Want to stay in touch with the latest updates from Cinema Retro? That's easy! Just subscribe clicking the Follow button below, choose topics or keywords for filtering if you want to, and we send the news to your inbox, to your phone via push notifications or we put them on your personal page here on follow.it.
Reading your RSS feed has never been easier!
Website title: Cinema Retro
Is this your feed? Claim it!
An industrious YouTuber has posted these Beta tape transfers of American T.V. commercials from April, 1977. Quality isn't great, as you might imagine, but for those of us of a certain age, it's a lot of fun to travel back to those days. You even get to see a commercial for Neil Diamond's "latest" album! No references to the internet, which was still a long way in ...
By Lee Pfeiffer
Kino Lorber has released a Blu-ray edition of the 1973 Euro Western "The Man Called Noon", based on the novel by Louis L'Amour. The film was produced by Euan Lloyd, who had previously brought L'Amour's novel "Shalako" to the screen in 1968 starring Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot and an impressive supporting cast. "Noon" is no ...
Here is the most poignant scene in the 1973 sci-fi film "Soylent Green". In an overpopulated world with an abundance of crime and a shortage of food, the government offers a reward for anyone who volunteers to end their life. The incentive is that they will die a peaceful death while watching rare footage of the way earth used to be in the distance past, with imag...
By Lee Pfeiffer
In the 1970s and 1980s, Israeli producers Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan took Hollywood by storm by unleashing a tidal wave of low-budget exploitation films that were superbly marketed and which made their Cannon Films the toast of the town. The fare was generally for undiscriminating viewers who were willing to plunk ...
This ad appeared in Boxoffice magazine in April 1968 extolling the longevity of Fox's three big roadshow presentations. For the unenlightened, "roadshow" films were big budget productions that played in grand movie palaces in select cities. It could often be many months before these films came to neighborhood theaters nationwide. What is remarkable about t...
