What the title says! It’s been claimed that there were good movies released in the 70s, so I want to catch up on the really good ones that I missed.
Ones that I’ve already seen that are considered Classics, I guess:
The Godfather (1972) - I’m not a fan, but maybe I need to see it again? The Godfather Part II (1974) - Much more entertaining than the original. Jaws (1975) - I love this movie, but I haven’t seen it in 2 decades. The Exorcist (1973) - It didn’t live up to the hype. I hated it. Cheesy, and not scary at all. Alien (1979) - Excellent movie. Star Wars (1977) - It’s decent. Apocalypse Now (1979) - The making of documentary was better than the movie. The French Connection (1971) - Decent movie, terrible car chase though. Annie Hall (1977) - Excellent romantic comedy. Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (1977) - One of my favorite movies as a kid. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Good movie, lived up to the hype for once, even in 2007. Grease (1978) - Weird movie, lived up to the hype, even in 1996 because of the nuts ending. MASH (1970) - Excellent movie, soooo funny. Even better than the TV show I grew up watching, in some ways. Being There (1979) - Good movie. Dirty Harry (1971) - Forgettable. I say that because I saw in the 90s, and don’t remember it.
Halloween - helped start the slasher genre. There’s been others before this, but this one had more of an impact, and thus is the one cited as the influence. Also, it’s great.
I want it officially noted on record that I am not getting all “giffy”, because I know @Rock8man wants a nice clean list, so I am repecting his intent. Don’t expect this to to be some kind of permanent thing.
The Long Goodbye Klute Badlands Three Days of the Condor The Parallax View All the President’s Men McCabe & Mrs. Miller Day of the Locust Nashville The Conversation The Conformist
OK, Two Seventies Peckinpah. Who is himself Mr. Seventies Film: The Getaway (1972)-sadly neglected in the Heist movie genre by the film illiterates @ChristienMurawski and @tomchick Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)-“I’ve got this shotgun loaded with 16 thin dimes, and I’ll lay you out like a crazy woman’s quilt!”
More film noir, or at least crime films: Get Carter - the Michael Caine one, not the remake The Long Goodbye - Elliot Gould as Marlowe. It shouldn’t work, but it does Serpico (questionably noir, but great regardless)
John Carpenter really made it big in the 80s but he made some stone cold classics in the 70s, particularly Dark Star and Assault On Precinct 13
The Wicker Man - freaky British horror
Eraserhead - freaky American horror(?)
Five Easy Pieces - in the 70s, Nicholson really wasn’t a self-parody
Another vote for The Conversation and Scorsese’s films
The Sting - Possibly the archetypal caper film
Badlands - Bonnie and Clyde, if it wasn’t a caper film
Tarkovsky sci-fi: Solaris and Stalker
All the Australian classics are from the 70s - Mad Max, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Walkabout
