Tuesday, August 29, 2006

British Film in the 1970s

Here is a representative list:
* Ryan's Daughter (1970)
* The Railway Children (1970)
* The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
* Ned Kelly (1970)
* Performance (1970)
* The Go-Between (1971)
* A Clockwork Orange (1971)
* Straw Dogs (1971)
* Walkabout (1971)
* 10 Rillington Place (1971)
* Get Carter (1971)
* Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
* A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
* Sleuth (1972)
* Don't Look Now (1973)
* The Wicker Man (1973)
* The Day of the Jackal (1973)
* Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
* The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
* The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
* The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
* Jabberwocky (1977)
* Jubilee (1977)
* A Bridge Too Far (1977)
* The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
* Alien (1979)
* Life of Brian (1979)
* Tess (1979)

It's obvious that there was a gamut of topics covered, though interesting tropes are noticable. Wacky and off-beat comedies like those of Monty Python had success. Stories dealing with intrigue and national security like the continuing adventures of James Bond have a considerable showing. Personal dramas are less visible.

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