As an example of a film show for a comics convention, it’s hard to think of one that’s more impressive than that provided by the Electric Cinema Club for August 6th/7th’s Comicon ‘72. In truth, the line-up of movies the ECC provided, and indeed helped to sponsor, would make for a quite brilliant film festival […]
Read More August 3rd 1972 – The Electric Cinema Club & A Film Show For Comicon ‘72, part 1 of 2Released in the US on June 14th 1972, Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes was officially shown to metropolitan and (some) local film critics alike at the end of the following month. Later, in August, the movie went on general release into ‘the provinces’. Below are selections from the reviews published in half a […]
Read More 29th July 1972 – The Critics and “Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes”Ignoring for the Almanac’s purposes the Planet Of The Apes cover feature in Summer 1972’s Cinefantastique, we arrive instead at the magazine’s film reviews. Unlike the newspaper columns discussing fantastical films that The Almanac has consulted to this point, Cinefantastique was a specialist publication. It expected its audience to be interested, enthusiastic and informed. Here, […]
Read More July 18th 1972 – The View From The Film Reviews of Cinefanastique’s Summer IssueDavid Pelham has insisted that he’s dissatisfied with his cover for 1972’s first Penguin Books edition of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange. With Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of the novel generating both ticket sales and public debate, the rights to a paperback edition of the book all but guaranteed healthy sales. But with that came […]
Read More July 12th 1972 – The Penguin Science Fiction Covers Of David Pelham (1)
The Almanac Of The Fantastical 