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By far, bar none, the BEST film of the 70's. Close seconds:
The Godfather I & II
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
Klute
Parallax View
The Last Detail
The Last Picture Sho
The Exorcist
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
M.A.S.H.
Nashville
Deliverance
Mean Streets
Serpico
All the Presidents Men
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Carnal Knowledge
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Five Easy Pieces
Chinatown
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Last Tango In Paris
Alien
The French Connection
The Tenant
Coming Home
Harold & Maude
Thieves Like Us
Brewster McCloud
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
The Last Waltz
Night Moves
Performance
Gimme Shelter
Star Wars
The Sting
Badlands
Days of Heaven
Halloween
Network
Dog Day Afternoon
The Marathon Man
Lenny
I know there are other foreign's I didn't mention, sorry. Are there any you guys would like to add?
The Godfather I & II
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
Klute
Parallax View
The Last Detail
The Last Picture Sho
The Exorcist
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
M.A.S.H.
Nashville
Deliverance
Mean Streets
Serpico
All the Presidents Men
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Carnal Knowledge
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Five Easy Pieces
Chinatown
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Last Tango In Paris
Alien
The French Connection
The Tenant
Coming Home
Harold & Maude
Thieves Like Us
Brewster McCloud
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
The Last Waltz
Night Moves
Performance
Gimme Shelter
Star Wars
The Sting
Badlands
Days of Heaven
Halloween
Network
Dog Day Afternoon
The Marathon Man
Lenny
I know there are other foreign's I didn't mention, sorry. Are there any you guys would like to add?
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Re: The Deer Hunter
Fri, September 23, 2005 - 9:00 PMHoly crap, I forgot Clockwork Orange & Barry Lyndon. -
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Re: The Deer Hunter
Fri, September 23, 2005 - 9:56 PMIm sorry, Dawn of the Dead. I must be slipping in my old age. -
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Sun, September 25, 2005 - 10:48 PMThere are so many great films on your list. Thanks. But so many you've left off. It just goes to show that we need to broaden our universe.
The Deerhunter is awesome, absolutely, but Badlands is probably the best film to come along in many a moon.
Also, during the 70's Woody Allen could hardly miss knocking one out of the park.
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Mon, September 26, 2005 - 12:25 AMEdwin,
You're absolutely right. Midnight Cowboy however is technically 1969. Still, a remarkable film in its own right. Like Bonnie & Clyde it opened MANY doors for The Silver Age. Little Big Man is one I forgot, but not by accident. I put down what I felt were the most important in terms of influencing a decade. That goes the same for Woody Allen. I agree wholeheartedly he hit them out of the park during the 70's, I once again put down the two that I thought were most influential. That's just my opinion though. I'd like to think I didn't just put the commercially successful films of the 70's on this list, which I could have quite possible done. Certainly most received accolades for some sort of outstanding achievement in filmmaking, but it's much more than that to me. It was a time when studio heads trusted directors, and those directors trusted character actors to carry a film. That's UNHEARD of these days. Thanks for your comments! Feel free to add to the list. I so desperately want to put films like Aguirre, The Wrath of God on there, but I'm sticking to U.S. films for now. Maybe you could start a foreign film's of the 70's list.
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Let's see if I can add a few of my own.
Mon, September 26, 2005 - 2:36 AMThis is meant as an addendum to an already quite through list. ('69 seems like '70 to me. Hope these are all 70's films.)
The Getaway (my favorite McQueen film)
Taxi Driver (frame by frame, one of Martin's greatest)
Rumble Fish (Francis goes to art school, Rourke is awesome)
Paper Moon (loved it!)
El Topo (heroic film and Alejandro was my hero)
All That Jazz (Fosse blew a few minds and courted Oscar)
Animal House (as good today as it was back then)
The Duellist (preceded Alien)
The Front (Woody's best movie that he never wrote-directed)
The King of Marvin Gardens (Bruce and Jack as brothers, awesome!)
Kramer vs. Kramer (bravo!)
Midnight Express (Oliver Stone's first screenplay, brilliant)
Murder on the Orient Express (a MOVIE movie!)
Papillon (Hoffman meets McQuee)
Play It Again, Sam (holds a dear place in my heart)
Rocky (nothing stands up to the original!!!)
Seven Beauties (we love you, Lina)
Love & Anarchy (ditto!)
Swept Away (ditto, ditto!!!)
Taking Off (Milos rocks!)
Three Days of the Condor (tennnnnnsionnnn)
Slap Shot (screaming funny)
The Three Musketeers (Mr. Lester, moves that camera)
Turkish Delight (back when Verhoven was important)
Soldiers of Orange (ditto)
The Wanderers (Philip gets it right)
What's Up, Doc? (zany screwball comedy packed with laughs)
Frenzy (Hitchock's R-rated classic/masterwork)
Being There (great book, damn good movie)
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Mon, September 26, 2005 - 2:37 AMThorough, I meant to say ... not "through".
This list is anything but through. ;-) -
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Wed, September 28, 2005 - 6:00 PMGreat list! Forgot Straw Dogs though, as did I. King of Marvin Gardens I thought was just all right. Almost too-talkie of a drama. The Wanderers...can't believe I forgot that one. -
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Wed, September 28, 2005 - 11:02 PMI guess I liked Marvin Gardens because I loved playing Monopoly as a kidn and spent my summers in Atlantic City and this film got that period right. Oh my goodness, speaking of which, how could we leave out Atlantic City with Burt Lancaster, unless that was made in the '80s? But it sure felt like the 70s the way Malle shot it. -
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Re: Let's see if I can add a few of my own.
Wed, September 28, 2005 - 11:05 PMWell, I was right and wrong. Atlantic City was released in early 1980 but was shot in '78, post-edit was in '79 and released in 1980. (Director
Louis Malle's first American release. Took distributors an extra year to find theaters. Sickening, huh? It ranks as an early 80s film but technically it's a late 70s classic.) -
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Re: Let's see if I can add a few of my own.
Sat, October 1, 2005 - 1:43 AMOh I agree with that one. It's like you said earlier how some films just "feel" 70's. Like Easy Rider for example! Or Raging Bull for that matter! -
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Sat, October 1, 2005 - 1:44 AMThat was kinda Peter Biskind, wasn't it? Sorry. -
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Sun, October 9, 2005 - 10:47 AMI love "The Deer Hunter," but find I like the films Cimino did just before ("Thunderbolt & Lightfoot") and just after (yes, "Heaven's Gate") much more interesting and rewarding.
70s films
Scarecrow
Dog Day Afternoon
The Wicker Man
The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
Seven Beauties
The Grissom Gang
The Longest Yard (1974)
Day for Night
Fellini's Amarcord
Foxy Brown
Bone
God Told Me to
A Boy & His Dog
Theatre of Blood
The Brinks Job
Salo
Rock & Roll High School
The Getaway (1973)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Deranged
Harlan County, USA
Death Race 2000
Papillon
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
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Re: Let's see if I can add a few of my own.
Sun, October 9, 2005 - 11:25 PMThe Getaway (1973) & Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, definatley Peckinpah's worst efforts. No where near The Wild Bunch or Straw Dogs for that matter. I agree with Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, not so sure about Heaven's Gate. Beautiful cinamtography however....(the best in the biz after all! Scarecrow included, film falls WAY flat at the end though) Fellini goes without saying, but I though we'd keep this national.....for now (Seven Beauties as well, the seducing scene a classic!). Dog Day, my fault for forgetting that one! The Wicker Man, my fault again! The Taking......another Owen Roizman hit! Day for Night, again foreign. Foxy Brown?....Pam Grier's hot and all........ Bone? Never heard of it actually. Let me know. Salo....FAR better efforts on Pascilini than this. Rock & Roll, yeah. Deranged...hi fellow Ormsby fan! Be sure to check out "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things".....classic. Papillon, absolutely. The Outlaw....you're right. Pat Garret....good Peckinpah fare. The Ruling Class....I guess we have to throw in "O Lucky Man". -
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Thu, November 24, 2005 - 11:38 PMVanishing Point
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Mon, December 12, 2005 - 9:50 PMI saw The DH with no warning or advanced publicity at a screening 3 months before it premiered. 3 hours later I was literally emotionally spent. A masterpiece...some other 70's favs that maybe haven't been mentioned...
Emperer of The North
All that Jazz
Freebie and the Bean
Last Tango in Paris
Busting
Sorcerer
Electra Glide in Blue
Rolling Thunder
Phantom of the Paradise
Hickey & Boggs
Heavy Traffic
Superfly
Dark of the Sun
Car Wash
Black Sunday
Claudine
Murder by Death
The Boys from Brazil
Marathon Man
Prime Cut
Demon Seed
Black Christmas
Uptown Saturday Night...
Damn! I could be here all night!
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Thu, September 21, 2006 - 12:43 AMI had to look this up on imdb just to be sure;John Cazale is the only actor that I know of who has batted a perfect 1000 not one bad film every one a classic
1. Godfather
2.The Conversation
3.Godfather 2
4.Dog Day Afternoon
5The Deer Hunter
such an incredble list just for fun at a party I'll ask for the ten great classic's of the eightie's ,that are of this caliber{ Raging Bull as far as I'm
concerned does'nt count it's style and sensibilty are the last great gasps of that era ;in an interview with steely dan walter becker said "we looked around at the eighies and just new this was'nt the decade for us"}and people look at the celing their drinks,feet , sigh.....ummmmmeven now thinking about it after "killing feilds" Ran , Salvador, IBlade Runner I start slowing down real Quick -
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Sun, October 15, 2006 - 3:08 AMMad Max
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Children Shouldn't Play With dead Things
The Gambler
Silver Streak
Blue Collar
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Wed, November 1, 2006 - 11:44 PMWoodstock
Ranchero Deluxe
The Man Who Would Be King
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Thu, November 9, 2006 - 11:42 PMI'm going to count The Stunt Man as well. It was filmed in 1978 and supposed to be released shortly after but wasn't for some reason. -
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Sun, December 17, 2006 - 12:54 AMBad Company (Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown) -
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Re: Bad Company
Mon, December 18, 2006 - 1:48 AMI saw this! A nasty little film that reminds me a bit of Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch. It does a good job of depicting the West as poverty stricken and brutally hopeless. Lots of famaliar faces too- David Huddleston, John Quade, Jim Davis, John Savage, etc.
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