‘75 / ‘25 is a bi-monthly series whose goal is to analyse some of 1975’s great films in the context of the world in which they were birthed, and seek to find analogues within the 2025 slate of films in an effort to compare and contrast our current moment to fifty years ago. Warning: This…
The year 1975 is widely ascribed to be the first canonical ‘Great Movie Year’ – that is the first to have its movies lauded, interrogated and discussed widely as a collective. The dawn of the modern blockbuster with Steven Spielberg’s Jaws arrived alongside a raft of exciting auteur-driven projects, old Hollywood-style epics, hit musicals, and…
