Golden Anniversaries features classic films celebrating their 50th anniversaries. The sixth edition of the event highlights films from 1973.
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Films in other languages will feature English subtitles.
Intro and discussion by Lynn Venhaus, a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic who reviews for the Webster-Kirkwood Times, KTRS Radio (Jennifer Blome and Wendy Wiese Show), and PopLifeSTL.com website, www.poplifestl.com
| 1973 | 118 minutes
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Presented as part of Golden Anniversaries, a series that honors films celebrating their 50th year of release.
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
| 1973 | 89 minutes
Directed by: Jack Starrett
During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.
Intro and discussion by Andrew Wyatt, Co-Founder and Managing Editor of The Take-Up.
| 1973 | 122 minutes
Directed by: William Friedkin
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled… more
Cate Marquis, a Rotten Tomatoes certified film critic and film historian who writes for We Are Movie Geeks, the St. Louis Jewish Light, and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and the St. Louis Film Critics Association.
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| 1973 | 122 minutes
Directed by: Federico Fellini
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Intro and discussion by Joshua Ray, film critic for KMOV and Co-Founder and Contributing Editor of The Take-Up.
| 1973 | 89 minutes
Directed by: Orson Welles
Presented as part of Golden Anniversaries, a series that honors films celebrating their 50th year of release.
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of… more
Presented by Robert Hunt, who has been writing and occasionally teaching about movies since 1981, mostly for The Riverfront Times, (and 18 other publications, only two of which are still in business...).
| 1973 | 112 minutes
Directed by: Robert Altman
Presented as part of Golden Anniversaries, a series that honors films celebrating their 50th year of release.
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
| 1973 | 103 minutes
Directed by: Hal Ashby
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Intro and discussion by T.J. Keeley, Ph.D. student in contemporary American literature at Saint Louis University and teacher of English and film at college prep schools in the St. Louis area.
| 1973 | 94 minutes
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Presented as part of Golden Anniversaries, a series that honors films celebrating their 50th year of release.
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
| 1973 | 116 minutes
Directed by: François Truffaut
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Presented by Robert Hunt, who has been writing and occasionally teaching about movies since 1981, mostly for The Riverfront Times, (and 18 other publications, only two of which are still in business...).
| 1973 | 105 minutes
Directed by: Richard Lester
Presented as part of Golden Anniversaries, a series that honors films celebrating their 50th year of release.
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to… more
| 1973 | 98 minutes
Directed by: Victor Erice
In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
With intro and discussion by Jim Tudor, co-founder of ZekeFilm and adjunct professor of film studies at Webster University.
| 1973 | 121 minutes
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Presented as part of Golden Anniversaries, a series that honors films celebrating their 50th year of release.
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
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| 1973 | 120 minutes
Directed by: Lina Wertmüller
When a friend is murdered by fascists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini. A true iconoclast of Italian film, Wertmüller's Love & Anarchy was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
Intro and discussion by Jim Tudor.
| 1973 | 83 minutes
Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman
With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men. This animated Disney classic observes its 50th… more
| 1973 | 86 minutes
Directed by: Eiichi Yamamoto
An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge.
| 1972 | 175 minutes
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Winner of the Oscar for Best Picture — and now widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time — “The Godfather,” based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don’s youngest son,… more
| 1973 | 129 minutes
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Following the murder of a mutual friend, aspiring con man Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) teams up with old pro Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) to take revenge on the ruthless crime boss responsible, Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Hooker and Gondorff set about implementing an elaborate scheme, one so… more
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