Coming to PMA Films in October: "Fall of '75"

a(nother) 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. Pier Paolo Pasolini completed production on the enduringly shocking Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, and was brutally murdered just weeks before its controversial premiere. Peter Weir’s second full-length feature, Picnic at Hanging Rock, established the Australian New Wave as an innovative force. In the Philippines, Lino Brocka’s remarkably vibrant and modern Manila in the Claws of Light set a benchmark for national cinema that may remain unequalled.

“Fall of ‘75,” the second half of a two-part series, completes an exploration of a moment in world cinema where the outré went mainstream and some of our greatest filmmakers released their grandest statements. It concludes with Marguerite Duras’s prismatic and masterful India Song, an appropriately challenging and revelatory bookend to Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman.

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