The MoFo Top 100 of the Seventies

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And here we are again, MoFos. Hot on the heels of the 1980s list, now we can prepare for movies from the decade when Scorsese, Lucas, and Spielberg made their first films, and old pros like Bob Altman, Sidney Lumet, and Sam Peckinpah swung punch-for-punch with the new kids. A time when Fassbinder, Herzog, and Wenders led the German New Wave while Truffaut, Godard, and Melville tried to figure out what to do after their wave had crested. When faces that would have been character actors in a previous age became movie stars like DeNiro, Pacino, Nicholson, Hackman, and Hoffman. When the old studio system collapse led to independent producers with power and sway (and Ali MacGraw), and where actors who wanted to direct became the thing to be, following the successes of Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, and Warren Beatty. Dense movies with dark endings were the mainstream not just the arthouse, yet it was also the age where the modern blockbuster was truly born, by shark and by Falcon, and where the appeal and artistry of horror went bigtime in The Exorcist and then in the bloody hands of Carpenter, Hooper, Cronenberg, Romero, Argento and others proved more than just drive-in fodder. The Master of Suspense himself still had a couple tricks up his sleeve while Brian DePalma tried to ape every one and add t!ts. Old man John Huston was as relevant as ever behind the camera and creepy as all get out in front of it, for the first time audiences either delighted to or scratched their heads over movies from Terrence Malick and David Lynch, while the likes of Kubrick, Polanski and Cassavetes who shone so brightly in the 1960s continued their brilliance. Some of the paranoia and cynicism of the era leaked into films in a fascinating way that still resonates, the war in Vietnam ended and filmmakers began to explore it as subject matter, but there were also musical nostalgic fantasies of hot rods and sock hops, Blaxploitation, Spaghetti Westerns, Chopsocky, and the glorious birth of low-brow gross-out comedies and spoofs that were both smart and outrageously silly. We believed a man could fly, checked our baby's heads for triple sixes, tried to disco like Travolta, and loved it when Han shot first.

It's the Seventies, y'all.


The films change, but the rules remain the same:
  • Submit your ranked list of twenty-five titles, numbered 1-25 with no ties, to me via a private message with the title "[Your Username] - MoFo ‘70s List".
  • Films will be awarded points as follows: 25 points for 1st place, 24 points for 2nd place, 23 for 3rd and so on, all the way down to one point for your 25th placed film.
  • New members can send in a list as soon as they've been a member here for one month. This measure is taken so that the list isn't jerry-rigged by people who have been here for a week, and then disappear.
  • Films that are part of a series (The Godfather, Rocky, etc.) must be submitted as separate films.
  • Any film listed as 1970-79 on IMDb is eligible for our list.
  • Anyone who reveals their list before the countdown has ended will be disqualified. Don't make me come back there. I will turn this thing around, so help me!
  • The deadline for entries is July 15, 2014. That's four full months. Plenty of time to review favorites, discover new ones, and order a list.


Tell me about it, Studs.

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Movies people should watch for this list, not the most popular but ones that should make it and could do with a few more people seeing them:




Three surreal, crazy works of art:

Eraserhead - David Lynch's first film, and his only from the seventies. A masterpiece in horror.

El Topo - Awesome 'acid Western'.

House - A crazy film like nothing you have seen before, my favourite from the psychedelic satire of the dead teenager horror film genre.



Fantastic European films.



Altman.



Everybody will vote for Chinatown but don't forget this other Jack Nicholson masterpiece.



Great film that not many talk about.



Two great Tarkovsky films. Stalker and Mirror.



I say this every list. But why oh why do you people send your lists in now? Is there any benefit to it all? The only benefit is not forgetting it, which is highly unlikely due to the amount of posts in this thread and PMs you're likely to get. Sending it in early ALWAYS results in people moaning about how they didn't get to include a masterpiece they just saw or how they forgot to include something.

Unless your like Mark and you have seen pretty much every film that is going to make the list (although even he had not seen Visitor to a Museum I don't think! ).

It's similar to these people who say they know what movies they will like and won't, and aren't willing to explore new films. Part of the beauty of these lists is exploring new parts of cinema you hadn't before and finding new films for your list, if you honestly think you know your list won't change between now and when you send your list, I think that's pretty ignorant of some of the great films that I hope show up without your help.

Sorry if this sounds angry, and each to their own of course, if you're happy with what you're doing, go for it, just don't complain when x film didn't show up because of you!



Sorry if I'm rude but I'm right
A good inspiration to rewatch Godfather Trilogy.
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I finalised my list last week, Daniel.


Just been waiting for the thread to start.
Fair enough if you're happy with it, and I know my message would come across as more personal and angry as I intended but honestly it's more just a general thing with people that always end up moaning a film didn't show up because of them, sometimes it's frustrating when it's a film you like too. Your post just reminded me that I should try and warn these regretful early sending list members early on!



You know me by now, I'm not a moaner.


I mean, the 80s list for instance didn't have a few films I'd have liked to show up, but I'm happy that even though I sent my list in within minutes of the thread starting, I got 19/25 of my list turn up.



Here is a list I made of 200 films from the 70s for those looking for somewhere to start Just combined the 70s films that I have seen that I didn't give a negative rating to with the ones on my watchlist

http://www.imdb.com/list/5RmTlgITp78/



There is a thread started by Miss Vicky, HERE, where suggestions for ‘70s viewing have been flowing pretty damn well.

And here are a few lists, for reference sake, that I had in there...

The 1970s, from the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die...



1970
Tristana
Five Easy Pieces
El Topo
Woodstock
Deep End
The Spider's Stratagem
Little Big Man
The Ear
Patton
M*A*S*H
Performance
Gimme Shelter
Zabriskie Point
The Bird with The Crystal Plumage
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis


1971
Wanda
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
A Clockwork Orange
The Sorrow and the Pity
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Walkabout
Klute
Harold and Maude
Red Psalm
Get Carter
The French Connection
Shaft
Dirty Harry
Murmur of the Heart
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
The Last Picture Show
Straw Dogs
Two-Lane Blacktop


1972
The Heartbreak Kid
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Cabaret
Last Tango in Paris
High Plains Drifter
Sleuth
Deliverance
Solaris
The Godfather
Cries & Whispers
Fat City
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Frenzy
Pink Flamingos
Superfly


1973
The Sting
The Mother and the Whore
Badlands
American Graffiti
Papillon
Enter the Dragon
Mean Streets
The Long Goodbye
The Wicker Man
Day for Night
Don't Look Now
Sleeper
Serpico
The Exorcist
Turkish Delight
The Spirit of the Beehive
Fantastic Planet
Amarcord
The Harder They Come
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid


1974
Dersu Uzala
The Conversation
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Mirror
A Woman Under the Influence
Young Frankenstein
Chinatown
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Blazing Saddles
The Godfather Part II
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia


1975
Dog Day Afternoon
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Wall
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Barry Lyndon
Fox and His Friends
India Song
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Manila in the Claws of Brightness
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Nashville
Cria!
The Travelling Players
Jaws


1976
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Carrie
The Outlaw Josey Wales
All the President's Men
Rocky
Taxi Driver
Network
Ascent
In the Realm of the Senses
1900
The Man Who Fell to Earth


1977
Star Wars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Last Wave
Annie Hall
Last Chants for a Slow Dance
Stroszek
Man of Marble
Saturday Night Fever
Killer of Sheep
Eraserhead
Ceddo
The American Friend
The Hills Have Eyes
Soldier of Orange
Suspiria


1978
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Five Deadly Venoms
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
The Deer Hunter
Grease
Days of Heaven
Dawn of the Dead
Shaolin Master Killer
Up in Smoke
Halloween


1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Real Life
My Brilliant Career
Stalker
Alien
Breaking Away
The Tin Drum
All That Jazz
Being There
Kramer vs. Kramer
Life of Brian
Apocalypse Now
The Jerk
The Muppet Movie
Manhattan
Mad Max
Nosferatu: Phantom of The Night

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The films in the Criterion Collection that were made in the 1970s...

Walkabout
Salň, or The 120 Days of Sodom
The Long Good Friday
Flesh for Frankenstein
Blood for Dracula
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Night Porter
Autumn Sonata
Monty Python's Life of Brian
The Harder They Come
Sisters
Gimme Shelter
Cries & Whispers
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Grey Gardens
The Ruling Class
The Last Wave
That Obscure Object of Desire
General Idi Amin Dada
Hearts and Minds
Solaris
Straw Dogs
Bed & Board
Love on the Run
Jubilee
Coup de Grâce
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The Honeymoon Killers
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Le Cercle Rouge
Maîtresse
Scenes from a Marriage
3 Women
The Tin Drum
A Woman Under the Influence
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Opening Night
Tout Va Bien
F for Fake
The Phantom of Liberty
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Murmur of the Heart
Lacombe, Lucien
Harlan County, U.S.A.
Equinox
Koko: A Talking Gorilla
Claire's Knee
Love in the Afternoon
The Spirit of the Beehive
Overlord
Vengeance is Mine
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Sweet Movie
Cría Cuervos
Days of Heaven
Two-Lane Blacktop
Mon Oncle Antoine
Dodes’ka-den
In the Realm of the Senses
Empire of Passion
Wise Blood
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Five Easy Pieces
Drive, He Said
A Safe Place
The Last Picture Show
The King of Marvin Gardens
Hausu
Kes
Black Moon
World on a Wire
Harold & Maude
Quadrophenia
Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Decameron
The Canterbury Tales
Arabian Nights
Badlands
Land of Milk and Honey
La Cage aux Folles
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Nashville
Tess

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Here are the 1970s releases highlighted as Roger Ebert's Great Movies (full reviews can be found on his site)...

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alien
Amarcord
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Badlands
Barry Lyndon
Being There
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Chinatown
The Conversation
Cries & Whispers
Day for Night
Days of Heaven
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Dog Day Afternoon
Don't Look Now
El Topo
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Five Easy Pieces
Gates of Heaven
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Heart of Glass
Jaws
Killer of Sheep
The Last Tango in Paris
Late Spring
Manhattan
The Last Picture Show
The Long Goodbye
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Mean Streets
Mon Oncle Antoine
Nashville
Network
Night Moves
Nosferatu the Vampire
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Patton
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Saturday Night Fever
Solaris
Spirit of the Beehive
Star Wars
Stroszek
Superman: The Movie
Taxi Driver
3 Women
Walkabout
A Woman Under the Influence
Woodstock
WR: Mysteries of the Organism


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Sometime at the end of July, I should be able to start the countdown for our next decade of collective film favorites.

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I've got a speculative list made and ordered, but I have some movies to watch and some to rewatch before I finalize it.



Gangster Rap is Shakespeare for the Future
Michael J Anderson has some good suggestions for the arthouse snobs out there:
1970
1. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer, France)
2. Tristana (Luis Buńuel, Spain/France/Italy)
3. The Little Theater of Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir, France/Italy)
4. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy/France/West Germany)
5. Le Cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, France/Italy)
6. There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, Soviet Union)
7. Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, United States)
8. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol, France/Italy)
9. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, United Kingdom)
10. A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson, Sweden)

1971
1. La Région centrale (Michael Snow, Canada)
2. (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, United States)
3. The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
4. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, France)
5. The House in the Woods (Maurice Pialat, France)
6. Love (Károly Makk, Hungary)
7. Get Carter (Mike Hodges, United Kingdom)
8. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, United States)
9. A Touch of Zen (King Hu, Taiwan)
10. Trafic (Jacques Tati, France/Italy)

1972
1. Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi, India)
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buńuel, France/
Italy/Spain)
3. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
4. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, United Kingdom)
5. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)
6. Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, West Germany/Peru/
Mexico)
7. Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich, United States)
8. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
9. Avanti! (Billy Wilder, United States/Italy)
10. Love in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer, France)

1973
1. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, Spain)
2. Badlands (Terrence Malick, United States)
3. The Age of Cosimo de Medici (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
4. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, France)
5. Reed: Insurgent Mexico (Paul Leduc, Mexico)
6. A River Called Titas (Ritwik Ghatak, India/Bangladesh)
7. Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal)
8. Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub and Daničle Huillet, Austria/France/West Germany/Italy)
9. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, United States)
10. Breezy (Clint Eastwood, United States)

1974
1. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, France)
2. Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson, France)
3. Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy/France)
4. F for Fake (Orson Welles, France/Iran/West Germany)
5. Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
6. Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
7. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, United States)
8. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
9. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
10. Weighed But Found Wanting (Lino Brocka, Philippines)

1975
1. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, United States)
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France)
3. The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, Greece)
4. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)
5. The Messiah (Roberto Rossellini, Italy/France)
6. Xala (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal)
7. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, France/Italy/United States/Spain)
8. India Song (Marguerite Duras, France)
9. Hard Times (Walter Hill, United States)
10. Benilde, or the Virgin Mother (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)

1976
1. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, United States)
2. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
3. Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock, United States)
4. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, United States)
5. The Shootist (Don Siegel, United States)
6. The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer, West Germany/France)
7. In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, Japan/France)
8. Insiang (Lino Brocka, Philippines)
9. Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
10. Nuts in May (Mike Leigh, United Kingdom)

1977
1. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buńuel, France/Spain)
2. Providence (Alain Resnais, France/Switzerland)
3. Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
4. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, United States)
5. Ceddo (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal)
6. The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood, United States)
7. The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray, India)
8. The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson, France)
9. Amar Akbar Anthony (Manmohan Desai, India)
10. The Report (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)

1978
1. Doomed Love (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)
2. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, United States)
3. Perceval (Eric Rohmer, France/Italy/West Germany)
4. Fedora (Billy Wilder, France/West Germany)
5. Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France/West Germany)
6. Violette (Claude Chabrol, France/Canada)
7. The Driver (Walter Hill, United States)
8. Halloween (John Carpenter, United States)
9. Alexandria... Why? (Youssef Chahine, Egypt/Algeria)
10. An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky, United States)

1979
1. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)
2. Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, Soviet Union)
3. "10" (Blake Edwards, United States)
4. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
5. The Hypothesis of a Stolen Painting (Raoul Ruiz, France)
6. Eureka (Ernie Gehr, United States)
7. Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
8. My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong, Australia)
9. ˇQué viva México! (Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, Soviet Union)
10. Ekdin Pratidin (Mrinal Sen, India)
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Sorry if I'm rude but I'm right
Mr Minio's obscure must see films of the 70's.



Prestuplenie i nakazanie (1970)
Rengoku eroica (1970)
Mujo (1970)
Valerie a týden divů (1970)
Trzecia część nocy (1971)
Proverka na dorogakh (1971)
Quick Billy (1971)
Még kér a nép (1972)
A zori zdes tikhie (1972)
Cheburashka (1972)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
Obrazy starého sveta (1972)
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Un Homme qui dort (1974)
Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974)
Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974)
O Thiassos (1975)
India Song (1975)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Az Ötödik pecsét (1976)
Keoma (1976)
Amator (1979)

Didn't include El Topo, Hausu and Skazka Skazok as they are rather more known, or... are they?

You have to watch all of them if you haven't before sending a list. Well, you don't, but all are great films and you SHOULD.



Sorry if I'm rude but I'm right

1971
1. La Région centrale (Michael Snow, Canada)
2. (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, United States)
3. The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
4. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, France)
5. The House in the Woods (Maurice Pialat, France)
6. Love (Károly Makk, Hungary)
7. Get Carter (Mike Hodges, United Kingdom)
8. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, United States)
9. A Touch of Zen (King Hu, Taiwan)
10. Trafic (Jacques Tati, France/Italy)
Structual film and a badass Eastwood film on one list? Glorious suggestions!