Category: 1970s

• The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) dir. Nicholas Roeg

  September 25, 2025

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  1970s, International, New, Science Fiction, Western European

  This highly underrated work of science fiction takes an extraterrestrial perspective on our world by questioning who is the real alien: those from other planets, or ourselves? Science fiction is always a tricky genre to navigate. Sometimes the best way to explore humanity is by venturing outside of it, even though sometimes the fascination with…

  

• A Clockwork Orange (1971) dir. Stanley Kubrick

  September 4, 2025

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  1970s, Thriller, Western European

  A Clockwork Orange got deep under my skin. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film that’s made me so uncomfortable, and I could point to a variety of things within the movie that accomplished in eliciting that feeling, from the graphic rape scene in the beginning to the Ludovico treatment. But I think what’s…