1- everything Fassbinder did in the 70s
2- Salo
3- Mean Streets
4- 3 Women
5- Conversation Piece
6- The Brood
7- Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex… But Were Afraid to Ask
8- The Devil, Probably
9- Solaris
10- The Boys in the Band
Aguirre Wrath of God – Herzog
Annie Hall – Allen
Apocalypse Now – Coppola
Chinatown – Polanski
Five Easy Pieces – Rafelson
M*A*S*H – Altman
Murmur of the Heart – Malle
The Conformist – Bertolucci
The Marriage of Maria Braun – Fassbinder
Young Frankenstein – Brooks
The Telephone Book, Nelson Lyon (1971)
In the Realm of the Senses, Nagisa Oshima (1976)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luis Buñuel (1972)
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
Annie Hall, Woody Allen (1977)
Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick (1975)
Chinatown, Roman Polanski (1974)
Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese (1976)
Scenes From a Marriage, Ingmar Bergman (1973)
Eraserhead, David Lynch (1977)
In no particular order.
Not in any order
A Clockwork Orange – Kubrick
Eraserhead – Lynch
The Godfather (Part II) – Coppola
Manhattan – Woody Allen
Network -Lumet
I recently watched The Friends of Eddie Coyle. That film caught the decade very well. It seemed at times a little like an episode of Baretta or vice versa.
1. Star Wars
2. The Godfather
Everything else…
Chinatown
Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
Last Tango in Paris
Dersu Uzala
Stalker
Apocalypse Now
Annie Hall
1. Nashville
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. McCabe & Mrs Miller
6. Amarcord
7. The Spirit of the Beehive
8. Dog Day Afternoon
9. Manhattan
10. Chinatown.
STAR WARS
THE GODFATHER
THE GODFATHER II
AMERICAN GRAFFITI
JAWS
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
APOCALYPSE NOW
HALLOWEEN
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
DIRTY HARRY
THE CONVERSATION
CHINATOWN
ALIEN
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
THX-1138
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
MARATHON MAN
Oh Jeez, way too many to remember at once, it seems sometimes that over 50% of the greatest films of all time were made in the seventies, at least in American cinema. I never seem to stop discovering more jems, but here are some of the more obvious, immediate ones that come to mind:
STAR WARS
APOCALYPSE NOW
THE GODFATHER I & II
THE CONVERSATION (so you might guess that I really love 70s Coppola)
BARRY LYNDON
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
CHINATOWN
TAXI DRIVER
SOLARIS
STALKER
THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
McCABE AND MRS MILLER
THE PASSENGER
THE CONFORMIST
ALIEN
SUSPIRIA
THX 1138
ANNIE HALL
etc, etc…
Solaris
Mirror
Stalker
Apocalypse Now
Godfather
The Conversation
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Stroszek
Enigma of Kasper Hauser
Heart of Glass
Network
The Conformist
Manhattan
American Graffiti
The Last Picture Show
Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Days of Heaven (Malick)
The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
Badlands (Malick)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Chinatown (Polanski)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
The Ascent (Shepitko)
Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
Stalker & Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Devil probably & Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice)
The Godfather I,II & Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Aguirre & Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
Cries and Whispers & Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
Anna and the Wolfes & Cría Cuervos (Carlos Saura)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
The Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Vengeance is Mine (Shôhei Imamura)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
The Godfather
The Long Goodbye
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Dog Day Afternoon
Suspiria
Taxi Driver
Alien
A Clockwork Orange
Marathon Man
Cria Cuervos
Jaws
A Woman Under the Influence
Straw Dogs
Hearts and Minds
All the President’s Men
The Parallax View
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Chinatown
I don’t think I like anything from this decade.
Fredo is on the money…
The Long Goodbye is an awesome movie! Straw Dogs, The French Connection, Z (or was that the 80s), The Parallax View, The Conversation…Last Picture Show.
A Clockwork Orange
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Barry Lyndon
The Conformist
Cries and Whispers
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Last Tango in Paris
Mean Streets
Nashville
Scenes from a Marriage
Solaris
Stalker
Taxi Driver
I better stop there or I will go on forever.
Z was from 1969
Barry Lyndon
Network
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Dog Day Afternoon
Days of Heaven
Badlands
The Holy Mountain
Charley Varrick
10. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
9. Nashville (1975)
8. Jeanne Dielman (1975)
7. 3 Women (1977)
6. Providence (1977)
5. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
4. Le vent d’est (1970)
3. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
2. Numero Deux (1976)
1. Out 1 (1971)
Network
Star Wars
Annie Hall
Young Frankenstein
The 70s were an astounding time…I love The Godfather I&II, Jaws, Dog Day Afternoon, Five Easy Pieces, etc…but I also love these
The Landlord
Halloween
A New Leaf
Murder by Death
High Anxiety
Un Flic
Two Men in Town
Sacco & Vanzetti
Even Dwarfs Started Small
The Hospital
Lenny
Wanda
Cabaret
Cisco Pike
Let’s Do it Again
3 Days of the Condor
The Front
Paper Moon
The Grissom Gang
Smile
Tristana
Murder on the Orient Express
Race with the Devil
Julia
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
The Bad News Bears
The Garden of the Finzi Continis
The Conformist
Switchblade Sisters
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
The Killer Elite
The Panic in Needle Park
Klute
Doc
Frogs
Farewell My Lovely
Marjoe
1900
Car Wash
Lisztomania
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Figures in a Landscape
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Go-Between
Leo the Last
Taking Off
Harlan County USA
The Boys from Brazil
Millhouse
The In-Laws
the 1970’s is the best decade with many of the 70’s films in my top 10
Chinatown (Polanski)
Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman)
Network (Lumet)
This will, of course, only echo the films above, but what the hell? List are fun. For my own sanity, I’ve only listed one film per director, and this list is in rough order of personal preference.
Taxi Driver
The Conversation
Five Easy Pieces
Nashville
Annie Hall
Badlands
Barry Lyndon
Chinatown
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Stroszeck
Walkabout
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Last Picture Show
Last Tango in Paris
Killer of Sheep
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Vengeance is Mine
The Exorcist
And…I know it’s not a “good” movie in that it’s horribly made, but there’s a special place in my heart for:
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Wake In Fright
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith
Mad Max
Newsfront
Ah shit, I’m slack in my seventies Australian cinema. But there’s a few more great ones.
In no order:
Taxi-Driver
The Conformist
The Godfather 1
The Godfather 2
Mean Streets
Stalker
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Amici Miei 1
Amici Miei 2
Life of Brian
Monty Python’s and the Holy Grail
The Mirror
I think that the 70s belong more to USA,with all the new directors(Scorsese,Coppola,Polanski,Altmann)and less to international cinema,unlike the 50s and the 60s,where other countries had the lead.At least for me.
I’d forgotten how much good stuff there was in the 70’s. I guess, if the 70’s were that good for movies with the economy that bad, the next ten years look pretty promising for American film. Brother can you spare a dime? No wait, that was the 30’s.
1) Nashville
2) Taxi Driver
3) Star Wars
4) Apocalypse Now
5) The Godfather
6) Young Frankenstein
7) Jaws
8) Aguirre: The Wrath of God
9) The Exorcist
10) Blazing Saddles
Heart of Glass
A Clockwork Orange
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
A Walk through H
The Mirror
McBean
I think the seventies was the best decade for films for me (there’s been a thread asking which is the best decade for films and I chose the seventies. Someone almost convinced me it was the fifties but on further reflection I’m sticking with the seventies. I like the style of a great many seventies films like Serpico, French Connection, The Godfather I and II, Taxi Driver, The Exorcist etc etc. What would be your top ten or so films of the seventies?