Subgenre Sampler
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…
Backroads (1977)- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Bill Hunter - This short road–movie was a moody debut for dir. Noyce, laying out the tale of two drifters (one black, one white) who steal a car for an…
Bilitis (1977)- Dir. David Hamilton
Feat. Patti D'Arbanville - Tissue–thin sex drama from famed 1970s photographer Hamilton (he of those misty images of nude or lace–clad women), going into dreamy…
Blue Collar (1977)- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Pryor - As one might expect from the writer of TAXI DRIVER, dir. Schrader's debut is a gritty, tough–minded drama of macho ethics, set in the grinding…
Bobby Deerfield (1977)- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey… - Solid, if overlong and overly sincere, drama about an American racing car driver (Pacino) who falls in love with a dying heiress. Not exactly…
Chess Players, The (1977)- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Richard Attenborough - India's first internationally renowned film–maker draws upon the ancient game of chess as a metaphor for Anglo–Indian political relations…
Citizen Smith (1977-1980)- Dir. Ray Butt
Feat. Robert Lindsay - Mischievous TV comedy about self–styled 'urban guerilla' Wolfie Smith (Lindsay) who tries to spark a socialist revolution from the London…
Despair (1977)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - Fassbinder's blackly comic adaptation of Nabakov's novel about delusion, depression and decline of the human spirit. Dirk Bogarde plays a Russian…
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