Rite Trecento... (1973)

La Planète Sauvage est un film d'animation de science-fiction réalisé en 1973 par René Laloux sur un scénario écrit par René Laloux et Roland Topor d'après le roman Oms en série de Stefan Wul et coproduit par Les films Armorial (Paris), le Service de la recherche ORTF (Paris) et le Československý Filmexport (Prague). La Planète Sauvage est une adaptation à la fois fidèle et poétique du roman de Stefan Wul. Il obtient le Prix Spécial du jury à Cannes en 1973. Ceux qui ont vécu la sortie de ce film d'une grande poésie s'en souviennent comme d'un défi lancé aux cartoons américains, mais aussi comme un des premiers films d'animation adulte de l'époque. Représentant des humains ravalés au rang d'animaux domestiques des gigantesques Draags, Laloux met en scène une réflexion sur l'intelligence, la société, la politique et finalement sur la nature même de l'humanité.

Fantastic Planet is a 1973 animated science fiction film directed by René Laloux, production designed by Roland Topor, written by both of them and animated at Jiří Trnka Studio. The film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia. It won the special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, from infancy to adulthood. He manages to escape enslavement from a Draag learning device used to educate the savage Oms — and begins to organise an Om revolt. The imagination invested in the surreal creatures, music and sound design, and eerie landscapes, is immense and unforgettable.

This enigmatic, artsy horror film from the early 1970's is a lost classic waiting to be rediscovered. The dreamlike storyline echoes elements of Night Of The Living Dead and Carnival Of Souls but manages to chart a surrealistic course all its own, carefully weaving shocks into its hazy mood to build a very personalized sort of nightmare feel. Marianna Hill and Michael Greer offer subtle, nicely stylized performances, both slowly sliding from self-possessed cool into numb fear in a believable style. There are also effective character turns by Elisha Cook, Jr. as a drunk whose ramblings serve as an early warning of the horrors to come and Bennie Robinson's supremely unnerving turn as an otherworldly agent of the evil that infects the film's small-town setting…..

In the ruins of Hiroshima an ex-soldier, Hirono Shozo, dealing on the black market just to survive, shoots and kills the drunken yakuza who attacked his colleagues. Sent to jail, Shozo shares a cell with another yakuza who has his boss, Yoshiwara, bail Hirono out and give him a place in their organisation. Hirono soon proves his loyalty and rapidly rises through the ranks, culminating in his undertaking a dangerous hit on a rival gang boss that lands him back in jail.
Meanwhile, the gang wars continue unabated in his absence??

Rugantino, giovanotto sbruffone di Trastevere, scommette con tre amici che conquisterà Rosina, moglie pimpante del geloso Gnecco. Ci riesce, approfittanto della sua lontananza, ma si mette nei guai. Girato nel 1973 e ambientato nel 1848 della Roma papalina, è il celebre film interpretato da Adriano Celentano

A flamboyantly blood-spattered samurai revenge picture with a twist: the implacable seeker of retribution is a slender female (Meiko Kaji) with a flawless ivory complexion and a dead-center killer stare. Born in prison, Snowblood is raised by a martial priest and trained to fulfill a single purpose: tracking down, and dismembering (or bisecting), the four cackling fiends who killed her father and persecuted her mother to an early grave. Adapted from another manga comic book written by Kasuo Koike, whose most famous work became the legendary Lone Wolf and Cub film series, this 1973 programmer stays close to its pulp-paper roots: images from the comics are deployed in a couple of montage sequences, and the story is divided into four chapters drawn from the monthly manga installments. Stalwart leading man Toshio Kurasawa plays a crusading journalist who writes a series of Japanese dime novels based on Snowblood's exploits, and manages to flush out a couple of the evildoers in the process.

Johnny Hooker, a grifter from Depression-era Joliet, Illinois, cons $11,000 in cash from an unsuspecting victim, with the aid of his partners Luther Coleman and Joe Erie. Buoyed by the windfall, Luther announces his retirement and advises Hooker to seek out an old friend, Henry Gondorff, in Chicago, to teach him “the big con.”…

Lee is a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong. He receives an invitation to a martial arts competition on an island organised by the mysterious Mr. Han. Lee learns from his Sifu that Han was also once a Shaolin student, but had been expelled from their order for abusing their code of conduct. A British Intelligence agent named Braithwaite approaches Lee and asks for his help in an undercover mission.