This stunning but demanding Marxist epic ran to almost five and a half hours in director Bernardo Bertolucci’s original cut and spans 45 years of Italian…
Browsing: Movies 1977
Unashamed and supremely slick commercial for the group, maintaining a gentle air of self-parody while at the same time being a celebration of all the…
The best British television comedy of 1977 was not exactly written. Abigail’s Party was the BBC’s first full-length play where much of the dialogue was improvised. The…
Following on from the surprisingly profitable Adventures of a Taxi Driver, this smutty romp sticks to the same formula. In the title role, private detective…
This is the second sequel to Airport (1970) and stars Jack Lemmon as the ageing but very heroic pilot Don Gallagher. This time, the co-pilot, Chambers…
Religious overtones run through this offbeat, multilayered whodunnit horror movie, telling the tale of a devout New Jersey family’s struggle to reveal the killer in…
Woody Allen sub-titled Annie Hall “A Nervous Romance”, and it is certainly that. It’s a very touching, sweet and funny exploration of male/female relationships based on the…
Having met with great popularity and success on television since 1973, Are You Being Served? finally made the transition to the big screen in 1977, giving…
Before The Silence of the Lambs (1991) revitalised his career, Anthony Hopkins hammed it up in less successful movies like Audrey Rose. Directed by Robert Wise…
It seems as if an entire regiment of movie notables appears in this $26 million WWII epic based on Cornelius Ryan’s bestseller about the disastrous…
Filmed at Pinewood Studios in England and on location in Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire and Shropshire, this live-action Disney film opens in Los Angeles where 14-year-old juvenile…
Penelope (Candice Rialson), a young woman who works in a hair salon, discovers that her vagina can talk. Convinced she’s going crazy, Penelope visits Dr…
This comedy-drama about ten debauched Los Angeles police officers – the “choirboys” of the title – begins with hot-tempered redneck cop Roscoe Rules (Tim McIntire)…
It is the year 2047 (despite the title of the film!), sex is forbidden outside of government-sanctioned encounters and The Controller (Erwin Fuller) uses robots…
1977 was a killer year for science fiction. One of the year’s SF blockbusters featured an asthmatic in a mask and black cape fighting a…
This classic example of 70s British film erotica marks a mucky milestone in the history of the UK’s domestic cinema. Horny, humorous and hugely enjoyable,…
The Confessions films relied on a blend of saucy humour and ‘What the Butler Saw’-style smut (much loved by the Carry On team). This was the fourth…
Director Sam Peckinpah switches from his trademark westerns such as The Wild Bunch (1969) to another kind of savagery – this time it’s the Germans in retreat on…
The world has been devastated by a nuclear holocaust, causing the Earth to tilt on its axis bringing vast meteorological chaos. As the weather stabilises,…
The second of a watery trilogy of films deriving from the novels of Peter Benchley (Jaws came before it in 1975, and The Island after in 1980). Jacqueline…
