1970s, group 10
- Macbeth (1971)
- The Tenant (1976)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
- Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
- Tomorrow (1972)
- The White Dawn (1974)
- Willard (1971)
- The Strawberry Statement (1970)
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
- Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978)
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
- Harry and Tonto (1974)
- Big Wednesday (1978)
- Cooley High (1975)
- Piranha (1978)
- THX 1138 (1971)
- The Omega Man (1971)
- Murder on the Orient Express (1978)
- The Odessa File (1974)
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coming soon: protein wisdom’s top 20 movies of the 1970s
previous: set 1; set 2; set 3; set 4; set 5; set 6; set 7; set 8; set 9.
A few leftover titles: Pretty Baby, The Molly Maguires, The Offence, Hustle, The Grissom Gang, Too Late the Hero, Minnie and Moskowitz, Sleuth, Oh God!, and Giù la testa [Duck, You Suckers / A Fistful of Dynamite], California Split.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is worth it for the (Dylan) soundtrack alone.
Did you hear they are making a sequel by combining “Earthquake” with “Towering Inferno?” It’s going to be called “Shake and Bake.”
Is this stuff all on your Amazon list, or do you have it all already?
Ernest Borgnine eaten by rats. Thank you, Jeff.
Now c’mon! Piranha was a piece of crap! I’m now convinced that you are just randomly listing every movie made in the seventies because you have no better ideas.
Piranha, written by John Sayles (Lone Star) and directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins) is THE camp movie of the 70s—a brilliant, low-budget play on the “nature kills” theme so prevalent in mid-seventies cinema.
The script is very smart and very funny, when watched through the prism of intentional camp, and the special effects are a scream.
So no, I’m not just listing movies from the seventies because I have no better ideas. I’m listing movies that in my opinion are worth watching.
Murel —
I own most of these; those that I don’t own (or that I own, but in VHS rather than DVD) are on my wish list, probably.
Did “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” ever make it on one of your lists?
You know what? It did momentarily but then I pulled it off when I realized I forgot a particular blaxploitation title. Definitely belongs. Been waiting for it to come out on DVD.
Great early Berenger and Gere, and a nice Keaton performance.
Wow, I’ve seen Murder on the Orient Express. Makes me feel better. This is the first that I’ve noticed.
What are you going to do to your readers who don’t make the grade movie-wise? I don’t see there’s much of anything you can do, except insult us of course, but hey, we’re a tough lot or we wouldn’t be coming here every day.
I scoff at you, bitches.
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SCOFF! LIKE A FRENCHMAN!
Hey, is “Mark of the Devil” (1972 I think).. the cult classic, on one of these lists…? It was rated ‘V’ violence (in its advertising) and came with a vomit bag with the price of admission at the theater… They used authentic torture devices for the film.. it was Udo Kier’s first movie.. and that tongue ripping scene still gives me nightmares 30 years later…
but you have to see the uncut, uncensored version..not the watered down version…
You recommended a blaxploitation film over “Goodbar”?
I think I may have to do some scoffing. What’s next , “Herbie Rides Again”????
Well, the list was made up predominantly of blaxploitation films. I wasn’t recommending one over the other; just trying to keep some thematic strand going within the lists when I’m able.
Ok, I’ll take back my attempts at scoffing.
If you ever want to put together a list of films to not watch. You’ve got to include “Meet the Deedles”. Dennis Hopper, and the only Disney movie to include softcore porn.
Damn. Swamp Thing was 82. I loved Swamp Thing. Adrienne Barbeau has a chest like mine.
Ya..Ya… and Peter North and I are ‘twins’ too..
Gee, great. Another list. Wow. This is so akin to the original personal websites. Next Jeff should post his favorite links, pictures of Friends and his dog and a diary.
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and A Woman Under The Influence just sneaks in. Your list is all right, Jeff. Might be the best list yet.
Don’t bitch, Squeaky, you’re getting a graduate course in cultural studies for free here.
What about Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS?
Who’ll Stop the Rain was a film made from Stone’s Dog Soldiers, which won a National Book Award. Fantastic novel which I read long before I saw the movie. The movie was so well done that I was able to recall almost every scene from the novel as I watched the movie. And Nick Nolte could really act in those days. I am no big fan of country music but I’ve got an early recording of Hank Thompson’s Oklahoma Hills because this was the song that Ray Hicks (Nolte) blasted through a system of loud speakers he had set up on a mountainside to rattle his pursuers as he backtracked on them to kill them before they did it to him. An outrageously cool flick. Pretty anti-war, but what wasn’t in those days (not to mention these days).
Who’ll Stop the Rain is one of my all time favorites. Speaking of Tuesday Weld, I hope you don’t forget Play it As it Lays and Looking for Mr. Goodbar. I’d add Pretty Poison but I think that was the 60’s.
Is Panic in Needle Park on your lists? Should be.
For an 80’s kid, you have really good taste in movies.
Forgot, Unmarried Woman was also great. And 70’s.
I think I put Panic in Needle Park on the very first list. I’ve been trying to get a hold of both Play it as it Lays and Rabbit, Run for ages but can’t find them anywhere, even on VHS. I haven’t seen either, though I loved both novels. I’m interested to see what James Caan did as Harry Angstrom.
I have Play it As it Lays on VHS. What’s a copy worth to you?
I’d take it and burn it to DVD. Can do one for you as well, once I figure out how it’s done.
How’s that sound?