Film

Season 3

The BBC's flagship cinema review television programme featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the programme changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.

Where to Watch Film • Season 3

44 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2Barry Norman reviews some of the new films which have opened in recent weeks, including The Way We Were, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Also, a look at late night cinema shows.
  • Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell/From Beyond the Grave/The Satanic Rites of Dracula
    E3
    Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell/From Beyond the Grave/The Satanic Rites of Dracula
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4
  • Episode 5
    E5
    Episode 5
  • Episode 6
    E6
    Episode 6Zardoz, written, produced and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery, is a vision of the world in 2293. Barry Norman talks to John Boorman about his new film. Also, Richard Lester talks about The Three Musketeers, this year's choice for the Royal Film Performance.
  • Episode 7
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    Episode 7Barry Norman looks at the new films, including Blume in Love starring George Segal, Papillon starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, and Mean Streets.
  • Episode 8
    E8
    Episode 8
  • Episode 9
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    Episode 9
  • Episode 10
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    Episode 10Barry Norman interviews director Jack Clayton about his film version of The Great Gatsby; Frederic Raphael discusses the problems of adapting novels to the screen; and Sidney Lumet talks about filming the true story of Serpico.
  • Episode 11
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    Episode 11
  • Episode 12
    E12
    Episode 12
  • Episode 13
    E13
    Episode 13
  • Episode 14
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    Episode 14
  • Episode 15
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    Episode 15
  • Episode 16
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    Episode 16
  • Episode 17
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    Episode 17
  • Episode 18
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    Episode 18
  • Episode 19
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    Episode 19
  • Episode 20
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    Episode 20
  • Episode 21
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    Episode 21Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather (1972) and winner of this year's Cannes Grand Prix for The Conversation (1974) talks about his films and his future. "I'm not going to work for money anymore." Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland introduce their new film S*P*Y*S (1974) and Barry Norman reviews the new releases.
  • Episode 22
    E22
    Episode 22
  • Episode 23
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    Episode 23
  • Episode 24
    E24
    Episode 24
  • Episode 25
    E25
    Episode 25
  • Episode 26
    E26
    Episode 26
  • Episode 27
    E27
    Episode 27
  • Episode 28
    E28
    Episode 28How long can super-stardom last? Richard Burton was 26 when he was hailed as the great actor of his generation. But, as he says, that was all BC - 'before Cleopatra' - and before Elizabeth Taylor. Earlier this year, in Italy, where Burton was filming The Voyage for Vittorio
  • Richard Burton: If it Stops, I'm Dead
    E29
    Richard Burton: If it Stops, I'm DeadHow long can super-stardom last? Richard Burton was 26 when he was hailed as the great actor of his generation. But, as he says, that was all BC - 'before Cleopatra' - and before Elizabeth Taylor. Earlier this year, in Italy, where Burton was filming The Voyage for Vittorio De Sica, he talked enigmatically to BARRY NORMAN.
  • Episode 30
    E30
    Episode 30Barry Norman looks at the new films and reports on the American Film Theatre: this is a new way, already very successful in America of seeing major plays on film. Film 74 shows extracts from The Homecoming, directed by Peter Hall, and Butley, directed by Harold Pinter,
  • Episode 31
    E31
    Episode 31Barry Norman reviews The Internecine Project (1974) starring James Coburn, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) starring Clint Eastwood, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's prize-winning Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), and talks to Lillian Gish about D. W. Griffith
  • Episode 32
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    Episode 32
  • Episode 33
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    Episode 33
  • Episode 34
    E34
    Episode 34
  • Episode 35
    E35
    Episode 35
  • Episode 36
    E36
    Episode 36
  • Episode 37
    E37
    Episode 37
  • Episode 38
    E38
    Episode 38Barry Norman looks at two new films made by British directors: The Abdication directed by Anthony Harvey which stars Peter Finch and Liv Ullman and was made on location in Italy last year. Akenfield directed by Peter Hall
  • Episode 39
    E39
    Episode 39
  • Episode 40
    E40
    Episode 40
  • Episode 41
    E41
    Episode 41
  • Episode 42
    E42
    Episode 42
  • Episode 43
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    Episode 43Barry Norman reviews the new films and looks at the Paramount Part 2 Season at the National Film Theatre.
  • Episode 44
    E44
    Episode 44

Cast of Season 3

  • Barry NormanSelf - Host

 

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