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

[markydefad]

OK, we've named our picks for the worst films, what about the best or at least, your favorite films of the '70's? If you had to go to a desert island and could only take 10 DVD's or tapes with you, what 10 seventies movies would you choose?



My list (in order of preference):



1) ANNIE HALL - Woody Allen's masterpiece. One of the most perfect movies I've ever seen. So innovative and creative and talk about laughs. It captivated me in the '70's and I love it to this day. All that bittersweet romance stuff sums me up perfectly.

2) CABARET - Bob Fosse's masterpiece. A diamond-hard adaptation of the Broadway musical, devoid of sentimentality and schmaltz. Sensational numbers and performances. Love it most when the music and editing are perfectly in synch as the camera pans underneath the Kit Kat club girl's kicks in "Wilkommen".

3) THE GODFATHER - Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece. A pulpy book becomes an epic film.

4) SWEPT AWAY(BY AN UNUSUAL DESTINY IN THE BLUE SEA OF AUGUST) - Lina Wertmuller's sexy take on role/class reversal when a haughty Italian bitch gets stranded on a desert island with a lowly ship steward. The power shifts and she undergoes a startling transformation. A truly sexy tale (she murmurs "sodomize me") at one point and very S&M in it's detailing of sexual power games. Madonna & the son of original star Giancarlo Gianninni have filmed a remake. God help us.

5)YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN - Mel Brook's most consistently funny spoof. Great cast, big laughs, period perfect filming. Love Madeline Kahn's relationship with Old Zipperneck (the hamper for his poo-poo undies) the most.

6) HAROLD & MAUDE - One cult film I actually love. Hal Ashby's very dark tale of the romance of a young suicidal brat and an octagenarian. Bud Cort & Ruth Gordon and Vivian Pickles as Harold's mother are priceless.

7) JAWS - The original summer blockbuster. Amazing tension, beautiful editing, classic example of a movie plagued by non-stop problems while shooting ,saved by post-production. The less you see of the shark the scarier he becomes.

ALIEN - The scariest movie I ever saw--after the John Hurt chest sequence--I said to my date(who had seen the movie previously) if anything worse than that was coming--I might have to leave. Luckily, nothing did and I didn't leave, thank gawd.

9)ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE - Odd film to come from urban squalor specialist Martin Scorsese, but one of my favorites. Wonderful performances from everyone--Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter as the son, Jodie foster as the butch little dyke-in -training Audrey ("so long suckers"), Dianne Ladd as the foulmouthed waitress and Valerie Curtin as the dim-bulb Vera.("feels like fall" "Daddy Duke")

10)ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN - Alan Pakula's wonderfully absorbing adaptation of the Woodward/Bernstein book. Full of wonderful actors, a terrific script by William Goldman, & a tension and sense of menace that grips the viewer.



Those are 10 of my faves. I could name more. I'm curious what the rest of you love and treasure from that great decade of moviemaking--before the blockbuster/sequel/ bottomline mentality took over Hollywood and director's with vision were reduced to Hollywood Hacks.

[paul]

OK Marky:

Like you, I love Swept Away. I own a subtitled version but when I first saw it 25 years ago I thought it was dubbed in english.

Anyway there's: Car Wash, very funny and I could eeeat...up Tracy Reid

Star Wars, 'nough said

Jaws, sure it may seem hokey now but at the time it was edge of your seat thrills.

Foxy Brown-I still can't get out of my mind (not that I want to) Pam Grier's tits.

Eyes of Laura Mars-I still love the soundtrack.

Shampoo-Julie Christie, brrrrrr

Looking For Mr Goodbar-I still don't like the ending though.

Alien-just a classic movie

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers-an excellent remake of another classic.

[Boodikka]

Many of the '70s films don't hold up so well under scrutiny, they work better as nostalgia, in truth.

1) L'Histoire d'Adele H. - It is slow-going, I know, but this was back when I thought Isabelle Adjani was the most perfect thing on the planet.

2) Barry Lyndon - About as kinetic as a still-life painting, but the film is gorgeous!

3) Tora,Tora,Tora - Whenever I hear some young dumb f@#$ speak about what a "cool movie" that wretched PEARL HARBOR is, I want to grab them by the throat and make them watch TTT, a film that is actually ABOUT Pearl Harbor.

4) Taxi Driver - 1977 Manhattan as the entrance to Hell.

5) Mad Max - Even the Goddess understands that Mel Gibson was sexy in this. The greatest low-budget action film.

6) Rollerball - The anti-corporate and anti-organized sports themes here were way ahead of their time. I refuse to see the remake, which looks abysmal.

7) Slapshot - The most profane "R-rated" script ever written, and written by a woman (Nancy Dowd)!

:grin: Like Marky, I'm appalled that Putana is starring in the remake.

9) Cabaret - "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" is still one of the most chilling moments on film.

10) Godfather - "Tom, see if you can get me off the hook....for old times sake". "Can't do it, Sally"......the coldest (and strangely funny) moment in modern cinema.

11) Enter The Dragon - Not a great film, but it moves, unlike many of the other 70s films. Fun seeing the young Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung as well.

[Outsider]

Here's a list of at least some of my favorite movies from the 70s (in no particular order):



Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Exorcist

Jaws

Star Wars

Alien

There are a lot more that the ones I listed, but I can't think of them right now. If I remember them, I will list them.



Also, I would like to see the remake of "Rollerball", but I want to see the original version first. Believe it or not, I haven't seen it.

[markydefad]

Boodi,



So you don't think the films from the 1970's hold up? I've always thought that was the last, great golden age of film. What don't you think holds up? I could list another 50 or so films I think are classics in addition to the 10 I put on my most-loved list. "Ah, but I was so much older then...I'm younger than that now..."

[HustleBaby]

My faves are:



1.The Godfather

2.Jaws

3.Taxi Driver & Mean Streets

4.Star Wars

5.The French Connection

6.Enter and Return of the Dragon

7.Godzilla flicks

8.To Sir With Love(60s)

9.Mahogany

10.The Towering Inferno

11.All Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns

12.American Gigolo(80s)

13.Acopalypse Now

14.Shampoo

15.One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

16.James Bond Flicks



and some others....

Do you know that I've never seen Midnight Cowboy with Jon Voight & Dustin Hoffman. The next time it comes on cable (whenever that will be) I will check it out.

(P.S - Does anyone know whatever happened to Rex Reed "famous movie critic" in the 70s)?



*DISCO DELIGHT*

[markydefad]

Hustlebaby,



Rex Reed still reviews movies for one of the N.Y. newspapers. I see his blurbs pretty often in ads.



On the personal side, Rex made headlines last year when he was caught shoplifting 4 cd's from a N.Y. Tower Records. He claims he put them inside his jacket and "forgot" about them. I think he just paid a fine. By the way, he was lifting the likes of Peggy Lee, etc. No Eminem for Miss Reed.

[HustleBaby]

Here are some other favorites:



Claudine

The Warriors

The Ten Commandments(costumes/special effects

Shaft

Sybil(Sally's best role)

Dirty Harry flicks

Lookin' For Mr.Goodbar



I saw "Klute" the other day (for the first time) with Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.

It was alright - I'll give it 2 1/2**.



Marky, you called Rex "Miss Reed" so I'm assuming that he is gay (which I didn't know).



*DISCO DELIGHT*

[markydefad]

Boodikka, Our Resident Goddess, (with whom I usually agree with on most everything) made the statement that a lot of the movies from the seventies don't hold up today. I would most respectfully have to disagree with the Goddess. In addition to the 10 movies I chose as my top favorites, (ANNIE HALL, CABARET, THE GODFATHER I&II, SWEPT AWAY..., YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, HAROLD & MAUDE, JAWS, ALIEN, ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN) I submit the following additonal 70 titles as proof that, indeed, the seventies were the last Golden Age of Moviemaking.



FIVE EASY PIECES (70)

MASH (70)

WOMEN IN LOVE (70)

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (71)

THE FRENCH CONNECTION (71)

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (71)

SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY (71)

McCABE & MRS. MILLER (71)

KLUTE (71)

CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (71)

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (71)

WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (71)

BANANAS (71)

DELEVERANCE (72)

THE EMIGRANTS (72)

SOUNDER (72)

THE HEARTBREAK KID (72)

THE CANDIDATE (72)

THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (72)

WHAT'S UP DOC? (72)

AMERICAN GRAFFITI (73)

CRIES & WHISPERS (73)

THE EXORCIST (73)

THE STING (73)

LAST TANGO IN PARIS (73)

SERPICO (73)

THE WAY WE WERE (73)

PAPER MOON (73)

CHINATOWN (74)

THE CONVERSATION (74)

LENNY (74)

DAY FOR NIGHT (74)

BLAZING SADDLES (74)

AMARCORD (74)

BADLANDS (74)

DOG DAY AFTERNOON (75)

NASHVILLE (75)

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (75)

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (75)

SHAMPOO (75)

FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (75)

LOVE & DEATH (75)

NETWORK ( 76)

TAXI DRIVER (76)

CARRIE (76)

MARATHON MAN (76)

THE OMEN (76)

COUSIN, COUSINE (76)

SEVEN BEAUTIES (76)

THE TENANT (76)

JULIA (77)

STAR WARS (77)

LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (77)

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (77)

THE LATE SHOW (77)

THREE WOMEN (77)

OUTRAGEOUS! (77)

COMING HOME (78)

THE DEER HUNTER (78)

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (78)

AN UNMARRIED WOMAN(78)

INTERIORS (78)

DAYS OF HEAVEN (78)

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (78)

ALL THAT JAZZ (79)

APOCALYPSE NOW (79)

BREAKING AWAY (79)

KRAMER VS. KRAMER (79)

THE BLACK STALLION (79)

MANHATTAN (79)



and that's just the cream of the crop of the movies I saw during the 1970's that I have fond memories of and would love to see again.



Try creating a list of 80 great films of the 1990's!!! I don't think I could name 25!!!



"Ah, but I was so much older then...I'm younger than that now"



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[paul]

So was the 80s the Shwartznegger Stallone era?

By the way, I agree with you about 70s movies Marky. You know, I haven't seen Boodi in a little. I hope she didn't get busted with a Salma Hayek image as her screensaver

[markydefad]

Paul,

I was wondering the same thing--where is THE GODDESS??? But, then every day I wonder where is NICKY? I saw his name appear as a user yesterday reading stuff--but, sadly, no posts. "Come Back, Shane!"



I do hope the lovely Diana didn't get miffed at Boodi for her Salma stalking stories...

[HustleBaby]

On 2002-02-13 13:51, markydefad wrote:



THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (71)

(I never saw this movie but it constantly recieves raves up to today!)

McCABE & MRS. MILLER (71)

(I never saw this one either)

KLUTE (71)

3***

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (71)

(Is this the one with Peter O' Toole?)

WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (71)

(I never watched WWTCF because I didn't think it would good.)

SOUNDER (72)

(How can I forget Sounder?)

LAST TANGO IN PARIS (73)

(Never saw it.)

SERPICO (73)

(Another favorite of mine!)

THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (75)

???????????

CARRIE (76)

THE OMEN (76)

(One of the best horror movies I've seen but I refuse to ever watch it again!)

THE DEER HUNTER (78)

4****

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (78)

(The movie and the soundtrack is excellent!)

AN UNMARRIED WOMAN(78)

(Is Jill Clayburgh in this movie?)

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (78)

(Hilarious)

ALL THAT JAZZ (79)

(I would love to see this again!)

KRAMER VS. KRAMER (79)

(Excellent)



Try creating a list of 80 great films of the 1990's!!! I don't think I could name 25!!!

I know that I CANNOT think of 25 good movies from the 90's! The 90's was a decade of "sequel overkill" and remakes from yesteryear!!!!



And like Paul mentioned, the 80's was the decade of Schwarnegger, Stallone and Chuck Norris. I found those one-man army commando/green beret flicks very exciting and worth my $5-$6 dollar ticket. Everything from Conan/Rambo/Missing In Action and most definetely "The Terminator" gave me a RUSH!!!

Then in 1987, Arnold threw in a twist by giving us a warrior creature from who knows where called ("The Predator")4****!



So far the best movies that I've seen in the 90's - 2001 are: The Mummy, The Matrix, T2, Ali, Dead Presidents, Silence of the Lambs, Blow, Mission Impossible 2, Waiting To Exhale, The Usual Suspects, Face-Off, Donnie Brasco, The Nutty Professor and Con-Air.



*DISCO DELIGHT*

[paul]

On 2002-02-13 16:14, markydefad wrote:

Paul,

I was wondering the same thing--where is THE GODDESS??? But, then every day I wonder where is NICKY? I saw his name appear as a user yesterday reading stuff--but, sadly, no posts. "Come Back, Shane!"



I do hope the lovely Diana didn't get miffed at Boodi for her Salma stalking stories...

I miss Nicky's input too. Hey...Nicky. Just say hello and that will be plenty.

[markydefad]

OK, I haven't given up yet...



Here's some additional titles of 1970's films that merit being added to the list already posted:



PATTON (70)

LITTLE BIG MAN (70)

WHERE'S POPPA (70)

BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (70)

DIRTY HARRY (71)

THE HOSPITAL (71)

PLAY MISTY FOR ME (71)

PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM (72)

BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY (73)

THE LONG GOODBYE (73)

MEAN STREETS (73)

THE LAST DETAIL (73)

THE PARALLAX VIEW (74)

THIEVES LIKE US (74)

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (75)

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (75)

ROCKY (76)

BOUND FOR GLORY (76)

THE FRONT (76)

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (77)

THE TURNING POINT (77)

NORMA RAE (79)

THE CHINA SYNDROME (79)

BEING THERE (79)

STARTING OVER (79)



That's 25 more...and let me mention 2 more Cult Classic's that were gross-out, sicko, no budget home movie-like productions by John Waters, yet, nonetheless, very influential and hilarious...



PINK FLAMINGOS & FEMALE TROUBLE starring the late, great Divine.



Ok, now I rest my case...until tomorrow

[Boodikka]

Children.....The Goddess Has Returned! I literally just stepped off the plane as I went home for Carnival. I went to the Carnival in Bahia, not that tourist abomination in Rio :sad:

The Goddess shall retract her statement about 70s films. I have re-thought my postion and in truth (and as Marky has forcefully argued) there are far more outstanding 70s films than 80s or 90s films.

Cinema has gotten worse every decade. The 80s and 90s consisted of a few cinematic gems surrounded by large mounds of cinematic manure. Even the 70s Grade B, C and Z films fare better than those of the 80s and 90s. One can only imagine what cinematic drek awaits us in this decade.