I Wanna Hold Your Hand - R. Zemeckis, 1978
This is pretty funny, and a lot of fun. Some great characters, implausible situations, and it all comes together really well. A really interesting document of a time and place in music.
B
Quadraphenia - F. Roddam, 1979
Really interesting. Very hard to wrap my head around at first, but eventually I found it easier to follow. It's remarkably similar to a lot of the Angry Young Men films that Adam and Matty watched this year, which isn't really surprising, but still. It's about gangs and class, and it's really interesting. The conflict between the Mods and the Rockers, the presence of Sting, the riot in Brighton, the club scenes, the descent into madness, it's all great. There feels like aspects of so many films are here. I feel like it totally reflects Zabriskie Point in style towards the end, and it's a little bit of rise and fall, it's kinda slice-of-life/portrait filmmaking, it's bizarre, and crosses a whole host of styles and genres, and amounts to something really interesting and remarkable. I found myself liking it a whole lot. It had top 100 potential.
A-