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In Reply to: I understant the "worst tradition of Hollywood movies" , but... posted by BJordan on August 15, 2006 at 18:55:44:

I have too much stuff on my mind at the moment, and I usually don't keep separate Hollywood vs. non-Hollywood lists, but for instance many of the early Eastwood films were great, and there were tons of good ones made in the fourties and the fifties, before the Hollywood had discovered that showing "normal" people with their normal problem was not producing enough income any longer, and they switched to portraying a deviant after a deviant in their attempt at catching the public's attention. Unfortunately in that regard it took world leadership.

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I agree that there was a decline.... - BJordan 11:25:55 08/16/06 (6)
in Hollywood film making after the 50's. Thanks for the reply.
- You gotta be kidding. - Analog Scott 13:28:10 08/16/06 (5)
  The 70s is widely regarded as the golden age of Hollywood film making.
  - which 70's films would you recommend... - BJordan 14:53:14 08/16/06 (4)
    thanks,
    - Start with Coppola's The Conversation and... - Harmonia 00:50:22 08/17/06 (2)
      ...and proceed to Apocalypse Now, and of course the Godfathers I & II.
      Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, Taxi Driver & The Last Waltz.
      John Houston's The Man Who Would Be King, Wise Blood & Fat City
      Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show & Paper Moon
      Roman Polanski's Chinatown
      Robert Altman's Nashville, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us & A Wedding
      Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange & Barry Lyndon
      Robert Fosse's Cabaret & All That Jazz (gotta have a little song & dance)
      Robert Wiseman's groundbreaking documentary Titicut Follies
      John Cassevetes' Minnie & Moskowitz, A Woman Under The Influence & Opening Night
      Don Siegel's The Shootist (Farewell, Duke)
      Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter
      William Fredkin's The French Connection
      Fred Zinneman's The Day of The Jackal
      Ridley Scott's The Duellists
      Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue
      Just for fun & kicks throw in Hitchcock's Frenzy and Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Eastwood's High Plains Drifter and Ridley Scott's Alien as the anti-Star Wars. Spielberg's Close Encounters has held up reasonably well (but I so despise Jaws I would never recommend it to anyone).
      All in all, not a bad Hollywood decade at all.
      The 60's weren't so bad in Tinsel Town either:
      Lean's Lawrence of Arabia
      Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, 2001 & Spartacus
      Rossen's The Hustler
      Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor & The Naked Kiss
      Wilder's The Apartment
      To Kill A Mockingbird
      Polanski's Rosemary's Baby & Repulsion
      Ford's The Man WHo Shot Liberty Valance
      Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate
      Cassevetes' Faces
      Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch
      Mike Nichol's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf
      Hitchock's Psycho & The Birds
      In Cold Blood
      etc.
      - Re: Wonderful post but - rico 09:22:43 08/17/06 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Start with Coppola's The Conversation and... posted by Harmonia on August 17, 2006 at 00:50:22:
        
        just why do you so despise "Jaws"?
      - Well.... - Victor Khomenko 06:07:59 08/17/06 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Start with Coppola's The Conversation and... posted by Harmonia on August 17, 2006 at 00:50:22:
        
        While there are definitely some good ones on the list (not all of them in my view, but that is of course quite subjective, so I am not going to start an argument...) for the industry that produces what... hundreds films a year?... this is not particularly impressive.
        Subjective... yes... and yet... if we put things like Shootist and Cabaret on that list - we are like REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel.
    - There are far to many to name. But here are just a few - Analog Scott 16:22:01 08/16/06 (0)
      The Exorcist
      Alien
      And Justice For All
      Apocalypse Now
      Jaws
      Young Frankenstein
      Godfather II
      The Inn Laws
      Rocky
      The Godfather I
      Close encounters of the Third kind
      The Omega Man
      Soylent Green
      Star Wars
      The Deer Hunter
      Taxi Driver
      Chinatown
      Network
      Dog Day Afternoon
      a Clockwork Orange
      Patton
      Deliverence
      American Graffiti
      Mean Streets
      Harold and Maude
      Being There
      All that Jazz
      Cabaret
      Annie Hall
      One Flew over the Cukoo's nest
      Billy Jack
      Nashville
      The French Connection
      
      Thats just a few

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