Subgenre Sampler
Edward and Mrs. Simpson (TV Mini-series) (1978)- Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris, Peggy Ashcroft… - Tasteful, but perceptive television series follows the scandalous romance between British monarch Edward VIII and American socialite (and divorcee)…
Empire of the Passions (ai no borei) (1978)- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki - Searing, underrated crime of passion from the dir. of IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES focuses less on explicit sex, unfolding as a ghost…
End, The (1978)- Dir. Burt Reynolds
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise - Black comedy directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, who plays a real–estate agent who decides to kill himself when he is diagnosed with a…
F.I.S.T. (Fist) (1978)- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle… - Earnest union drama with Stallone as a Jimmy Hoffa type union leader whose idealism is gradually corrupted. Curious misfire is worth a watch with a…
Fedora (1978)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. William Holden, Marthe Keller, Jose Ferrer… - Fascinating later work from dir. Wilder, in which an impoverished film producer travels to the Greek islands to track down an elusive European star…
Fingers (1978)- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown… - Harvey Keitel conjures up the required intensity for this portrait of a frustrated concert pianist with a violent temper. The nerve–shredding…
FM (1978)- Dir. John A Alonzo
Feat. Michael Brandon - No static at all, and no commercials either (well, not too many) if the liberal, music–dedicated broadcasters get their way over the interests…
Four Feathers, The (1978)- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Jane Seymour, Beau Bridges, Robert Powell - Fine costume drama, based on A E W Mason's classic tale of a British officer charged with cowardice, who regains his honour and his love, during an…
George Eliot Boxset (The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda) (1978-2002)- Five BBC classics from the pen of George Eliot. Collection includes: The Mill on the Floss (1978), Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1985),…
Hitler - A Film From Germany (1978)- Dir. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
- An epic and highly original exploration of the sources of German fascism, in which experimentalist dir. Syberberg weaves a tapestry of surreal…
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