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Subgenre Sampler
Yes Minister (TV Series) (1980-1982)- Dir. Sydney Lotterby
Feat. Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds, Nigel Hawthorne - The excellent, mildly pointed satire on British politics in Whitehall, with aristocratic bureaucrats Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds gently guiding…
Young Master, The (Shi di chu ma) (1980)- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Biao Yuen - A fine early action–comedy from the phenomenal Jackie Chan, here trying to lure a wayward fellow student back to the 'right' side of martial…
10 (1979)- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews - The cuddly charms of Dudley Moore lift this light comedy out of the saccharine. Moore plays a successful composer falling in love with gorgeous Bo…
1941 (1979)- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Toshiro Mifune - The dir.’s only real commercial failure, this loose slapstick comedy, set in a Californian seaside town visited by a Japanese submarine in 1941,…
A Force Of One (1979)- Dir. Paul Aaron
Feat. Chuck Norris, Jennifer O'Neill, Clu Gulager… - Passable crime thriller with Chuck Norris near the start of his career playing a karate champion assisting the police to hunt down a…
AC/DC: Let There Be Rock (1979)- AC/DC's legendary 1979 Paris concert film preserved for the first time on DVD. Includes a 93–minute documentary on the band's epic performance.
Alexandria... Why? (1979)- Dir. Youssef Chahine
- An autobiographical film about the early life of director Youssef Chahine, set in Alexandria. Winner of the Silver Bear at the 29th Berlin…
Alien (1979)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt… - One of the best films of modern cinema, this classic combines nail–shredding suspense with H.R. Giger's awesome production design. This film…
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Richard Thomas, Donald Pleasence… - While the 1930's film of Erich Maria Remarque's exceptional anti–war novel is undoubtedly a masterpiece, this later version should not be…
All That Jazz (1979)
- Dir. Bob Fosse
Feat. Roy Scheider - Audacious, some would say self–indulgent, musical–comedy – a semi–autobiography of celebrated New York choreographer and…
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