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Film '72

Season 3

1974 · 44 episodes

  1. 1. Episode 1

    1974-01-08

  2. 2. Episode 2

    1974-02-19

    Barry Norman reviews some of the new films which have opened in recent weeks, including The Way We Were, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Also, a look at late night cinema shows.

  3. 3. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell/From Beyond the Grave/The Satanic Rites of Dracula

    1974-02-26

  4. 4. Episode 4

    1974-03-05

  5. 5. Episode 5

    1974-03-12

  6. 6. Episode 6

    1974-03-19

    Zardoz, written, produced and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery, is a vision of the world in 2293. Barry Norman talks to John Boorman about his new film. Also, Richard Lester talks about The Three Musketeers, this year's choice for the Royal Film Performance.

  7. 7. Episode 7

    1974-03-26

    Barry Norman looks at the new films, including Blume in Love starring George Segal, Papillon starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, and Mean Streets.

  8. 8. Episode 8

    1974-04-02

  9. 9. Episode 9

    1974-04-09

  10. 10. Episode 10

    1974-04-16

    Barry Norman interviews director Jack Clayton about his film version of The Great Gatsby; Frederic Raphael discusses the problems of adapting novels to the screen; and Sidney Lumet talks about filming the true story of Serpico.

  11. 11. Episode 11

    1974-04-23

  12. 12. Episode 12

    1974-04-30

  13. 13. Episode 13

    1974-05-07

  14. 14. Episode 14

    1974-05-14

  15. 15. Episode 15

    1974-05-20

  16. 16. Episode 16

    1974-05-28

  17. 17. Episode 17

    1974-06-04

  18. 18. Episode 18

    1974-06-11

  19. 19. Episode 19

    1974-06-18

  20. 20. Episode 20

    1974-07-02

  21. 21. Episode 21

    1974-07-09

    Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather (1972) and winner of this year's Cannes Grand Prix for The Conversation (1974) talks about his films and his future. "I'm not going to work for money anymore." Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland introduce their new film S*P*Y*S (1974) and Barry Norman reviews the new releases.

  22. 22. Episode 22

    1974-07-16

  23. 23. Episode 23

    1974-07-30

  24. 24. Episode 24

    1974-08-06

  25. 25. Episode 25

    1974-08-13

  26. 26. Episode 26

    1974-08-20

  27. 27. Episode 27

    1974-08-27

  28. 28. Episode 28

    1974-09-03

    How long can super-stardom last? Richard Burton was 26 when he was hailed as the great actor of his generation. But, as he says, that was all BC - 'before Cleopatra' - and before Elizabeth Taylor. Earlier this year, in Italy, where Burton was filming The Voyage for Vittorio

  29. 29. Richard Burton: If it Stops, I'm Dead

    1974-09-06

    How long can super-stardom last? Richard Burton was 26 when he was hailed as the great actor of his generation. But, as he says, that was all BC - 'before Cleopatra' - and before Elizabeth Taylor. Earlier this year, in Italy, where Burton was filming The Voyage for Vittorio De Sica, he talked enigmatically to BARRY NORMAN.

  30. 30. Episode 30

    1974-09-10

    Barry Norman looks at the new films and reports on the American Film Theatre: this is a new way, already very successful in America of seeing major plays on film. Film 74 shows extracts from The Homecoming, directed by Peter Hall, and Butley, directed by Harold Pinter,

  31. 31. Episode 31

    1974-09-17

    Barry Norman reviews The Internecine Project (1974) starring James Coburn, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) starring Clint Eastwood, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's prize-winning Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), and talks to Lillian Gish about D. W. Griffith

  32. 32. Episode 32

    1974-09-24

  33. 33. Episode 33

    1974-10-01

  34. 34. Episode 34

    1974-10-15

  35. 35. Episode 35

    1974-10-22

  36. 36. Episode 36

    1974-10-29

  37. 37. Episode 37

    1974-11-05

  38. 38. Episode 38

    1974-11-12

    Barry Norman looks at two new films made by British directors: The Abdication directed by Anthony Harvey which stars Peter Finch and Liv Ullman and was made on location in Italy last year. Akenfield directed by Peter Hall

  39. 39. Episode 39

    1974-11-19

  40. 40. Episode 40

    1974-11-26

  41. 41. Episode 41

    1974-12-03

  42. 42. Episode 42

    1974-12-10

  43. 43. Episode 43

    1974-12-17

    Barry Norman reviews the new films and looks at the Paramount Part 2 Season at the National Film Theatre.

  44. 44. Episode 44

    1974-12-31

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