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• which 70's films would you recommend... - BJordan 14:53:14 08/16/06 (4)
  In Reply to: You gotta be kidding. posted by Analog Scott on August 16, 2006 at 13:28:10:

  thanks,
  
  

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  • Start with Coppola's The Conversation and... - Harmonia 00:50:22 08/17/06 (2)
    In Reply to: which 70's films would you recommend... posted by BJordan on August 16, 2006 at 14:53:14:

    ...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.

    
    
    
    

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    • 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"?
      
      

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    • 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.
      

      
      
      
      

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  • There are far to many to name. But here are just a few - Analog Scott 16:22:01 08/16/06 (0)
    In Reply to: which 70's films would you recommend... posted by BJordan on August 16, 2006 at 14:53:14:

    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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