Posted in Review Year in Film

Rewind 1979 In Film: All That Jazz

For a brief time in American cinema, the auteur reigned. No project was too epic in scale, no subject was off-limits, money was readily available…

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Filmotomy Podcast 79: 1979 in Film

How very apt it is that we arrive at Filmotomy Podcast Episode 79, to discuss the latest of our Rewind series – the year 1979….

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Kramer
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Rewind – 1979 in Film: Kramer vs. Kramer

Recognising a piece of cinema which taps into its time and era with a narrative perfectly relevant and timely is something the Academy Awards do…

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Alien
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1979 in Film: Alien

I was probably 10 or 11 years old when I first had an interaction with the Alien franchise. I was at my Dad’s house when…

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10
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1979 in Film: “10”

This is a look back at “10“, a film by Blake Edwards, that I also like to consider: “Julie Andrews is way too good to…

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Rewind, 1979 in Film: Being There

It may be 40 years since the release of Hal Ashby’s Being There, but somehow the film is even more relevant now. Especially with the…

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1941
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1979 in Film: Steven Spielberg’s 1941

It’s probably contrarian enough to defend a movie like 1941 as a good film, but it may be futile to try to convince people it’s…

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Dracula
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1979 in Film: Frank Langella’s Thirst Trap – On Dracula

An icon of both cinema and literature, few characters are as recognizable as Count Dracula. So many artists have taken a stab at Bram Stoker’s…

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1979
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VIDEO: 1979 in Film – 50 of the Best

Welcome to 1979 in Film. My oh my what a decade that was. And the seventies ended with an extremely memorable year. Francis Ford Coppola…

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