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Grey Gardens (1975)

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“Little Edie” Beale’s eccentricity and (more likely) lack of funds made her an accidental style icon and gave a new idea to the fashion world: that specific items don’t have
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Chinatown (1974)

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Chinatown is a neo-noir film directed by Roman Polanski (also known for Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist), considered so for featuring many aspects typical of a noir classic; particularly a multi-layered story
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The Great Gatsby (1974)

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This 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald was adapted into a silent film in 1926, again in 1949, then in 1974 and 2000 and will be a Baz Lurman production
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Ciao Manhattan (1972)

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This Avant-garde cult classic centres around the life of its star, Edie Sedgwick. Although not a documentary, it is very closely linked to the events of her past. Dubbed Andy Warhol’s
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)

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With the nature of this film being mainly centred around murder and violence, it was considered a landmark in the relaxation of violence in cinema. Based on a novel of
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