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Twelve Chairs, TheTwelve Chairs, The (1970)
Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise
Obscure, but surprisingly solid second feature from dir. Brooks, lightly weaving a yarn about an antique chair pursued by several…
Twelve Gold Medallions, TheTwelve Gold Medallions, The (Shi er jin pai) (1970)
Dir. Cheng Kang
Feat. Yue Hua
A Shaw Brothers "wuxia" film starring Yueh Hua as an emperor loyalist trying to prevent a message enscribed on twelve gold medallions delivered by…
Two Mules for Sister SaraTwo Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Shirley Maclaine
Mexican–set western adventure following a mysterious nun pursued by the French Army who begins a mutually beneficial relationship with a…
Valerie and Her Week of WondersValerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a tyden divu) (1970) Aro Favourite
Dir. Jaromil Jireš
Feat. Jaroslava Schallerová
Mesmerising surrealist horror film from Czechoslovakia, following a young heroine as she encounters vampires, priests, and other fantasy characters…
Vampire LoversVampire Lovers (1970) Recommended
Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing
Hammer's famous lesbian–vampire pick made a cult star of the Polish–born volupte, Ingrid Pitt, as Carmilla. Esteemed…
Vampyros LesbosVampyros Lesbos (1970)
Dir. Jess Franco
Notorious sexploitation–er from German bad boy dir. Jess Franco, peddles the softcore tale of a real estate agent trapped on an island ruled by…
Viva La MuerteViva La Muerte (1970)
Dir. Fernando Arrabal
This trippy anti–war rarity is a key work from the 1960s Mexican 'Panic Movement' that also produced EL TOPO. Dir. by playwright Fernando…
WalkaboutWalkabout (1970) Recommended
Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. David Gulpilil
An English schoolgirl and her brother end up abandoned by their father in the Australian Outback, before meeting Aboriginal boy David Gulpilil. Dir.…
WandaWanda (1970) Aro Favourite
Dir. Barbara Loden
Feat. Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins
The sole writing/directing credit of Barbara Loden, whose command of verite storytelling is matched by her own astonishing performance as a feckless…
WaterlooWaterloo (1970) Recommended
Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
Napoleonic epic from the Russian director of WAR AND PEACE is dramatically woolly, but includes superb, sprawling battle–scenes. Rod Steiger…

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