Moving from the dusty western setting of Powder Burns, Alex de Renzy and his troupe of lovable weirdos took their action to more bucolic digs for Little Sisters, made and released in the sun-bronzed year that was 1972. A ragged and tough twelve months for the counterculture as they watched George McGovern get dog-walked by […]
Read More LITTLE SISTERS (1972)C.J. Laing is in a lather. Continually demeaned and berated by her philandering husband without any kind of conjugal respite, she is rooked into embarking on a tour of infidelity which proves to be as challenging and unrewarding than her home life. After a tryst with a well-meaning but far too serious paramour, Laing breaks […]
Read More ANYONE BUT MY HUSBAND (1975)It is by mere coincidence that, in another series of career overviews of filmmakers who have meant a great deal to me over the years, I recently watched and wrote about L.A. Takedown, Michael Mann’s 1989 made-for-television movie that was his first attempt to bring his screenplay for Heat to general audiences. In that piece, […]
Read More FANNY HILL (1964)About halfway through Peter Savage’s 1977 hardcore effort, A Saint…A Woman…A Devil, I breathed a sigh of relief as I had quite accidentally dodged a bullet. You see, at the time, I had a stash of mushrooms that my wife and I had been saving for a special occasion. As we were both inexperienced in […]
Read More A SAINT… A WOMAN… A DEVIL (1977)
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