S03E02 - 1975

Jason Hutchens explores films from 1975 using Letterboxd ratings, jumping five years each month to trace movie trends and cultural shifts. He sets the scene with the era's music, politics and Hollywood changes before hunting for lesser-known favourites. The movies this week are:

• Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, USA)
• Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
• 3 Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack, USA)
• The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, Greece)
• The Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger, USA)
• Nashville (Robert Altman, USA)
• Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, Philippines)

See Jason's review scores for these eight movies on Letterboxd. You may also want to check out BFI's List of the Greatest Films of All Time.