British Cinema of the 1970s

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was there any?

srsly, after the first few years of the '70s, what happened? i kind of know what happened: hollywood cut and run from its european operations.

but is there anything going on i'm missing?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

The Confessions... movies.

― It's Tough to Beat Illious (noodle vague), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

right -- basically them and spin-offs from sitcoms.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure, other than what you say, but right after the O Lucky Man! period you get all the stimulating TV stuff, like Leigh, Clarke, Dennis Potter.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)
Carry On Loving (1970)
Carry On Henry (1971)
Carry On at Your Convenience (1971)
Carry On Matron (1972)
Carry On Abroad (1972)
Carry On Girls (1973)
Carry On Dick (1974)
Carry On Behind (1975)
Carry On England (1976)
Carry On Emmannuelle (1978)

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

The one about the Iranian embassy siege. "Here We Come" or something.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Jarman? Loach? Bill Douglas?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

indeed, indeed, the carry ons.

morbius -- basically yeah. it's interesting that leigh made (iirc) just 1x film in the 70s, and then none until the late 80s; and that loach, who did two or three films in the late 60s again did nothing for the big screen till (i think) 'fatherland' in 1986. clarke is the best british director of the 70s and 80s -- and he did maybe two features?

jarman and douglas were bfi appointees. i guess they count as filmmakers, but not really.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

PJ, are you thinking of 'Who Dares Wins'?

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Hammer/Amicus - they'd kind of given up the ghost(s) by then too

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

i saw a bit of 'who dares wins' the other week. i think it's early 80s (post-siege) but it is absolutely amazing.

stuart lee apparently did a live 'commentary' on it at the barbican. it's astonishingly right-wing. i would pay for the dvd, if it had his commentary, it's an interesting idea.

oh: 'the wild geese'.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Ken Russell!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Mike Hodges?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

imdb
PowerSearch Results (country = uk, 1970-1979, excluding tv stuff)
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lots of hammer. clockwork orange. close encounters. day of the jackal. did somebody drop this mouse? all the classics.

― Koogy Bloogies (koogs), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

stewart lee is astonishingly rightwing?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

syntax error

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Hammer was pretty much finished by the mid-70s tho? That's why they ended up doing telly instead?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

hodges only did 'get carter' before moving to the US.

russell is about right. kind of says it all.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

"Pulp" isn't an American film tho?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Hello, Nicolas Roeg.

― Hatch (Hatch), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

The Sweeney films!

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

pulp is sort of 'international' i guess.

roeg left the UK after 'performance'.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin Brownlow, "Winstanley"

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

yes. again bfi!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

So?

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

I got the dvd of 'Who Dares Wins' for about £3.99 on amazon, worth the price of admission for Lewis Collins' smooth pick up line alone. The soundtrack's by Roy Budd who did the soundtrack for Get Carter too.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

means they're not real films! kidding a bit, but i'm more interested in what happened to popular british cinema, cos in the 60s london was a major location/studio location/etc and in the 70s, almost overnight, that international profile disappeared -- and at the same time, so did the cinematic presence of the free cinema-woodfall-loach tradition.

xpost

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, Michael Winner!

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

lee appears to have done more of these commentaries. i would have been up for the 'festival' one:

"Bad film club – King Arthur or Festival?
Bad Film Club is a night where someone choses a film they hate, introduces it and then interrupts it. I’ve done 2 so far. Earlier this year I done Who Dares Wins at The Barbican, which was ace, and then last month I done March Of The Penguins in Brighton, which to be honest is actually too shit a film to screen really. On December 14th Bad Film Club have invited me back to the Barbican again where I will be ruining either that King Arthur film from a couple of years back, or C4’s comedy-drama Festival. Tickets not yet on sale, but they will be soon. http://www.barbican.org.uk/film "

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, Who Dares Wins. Filmed in the same building as Carry On Up The Khyber, fact fans.

Does Escape From The Dark count as a British film?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

I am reading The British Film Book, I suppose there will be a chapter about the 70s eventually.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Blimey, Who Dares Wins, the film Judy Davis has spent the rest of her career trying to live down. Also featuring Kenneth Griffith as Monsignor Bruce Kent (more or less).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

Judy Davis is hott in "Who Dares Wins"

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

is she like an irish muslim peacenik commie in it or something?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

She's a kind of Greenwich Common CND hippy chick fanatic

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

... with a bit of Baader-Meinhof thrown in

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

(Hardly relevant here, and I don't know how much it is retailing for generally, but Fopp are currently selling the BFI Free Cinema box for a tenner - which seems like a snip for 450mins of film.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i saw that -- tempting.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

The Railway Children!

― DavidM* (unreal), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://imdb.com/name/nm0000256/

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

she's successful

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

+ hot

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://imagesource.art.com/images/-/The-Wild-Geese-Poster-C10134698.jpeg

― DavidM* (unreal), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Some of the "highlights" of 1970's British cinema:

Film versions of Love Thy Neighbour, Are You Being Served?, Porridge, The Likely Lads, George And Mildred, Please Sir, On The Buses etc.

Amicus anthologies - Tales From The Crypt, Tales That Witness Madness, Asylum, The House That Dripped Blood.

Exploitation auteur Pete Walker - House Of Whipcord, House Of Mortal Sin, Frightmare, The Comeback etc.

Horror hack Norman J. Warren - Satan's Slave, Prey, Terror, Inseminoid.

Mary Millington skinflicks. Also starring Wilfrid Brambell, Alan Lake, Queenie Watts and Ingmar Bergman's daughter.

The Stud and The Bitch with Joan Collins.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

Who Dares Wins was released in 1982.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://film.guardian.co.uk/patterson/story/0,,2056628,00.html is sort of what i meant

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

I think that's about the size of it. Combination of economics and public policy. No lack of talent.

I was thinking about 'the Great Rock'N'Roll Swindle' as combining just about element of 70's British trash cinema into one spectacular mess, but it's from 1980.

― Soukesian, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

private road came out in the 1970s so....

― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 13:58 (nine years ago)

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