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Title Director Publisher Price
The Falcon and the Snowman John Schlesinger $12.77
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Read more and comment... 		Based on a true story, this film delves deeply into the cold war nexus of defense industries, the CIA, the KGB, and the underground world of drugs, and in the process demonstrates the parallels and linkages between them.
Darling John Schlesinger $12.77

Read more and comment... 		If any film can said to be the sequel to Fellini's La Dolce Vita, this is it.  Sumptuously filmed in B & W in a style that at times deliberately echoes Fellini, this film captures the ennui that lies at the center of striving after success and the concomitant materialistic cravings that such a lifestyle engenders and so deepened the reflective mood of reprioritization that characterized the 1960s.  A penetrating and beautiful masterpiece, this film took the 1965 Oscar® for Original Screenplay (by Frederic Raphael) and Christie took Best Actress -- rare wins for a British production.  Yet, like the next film on our list, it is a film for today as well.
Marathon Man John Schlesinger $12.77

Read more and comment... 		Reuniting Schlesinger and Hoffman in a thriller involving a graduate student (Hoffman) and a Nazi fugitive (Olivier) locked in a deadly game of intrigue. Intense.
Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger $12.77

Read more and comment... 		The only X-Rated film to ever win the Oscar® for Best Picture (it's rated R now), also gave Schlesinger an Oscar® for Direction.  A fable of innocence and despair, it somewhat caricatures its protagonists, but is nevertheless a film unique in the annals of Hollywood.
Sunday Bloody Sunday John Schlesinger $12.77

Read more and comment... 		Watching this film today is a real wake up call.  A totally matter of fact look at the varieties of human behavior and interactions, Sunday Bloody Sunday will have you wondering, "What happened?"  The citizens populating the 1971 portrayed in this film posses a reasonable and measured approach to living that we seem to have lost somewhere en route to the twenty-first century.  The screenplay by Penelope Gilliatt is a wonder of simple human being, refreshingly free of the hooks and plot gimmicks that so inundate the cinema of the present.  Schlesinger's direction is an all too rare mastering of naturalism.  A film to savor.
The Believers John Schlesinger $12.77

Read more and comment... 		This time out Schlesinger looks for linkages in superstitions and conspiracies in the unconscious and asks the question, "When does religious belief become a crime?"
The Day of the Locust John Schlesinger $12.77

Read more and comment... 		And speaking of Hollywood, this film is an epic adaptation of Nathanael West's infamous novels of Hollywood in the late '30s that is at one with its subject.  The definitive '70s film about Hollywood.