Sep 19th   
Zardoz       
(GB/Ireland 1973)                             
Twentieth Century Fox. 102m. Panavision

In a semi-barbaric society of the future, an exterminating soldier steps into the parallel paradise that is controlling it, and disrupts it.
Nonsensical and unattractive futuristic allegory, with the director too obsessed with imagery and the film's highfalutin philosophy for the audience to be able to understand what is going on. Boorman's follow-up after the success of Deliverance: the result was this!

Written, Produced and Directed by: John Boorman.
Starring: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton, Niall Buggy, Bosco Hogan; voices of Reginald Jarman, David de Keyser.
Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth.
Music: David Munrow (arranging Beethoven).
Production Design: Anthony Pratt.

ZARDOZ. Set in the year 2293, with the elderly of this society still wearing fashions from 300 years ago! Much was made of Sean Connery dressed in a mankini, but this seems much more convincing than Connery in a wedding dress (a disguise of course). John Alderton meanwhile looks curiously like an older version of Paul McCartney.