Movie Masterpieces Through The Ages: the 1970's

Contact

Organizer: Keswick Alhambra Cinema

Name: Keswick Alhambra Cinema

Phone: 017687 72195

Email: [email protected]

Website: keswickalhambra.co.uk

Address

St. Johns Street
Keswick, Cumbria,
Keswick
CA12 5AG

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Direction

The Alhambra Cinema is located in St Johns Street just up from the Market Square.

Details

Max Newsom, film director, script writer, producer and film lecturer, continues his series of talks on film masterpieces of the 1920's - 2000's, with the following dates: 

Tues 25th June - 1970's

Tues 23rd July - 1980's

Tues 24th Sept - 1990's

Tues 22nd Oct - 2000's

Each lecture includes short clips from movies of the era, a short recap of the previous decade's main contributions to the developing form, as well as an outline of the contemporary political and social issues.

After each talk, there will be a short, 15-min break, complementary tea and biscuits, then a presentation of a classic film from the decade disussed.

1970's - Tough Guys and Tough Girls; Hollywood discovers high-concept; Madison Avenue moves to Los Angeles (marketing trumps content); the anti-hero rises again, still the victim of society; Vietnam;

Watergate; America reaches for the New Wave; Paramount and Robert Evans; the Empire strikes back.

1970's mentions to include: Company Limited; Vanishing Point; The Harder They Come; Amarcord; French Connection; Five Easy Pieces; Day for Night; Don't Look Now; Les Valseuses; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Jaws; Taxi Driver; Serpico; Being There; Stalker; Slapshot; Annie Hall; Manhattan; Barry Lyndon; The Man Who Loved Women; Alice in the Cities; All the President's Men; Get Carter; Shampoo; Star Wars; Apocalypse Now.

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