1. Five Easy Pieces
The Spider’s Stratagem
The Conformist
Performance
Deep End
Fata Morgana
Claire’s Knee
the conformist – d. bertolucci
le boucher – d. chabrol
five easy pieces – d. rafelson
days and nights in the forest – d. s. ray
performance – d. cammell/roeg
the private life of sherlock holmes – d. wilder
deep end – d. skolimowski
1. WUSA
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok
Zabriskie Point
Adam at 6 AM
Gimme Shelter
The Strawberry Statement
Even Dwarfs Started Small
The Conformist
Five Easy Pieces
Performance
The Spider’s Strategem
Claire’s Knee
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
[An excellent year!]
The Conformist
The Aristocats
Little Big Man
The Boys in the Band
Ryan’s Daughter (sort of)
Five Easy Pieces (sort of)
Kelly’s Heroes
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Claire’s Knee
The Conformist
le boucher
El Topo
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
The Wild Child
Donkey Skin
Zabriskie Point
Bed and Board
Husbands
Le Cercle Rouge – Jean Pierre Melville
Days & Nights In The Forest – Satyajit Ray
A Swedish Love Story – Roy Andersson
Investigation of A Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri
Clair’s Knee – Eric Rohmer
Tristana – Luis Bunuel
Ucho (The Ear) – Karel Kachyna
The Conformist – Bernardo Bertolucci
Le Boucher – Claude Chabrol
MASH – Robert Altman
Catch 22 – Mike Nichols
Kelly’s Heroes – Brian G. Hutton
1. The Conformist
The American Soldier
Le Boucher
Le cercle rouge
Five Dolls for an August Moon
Five Easy Pieces
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Gimme Shelter
The Go-Between
MASH
Performance
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
Ryan’s Daughter
Something for Everyone
Taking Tiger Mountain by Stategy
Trash
Tristana
WUSA
Zabriskie Point
(Twenty is nowhere near enough)
1. The Music Lovers (Ken Russell)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Gimme Shelter (David & Albert Maysles)
El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
The Aristocats (Walt Disney Company)
John Macfadyen (Margaret Tait)
The Clowns (Federico Fellini)
Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer)
1) MASH
Woodstock
Claire’s Knee
Patton
Brewster McCloud
Let it Be
Hi Mom!
The Conformist
Le Boucher
Gimme Shelter
Five Easy Pieces
Start the Revolution Without Me
Elvis: That’s the Way it Is
Days and Nights in the Forest
The Wild Child
Wanda
Trash
The Phantom Tollbooth
Performance
Little Big Man
^ it’s a little tricky trying to put a title in Bold if the title itself has lots of asterisks. :)
LOL! I had a few false starts and then decided the asterisks had to go.
As long as S*P*Y*S doesn’t turn out to be a hidden masterpiece, this shouldn’t come up again.
haha ^ plz add wanda to my list, movieguide?
girlfriend, i thought taking tiger mountain by strategy was an eno album. looked it up right now and it claims to be the most viewed film in history :0 ironically, i haven’t seen it :p
I think I need to see WUSA. Never really thought of 1970 as a banner year but it really was quite stellar…. The 70s started off well.
Five Easy Pieces
The Spider’s Stratagem
The Conformist
Little Big Man
Claire’s Knee
Le Circle Rouge
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
MASH
Brewster McCloud
The American Soldier
Goin’ Down the Road
Bed and Board
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Le Boucher
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
Husbands
Zabriskie Point
Beneath the Valley of the Dolls
El Topo
Performance
I wish I had space for: Gas! Or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It, Watermelon Man, Taste the Blood of Dracula, And Soon the Darkness, The Landlord, Joe, Rio Lobo, They Call Me Trinity and Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (and a few more as well).
1. GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD (donald shebib)
THERE WAS ONCE A SINGING BLACKBIRD (otar iosseliani)
…ERE ERERA BALEIBU IZIK SUBUA ARUAREN… (jose antonio sistiaga)
L’ENFANT SAUVAGE (francois truffaut)
HOPE (yilmaz guney)
DODES-KA’DEN (akira kurosawa)
TROPIC OF CANCER (joseph strick)
ADELHEID (frantisek vlacil)
Vittorio Storaro for cinematographer of the year (Conformist, Spider’s Stratagem, and Bird with the Crystal Plumage).
Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (Iosseliani)
Adelheid (Vlácil)
Le Boucher (Chabrol)
Claire’s Knee (Rohmer)
The Conformist (Bertolucci)
The Ear (Kachyna)
Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (DeSica)
The Grandmother (Lynch)
The Great White Hope (Ritt)
MASH (Altman)
The Wild Child (Truffaut)
1. Watermelon Man
Multiple Maniacs
What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?
Owl and the Pussycat
Let it Be
Maidstone
I clowns
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Le Boucher
Five Easy Pieces
C.C. and Company
Claire’s Knee
1. El Topo
7 Plus Seven (a.k.a. 14 Up)
M*A*S*H
Five Easy Pieces
The Conformist
Le Cercle Rouge
Patton
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Gimme Shelter
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
Performance
Woodstock
The Passion of Anna
The Wizard of Gore
The Honeymoon Killers
1. Five Easy Pieces – Bob Rafelson
Adelheid – František Vláčil
Alex in Wonderland – Paul Mazursky
Catch 22 – Mike Nichols
Le Cercle Rouge – Jean-Pierre Melville
Claire’s Knees – Eric Rohmer
The Conformist – Bernardo Bertolucci
Days and Nights in the Forest – Satyajit Ray
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Vittorio de Sica
The Go-Between – Joseph Losey
The Great White Hope – Martin Ritt
Husbands – John Cassavetes
I Never Sang for My Father – Gilbert Cates
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri
MASH – Robert Altman
Patton – Franklin J. Schaffner
El Topo – Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ucho/The Ear – Karel Kachyňa
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders – Jaromil Jireš
Woodstock – Michael Wadleigh
What – No love for Love Story!? Ha!
1. The Conformist
The Butcher (Le Boucher)
Five Easy Pieces
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Equinox
Husbands
La Cercle Rouge
Zabriskie Point
The Wild Child
Rio Lobo
Monte Walsh
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
The Little Theater of Jean Renoir
Pratidwandi(The Adversary)
Tristana
M*A*S*H
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Gimme Shelter
7 Plus Seven
There Once was a Singing Blackbird
No love for John Waters either, and its his best film
1. Five Easy Pieces
Mash
Gimmie Shelter
Joe
Catch-22
Woodstock
The Aristocrats
1.) The Red Circle
2.) Gimme Shelter
3,) The Conformist
4.) M*A*S*H
5.) Patton
6.) Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
7.) Five Easy Pieces
8.) Performance
9.) The Aristocats
10.) Tristana
Also rated:
The Boys in the Band
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Multiple Maniacs
Joe
Woodstock
Equinox
Trash
Bloody Mama
The Conformist (best of the year, the rest is in random order)
Claire’s Knee
Tristana
Gimme Shelter
Joe
Zabriskie Point
Five Easy Pieces
El Topo
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Watermelon Man
The Bird with Crystal Plumage
Woodstock
Le Cercle Rouge
Patton
Little Big Man
…and that’s all I can think of
Include Deep End to my list please.
1 – The Heirs – Carlos Diegues
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2 – Hope – Yilmaz Güney
3 – The Falcons – István Gaál
4 – How I Unleashed World War II – Tadeusz Chmielewski
5 – The Palace of Angels – Walter Hugo Khouri
6 – Whitches’ Hammer – Otakar Vávra
7 – Of Gods And the Undead – Ruy Guerra
8 – Eden and After – _ Alain Robe-Grillet
9 – Heroic Purgatory – Yoshishige Yoshida
10 – The Cruise – Marek Piwowski
11 – Case for a Rookie Hangman – Pavel Jurácek
12 – Fruit of Paradise – Věra Chytilová
13 – Dodes’ka-den – Akira Kurosawa
14 – Even Dwarfs Started Small – Werner Herzog
15 – The American Soldier – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
16 – Lovefilm – István Szabó
17 – The Cannibals – Liliana Cavani
18 – Tomorrow: April 31 – May 1, 1970 – Wojciech Wiszniewski
19 – This Crazy World of Ours – Milos Radivojevic
20 – The Birch Wood -Andzej Wajda
The Circle (António da Cunha Telles)
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Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray)
Crime and Punishment (Lev Kulidzhanov)
Our Daily Bread (Mani Kaul)
Valerie and her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš)
Reconstruction (Theo Angelopoulos)
Ice (Robert Kramer)
O.K. (Michael Verhoeven)
San Domingo (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
The Case of Lena Christ (Hans W. Geissendörfer)
The Green Wall (Armando Robles Godoy)
Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
Adelheid (František Vláčil)
Othon (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
The Penal Colony (Raúl Ruiz)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Dodes-ka’den (Akira Kurosawa)
The Grandmother (David Lynch)
Wanda (Barbara Loden)
The Ear (Karel Kachyňa)
Five Easy Pieces
The Conformist
Le Boucher
Deep End
The Landlord
Performance
The Spider’s Strategem
Zabriskie Point (Antoinioni)
Claire’s Knee
Husbands
Umbracle
Tristana
Le cercle rouge
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The American Soldier
Woodstock
Hi, Mom!
Joe
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Patton
Le Cercle Rouge
Mash
Colossus the Forbin Project
The ballad of cable hogue
Five Easy Pieces
Kelly’s heroes
I never sang for my father
Little Big Man
A man called Horse
The molly maguires
MovieGuide1
What I’m asking you to do is to fill a ballot with some titles of your own choice. 1970 must be the year of first release (according to IMDb).
- Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, only true favorites.
– There is no need to rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points.
– You may change your ballot as many times as you’d like.
A certain standardization of the outcome is predictable, but it is not our goal to establish a Canon. It’s just a game and individual votes are the true centers of attraction.
Results will be presented in a specially created Movie List.
Thank you in advance for joining us in this game.