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  • Peter Bogdanovich – At Long Last Love (1975)

    1971-1980ComedyMusicalPeter BogdanovichUSA

    Four socialite old friends unexpectedly clash, and switch partners during a party and attempt to make each other jealous.

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    Peter Bogdanovich’s stylish take on the classic musicals of the 1930s offers an abundance of pleasures, from wall-to-wall Cole Porter tunes and art-deco sets. Nevertheless, At Long Last Love became the critical punching bag of 1975, due largely to the director’s decision to have his stars perform their songs live on set, a daring experiment that can now be appreciated as part and parcel to the film’s relaxed charm.Read More »

  • Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show (1971)

    1971-1980DramaPeter BogdanovichUSA

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    The Last Picture Show is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen, this aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens—the enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), the wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and the desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybil Shepherd)—and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds, including Cloris Leachman’s lonely housewife and Ben Johnson’s grizzled movie-house proprietor. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.Read More »

  • Peter Bogdanovich – Daisy Miller (1974)

    1971-1980DramaPeter BogdanovichRomanceUSA

    It’s the late nineteenth century. Annie Miller, more regularly referred to as Daisy, of Schenectady, New York, is on a grand tour of Europe with her mother, Mrs. Ezra Miller, her precocious adolescent brother, Randolph Miller, and their manservant, Eugenio. It is at their stop in Vevey, Switzerland that Daisy meets Frederick Winterbourne, an American expat studying in Geneva. Frederick has mixed emotions about Daisy. On the one hand, he is captivated by her beauty. On the other, he believes her to be uneducated and improper in her modern American attitude and behavior, she basically doing whatever she wants regardless of the possible perception of impropriety by those in Frederick’s social circle.Read More »

  • Elaine May – The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

    1971-1980ComedyElaine MayRomanceUSA

    Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly…Read More »

  • Martin Scorsese – Taxi Driver (1976)

    1971-1980DramaMartin ScorseseUSA

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    A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.Read More »

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