Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Will Shakespeare (TV Mini-series) (1978)- Dir. Mark Cullingham, Robert Knights
Feat. Tim Curry, Ian McShane, Nicholas Clay… - 6 Part Mini Series dramatising the life of Shakespeare, portrayed by Tim Curry. Each episode centres around the creation of a different play.
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…
Wuthering Heights (TV Mini-series) (1978)- Dir. Peter Hammond
Feat. Ken Hutchison, Kay Adshead, Pat Heywood… - Lengthy BBC adaptation of the classic story of doomed lovers Cathy (Adshead) and Heathcliff (Hutchinson) is also considered the most accurate,…
3 Women (Three Women) (1977)- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall, Janice Rule - Inspired by a dream, dir. Robert Altman shapes a memorably ethereal drama around the idiosyncratic qualities of actresses Shelley Duvall and Sissy…
A Special Day (1977)- Dir. Ettore Scola
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon - Quietly subversive drama set entirely in a working–class apartment building in Rome, on the fateful day in 1938 that Mussolini welcomed Hitler…
Amazing Howard Hughes, The (1977)- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, James Hampton… - Produced for television, this biopic of the reclusive millionaire is suprisingly large–scale, but a little safe in its treatment of Hughes'…
An Enemy of the People (1977)- Dir. George Shaefer
Feat. Steve McQueen, Charles Durning - Seldom–seen version of the Henrik Ibsen play (adapted by Arthur Miller), was a labour of love for Steve McQueen, who plays a scientist…
Annie Hall (1977)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton - The 'hall'mark of Woody Allen's career – it won him an Oscar for Best Picture and made him a household name. It's a hilarious send–up of…
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…
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