Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on August 17, 2006 at 00:50:22

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.