Silver Streak - Arthur Hiller (1976)
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We watched this in the #Comedon watch party in August. More murder-mystery than comedy than I remembered from my childhood.
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More on the #Comedon watch party:
US one sheet. Source:
We watched this in the #Comedon watch party in August. More murder-mystery than comedy than I remembered from my childhood.
More on the film:
More on the #Comedon watch party:
Enter the Dragon, in full titled Enter the Dragon: The Deadly Three, is a 1973 martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse and written by Michael Allin. The film stars Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Ahna Capri, Bob Wall, Shih Kien, and Jim Kelly. Enter the Dragon was Bruce Lee's final completed film appearance before his death on 20 July 1973 at the age of 32. An American-Hong Kong co-production, the film premiered in Hong Kong on 26 July 1973, six days after Lee's death, and in Los Angeles on 19 August 1973.
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Watched this for the 1st time on 2 Oct, had it in my watch list because John Woo listed it as one of his influences, and mentioned as such in the 1994 documentary Cinema of Vengeance.
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UK quad (30 inches x 40 inches, for in-cinema display) but it seems they just made it out of two slightly different portrait posters side-by-side.
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Found as I was putting together the Cinéma du Look collection:
The portrait commercial print version (like the left side, IIRC) was popular on young people's bedroom walls in the UK in the 80s.
In the California desert, the adventures of a telepathic killer-tire, mysteriously attracted by a very pretty girl, as witnessed by incredulous onlookers.
Another one from the same batch (see A Clockwork Orange entry). Huge poster.
Apologies for the rubbish pic. Original large format British poster, 40 x 20 inches (102 cm x 72 cm), for film theatres. Almost surely early-1970s (1972?), distributed by National Screen Service and printed by W.E. Berry ltd, Bradford, UK. Found in a Skip.
One of the 20 or so 1980s and 1990s movie and music posters I've found skip diving.
Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
The movie follows a Los Angeles bookstore worker who becomes engrossed in a horror novel titled I, Madman, and finds a series of murders resembling those in the book occurring around her.
Sometimes called "The Soviet Union’s first horror film", Viy is a movie about a seminary student having to survive three nights alone at the wake of a witch in a remote village.