10 Best Films of the 70's

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In no particular order, and subject to change:

Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
Chinatown
Annie Hall
The Godfather
Dog Day Afternoon
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Star Wars
Five Easy Pieces
The Deer Hunter

Other possible mentions: Mean Streets, A Clockwork Orange, Network, The French Connection, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Godfather II, Jaws, Badlands, The Conversation, Serpico, Rocky, Kramer vs. Kramer

Other films that I haven't seen that are most likely worth mentioning: The Last Picture Show, Nashville, A Woman Under the Influence, The Sting, Last Tango In Paris, MASH, American Graffiti, All the President's Men, The Way We Were, Klute, Straw Dogs, Harold and Maude

― Anthony (Anthony F), Saturday, 12 July 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a surprising amount of consensus on what '70s flicks are great, isn't there? most of the films you mention are generally acknowledged as classics (Star Wars haters notwithstanding), whereas we'd ever come close to agreeing on the best films of the '80s.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 13 July 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"ever" = "never"

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 13 July 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

1) slap shot
2) everything else

― brian badword (badwords), Sunday, 13 July 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

in no particular order, picking one a year, only drawing from what I have seen:

1970: The Conformist
1971: Clockwork Orange
1972: The Ruling Class
1973: Day for Night
1974: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1975: F for Fake
1976: Network
1977: Annie Hall
1978: Days of Heaven
1979: Apocalypse Now

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 13 July 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

well, in a particular order...

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 13 July 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

One film per director:

01. Days of Heaven (Malick)
02. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
03. The Godfather (Coppola)
04. Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
05. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog)
06. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
07. Day for Night (Truffaut)
08. Chinatown (Polanski)
09. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunel)
10. Walkabout (Roeg)

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Sunday, 13 July 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Apocalypse Now
Stalker
Le Locataire (The Tenant)
The Godfather, Part II
La Grande bouffe (The Grande Bouffe)
A Clockwork Orange
Manhattan
Picassos äventyr (The Adventures of Picasso)
Millhouse
Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 14 July 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Young Frankenstein fits in here somewhere.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Walkabout
Harold and Maude
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Aguirre: Wrath of God
Salo
Taxi Driver
Stroszek
Eraserhead
Manhatten
The Tin Drum

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Salo!!?? Man, that flick is bad. I mean, it tries to be art but it fails, plus it's too boring and pretentious even to be good exploitation. One of the worst films of the seventies.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 24 July 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked it, go figure. I found it captivating from beginning to end, especially the parts where the older lady is telling stories to the children.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

In my opinion, Pasolini thought it would somehow be insightful to combine The 120 Days Of Sodom and the Italian Fascists, but he failed. The idea may have been interesting, but the film itself is nothing but boring sadism, and the only thing it has to say is "Fascists were sick people, mmmmmmkay?" Me, I'm more into films where Fascists are shown to be more than just bad people, since demonizing your enemys rarely works as intended. Aleksandr Sokurov's Molokh (a day in the life of Hitler, essentially) is a good example of the latter.

Oh, and there's a much better seventies film made by an Italian director which also uses The 120 Days of Sodom as source material: Marco Ferreri's La Grande bouffe. It's a story of four bourgeois men who lock themselves into manor and try to kill themselves with over-eating and debauchery. And, unlike Salo, it has also a lot to say about modern-day life and traumas.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

(no order.)
A Grin Without a Cat (Marker, 77)
The Fury (De Palma, 78)
3 Women (Altman, 77)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 75)
Jeanne Dielman (Akerman, 75)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper, 74)
Stalker (Tarkovsky, 79)
God Told Me To (Cohen, 76)
The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes (Brakhage, 71)
Suspiria (Argento, 77)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes

I thought I was pretty inured to anatomy lessons, but that movie was a bit more than I was anticipating. And the weird thing is that this feeling really didn't kick in until like 15 minutes or so in.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 26 July 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it's one of those movies that multiple viewings do nothing to take off the edge.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 26 July 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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