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Movie Review #36 - The Anderson Tapes - Glass House - Oh Lucky Man - Scott Joplin - Coma - Hooper
Film reviews, shmilm reviews! I’ve gotta catch up on these film reviews. Hi friends today we have a podcast available for you to listen to and perhaps even enjoy where we review 6 movies from the 70’s. If yer curious about them we will give you some insights and maybe spoil a lil bit of a 40 to…
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Episode 74 Part 2 - The Big Fix - The Wrap Up
Hi film friends, today we’re doin a showcase of 1978’s the Big Fix, the last film in director Jeremy Kagen’s trilogy about 60’s and 70’s protest movement issues. Katherine 1975 deals with radicals turning to armed struggle, Heroes 1977 deals with broken soldiers back from Vietnam, and today we…
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Episode 74 Part 1 - The Big Fix - The Whole Movie
Hi film friends, today we’re doin a showcase of 1978’s the Big Fix, the last film in director Jeremy Kagen’s trilogy about 60’s and 70’s protest movement issues. Katherine 1975 deals with radicals turning to armed struggle, Heroes 1977 deals with broken soldiers back from Vietnam, and today we…
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Movie Review #35 - Tribe - Walking Stick - 11 Harrowhouse - Green Eye's - Perfect Gentlemen - Starting Over
Reviews reviews reviews, hey ho, let’s GO! That said I’m still not a Ramones fan, though I like about 2 songs, whatever. Love them or hate em, let’s kick off another round of 70’s movie reviews. Today’s offering starts off with a 1970 made for TV movie which later did get a theatrical release...
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Movie Review #34 - Roots - The Review
Roots 1977- Shot of espresso is freshly downed, cracks knuckles, let’s go. Today your decade under the influence crew takes on the mini series Roots, which came into our living rooms for 8 nights starting on jan 23 1977. I remember watching at least some of this with my parents and four sisters…
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Movie Review #33 - Bang the Drum Slowly - Busting - The Dion Brothers - Black Moon - Welcome Home Brother Charles - Emma Mae
Espresso fueled review, coming your way, strap in my magical film fans. Six films today, and holy flipping flip, five of them begin with the letter B, wait, 4 1/2. Let’s roll! Starting things off today is Robert De Niro in 1973’s (Bang the the drum slowly) I know I shouldn’t expect a baseball…
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Movie Review # 32 - Dollars - Buck and the Preacher - Trick Baby - Cops and Robbers - The NIght Porter - Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood - Friendly Fire
Movie review time. Swigs coffee………… I need to, or this will just sound proper and normal, and that simply just won’t do. Today we start with a cheeky one, it’s $’s, or dollar sign the movie, or as it stands now, (Dollars 1971). Wait it’s still dollar sign the movie on IMDB $. Anyway it stars…
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Episode 73 Part 2 - Claudine - The Wrap Up
Well this all starts with me going to goodwill over 20 years ago and getting a book on films. It has a picture of Darth Vader walking down the middle of the street with a bunch of young peeps and Diahann Carroll. It looks fierce AF, and just like the film for me. It also looks like a big picture,...
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Episode 73 Part 1 - Claudine - The Whole Movie
Well this all starts with me going to goodwill over 20 years ago and getting a book on films. It has a picture of Darth Vader walking down the middle of the street with a bunch of young peeps and Diahann Carroll. It looks fierce AF, and just like the film for me. It also looks like a big picture,...
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Movie Review #31 - Sometimes a great notion - To find a man - Tomorrow - Mame - Night Moves - Movie Movie - Loving Couples
Espresso fueled quick review synopsis. Seven more 70’s movies to review for you today. Let’s begin with Lee Remick, some Fonda’s and Paul Newman in the film adaptation of Ken Kesey’s (Sometimes a great notion 1972) The review will be a breeze and we’ll all agree because this story isn’t dark or...
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Episode 72 Part 2 - Phase IV - The Wrap Up
Hi Today we’re scientists in an unground lab trying to stop borg ants from killing us all. Actually our friend Tim brought over the trippy sci fi cult film Phase 4, and only Tim has seen it. We watch it and discuss it and all it’s weirdness. Sadly some insects were killed durning the filming of...
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Episode 72 Part 1 - Phase IV - The Whole Movie
Hi Today we’re scientists in an unground lab trying to stop borg ants from killing us all. Actually our friend Tim brought over the trippy sci fi cult film Phase 4, and only Tim has seen it. We watch it and discuss it and all it’s weirdness. Sadly some insects were killed durning the filming of...
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Movie Review #30 - Kelly's Heroes, Kotch, Pete and Tillie, Flame, The Lost Honor of Katharine la Blum, The Uncanny, and Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness
Movie reviews oh movie reviews. We are just cranking through the 70’s films. Today we add 7 more to the vault for your listening pleasure. Let’s review our reviews. Today’s offering begin’s with (Kelly’s Heroes 1970) I love Donald Sutherland very much but this darn accent. Get ready for Kojack…
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Episode 71 Part 2- The Ruling Class - The Wrap Up
Hi film friends. Today your decade under the influence crew takes on the entire ruling class, with our long knives drawn. Actually we just take on the movie (The ruling class 1972) which takes on the class system in English specifically and the world in general. A mighty task indeed. Peter…
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Episode 71 Part 1 - The Ruling Class - The Whole Movie
Hi film friends. Today your decade under the influence crew takes on the entire ruling class, with our long knives drawn. Actually we just take on the movie (The ruling class 1972) which takes on the class system in English specifically and the world in general. A mighty task indeed. Peter…
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Movie Review #29 Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Great White Hope, Come back Charleston Blue, Burnt Offerings, Sea Gypsies, and The Second Awakening of Christina Klages
Six more 70’s movie reviews for you, and they are more disconnected than usual. It doesn’t matter but usually our movie reviews have at least a lil thread that combines at least some of them, consciously or unconsciously. I guess 2 of these do, gawd. Anyway let’s start. First up is (Cotton comes…
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We watch 70's movies and do two things:1: We give commentary along with the movie that may or may not correspond with whats going on (we're the people that talk through the whole f***ing movie)2: We give a short review of the film and give our observations, some context, and how it lines up with other films of the era. We really enjoy 70's cinema and want to expose you to it as well:-)
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