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Z (1969 Foreign Film)
Episode 718th September 2024 • Awesome Movie Year • Awesome Movie Year
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The seventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1969 features our foreign film pick, Costa-Gavras’ Z. Directed and co-written by Costa-Gavras (from the novel by Vassilis Vassilikos) and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Jacques Perrin, Pierre Dux and Irene Papas, Z was nominated for five Oscars and won two.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/z-1969), Paul Schrader in Coast FM & Fine Arts (https://paulschrader.org/articles/pdf/1970-Z.pdf), and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker.

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