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Poll Question: Pick 5 of the 25 listed?
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    Posted: March 31 2022 at 11:46
Pick anything not on the the poll if you like. I will go with Star Wars(Entertaining), Godfather(Interested me at watching it), Celine and Julie(This 3-hour movie was very satisfying), and Monty Python and the Holy Grail(Hardest I ever laughed at a movie). I have not really seen most of these films, the only other two I seen were Petra von Kant(really good, but just saw it) and Rocky Horror Picture Show(Very fun musical). I want to see what you people think. 

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I don't know them all, but there are a lot of great ones in there, really tough choice. Also I need to revisit a few movies here, when I have some time. 
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A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest stand out for me, in the list.
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Hi,

Wow ... I've seen 21 of those films!

I'll have to check my listing of reviews and then see what I like the best, although for me, Bunuel is usually the winner in that list, but the incredible visualization of the bombastic show of the iron dragons is something hard for me to forget.

A few more:
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) (Bunuel)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) (Herzog)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Stalker (1979) 
The Conformist (1970) 
The Holy Mountain (1973) (Jodorowski)
Nosferatu (1979) (Herzog)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Death in Venice (1971) (Visconti)
Murmur of the Heart (1971) (Malle)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) (John Schlesinger)
Day for Night (1972) (Truffaut)
1900 (1976) (Bertolucci)

Hard to make a choice ... so many great things and AGUIRRE is a must see for any "krautrock" fans, since it shows Klaus Kinski improvising left and right, although he did twice as much in FITZCARRALDO later. Compare his free form, to Damo Suzuki in TAGO MAGO and you will be surprised. 

I suppose that the "freedom" and "exploration" (see it in Herzog's film about his friend), that gave us so much art in music, film, theater and other realms is for me, one of the best around. But "improvisation" had been around Germany for a while, and was very alive in a lot of European Theater, and Fassbinder was no stranger to it, and at times, you can see the actors struggling with what to say next. 


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Francesco Di Giacomo from Banco actually appeared in one of the listed movies(Amarcord). 
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The Exorcist and Eraserhead, both ground breaking.
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Good list. From these I would go :

  • Godfather 
  • Apocalypse Now 
  • Clockwork Orange
  • Godfather II 
  • Jaws
  • Monty Python
  • Cuckoos Nest
  • Star Wars
  • The Exorcist
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  • And Justice for all
  • Network
  • Alien
  • Papilon
  • Dog Day Afternoon 
  • Kelly's Heroes
  • The Taking of Pelham 123


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From the list. Taxi Driver, Exorcist, One Flew..., Rocky Horror, and Annie Hall. 

Others - Harold and Maude, Young Frankenstein, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles, Deliverance, Pink Flamingos, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, American Graffiti, The Sting, Carrie, The Jerk, and Animal House.
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My vote would go to "Malpertuis", a 1971 horror movie by Belgian director Harry Kümel. I prefer the extended version to the Cannes version. Strangely a few scenes from the Cannes version are missing in the extended version; my ideal would be a version that includes all scenes from both versions (which would be a bit longer than the extended version then).


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From the list:
Godfather 1&2
Star Wars
Taxi Driver
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Barry Lyndon

Just a few that should be on the list:
Superman (1978)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Rocky II (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Moonraker (1979)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Poseidon Adventure (1975)
Patton (1970)
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Voted for The Exorcist, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange. Never much cared for The Godfather despite its undoubted qualities, I seem to have an aversion to all films with Italian-American gangsters behaving like psychos.

I think 1971 was a pivotal year for movie making in the 70s with a new tough, violent, more explicit and cynical kind of film emerging. The French Connection, Shaft, Klute, A Clockwork Orange, The Devils, Straw Dogs, and the first x-certificate cartoon Fritz the Cat.

Wake in Fright is another favourite and Nicholas Roeg had a great run this decade with Walkabout, Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth.
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Voted for Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now and Eraserhead.
I miss more movies from outside of English speaking countries though
The Holy Mountain fx is one of my alltime faves.

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Many great classics. But number one for me is The Godfather.
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Very difficult to choose but voted for both Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now
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Taxi Python and Cercle rouge
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Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

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that's a good one, I need to rewatch it sometimes. 
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Wait....not one mention of Blazing Saddles (1974)?????
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Voted Star Wars but for '70s I'm a big conspiracy thriller fan--   All the Presidents Men, Parallax View, Capricorn 1, Magnum Force, Executive Action, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Conversation, Marathon Man, etc.
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First vote for Chinatown, one of the bleakest films ever! 

Almost everything on the list is superb. 70s were the best decade for cinema. 
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I voted for "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" but my favorite movies in order would be

1. Harry and Tonto
2. Nashville
3. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
4. Network
5. A Woman Under The Influence
6. Harold And Maude
7. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
8. Mikey And Nicky
9. Chit-Chat On The Nile
10. A Clockwork Orange
11. Last Tango In Paris
12. The Godfather
13. The Conversation
14. Fat City
15. Annie Hall
16. Strosczek
17. The Godfather: Part II
18. Minnie And Moskowitz
19. Five Easy Pieces
20. Sunflower (best love story on film, w/ Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, directed by the master of masterpieces - Vittorio De Sica)
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