70s movies: choose your own adventure ▲

Started by jenkins, May 15, 2014, 06:43:34 PM

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jenkins

we'll all be ok, and we'll have listed a bunch of 70s movies. for example:

killer of sheep
3 women
over the edge
the marriage of maria braun
claire's knee
kes
amarcord
spirit of the beehive
don't deliver us from evil
valerie and her week of wonders
wr: mysteries of the organism
female trouble
the honeymoon killers
that obscure object of desire
badlands
taxi driver
the tenant
aloha, bobby and rose
shampoo
the last picture show
two-lane blacktop
fat city
friends of eddie coyle
the conversation
scenes from a marriage

polkablues

I'm not sure I follow the point of this exercise, per se, but I'll play along.

Bush Mama
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Vanishing Point
Story of O
Don't Look Now
Cannibal Holocaust
My house, my rules, my coffee

wilder

#2
Fuck it I'm listing everything

3 Women
1900
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Alien
All the President's Men
The American Friend
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Autumn Sonata
Badlands
Barry Lyndon
The Brood
California Split
Carnal Knowledge
Carrie
Le Cercle Rouge
Chinatown
A Clockwork Orange
Coming Home
The Conformist
The Conversation
Cria Cuervos
Cries & Whispers
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
Diabel
Dog Day Afternoon
Don't Look Now
The Driver
F for Fake!
Face to Face
Female Trouble
Un Flic
The Gambler
Girlfriends
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Graduate First
Grey Gardens
Halloween
The Honeymoon Killers
Husbands
L'Important c'est d'aimer
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
The Iron Rose
Interiors
Jaws
The Jericho Mile
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Klute
The Last Detail
Last Tango in Paris
The Long Goodbye
Macbeth
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Manhattan
Marathon Man
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Mean Streets
Mikey and Nicky
Minnie and Moskowitz
The Mouth Agape
Nashville
Network
Nosferatu the Vampyre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Opening Night
The Outside Man
Overlord
The Parallax View
The Passenger
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Rolling Thunder
Scarecrow
Scenes from a Marriage
Shampoo
Shivers
Solaris
Sorcerer
Straight Time
Suspiria
A Swedish Love Story
Taxi Driver
The Tenant
Tess
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Trafic
Ucho
Watership Down
We Won't Grow Old Together
World on a Wire

Lottery

Good decade.

25:
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part
A Clockwork Orange
Alien
Chinatown
Star Wars
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
Network
Barry Lyndon
The Conversation
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Badlands
Dog Day Afternoon
The Mirror
Annie Hall
The Long Goodbye
Sorcerer
Days of Heaven
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Solaris
Paper Moon
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Manhattan
The French Connection

jenkins

this thread/decade gives me butterflies in my stomach. and oooh the 60s, can't wait

Robyn

a swedish love story
valerie and her week of wonders
zabriskie point
harold and maude
mccabe & mrs. miller
deliverance
the godfather
solaris
cries and whispers
badlands
the exorsist
the mother and the whore
a woman under the influence
the godfather part 2
barry lyndon
dog day afternoon
jaws
network
yozhik v tumane
a special day
manhattan
stalker
the warriors
taxi driver
apocalypse now


ono

I really fail when it comes to cinema pre-1980s.  I can only think of 12 movies I consider truly great:

Annie Hall
Badlands
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
Network
Barry Lyndon
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
That Obscure Object of Desire
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Walkabout
Robin Hood

There's a backlog of like 50 or so "great" movies from the 70s I just haven't had a chance to see.  And that goes for every decade back before then, too.  To see:

1900
3 Women
All That Jazz
All the President's Men
Amarcord
Animal House
Being There
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The
Blazing Saddles
Breaking Away
Cabaret
Confession, The
Conversation, The
Cries and Whispers
Day for Night
Day of the Jackal, The
Days of Heaven
Deliverance
Dirty Harry
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The
Dog Day Afternoon
Don't Look Now
Exorcist, The
Fiddler on the Roof
French Connection, The
Harold and Maude
Holy Mountain, The
King Lear
Kramer vs. Kramer
Last Picture Show, The
Long Goodbye, The
Love
Love in the Afternoon
Manhattan
MASH
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Midnight Express
Muppet Movie, The
Nashville ("saw" it, never really gave it a chance)
Paper Moon
Patton
Rocky
Scenes from a Marriage
Serpico
Solaris
Story of O
Tin Drum, The
Tomorrow
What's Up, Doc?
Zardoz

Where's that thread where I profess my shame?  Meh.  One a day for two months.  I could totally do it with dedication and Netflix DVDs.  So much other shit to do tho.