1. Female Trouble (Waters)
Ali Fear Eats The Soul (Fassbinder)
Martha (Fassbinder)
Sweet Movie (Makavejev)
Les Ordres (Brault)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)
The Amputee (Lynch)
Phase IV (Bass)
1. Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
Edvard Munch (Watkins)
The Seedling (Benegal)
IMAGES OF ASIAN MUSIC (A DIARY FROM LIFE 1973-74) (Peter Hutton)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
The Traveler (Abbas Kiarostami)
Godfather Part II
Conversation
Chinatown
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Longest Yard
“6. Scenes From A Marriage (Theatrical Version) -Ingmar Bergman”
If this counts as ’74, I want to add my vote for it.
In order of what came to my head…
1. The Godfather II
2. Chinatown
3. Lenny
4. Harry & Tonto
5. Young Frankenstein
6. The Parallax View
7. The Conversation
8. The Taking of Pelham 123
9. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
10. Female Trouble
11. A Woman Under the Influence
12. Blazing Saddles
13. Caged Heat
14. The Four Musketeers
15. Swept Away
16. California Split
17. Lacombe, Lucien
18. The Black Windmill
19. From Beyond the Grave
20. Stavisky
California Split
Lacombe, Lucien
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
Black Christmas
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Nada
Female Trouble
Cockfighter
The Gambler
Thieves Like Us
Electra, My Love
The Terminal Man
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Swept Away
Sweet Movie
Lenny
A Woman Under The Influence
Chinatown
The Conversation
The Godfather, Part II
Chinatown
The Conversation
Black Christmas
A Woman Under the Influence
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Lenny
Ali: Fear Eats at the Soul
Alice in the Cities
Cockfighter
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Lancelot du lac
Effi Briest
The Traveler
Edvard Munch
Murder on the Orient Express
Electra My Love
California Split
Murder On The Orient Express
The Godfather Part II
Butley
Young Frankenstein
The Conversation
Blazing Saddles
The Great Gatsby
Chinatown
The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3
The Front Page
Un Homme qui Dort (Bernard Queysanne)
1. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
The Traveler (Abbas Kiarostami)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
The Truce (Sergio Renán)
Parade (Jacques Tati)
The Phantom of Liberty(Luis Buñuel)
Mes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache)
Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
Ali Fear Eats The Soul (Fassbinder)
1. Chinatown
The Conversation
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The Man Who Sleeps
A Woman Under the Influence
Edvard Munch
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Female Trouble
The Godfather Part II
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Lancelot of the Lake
We All Loved Each Other So Much (C’eravamo tanto amati)
Thieves Like Us
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Going Places (Les valseuses)
California Split
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner)
Butley
Mariken van Nieumeghen (Stelling)
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song (Hara)
The Traveler (Kiarostami)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
Bedsitters (Zwartjes)
Edvard Munch (Watkins)
Lancelot of the Lake (Bresson)
Dakota (Verstappen)
De Nieuwe IJstijd (van der Keuken)
Great year.
1- A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Godfather Part II (Coppola)
The Conversation (Coppola)
Chinatown (Polanski)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Cassavetes)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
Blue Bead (Egilmez)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Un Homme Qui Dort
1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
Dark Star (John Carpenter)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
Black Christmas (Bob Clark)
Deathdream (Bob Clark)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Female Trouble (John Waters)
It’s Alive! (Larry Cohen)
Death Wish (Michael Winner)
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (Jorge Grau)
1. Chinatown (Polanski)
Honourable Mentions:
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
The Godfather Part II (Coppola)
The Conversation (Coppola)
The Parallax View (Pakula)
Dark Star (Carpenter)
Lenny (Fosse)
The Night Porter (Cavani)
Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
Hearts and Minds (Davis)
1. A Woman Under the Influence
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Chinatown
4. The Parallax View
5. The Conversation
6. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
7. Hearts and Minds
8. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
9. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1. Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, Germany)
Céline and Julie Go Boating / Celine et Julie Vont on Bateau (Jacques Rivette, France)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
The Mouth Agape / La Gueule Ouverte (Maurice Pialat, France)
Occasional Work of a Female Slave (Alexander Kluge, Germany)
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel, France)
The Traveler (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, USA)
Ali Fear Eats the Soul / Angst Essen Seele Auf (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany)
Swept Away… by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (Lina Wertmuller, Italy)
Mirror / Zerkalo (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)
Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless, Iran)
Les Hautes Solitudes (Philippe Garrel, France)
Penda’s Fen (Alan Clarke, UK)
The Seedling / Ankur (Shyam Benegal, India)
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, Italy)
Sweet Movie (Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia/France)
You Have Been Weigh and Found Wanting / Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (Lino Brocka, Philippines)
1. Chinatown
Young Frankenstein
The Conversation
Edvard Munch
A Woman Under the Influence
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Day for Night
Lacombe Lucien
Lenny
The Parallax View
The Phantom of Liberty
Going Places
The Sugarland Express
The Groove Tube
1. Zardoz (John Boorman)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
Battles without Honor or Humanity: Final Episode (Kinji Fukasaku)
Foxy Brown (Jack Hill)
The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula)
Reason, Debate and a Tale (Ritwik Ghatak)
Battles without Honor or Humanity: Police Tactics (Kinji Fukasaku)
The Last Days of Planet Earth (Toshio Masuda)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Dark Star (John Carpenter)
The Girls of Kamare (Rene Vienet [and Norifumi Suzuki and Teruo Ishii])
Juggernaut (Richard Lester)
The Traveller (Abbas Kiarostami)
Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
I love how there are so many different No. 1’s so far.
The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner
The Man Who Sleeps
The Young Frankenstein
The Parallax View
The Phantom of Liberty
Edvard Munch
1. California Split
Chinatown
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Female Trouble
Alice in the Cities
The Godfather: Part II
Young Frankenstein
Lacome Lucien
Thieves Like Us
Sweet Movie
1. Les Ordres
Hearts and Minds
The Phantom of Liberty
The Godfather Part II
Chinatown
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Conversation
A Woman Under the Influence
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Blazing Saddles
Lancelot of the Lake
The Traveler
Lenny
Murder on the Orient Express
The Night Porter
Black Christmas
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Animals are Beautiful People
1) Chinatown
We All Loved Each Other So Much [released in the US in 1977]
Going Places [Les valseuses]
Ali Fear Eats the Soul
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
The Phantom of Liberty
Celine and Julie Go Boating [released in the US in 1978]
Lancelot of the Lake [released in the US in 1975]
California Split
Godfather Part II
THE GODFATHER PART II (Coppola)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Scorsese)
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)
California Split (Altman)
The Gambler (Reisz)
Going Places / Les Valseuses (Blier)
Harry and Tonto (Mazursky)
Lacombe, Lucien (Malle)
The Parallax View (Pakula)
Phantom of the Paradise (DePalma)
The Sugerland Express (Spielberg)
Thieves Like Us (Altman)
Zardoz (Boorman)
1. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
Brothel Nº 8 (Kei Kumai)
California Split (Robert Altman)
Céline & Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
Electra, My Love (Miklós Jancsó)
Fear eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
Harry & Tonto (Paul Mazursky)
Les Hautes Solitudes (Philippe Garrel)
Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis)
Pastoral Hide-and-Seek (Shuji Terayama)
Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
The Traveler (Abbas Kiarostami)
A Woman under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
You Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting (Lino Brocka)
1.The Godfather Part II
Chinatown
Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
The Gambler
Zardoz
The Parallax View
The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3
The Towering Inferno
Young Frankensteen
The nine lives of Fritz the Cat
Lenny
The Longest Yard
the Conversation
blazing Saddles
Texas chainsaw massacre
The Great Gatsby
Harry and Tonto
Thunderbolt and Lightning
Good Year for movies.
You picked one of my fave years. A film should be made about 1974 (most widespread tornado outbreak in history; the big oil shakedown; Watergate & Nixon—America’s divided collective psyche incarnate; streaking & nudism; etc.)
#1. Dersu Uzala (IMDb & Wikipedia say ’75 but the Kino DVD and trailer say ’74.)
Amarcord (IMDb & Wikipedia say ’73 but other sources say ’74.)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Chinatown
Black Christmas
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
If IMDb & Wiki are correct, then my #1 is Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
For the first week we had very good turnout, keep up the good work!
Schedule (tentative):
1958: 09/18
1980: 10/09
scorpiorising
Un Homme qui Dort (Bernard Queysanne)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
Penda’s Fen (Alan Clarke)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
Electra My Love (Miklos Jancso)
Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis)
The Traveler (Abbas Kiarostami)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
Score (Radley Metzger)
You Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting (Lino Brocka)
Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula)