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February 6, 2010

FB HEROES OF 1970’S CINEMA - ROBERT ALTMAN

The above clip is from the underrated 1974 film California Split,  starring George Segal and Elliot Gould as poker hustlers.  Robert Altman had a great run in the 1970’s starting with the smash M.A.S.H (1970) his use of audio with multiple mic’s and unobtrusive camerawork set the groundwork for this “reality” style that pervades today.

This scene is from 1973’s The Long Goodbye Altman’s deconstruction of the Film Noir hollywood crime genre.

1977’s 3 Women is one of Altman’s most bizarre movies you can buy it on dvd at the criterion collection (whom I am now back working for).

Altman’s stellar run in the 1970’s also included many other critical hits such as Nashville, (clip below) an episodic character driven piece that has influenced everything (i.e films such as Traffic & Crash). His run of success ended in 1980 with Popeye a big budget mainstream disaster.

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February 2, 2010
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Giorgio Moroder - The Chase - RIGHTCLICKDOWNLOAD

Some electro-disco from the soundtrack to the seminal 1978 film MIDNIGHT EXPRESS.  This movie along the lines of Deliverence paints a picture of something horrific that could happen to anyone.  Check a clip from the opening scene when he tries to smuggle some hash in a Turkish airport of course he fails:

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January 20, 2010

Five Easy Pieces Diner Scene

FB KINGS ON 1970’S AMERICAN CINEMA SERIES - BOB RAFELSON

Bon Rafelson is a legend if only for the two films Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens both starring Jack Nicholson.  Rafelson’s films personified the freedom given to American Director’s in the 1970’s a freedom that died after Star Wars.

Check the opening goose-bump giving monologue from Marvin Gardens:

watch the entire movie on Crackle HERE.

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December 30, 2009

The Freakbeat 1970’s Hollywood cinema series: The Wild Bunch

The opening shootout scene from one of my favorite Westerns with an amazing cast. The opening scenes features a cameo role from Bo Hopkins one of the unsung Hollywood character actors.  He plays the crazy one of the crew who gets killed in the first scene.  This movie revolutionized the action picture with slow motion shots and kinetic energy,  John Woo citing it as a major influence.  Here is a trailer from the Sam Peckinpah documentary:

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November 22, 2009

Zabriskie Point - Exploding Stuff END SCENE

Zabriskie Point is a 1970 film by Michelangelo Antonioni and it used to hard to find it is only recently been put on  dvd. I rented this while living in midtown manhattan years ago and never returned it to the video store and my credit card got cancelled to i received many calls with the store begging me to return this great movie.  This movie was a landmark as it was expected to be a big hippie themed blockbuster ala easy rider . But Michelangelo Antonioni delivered his usual introspective slow and meditative style and the movie bombed at the box office.  American audience’s do not like slow movies,  they never will learn… This is the end of the movie and most action packed scene 5+ minutes of a house exploding,  how can you not love that…

here is a quote from a facebook conversation this morning with my friend Rich Walters:

“i fixed all the dust and scratches on l’aventura - and lost it - took off to europe and got fired from criterion (i got him the criterion job as i used to work there)

what do you want specific notes on - my memory is like ibm —- yeah but you were not inspired by Antonioni’s juant through europe of a man and his lover’s best friend — that shit ruined my life

I ended up on a train through the german snow in a sleeper car with these exchange student girls — I hadnt slept with a girl besides stella (long time gf) in four years all of a suddent i was in a bunk bed with german girls - there was no going back for me “

another slice from my life expect more quotes from myself and friends as I am trying to add actual text to this blog that will eventually make up my magnus opus self help award winning oprah’s book club - BOOK.

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