The new Furious Cinema Podcast is a show hosted by Pete and Seb. Join us for discussions on our favorite movies as well as other topics of interest. On the long overdue sixth episode your trusted cinephile duo turn to an era they both highly appreciate, the 1970s. Inspired by reading Quentin […]
70s
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During a mob meeting, two men disguised as police officers bust in and hold the gangsters at gunpoint. When one of the crooks moves, they are all gunned down and their $300,000 in racket money is stolen. The holdup men incognito are Jim Harris (Paul Benjamin) and Joe Logart (Ed […]
Ever since his directorial debut in 1994, David O. Russell is a filmmaker that continues to surprise critics and audiences with the wide range of films that he produces. He’s done indie comedies (Spanking the Monkey, I Heart Huckabees), mainstream comedies (Flirting with Disaster), war thrillers (Three Kings), political comedies […]
If American Graffiti was the film that defined the sock hop/car culture/drive-in scene of the early 60s then Dazed and Confused (1993) is the film that represents the 70s in all its long haired, pot smoking, free-wheeling, bell bottomed beauty. In the early 90s Writer-Director Richard Linklater produced an indie […]
I fucking love Roy Scheider. Whether it be his freak out moments, his L-shaped nose or the fact that he’s also a New Jersey native, he was one of cinema’s greatest actors. He’s best known for his work as Chief Martin Brody in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, but there’s some gems […]
In Ulu Grossbard’s crime film/character study Straight Time (1978) Dustin Hoffman stars as Max Dembo a career criminal who is newly released from prison. Max tries to stay on the straight and narrow, he even starts a relationship with a woman (Theresa Russell) he meets at an unemployment office but […]
It doesn’t matter if you’re a genre film geek or not, it’s highly likely if you hear the opening sounds of this track, you’ll immediately know what film it’s from, or at the very least the song title before it’s uttered. While Melvin Van Peebles‘ independent socio-political art film Sweet […]