Archive for the '1972' Category

Film #080 - Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii - Director’s Cut (1972/2002)

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Viewed March 21, 2006
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, which documents a no-audience performance by Pink Floyd at a Pompeii auditorium, comes in two distinct flavors: the original 1972 version, that features only performance footage and the 2002 “Director’s Cut”, which features contemporary interviews with the band, as well as visuals augmented by computer generated images […]

Film #074 - Joe Kidd (1972)

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Viewed March 15, 2006
Joe Kidd stars Clint Eastwood a year after his seminal Dirty Harry, riding high on the cool persona he had cultivated in “Spaghetti Westerns” in the 60s. Although it sees Eastwood playing a part very similar to those he played in films such as The Good, The Bad and the Ugly […]

Film #034 - Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Viewed February 3, 2006
Your ability to enjoy Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)* is probably directly linked to your tolerance for violence. The “Lone Wolf and Cub” movies are exceptionally violent affairs. Based on the comics by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, they tell the story of Ogami Itto, a […]