#70s movies
Was there ever a genuinely good film that was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000?
I think so, Saul Bass’s Phase IV (1974), a surreal, Zardoz-esque, absolutely creepy acid-horror movie in need of a rediscovery, where ants rise up in revolt against the human race after acquiring superintelligence. Full of eerie and effective imagery, I think the reason it’s been forgotten is that the heart of the movie, a creepy ending where you weren’t sure what you were looking at, but you were creeped out, sat on the cutting room floor. Some recent cuts restored and clarified the original ending, and the movie’s creepy punch:
You might be familiar with Saul Bass as the guy who designed pretty much every movie’s opening credit sequence, from Alfred Hitchcock to Scorcese’s movies. Phase IV was his only actual director credit.
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“Who?” was a Cold War spy-thriller update of the plot of the “Man in the Iron Mask.” The studio held on to it for 5 years.
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Bill Murray and Carrie Fisher, Saturday Night Live, November 18, 1978.
May you rest in peace, you shining star.
The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1976
Dir: Nicolas Roeg
DoP: Anthony B. Richmond
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Phantasm (1979)
Mick Jagger - Performance - 1970 - Dir.: Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg Photo by Sandy Lieberson
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Jane Birkin & Jean Rochefort - Comment réussir… quand on est con et pleurnichard - (1974) - Dir.: Michel Audiard
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Sharon Tate in 12 + 1
十九歳の地図/柳町光男/プロダクション群狼/1979
Jukyu-sai no Chizu (A Nineteen Year-Old’s Plan) / Director: Mitsuo Yahagimachi / Production Company: Gunro Production / 1979
ラピュタ阿佐ヶ谷
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