Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 1966 • United States
Starring Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner
Francis Ford Coppola’s oft-overlooked second feature is a zanily offbeat entry in the 1960s sex-comedy canon. Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner), a naive nineteen-year-old virgin librarian, leaves behind his home and overprotective parents in Long Island and heads to New York City, where he quickly loses his heart to a go-go dancer (Elizabeth Hartman) and gets a crash course in life, love, and drugs. Updating 1930s-style screwball anarchy for the counterculture ’60s, Coppola directs with whirlwind brio, bolstered by a colorful supporting cast that includes Rip Torn, Karen Black, Julie Harris, and an Oscar-nominated Geraldine Page.
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Across 110th Street
Directed by Barry Shear • 1972 • United States
Starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony FranciosaEvocatively shot on location in 1970s Harlem, this gut-punching crime drama combines film noir and blaxploitation tropes into an explosive portrait of simmering social and racial tensions. Yaph...
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Little Murders
Directed by Alan Arkin • 1971 • United States
Starring Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent GardeniaThe black-comic stage play by writer and Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer provides the basis for Alan Arkin’s directorial debut, a surreal satire of urban alienation and the sensele...
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Black Caesar
Directed by Larry Cohen • 1973 • United States
Starring Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art LundA brutal assault at the hands of a racist cop changes the life of Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson), who will grow up to become the reigning head of Harlem’s Black mafia in this blistering blaxploitation...
