thundercrack

So I watched “Thundercrack!” and “L.A. Plays Itself” and it made me want to see more.

There’s also a thundercrack of old Hollywood charisma – even in person, she has a real sense of drama about her.

Then with a thundercrack the boom came swinging round and she jibed and jumped northward like a scared cat.

If none of that settles the case for the 1970s as the most thrilling decade of cinema yet, mull over these titles: Annie Hall, Deep End, The Devils, Dog Day Afternoon, In the Realm of the Senses, Straight Time, The Spirit of the Beehive and the scandalous Thundercrack!

Today, I don’t know if I’d stomach the hairy 70s hardcore scenes he was obliged to include, but Thundercrack! remains a work of deranged genius.