Top 50 Movies of the 1970s
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Topic: Top 50 Movies of the 1970s
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Subject: Top 50 Movies of the 1970s
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 10:37
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Harry and Tonto Nashville One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Network A Woman Under The Influence Harold and Maude Fat City McCabe and Mrs. Miller A Clockwork Orange Mikey and Nicky The Godfather The Godfather II Next Stop, Greenwich Village One Is A Lonely Number An Enemy of the People Sunflower Five Easy Pieces Chit-Chat On the Nile Autumn Sonata The Yellow Handkerchief A Special Day Taxi Driver Annie Hall Stroszek A Brief Vacation Dog Day Afternoon Le Chat Lulu the Tool La Horse Payday The New Centurions Blume In Love Whity Made For Each Other Johnny Got His Gun Serie Noire The Conversation Opening Night The Fifth Seal The Outlaw Josey Wales The Last Detail Mr. Klein Nuts in May Minnie and Moskowitz Zandy's Bride Lies My Father Told Me Wise Blood Manhattan Last Tango In Paris Chinatown Joe ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 12:35
Ok, Let me see if I can do this, I'll start with your list. ( Movies in no particular order)
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 14:28
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Great time for film, just some of my favorites - Straight Time Paper Moon The Heartbreak Kid (original 1972) Alien All the President's Men The Out-of-Towners (original 1970) The Last of the Red-Hot Lovers Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Enter the Dragon The Taking of Pelham 123 Monty Python and the Holy Grail Play it Again, Sam Capricorn 1 Wizards The Parallax View The Summer of '42 ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 20:05
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Okay, I'll give it a shot: 50 favorite flicks from the 1970s, in no particular order:
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 21 2020 at 21:23
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In no particular order, because recognizing each is remarkable in its own way: 1. The Devils 2. Mad Max 3. American Graffiti 4. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 6. The Last Detail 7. The Sting 8. Marathon Man 9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 10. Patton 11. The Godfather I 12. The Godfather II 13. Monty Python's The Life of Brian 14. Deliverance 15. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 16. Harold and Maude 17. A Clockwork Orange 18. Young Frankenstein 19. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 20. Barry Lyndon 21. Being There 22. The Exorcist 23. The French Connection 24. Taxi Driver 25. Apocalypse Now 26. Wizards 27. Papillon 28. Midnight Express 29. Serpico 30. Five Easy Pieces 31. Carrie 32. Amarcord 33. The Poseidon Adventure 34. Mean Streets 35. The Tin Drum 36. Fritz the Cat 37. Lord of the Rings (Bakshi) 38. Chinatown 39. The Boys from Brazil 40. Kelly's Heroes 41. Network 42. The Omen 43. The Last Waltz 44. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 45. Jaws 46. Alien 47. Blazing Saddles 48. Dog Day Afternoon 49. National Lampoon's Animal House 50. Aguirre, The Wrath of God ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: February 22 2020 at 05:59
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The Godfather, Part 1 The Godfather, Part 2 Star Wars, Episode IV Taxi Driver Rocky Klute The French Connection Smokey and the Bandit The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) Enter the Dragon Superman Dirty Harry M*A*S*H (1970) Shaft The Sting The Outlaw Josey Wales Carrie Patton Deliverance A Clockwork Orange Network Manhattan Harold and Maude Barry Lyndon Monty Python and the Holy Grail Blazing Saddles The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Lenny The Poseidon Adventure Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Midway All That Jazz Star Trek: The Motion Picture A Man Called Horse Tora! Tora! Tora! The Last Waltz |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 22 2020 at 10:35
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In no specific order; numeration just for keeping count. As usual only one movie per director, though the choice is often tough. 1) "Harold and Maude" by Hal Ashby (1971) 2) "Don't Look Now!" by Nicolas Roeg (1973) 3) "Silent Running" by Douglas Trumbull (1972) 4) "Die Blechtrommel" ("The Tin Drum") by Volker Schloendorff (1979) 5) "Le Fantôme de la liberté" ("The Phantom of Liberty") by Luis Buñuel (1974) 6) "Welt am Draht" ("World on a Wire") by Rainer Werner Fasbinder (1973) 7) "Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes" ("Aguirre, the Wrath of God") by Werner Herzog (1972) 8) "Malpertuis" by Harry Kümel (1972) 9) "Cría Cuervos" ("Raise Ravens") by Carlos Saura (1976) 10) "La montaña sagrada" ("The Holy Mountain") by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973) 11) "Chinatown" by Roman Polanski (1974) 12) "Phase IV" by Saul Bass (1974) 13) "Une belle fille comme moi" ("Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me") by François Truffaut (1972) 14) "Сталкер" ("Stalker") by Andrei Tarkovsky (1979) 15) "Providence" by Alain Resnais (1977) 16) "Messer im Kopf" ("Knife in the Head") by Reinhard Hauff (1978) 17) "Frenzy" by Alfred Hitchcock (1972) 18) "Dark Star" by John Carpenter (1974) 19) "Der amerikanische Freund" ("The American Friend") by Wim Wenders (1977) 20) "Les innocents aux mains sales" ("Innocents with Dirty Hands") by Claude Chabrol (1975) 21) "Lacombe, Lucien" by Louis Malle (1974) 22) "Nashville" by Robert Altman (1975) 23) "Le Genou de Claire" ("Claire's Knee") by Éric Rohmer (1970) 24) "Le Cercle Rouge" ("The Red Circle") by Jean-Pierre Melville (1970) 25) "L'important c'est d'aimer" ("That Most Important Thing: Love") by Andrzej Żuławski (1975) 26) "Zardoz" by John Boorman (1974) 27) "Murder on the Orient Express" by Sidney Lumet (1974) 28) "A Clockwork Orange" by Stanley Kubrick (1972) 29) "Deep End" by Jerzy Skolimowski (1970) 30) "Bluebeard" by Edward Dmytryk (1972) 31) "Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König" by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1972) 32) "État de Siège" ("State of Siege") by Costa-Gravas (1972) 33) "Die Reise nach Wien" ("Trip to Vienna") by Edgar Reitz 34) "Tote Taube in der Beethovenstraße" ("Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street") by Samuel Fuller (1974) 35) "Der Springteufel" ("Jack-in-the-Box") by Heinz Schirk (1974) 36) "Eiszeit" ("Ice Age") by Peter Zadek (1975) 37) "Notwehr" ("Self-Defense") by Hartmut Griesmayr (1977) 38) "Amarcord" by Federico Fellini (1974) 39) "Morte a Venezia" ("Death in Venice") by Luigi Visconti (1971) 40) "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma" ("Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom") by Pier Palo Pasolini (1975) 41) "Turks Fruit" ("Turkish Delight") by Paul Verhoeven (1973) 42) "Trafic" ("Traffic") by Jacques Tati (1971) 43) "César et Rosalie" by Claude Sotet (1972) 44) "A Man Called Horse" by Elliot Silverstein (1970) 45) "La Planète sauvage" ("Fantastic Planet") by René Laloux (1973) 46) "La Grande Bouffe" by Marco Ferreri (1973) 47) "Themroc" by Claude Farraldo (1973) 48) "Papillon" by Franklin J. Schaffner (1973) 49) "The Three Musketeers" by Richard Lester (1973) 50) "Zabriskie Point" by Michelangelo Antonioni (1970) -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 22 2020 at 12:08
Hi, Interesting list. I'm not sure that "Zabriskie Point" is a good fit since it was a film delayed so much and changed by the American producers to have a "story" that kinda ruined the film for me. I have a feeling that the film was, originally, just a bunch of vignettes, although the bits and pieces from Antonioni, always suggested that PF should not have been there, but the film company liked the Roger's screams and what could be filmed with it! I have to see it again, but I think PF kinda redid the visuals in the movie Live in Pompeii so now they would also have "explosions" ... Love many of these ... Skolimowski's film is a beauty with fantastic cinematography ... and Jane Asher! Ferreri's film was fun to watch even if it crossed some good taste lines at the time ... but it was fun! Jodorowsky, hopefully will get his credit in due time, but his films were a masterpiece in the area of experimentation and ad-lib in film, coming from open theater scenes that he had done previously and even had at least one production shut down ... but the visualization of it all was crazy and a total trip to watch. Of the Roeg films (too bad we can't include "Performance" ... !!!) I think "Bad Timing, A Sensual Obsession" is fantastic with a total with it twist ending! I love "Don't Look Now" and specially by the performances by both Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland ... but the film is just such a stomach turner. I also love "The Man Who Fell To Earth", which is a very good film, though it has "flashes" of weirdness that only the "alien" would be able to explain. Bunuel's film is one of my favorites of his, a hard choice since he has so many, but the way that the paintings are integrated, which is (of course!!!!) one of his far out abilities, really shows here ... and the framing of Goya ... is scary and so true today! you might not get a bullet, but you get "you're fired!" instead ... I don't see a difference! Phantom indeed! Herzog's film for me is the special one, and the true example of what "krautrock" (I really don't like that expression!) was really all about ... you improvise to the very end, and the musicians at the time did it perfectly, as did so many writers ... as I said before, it is called "krautrock" but it should be called "kraut-arts", to better show the other arts ... to me, there is not too much different between what Kinski does in that film, and Damo did in CAN. You just gotta let it fly and flow ... the only one "trick" with/for an improvisation. Ken Russell deserves a better showing ... both "The Devils" and "Savage Messiah" are incredible films, even if one is the RSC getting loose! Bruno Bazzetto's "Allegro Non Troppo" deserves to be on this list, with the exception that it is hard to find and not many have seen this wonderful take on classical music, that is a bit better than "Fantasia", or maybe just for older folks, instead of kids! Some other films ... "All That Jazz" "Being There" ... I have to look at my listing of reviews ... this is as far as I got, but I have not maintained the spreadsheet of the films with the dates and directors and such. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
BaldFriede wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 22 2020 at 12:31
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Haven't seen everything in Friede's list, but it's by miles the most interesting so far, because it reflects world (well Occidental anyways despite Tarkovski being present - saw the new version of Stalker last year, BTW) cinema, so much that it makes the other list very short-sighted. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: February 22 2020 at 18:30
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My list reflects those films that bring back the best memories, and are not meant to reflect a critical response. I am, in no way, shape or form, fit to serve as film critic. In fact, more often than not, a film's music will be what determines my initial and lasting response! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 25 2020 at 22:26
Hi,
Having written and posted over 500 "foreign film" reviews, for me, choosing is a problem ... yes there are things I like better than others, but to make a list for me, created internal battles and I don't want to leave behind something I love dearly ... essentially, I love a lot of movies, and have been at it since I was 15 and became aware of Luis Bunuel (father knew and met him - Portuguese Writer and reviewer of films and theater), and what got me to him, was mom ... who said he was such a "filthy degenerate" ... and I had to find out what this was all about ... and I think my mom's "fake/faux Catholicism" is what got her mad ... seeing JC laughing in Nazarin and then the last supper and later Goya and many other "paintings" defaced ... got her uptight and then some ... and if you think that was bad, you should hear what she said of Sartre, Camus and Genet! Dad had translated a lot of French Literature into Portuguese! Making it all worse is I'm from Portugal and then from Brazil and then to America ... and got to see a lot of Spanish film (Portugal then had no movie industry that was legal) ... and then some Brazilian films ... and you arrive in America in 1965 to see the glory of the ACTING STUDIO and its results ... but I never "left" all the world cinema, and had already seen "The Seven Samurai" in Brazil and was well aware of Kurosawa. But the "European" taste and flavor never died in me. In the Film Festival here in Portland, I always used to post that people needed to ignore American and English films (they would come out in video), and instead watch all the smaller stuff ... and let me tell you ... there was a killing to be made out there in Europe alone ... and EVERYONE ignored films from Mozambique (6 people in the theater!) and one from Senegal about women (8 people in the theater) ... and at least one from Sweden (75 people in the theater and it was a Sven Nykvist film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) ... just to give you an idea ... and Polish and Russian films ... they moved a Russian film ... no one showed up at the door! I'm simply, not very good at "lists" ... except making comments about some of the bad things around so much of the arts ... as you can see above. While I do not dislike a lot of Hollywood stuff, for me, too much of it was just a plastic cardboard color in the background and too much of a "star" shot from the cameras, and it took the "real" life of a lot of films for me. I kinda think that the whole Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams thing and others, was really about tearing down that "star" thing.
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 01:34
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I can maybe do a top ten but that's it! 1) The French Connection 2 2) Jaws 3) Alien 4) Duel* 5) Logan's Run 6) Godfather 2 7) Close Encounters Of The Third Kind 8) The Wicker Man 9) Straw Dogs ( Peckinhpah's finest!) 10) Monty Python and the Holy Grail * Duel was that brilliant suspense movie with Dennis Weaver in case its been forgotten!
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Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 02:17
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1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2. The Odessa File 3. The Railway Children |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 06:02
| Can't do 50, but have to mention Pink Flamingos . |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 07:45
Hi, Heaven to merggeteroids ... no way ... THE WILD BUNCH is his greatest film ever ... SD was nice, but by that time, I had already soured on the "violence" (which became pathetic in so many films!), and then Sam's use of bits and pieces of "anger" to make his point, which while it gives Dustin Hoffman, a nice "aside", in the end, I think it lowered the quality of the film ... it became a lecture for me ... and kinda hurt the quality of the film. His earlier stuff did not have this slap in the face ... it was always each individual character's take on things and how they reacted ... and I kinda thought that these bits and pieces were a sort of "justification" that was added for DH's acting style ... he has to have the "thinking" behind it! It's his history!
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 07:55
4. Watership Down 5 The Asphyx 6. Flight of the Doves 7 .The Omen 8. The Wicker Man 9. Ryans Daughter 10 The Amazing Mr Blunden |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 08:04
11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 12. Keetje Tippel 13. Diamonds Are Forever 14. The Eagle has Landed 15. The Thirty-Nine Steps 16. The Spy Who Loved Me |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 08:05
17.The Outlaw Josey Wales 18.High Plains Drifter 19.Saturday Night Fever 20.Superman 21.10 Rillington Place 22. Sleuth 23.Every Which Way but Loose |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 08:08
24.Kelly's Heroes 25.Vanishing Point 26.Get Carter 27.The First Great Train robbery |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 08:10
28. Cross of Iron 29.Moonraker 30.Jesus Christ Superstar 31.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 32.Wuthering Heights 33.Countess Dracula 34.Under Milk Wood 35.Hennessy 36.Aces High 37.At the Earth's Core 38.To the Devil a Daughter 39.A Bridge Too Far 40.Force 10 from Navarone 41.The Wild Geese |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 08:13
42.The Land that Time Forgot 43.The Lady Vanishes 44.Grease 45.Turkish Delight 46.Waterloo 47.Patton |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 08 2020 at 01:15
| ^ I love the Railway Children . Might have put that in my list if I had remembered although I did go for Logan's Run as far as Jenny Agutter is concerned! |
Posted By: tamijo_II
Date Posted: March 08 2020 at 05:46
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a shorter list, 50 is a lot  Bernardo
Bertolucci – 1900 Akira
Kurosawa - Dodes'ka-den Daniel
Petrie – Sybil Roman
Polanski - Chinatown Martin
Scorsese - Taxi Driver Terry
Gilliam/Terry Jones - King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table Terry Jones
- Life of Brian Franklin J.
Schaffner - Papillon Milos
Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Angst essen Seele auf George Roy
Hill - The Sting Arthur Penn
- Little Big Man Hal Ashby -
Being There Woody Allen - Everything
You Always Wanted to Know About Sex Nicolas
Roeg - The Man Who Fell to Earth Sidney
Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon ------------- Same person as this profile: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=22524" rel="nofollow - Tamijo |
Posted By: tamijo_II
Date Posted: March 08 2020 at 05:52
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Might also
mention: Hair, Easy Rider, The Last Waltz, but that is more about the music
than the films ------------- Same person as this profile: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=22524" rel="nofollow - Tamijo |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: March 08 2020 at 09:25
Easy Rider was 1969 ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: tamijo_II
Date Posted: March 08 2020 at 12:50
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OK ------------- Same person as this profile: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=22524" rel="nofollow - Tamijo |
Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: March 08 2020 at 14:06
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Point of order on dates: some films released at the end of 1969 in the US, weren't released until early 70 in the UK. A good example of this is the first film I saw at the cinema with my father, in the spring of 1970 - Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, which is listed in some UK cinema guides as 1970, which was first screened in the UK in Feb 70. That said, I haven't included it on my list, even though I wanted to. |