Coming to PMA Films in June: "Summer of '75"

a special film series MARKING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SOME OF THE GREAT FILMS IN WORLD CINEMA

In the annals of Academy Awards history, 1975’s lineup of Best Picture nominees may stand head and shoulders above the rest. Barry Lyndon is a remarkable balance of wry comedy and genuine empathy. Dog Day Afternoon infuses a heist film with the nervy energy of New Hollywood. Jaws invented the summer blockbuster, and was perhaps never duplicated. Nashville is a cacophonous and singular national statement. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest invented two iconic archetypes. These films alone pose a decent argument for 1975 as the greatest year in film, but so much more was happening outside of a Hollywood system in the midst of one of its most exciting moments. Experimental filmmaker Chantal Akerman made her biggest statement to date, and emerged with what is now considered “the greatest film of all time. In Senegal, renegade Ousmane Sembène adapted his own novel into a stunning satire. In East Hampton, New York, a group of documentary filmmakers captured the extravagant destitution and pluck of two women on the outskirts of an American dynasty.

“Summer of ‘75,” the first of a two-part series, begins an exploration of a moment in world cinema where the outré went mainstream and some of our greatest filmmakers released their grandest statements.

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