Best Films of the 1970's

[richardfinegold]

1) A Clockwork Orange 1971
2) Five Easy Pieces 1970
3) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975
4) Cabaret 1972
5) The Conversation 1974

[richardfinegold]

Some classics seem to have been omitted. The Godfather, Harold and Maude, Deep Throat...

[teamsaint]

Catch 22.

[MrGongGong]

The Wicker Man

[Madame Suggia]

Forgot:

Death in Venice

[johncorrigan]

The Wicker Man

'Silent Running' with the magnificent Bruce Dern...and as already stated, absolutely, 'The Conversation'.

[gurnemanz]

Forgot:

Death in Venice

+ Ken Russell's Mahler - slightly bonkers but very entertaining.

[jayne lee wilson]

On the one hand... Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, Alain Delon (just possibly the only man I ever thought I fancied...)), Le Boucher (Chabrol, Stephane Audran - fancied? No comment..)...

On the other... Star Wars IV (THE ORIGINAL AND STILL THE BEST Etc..) and Close Encounters (easy to forget now the sheer impact, the FX of the last 20 minutes...)
Come on own up, you know you loved them really...

But BIG yes to - Deerhunter (you wonder, how long is this wedding going on - and then you hear the helicopters...) and Day for Night (with THE Baroque pastiche score (Georges Delerue)...)

[Tevot]

Hello there,

Some great films already mentioned...

10 that sprang to mind :-

Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
Badlands
Alien
Get Carter
Don't Look Now
Nashville
Taxi Driver
Halloween
Network

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[Krystal]

Some interesting films on these lists!!

What about Robert Altman's "Nashville"? Only one person has nominated this film so far.

[doversoul1]

Cabaret
The Sting
(more later)

[Ferretfancy]

Some interesting films on these lists!!

What about Robert Altman's "Nashville"? Only one person has nominated this film so far.

The sequences in Nashville which feature Geraldine Chaplin as ' Opal from the BBC' are worth the cost of the DVD alone!

A small anecdote:=

Years ago I was visiting Athens, and on the Acropolis an American lady came looking for her husband, who had wandered off somewhere. Gazing up at the Parthenon she said " Isn't it wonderful? " "Yes", I replied it is wonderful"

"Have you ever been to Nashville Tennessee ?" she went on, "You know they've got one just like it, only of course it isn't damaged!"

It took me a while to recover.

It was only years later when I caught up with the Altman film, that I realised yes! There it was in the last reel!

[pastoralguy]

Cabaret
The Sting
(more later)

'Even ze ORCHESTRA iz beeutifal!'

Wonderful movie. I have a 16mm print of it but, alas, it's so faded as to be almost unwatchable. (Along with 'How to steal a million' with the incandescent Audrey Hepburn.).

[doversoul1]

Re: Cabaret
I took a cassette recorder hidden in a paper bag on my third visit to the cinema with a 120-minut tape. The result was hardly audible but how I treasured it!

[vinteuil]

... lots of good continental films -

Bertolucci
"1900"
"The Spider's Stratagem" ( a great favourite of mine)

Pasolini
Decameron
Arabian Nights
Canterbury Tales

Rivette
Celine and Julie go Boating (quite the most marvellous film)

Resnais
Claire's Knee (not in the same league as Ma nuit chez Maude, but still v interesting)

Chabrol
le Boucher

Truffaut
la Nuit americaine
l'Homme qui aimait les femmes