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Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cabaret-1972 Fri, 24 May 2024 17:22:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cabaret-1972
Director: Bob Fosse
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/on-the-battlefield-1972 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:51:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/on-the-battlefield-1972
Director: Peter Biskind
Cinematographer: Peter Biskind
In 1971, African- American protesters seeking economic justice and voting rights are met with armed violence by white vigilantes in the Mississippi River town of Cairo, Illinois. They fight back. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-godfather-1972 Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:56:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-godfather-1972
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-night-stalker-1972 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:40:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-night-stalker-1972
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Cinematographer: Michel Hugo
An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-harder-they-come-1972 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:40:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-harder-they-come-1972
Director: Perry Henzell
Cinematographer: Peter Jessop, David McDonald, Franklyn St. Juste
Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skyjacked-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:44:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skyjacked-1972
Director: John Guillermin
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Jr.
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/deliverance-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:03:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/deliverance-1972
Director: John Boorman
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bad-company-3-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:47:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bad-company-3-1972
Director: Robert Benton
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
A god-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-sex-but-were-afraid-to-ask-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:22:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-sex-but-were-afraid-to-ask-1972
Director: Woody Allen
Cinematographer: David M. Walsh
Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:07:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie-1972
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cinematographer: Edmond Richard
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-life-and-times-of-judge-roy-bean-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:40:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-life-and-times-of-judge-roy-bean-1972
Director: John Huston
Cinematographer: Richard Moore
In Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fuzz-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:23:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fuzz-1972
Director: Richard A. Colla
Cinematographer: Jacques R. Marquette
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/frogs-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:03:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/frogs-1972
Director: George McCowan
Cinematographer: Mario Tosi
A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pink-flamingos-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:53:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pink-flamingos-1972
Director: John Waters
Cinematographer: John Waters
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive". ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/brother-sun-sister-moon-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:49:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/brother-sun-sister-moon-1972
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cinematographer: Ennio Guarnieri
This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/asylum-of-satan-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:42:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/asylum-of-satan-1972
Director: William Girdler
Cinematographer: William L. Asman
A young woman is brought to an asylum to receive special treatment from a mysterious doctor. Dr. Spector does more than just run the hospital -- he offers his patients as sacrifices to ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/to-all-my-friends-on-shore-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:37:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/to-all-my-friends-on-shore-1972
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cinematographer: Urs Furrer
An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bone-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:50:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bone-1972
Director: Larry Cohen
Cinematographer: George J. Folsey
When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret problem. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hickey-boggs-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:40:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hickey-boggs-1972
Director: Robert Culp
Cinematographer: Bill Butler
Bill Cosby and Robert Culp ("I Spy") are united again as private eyes in this Walter Hill-scripted "film noir." Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/whats-up-doc-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:21:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/whats-up-doc-1972
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cinematographer: László Kovács
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-canterbury-tales-2-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:46:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-canterbury-tales-2-1972
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kansas-city-bomber-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:25:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kansas-city-bomber-1972
Director: Jerrold Freedman
Cinematographer: Fred J. Koenekamp
Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/play-it-again-sam-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:20:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/play-it-again-sam-1972
Director: Herbert Ross
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman
A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/get-to-know-your-rabbit-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:08:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/get-to-know-your-rabbit-1972
Director: Brian De Palma
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo
Young business executive has a change of heart and becomes a struggling but happy tap dancing magician. His old boss ends up ruined without his best employee, but finds a way to bounce back by commercializing his idea. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lady-caroline-lamb-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:52:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lady-caroline-lamb-1972
Director: Robert Bolt
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-king-of-marvin-gardens-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:41:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-king-of-marvin-gardens-1972
Director: Bob Rafelson
Cinematographer: László Kovács
A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/conquest-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:32:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/conquest-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-1972
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fat-city-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:24:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fat-city-1972
Director: John Huston
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/across-110th-street-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:17:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/across-110th-street-1972
Director: Barry Shear
Cinematographer: Jack Priestley
Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pink-floyd-at-pompeii-1972 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:20:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pink-floyd-at-pompeii-1972
Director: Adrian Maben
Cinematographer: Willy Kurant, Gábor Pogány
Live versions of the songs, filmed in an old Pompeii amphitheater. Songs included are Echoes (split into 2 parts), Careful with that axe, Eugene, A saucerful of secrets, One of those days, ... ]]>