Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Richard II (1978)- Dir. David Giles
Feat. Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Jon Finch… - Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Wise Blood (1978)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Brad Dourif - Brad Dourif plays the obsessed leader of the 'Church Without Christ' in this marvellous satire on contemporary evangelism in the American South. From…
Another Bouquet (TV Mini-Series) (1977)- Dir. John Frankau
Feat. Frank Finlay, James Aubrey, Deborah Grant… - So–so follow up to Andrea Newman's painful chronicle of incestual desire is set six months later, and the repercussions are still being felt.
Ascent, The (Voskhozhdeniye) (1977)- Dir. Larisa Shepitko
Feat. Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoli Solonitsyn - A Soviet WWII classic shot in appalling winter conditions in which two partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the…
Joseph Andrews (1977)- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Beryl Reid… - Bawdy picaresque revolves around the romantic misadventures of switched–at–birth servant. Chief amongst his concerns are the unwelcome…
Julia (1977)- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards Jr.… - Dramatising the 1930s memories of playwright Lillian Hellman (THE LITTLE FOXES), this Oscar–winning classic centres on the relationship between…
Last Wave, The (1977)- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, David Gulpilil - A provocative and eerie tale of prophecy and doom sees attorney Richard Chamberlain plagued by horrific visions when assigned to defend a group of…
Roseland (1977)- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Geraldine Chaplin… - Three separate but interlocking stories set in New York's famed dance palace, about people trying to essentially, 'find the right dance partner'.…
Secret Army (TV Series) (1977)- Feat. Bernard Hepton
- This gripping – and unlike its comedy spoof successor ALLO' ALLO!, deadly serious – BBC dramatic series focused on the exploits of a…
Turning Point, The (1977)- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov… - Rarely are ballet films quite so dramatically satisfying – if still laden with a few cliches – than this tale of two friends reuniting,…
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