1977-The Second-Best Year in American Movie History
| Dates: | February 19 - May 7, 2025 |
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| Meets: | Wednesdays, February 19 - May 7, 2025, 10 a.m. to 12 noon |
| Location: | The Carnegie |
| Cost: | $0.00 |
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1977 is the year that gave us the most successful movie in its time (Star Wars). A Woody Allen comedy won best picture (Annie Hall). Steven Spielberg showed how music could connect us with aliens (Close Encounters of the Third Kind). A Neil Simon comedy won a Best Actor award for Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl). Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Fonda were nominated for Oscars in a haunting holocaust drama (Julia). Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft along with Mikhael Baryshnikov were nominated for Oscars in a film about ballet dancers that was nominated for 11 Oscars (Turning Point). John Travolta starred in the definitive disco film (Saturday Night Fever). There was another James Bond hit (The Spy Who Loved Me). And there were more ground-breaking films. Did this creative outpouring result from the change in American society post Viet Nam War? Or were there other societal influences? We will explore what made all of these films possible in one year, through discussions and film clips. (Note: 1939 is considered the best year according to most film historians).
| Fee: | $0.00 |
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| Hours: | 24.00 |
The Carnegie
10100 Washingtonian Blvd.Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Stan Levin
Stan Levin has a degree in Film and Theatre from New York University. He also studied theater at the graduate level at the Catholic University of America. He was a documentary film maker for the US Department of Agriculture and an award-winning writer of radio and TV commercials. He was a nationally syndicated film critic, and is a frequent lecturer on film and contemporary culture in the DC Metro area.
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| 02/19/2025 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | The Carnegie |
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| 03/12/2025 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | The Carnegie |
| 03/19/2025 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | The Carnegie |
| 03/26/2025 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | The Carnegie |
| 04/02/2025 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | The Carnegie |
| 04/09/2025 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | The Carnegie |
| 04/16/2025 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | The Carnegie |
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