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Old Boyfriends - 1979
Written by Paul and Leonard Schrader and directed by Joan Tewkesbury. John Belushi, Talia Shire, Keith Carradine, Buck Henry, and John Houseman star in an exploration of love and relationships as told from one woman's experiences. |
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Paradise Alley - 1978
In Sylvestor Stallone’s directorial debut, three brothers dream of escaping from Hell's Kitchen in the 1940s by taking part in a wrestling competition, hoping that they will strike it rich. However, as the brothers soon discover, things are never as simple as they seem. |
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Despair - 1978
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in his only English Language Film, starring Dirk Bogarde. Despair is the story of Russian natives Hermann and his wife in pre- WWII Nazi Germany. In a search to save his soul from a cheating wife and crazed environment, Hermann takes out a new life insurance policy, hatching an elaborate plot in the belief it will free him of all his worries. |
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Phantom of the Paradise - 1974
Brian De Palma’s rock opera loosely based on Phantom Of The Opera. Starring Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, Bill Finley, and Gerrit Graham. When a record producer ‘Swan’ steals both the music and the muse from composer ‘Winslow Leach’, disfigured Leach plans revenge on Swan and his rock palace known as, The Paradise. |
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Sisters - 1973
One of Brian De Palma’s first films, starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, and William Finley. Grace is a nosy reporter who believes she has witnessed her neighbor, Danielle, murdering her date. Intent on investigating the crime, Grace makes the strange discovery of Danielle’s Siamese twin who may be involved in the murder.
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Badlands - 1973
Internationally acclaimed director Terrence Malick’s debut film starring Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, and Warren Oates. A dramatization of the Stark weather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota Badlands. |
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Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues - 1972
Based on the novel by Michael and Douglas Crichton. A Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Boston to Berkeley, California in Pressman’s third partnership with director Paul Williams. Stars Charles Durning, Barbara Hershey, and John Lithgow in his feature film debut. |
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The Revolutionary - 1970
Pressman’s second collaboration with Paul Williams and Jon Voight. In The Revolutionary, Voight stars as a college student wrestling with his conscience in this exploration of radical left wing activity in the late 60s. Robert Duvall and Seymour Cassel also star.
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