Best/Favorite Films Of The '70's...

[paul]

Good to see you back Boodi. We have been lost without your guidance

So can you clue me in about this Bahia Carnival?

[JussiK]

damn it..some get to fly to Bahia while some grind away in dirty snow and slush...but anyway, top films from the 70's are:



Federico Fellini: ROMA - for the lack of the real thing, a feast of a film you can actually taste



Mario Bava: 5 DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON / CINQUE BAMBOLE PER LA LUNA D'AGOSTO - luxury lifestyle item with incredible costumes, cool sets, irresistible music and kinky goings-on, plus a few murders.



Ken Russell: THE DEVILS - still as delirious and nasty as it ever was, and it's from 1971! Blasphemous images, stunning acting and fiery visuals. Beware of censored prints.



Dario Argento: SUSPIRIA - plus

Dario Argento: INFERNO - Irrational thrills



And how about ENTER THE DRAGON, the original GET CARTER, the Jodorowsky films, more Ken Russell, and most importantly, all those fabulous Italian exploitation films and giallos featuring REAL movie stars such as Edwige Fenech and Giuliano Gemma, as opposed to hollow images of Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Catherine Zeta-Jones or Val Kilmer!

[markydefad]

Boodi,



Wow, I'm honored by your concession. I thought we were gonna get into a debate over what was wrong with seventies films...but I guess not. Well great to have you back from Carnival ( how romantic! I'm having visions of "Black Orpheus" and hearing Jobim in my head). Boodi, what's up in the gossip dept.?

We gotta get that thread burnin' up again. C'mon Jussi...more dirt from you would be appreciated also. Your stuff was PURE FILTH!!!

[JussiK]

a smutpeddler, me..? Okay, you asked for it - something from a couple of years back and something quite recent. Did I tell you earlier the one about Leo di Caprio's mouth, the way Kate Winslett commented how she did not like to kiss him on the Mexican set of "Titanic" because his mouth tasted "odd" -? Kate was shocked to tears when it was pointed out to her that Leo was giving blowjobs to cute Mexican stagehands just before the love scenes were to be shot. She swore she actually saw a glob of half dried come hanging on Leo's shirt. Could it be visible on film -?

A different journalist friend returned from the salubrous Berlin film fest last week where he was granted an audience with Kevin Spacey. Knocking on the Star's door he was greeted by Mr Spacey's companion, a flamboyant gentleman wearing a silver blazer and an oiled, permed hairdo. The journalist was waved away by a limp hand move and told to return 10 mins later - Kevin was still in shower, cleaning up, as the companion put it with a spaced-out expression, "afterwards".

The above information was censored from a Finnish magazine just before it went to print last Saturday- a shame or what!? I myself did write about a porn cinema in Rome where local actors and other drugged jetsetters went to give handjobs to spasmatics in wheelchairs for sick kicks. the poor retards used to spendtheir days there wheeling about and grinning at the screen. Why the nearby institution of the disabled permitted them to do this I cannot imagine. Unfortunately the twin porn houses on the Piazza Repubblica have been altered to a multiplex now - no more Brazilian trannies doing business there in the afternoon, kicking the wheelchairs aside on their way to the toilets below to shoot up or freshen up. If anybody knows where the action in the Eternal City is now let us know...

[EduardoFojo]

My list of Best 70s films (no particular order):

The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
The Conversation
The Andromeda Strain
Love and Death
Coma
Saturday Night Fever
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Manhattan
Cotton Comes to Harlem
That Obscure Object of Desire
Halloween
The Warriors
Horror Express
The French Connection
The Great Gatsby
The China Syndrome
Rollercoaster
Mel Brooks' Big Three (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, Blazing Saddles)
Frenzy
Interiors

Eduardo Fojo

[HustleBaby]

On 2002-05-16 18:05, EduardoFojo wrote:
My list of Best 70s films (no particular order):

The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
This is one of my favorites from the 70's but it is hard as hell to find it on tape or cable. The last time I saw Pelham was maybe eight-ten years ago.
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Saturday Night Fever ****
Cotton Comes to Harlem ****

Halloween****
The Warriors ****

Horror Express
Is this the movie with Telly Savalas and there is a creature on board that causes its victims to bleed through their eyes????
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The French Connection****
I've found "The French Connection" tape in Duane Reade for $9.99 so I snatched it up. But I would love to see part II but it is also hard to find on tape or cable.
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There is one movie that seems to be impossible to find and that is "Claudine".

Eduardo Fojo

*DISCO DELIGHT*

[Blaxman]

Some Blaxploitation movies that I like:

- Shaft

- Shaft In Afrika

- Shaft Big Score

- Foxy Brown

- Car Wash (Yes, Car wash)

- Cleopatra Jones

Peace,

Blaxman

[Nano]

OK, some off the top of my head:

-The Godfather I & II (Coppola)
-Jaws (Spielberg)
-New York New York (Scorsese, not perfect but love it nonetheless)
-Phantom of the Paradise (De Palma)
-Saturday night fever (Stigwood production directed by John Badham)
-Manhattan (W. Allen)
-Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter)
-The conversation (Coppola)
-Apocalypse now (Coppola) (make that at the top of my list)
-The front (Martin Ritt, with Woody)
-Eraserhead (David Lynch) (weeeeeird!)
-Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia (tough movie by Sam Peckinpah)
-Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam)

non-USA:
-several Truffaut films I don't remember the English names, plus I don't speak French. One is called something like "The two British women and the continent" (1971). Another I saw as "The man who loved women", from 1977. Le nuit americaine also could qualify.
-some Eric Rohmer films, same problem as above: Love at noon, Claire's knee (1970 or 1969?). Rohmer is one of the best filmmakers of all time, but the 70's aren't his best decade.
-Amarcord (Fellini)
-there's an Ettore Scola movie called in Spanish "We had loved so much each other", don't know how it translates. With Vittorio Gassman. Dedicated to Vittorio De Sica.
-another Scola film: "Una giornatta particolare", with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
-Solaris (Andrei Tarkovski)
-Ana y los lobos (Carlos Saura)
-a film from Argentina: La Patagonia Rebelde, by HÈctor Olivera.

Hope it's not too boring, I'm a film buff too.

[Robbie]

I'm not a big movie watcher per se, but one film that I always enjoyed watching was "Thank God It's Friday" (1978). I found it to be ironic that American Movie Classics channel played TGiF last Friday. I doubt this film would ever be considered a "classic" by 99.9% of the populace but considering that Turner Movie Classics has overshadowed them as far as movies are concerned, I guess AMC is scraping at the bottom of the barrel for anything to play.

[sutnop]

must say Shaft or Dolomite

[DISCODISK]

one film im surprised nobody has mentioned is "REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER" from 74 (operation undercover in europe for cinema release) with the great vernon burch soundtrack (the ill be your sunshine album on u.a.) a track from that was so big for ian levine at the highland room "frame of mind".when i told him there was an instrumental if that playing on a jukebox in the film he flipped! he wrote phoned,begged u.a for a copy with no sucess (i think hes still trying!!)that club really needed that record at that time! anyway you know the film with the standoff at saks 5th ave...wheres chiclet...wheres chiclet...WHHEEERRREESSS CHHHHICCCCCLET !!
i have just dug this out on video will watch later cant wait!