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Subgenre Sampler
Shout, The (1978)
- Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York… - An intelligent, enigmatic chiller about an asylum inmate with mystical powers who upsets the lives of an avant garde music composer and his wife in…
Six Plays by Alan Bennett (1978-1979)- Dir. Stephen Frears, Lindsay Anderson, Giles Foster
Feat. Thora Hird, Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge… - Six classic plays by Oscar nominated playwright Alan Bennett, produced by Stephen Frears, who also directs four of the six. ME! I'M AFRAID OF…
Straight Time (1978)
- Dir. Ulu Grosbard
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, M. Emmet Walsh, Harry Dean Stanton… - Dustin Hoffman is brilliantly convincing as a convicted felon fighting a losing battle to go straight after a six year jail term, as are most aspects…
Stud, The (1978)- Dir. Quentin Masters
Feat. Joan Collins - Joan Collins stars in this appropriately ludicrous dramatisation of sister Jackie's trash novel about the rise and fall of a…
Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978)- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi - Portrayal of early 20th century peasantry in Lombardy, this un–melodramatic alternative to Bertolucci’s NOVACENTO, examines with quiet…
Who's Who (1978)- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Adam Norton, Simon Chandler, Philip Davis - The slobbish and the snobbish are unflatteringly portrayed in this early Mike Leigh ensemble piece, a little on the heavy side with its somewhat…
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…
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