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 Post subject: Favorite Films by Decade: 1970s
PostPosted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:47 pm 
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Opening Night
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The Godfather
Walkabout
Eraserhead
Apocalypse Now
Network
Tout Va Bien
Barry Lyndon
Star Wars
Days of Heaven

I feel like there's more but I guess I'll name some later

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glorified_version wrote:
Opening Night
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The Godfather
Walkabout
Eraserhead
Apocalypse Now
Network
Tout Va Bien
Barry Lyndon
Star Wars
Days of Heaven

I feel like there's more but I guess I'll name some later


How about the Godfather Part 2, Taxi Driver, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and A Clockwork Orange?

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 Post subject: Re: Favorite Films by Decade: 1970s
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ranting in e-minor wrote:
glorified_version wrote:
Opening Night
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The Godfather
Walkabout
Eraserhead
Apocalypse Now
Network
Tout Va Bien
Barry Lyndon
Star Wars
Days of Heaven

I feel like there's more but I guess I'll name some later


How about the Godfather Part 2, Taxi Driver, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and A Clockwork Orange?


Never seen any of those, except A Clockwork Orange which in my mind is one of Kubrick's weakest (*ducks for cover).

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Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.


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'70s films in my top 100:

The Godfather
A Clockwork Orange
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dawn of the Dead
Chinatown
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Godfather Part II
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
Suspiria
The Deer Hunter
Kramer vs. Kramer
The Tenant
The Grapes of Death
Five Easy Pieces
Ryan's Daughter
Jaws

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 Post subject: Re: Favorite Films by Decade: 1970s
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The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
The Conversation
A Clockwork Orange
The Dear Hunter
Chinatown

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glorified_version wrote:
ranting in e-minor wrote:
glorified_version wrote:
Opening Night
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The Godfather
Walkabout
Eraserhead
Apocalypse Now
Network
Tout Va Bien
Barry Lyndon
Star Wars
Days of Heaven

I feel like there's more but I guess I'll name some later


How about the Godfather Part 2, Taxi Driver, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and A Clockwork Orange?


Never seen any of those, except A Clockwork Orange which in my mind is one of Kubrick's weakest (*ducks for cover).


Really, well you have some movie watching to do. You will enjoy those three movies that you haven't seen. "A Clockwork Orange" being his worst, blasphemy.. oh well, to each their own my friend.

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One per director:

The Conversation
Stroszek
Taxi Driver
Eraserhead
3 Women
Network
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Barry Lyndon
A Swedish Love Story
Solaris
Scenes From a Marriage
A Woman Under the Influence
Fear Eats the Soul
The French Connection
Christ Stopped At Eboli
Chinatown
Life of Brian


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Taxi Driver
The Godfather
Star Wars
Jaws
A Clockwork Orange
Dawn of the Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
Suspiria
Alien
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Jaws

I somehow missed that one. Whoops. One of the best popcorn movies ever.

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i can vividly remember watching this with my brother on HBO after it came out, and i was in awe at the end when the crowd begins chaning

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The 1970's is full of great films. My list could literally be 200+. Whittiling that down to ten would be impossible.

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how bout dog day afternoon?


one of my fav's

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jeremyvedder wrote:
breezee wrote:
how bout dog day afternoon?


one of my fav's


If you'd like it for a Movie of the Week, just let me or LV72 know. I was thinking about doing it anyway, but have a bunch of requests before I get to some of the stuff I'd like to do.

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rollerball


i can vividly remember watching this with my brother on HBO after it came out, and i was in awe at the end when the crowd begins chaning

John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin


I just saw the first half of this flick and i'm awestruck by the insight into the present day they had in the 70's- it's damn scary :shock:

btw, this is a good thread


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Theresa wrote:
Peeps wrote:
rollerball


i can vividly remember watching this with my brother on HBO after it came out, and i was in awe at the end when the crowd begins chaning

John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin
John-A-Thin


I just saw the first half of this flick and i'm awestruck by the insight into the present day they had in the 70's- it's damn scary :shock:

btw, this is a good thread


wow girl....it has been a couple years.


one film that people have forgotten and hasn't been mentioned is Terence Malick's "Badlands". I love that movie. Some might find it boring, I know, but for some stupied resason I find it as "Bonnie and Clyde's" great sequel. Good stuff.


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I should do a better list

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I should do a better list


I noticed one Robert Altman did not make the cut on the last one.

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Top Twenty Movies from the '70s:
Taxi Driver-Scorsese
A Clockwork Orange-Kubrick
The Godfather-Coppola
A Woman Under the Influence-Cassavetes
Network-Lumet
Annie Hall-Allen
And Now for Something Completely Different-Ian MacNaughton
Mean Streets-Scorsese
The Conversation-Coppola
The Godfather: Part II-Coppola
Manhattan-Allen
Jaws-Spielberg
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Forman
Being There-Ashby
Young Frankenstein-Brooks
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory-Mel Stuart
Monty Python and the Holy Grail-Gilliam/Jones
Badlands-Malick
Straw Dogs-Peckinpah
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