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Leo Sayer Greatest Hits - The Videos (1974-2010)
- Generous (though not definitive) compilation of the songs that made diminuitive British pop singer Leo Sayer a household name in the 1970s and…
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (1974)
- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Leonard Cohen
- Fittingly moody portrait of the master of melancholy is an intimate account of his exhausting 1972 European Tour.
Madama Butterfly (Puccini) (1974)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Feat. Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo
- Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan.
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper…
- A genuine oddity, this musical/horror spans both dir. De Palma’s satirical and horror periods, with the story of the PHANTOM OF THE OPERA updated…
Sun Ra - Space is the Place (1974)
- Dir. John Coney
- Mind–straining curiosity has freaky jazz bandleader Sun Ra and his "Intergalactic Solar Arkestra" landing on Earth in a yellow spaceship and…
Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club (1974)
- Feat. Colin Crompton, Bernard Manning
- British variety show set in a fictional working men's club in the North of England, involving comedy sing–a–longs and audience…
Don Quixote (1973)
- Feat. Rudolph Nureyev
- A renowned ballet version of Cervantes masterpiece, with Rudolph Nureyev both performing and choreographing. Inspired by earlier Russian dance…
Jimi Hendrix (A Film About Jimi Hendrix) (1973)
- Feat. Jimi Hendrix
- Officially authorised by the Hendrix estate, this tribute features interviews with those that knew him and rarely seen backstage footage. The 11…
That'll Be the Day (1973)
- Dir. Claude Whatham
Feat. David Essex, Ringo Starr, James Booth…
- Popstar David Essex plays a British working–class youth who rejects the staid conformity of 50's Britain and eventually drifts into the…
Wattstax (1973)
- Dir. Mel Stuart
- A little–seen yet significant concert film of the 'Wattstax' festival in Los Angeles in 1972, organised to commemorate the 7th anniversary of…