Film '72: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Film '72 Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Episode 2
Feb 19, 1974
Barry 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 ci
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell/From Beyond the Grave/The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Feb 26, 1974
Episode 6
Mar 19, 1974
Zardoz, 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, Ric
Episode 7
Mar 26, 1974
Barry Norman looks at the new films, including Blume in Love starring George Segal, Papillon starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, and Mean Streets.
Episode 10
Apr 16, 1974
Barry 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
Episode 21
Jul 9, 1974
Francis 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
Episode 28
Sep 3, 1974
How 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 E
Richard Burton: If it Stops, I'm Dead
Sep 6, 1974
How 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 E
Episode 30
Sep 10, 1974
Barry 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 ext
Episode 31
Sep 17, 1974
Barry Norman reviews The Internecine Project (1974) starring James Coburn, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) starring Clint Eastwood, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's prize-winning A
Episode 38
Nov 12, 1974
Barry 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 la
Episode 43
Dec 17, 1974
Barry Norman reviews the new films and looks at the Paramount Part 2 Season at the National Film Theatre.