1970's Oscar Nominees

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Oops. This is 1970's Oscar nominees.

Polling means never having to say you're sorry.

1970 was practically as representative of the deep split in Hollywood as 1967 was.

Five Easy Pieces will sweep if M*A*S*H doesn't come calling. I still haven't seen Love Story.

Watched Patton last night and really liked it. Still probably Five Easy Pieces, although I haven't seen the other three.

Of the two I've seen, Five Easy Pieces very easily, but I'll take this as an opportunity to finally watch M*A*S*H before voting.

I'll assume I can keep living without ever having seen Airport or Love Story.

Ha, apparently the theme song is supposed to be a good reference point for the minor 6th interval? I've never heard (or seen) it either. 2xp

Maybe it's an instrumental theme?

Watched Patton last night and really liked it

so did Nixon!

mash is bad, patton is boring

Airport is far less entertaining than the movies it inspired.

Helen Hayes among top five worst Oscar winners

M*A*S*H or Patton for me but tbf I haven't watched most of Nicholson's good movies since my early 20s

xp Why you hurt her feelings so?

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all of these are bad

(Maureen Stapleton's a great deal more fun in the movie.)

M*A*S*H feels like one of the all-time "you had to be there"s from American movie history.

That's what I've always been kinda afraid of. Still, I'll watch it this weekend.

Battle of the blockbusters tho. Here's where four of them rank on that all-time adjusted for inflation list and what they made in today dollars.

37 Love Story $618,783,600
45 Airport $584,423,800
91 M.A.S.H. $474,568,400
182 Patton $352,172,900

I'm not fond of Five Easy Pieces despite its having many fine moments but I voted for it. M.A.S.H. is my least favorite major Altman.

So far as the line between depicting sexism and engaging in it goes, M*A*S*H falls on the wrong side.

Aside from 5EP, saw all of these eons ago.

Patton was very savvily marketed as "A Salute to a Rebel."

M*A*S*H feels like one of the all-time "you had to be there"s from American movie history.

meh, the first 2/3 are funnier than most John Waters movies. Drag = the ultimate sexism. #Challops

Yeah, but I'm actually here for the "you had to be there" that is drag's pop culture moment, gramps.

Both examples, though, certainly prove that humor surrounding the difference between the sexes always ages terribly.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/stills/132394-cb2873094a21387fe8440aca17309333/Film_849_HisGirlFriday_original.jpg

plz no hairpulling in Pride month :) xp

As Husker Du said, I don't know what you're talking about.

art doesn't age, we do. at different speeds, it seems.

As Bob Dylan said, Husker Who?

art mayn't age but there's no question that funniness is a shifting concept

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7264/7021490993_b9abb9e13c_o.jpg

there is little consensus at any historical moment on what's funny.

that's why I wasn't presumptuous enough to say that humour "ages" - but it ties into its social and historical context in all sorts of complicated ways I guess

anyway yeah the sexism in M*A*S*H is notably gross but it still has plenty going for it imo

altho maybe partly I like it because it doesn't resort to Alda's schmaltzier instincts

I have never gotten past the first 10 seconds of the opening credits on any episode of the TV version.

well that's too bad, but further than I've gotten w/ RuPaul's Drag Race.

it got much less funny after they started calling Hot Lips "Margaret"

Forgot I actually reviewed it: http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/mash

Five Easy Pieces: however lopsided for Tree of Life some viewed the last one, that's how lopsided this one is for me. (Not that big a fan of the two war films; I actually really enjoy Love Story and Airport.)

I have never gotten past the first 10 seconds of the opening credits on any episode of the TV version.

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.)

Congratulations -- you did better than me!

By changing the channel faster?

to Trapper John, M.D.

to It's a Living

That theme song is an instant sleeping pill.

The five songs Oscar nominated over it, and I'm fine with that.

"Whistling Away the Dark" – Darling Lili
"For All We Know" – Lovers and Other Strangers
"Till Love Touches Your Life" – Madron
"Pieces of Dreams" – Pieces of Dreams
"Thank You Very Much" – Scrooge

okkkkkkk, Eric and Alfred don't get to vote in any future TV polls, check

The song that should've won that year is, of course, "I Hate People" from Scrooge.

No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxim9Ulh4uw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q7Wtx53eMk

Sentimentality should lead me to say Patton - in my grandfather's entire life, it was one of only two movies he expressed any interest in seeing or mentioned enjoying, having fought under Patton in France and Germany. (The other movie was Cockfighter with Warren Oates.) And I like it, but tbh I'd rather watch M.A.S.H.

The Pizza Triangle/Drama of Jealousy--an early Ettore Scola black romantic comedy w/Mastroianni, Vitti, and a pre-Wertmuller Giannini. Very hard to find.

it's also the era when foreign films routinely got Best Pic and Director nominations (Troell, Bergman, Bertolucci)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mgrxvTdl-Q

The Landlord, absolutely, forgot about that (I am typing this about three or four blocks from where that was shot). Gimme Shelter is a good one too.

Paul Morrissey's Trash.

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
The Conformist

Would probably take the above two Italian films over any US ones, though.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer)
Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer)
Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
Trash (Paul Morrissey)
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)

a couple key and amazing sequences aside I don't think Hi, Mom! is *that* great

Zabriskie Point otoh

El Topo
Goin' Down the Road

Josefa, Park Slope?

Yes, sir.

I figure The Landlord was shot on one of the streets above Union, maybe between 6th and 7th Aves…?

El Topo! shit I thought that was '71

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i rewatched The Landlord last year and found it was Prospect Place.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/134123-landlord-park-slope/

Ah, I was pretty close - between 5th & 6th Aves then. The one shot I totally recognized from the the film was the unique frontage of what's now the Brooklyn Yoga Center at 6th Ave. and Prospect (above Purbird).

the Elvis movie is legit incredible imo

― Οὖτις, Friday, June 16, 2017 3:51 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm hip. I just blanked on it.

Valerie and her Week of Wonders? Wouldn't be my choice but I'm sure it's someone's.

Yeah, I'd rank that one ahead of these five.

My other four after Five Easy Pieces would be Goin' Down the Road, Hospital (Frederick Wiseman, not the George C. Scott film from '71), Claire's Knee, and Loving. Gimme Shelter and Woodstock...I like Monterey Pop better.

I guess my top 5 would be
1 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
2 MASH
3 The Grandmother
4 Five Easy Pieces
5 The Confession

Voted for five easy pieces but, I think the answer is "Trash"

my answer would be Tristana or Hospital, but as flawed as 5EP is, it has tons of great things in it. If you don't find Jack's monologue to his stroke-damaged father devastating...

xp I can see it now, "And the Oscar for Best Picture goes to… Trash - Andy Warhol, producer. Accepting the award for Andy Warhol will be Brigid Berlin… " [orchestra plays "Heroin"]

Btw wikipedia says director George Cukor campaigned for Holly Woodlawn to get an Oscar nomination for Trash!

Radley Metzger's The Lickerish Quartet would be high on my 1970 list. Quite likely his best film.

haha, why haven't we hung out, Josefa?

Wouldn't be surprised if we already have crossed paths somehow, unknowingly

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Is that Joe Spinell in that Spielberg video upthread?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol

I have a funny Ross Hunter story i probably shdn't share publicly.

(i'd like to watch Airport again w/ its 3 voters)

2 voters. I gave it a predictable joke vote.

You're a predicable joke vote.

j/k

To keep everyone from leaving the theater.

I Never Sang for My Father isn't much to look at--basically one of those prestige made-for-TV films of its day--but it sure does get dying parents right, especially the fear, shared by most people I suspect, that your mother will go first.

I would not be surprised if ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS is better than EASY RIDER.

(meant this to go in 1969, oh well)

you'd hope that even in 1970 someone would have told Altman that having a gong hit every time there's a scene change in Japan is the laziest shit in the world.

No one in a position of power in the biz thought that in 1970. Literally no one.

In the next month in NYC, Patton is showing in 70mm, Airport in 35.

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2017/08/13/detail/patton

https://quadcinema.com/film/airport/

In that still, Dino look like he's saying "How do I get off this movie?"

Genuinely bummed not to be there for this:

https://quadcinema.com/program/disasterpieces/

I was assuming you'd quickly plan a vacation...

But where are Zero Hour and The High and the Mighty?

and by that i mean "wokeness"
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, June 16, 2017 2:13 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Morbs confirmed that only white people use "woke"
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 16, 2017 2:15 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

whatever, "cis"
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, June 16, 2017 2:17 PM (six years ago)

Great times

we were cissies

I have a funny Ross Hunter story i probably shdn't share publicly.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The secret died with him.

I'm going to take Morbs' version of "funny" with the requisite grain

Watching MASH reruns was a nightly ritual in our house, so I have a deep connection to that show. I didn't see the film till later, and it was shocking to me how different in tone it was. The show tried to undo some of the sins of the film, not always successfully, but it became a completely different thing. The last episode can still bring me to tears.

I guess I'm not surprised that Five Easy Pieces won, although it's as ragingly sexist as MASH in its own way.

The best and most interesting aspect of Patton, as a mainstream Hollywood movie, is how well the script and George C. Scott portrayed the subject as being both a successful battlefield general and as crazy as a loon. This was still possible in 1970.

Five Easy Pieces hasn't aged well for me. It's great to see Nicholson in his prime, especially when he personified a working class intellectual, but at times it feels pretentious and unconvincing. I think M*A*S*H is the only one I would've considered but there were much better movies from 1970.

Love means always having someone to blame.

If it isn’t Five Easy Pieces, I regret that it probably is M*A*S*H. Which stinks because I do not like M*A*S*H.

Just took a look and very quickly found ten films I'd take over these nominees:

Wanda [Barbara Loden]
Claire's Knee [Eric Rohmer]
Tristana [Luis Buñuel]
Gāv (The Cow) [Dariush Mehrjui]
The Wild Child [François Truffaut]
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir [Jean Renoir]
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes [Billy Wilder]
Case for a Rookie Hangman [Pavel Juráček]
Performance [Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell]
Le Boucher [Claude Chabrol]

And there's bound to be more, but that's a pretty great year.