Post subject: Best Films of The 70s (V2) [Poll][Dead]
From MASH to The Muppet Movie and everything in-between, the 1970s, a decade deemed 'Golden', is one of variety.
The deadpan comedy.
The gritty thriller.
The crime epic.
The sci-fi fantasy.
The psychological drama.
The psychological comedy.
The psychedelic adult movie.
The psychedelic kid's movie.
The neo-noir whodunit.
The dystopian satire.
The absurd.
The surreal.
The slice of life.
The slasher.
The horror—
the horror...
As BEA dives into a time
when the blockbuster was born—
as the bass notes of Jaws parade,
as Bollywood took the world by storm,
—as 'New Hollywood' hit the screen—
the disassociated, the disenfranchised,
the eccentric, the strange,
the glam! the unsettling,
and the ones everyone went to see,
the 70s,
is a character itself—
The gist/ rules:
BEA composes a list of our 100 favourite films of the 1970s. (Again! V2!). All lists will be PMed to me or posted in this thread, maxing out at 100. The final list will be 100 films. I'll be accepting lists of any denotation up to 100. The size of your list determines its weight. Films must be longer than 40 minutes. Films must have an international premiere date between January 1st 1970 and December 31st 1979. Documentaries are allowed. Comedy specials will not be accepted.
SUBCATAGORY
—10 Best Music Scores
Which you may submit up to 25, but the final lists will be the top 10.
(Music scores will only account for original material)
Lists will also be accepted in IMDb and Letterboxd format. Deadline will be August 26th.
Ineligible Releases:
Roots
Hedgehog in the Fog
The Fox and the Hare
The World At War
It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
I, Claudius
Eligible Releases:
The Travelling Players
Edvard Munch
Scenes From A Marriage
Out 1
Up for debate/in limbo:
—World On A Wire
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Yeah, I think I'm now officially done with the list <3 I replaced B&F with La Region Centrale, and now have it at 69
I guess I can theoretically expand my list to 100 by allowing repeated directors, but I still have to decide on whether I want that.
Updated And yeah, definitely do— I know it's a (BEA thing?) to do the 1-cap, but I don't see any reason to limit yourself here.
There's a fair handful from your list I'm going to add to my watch-before-the-deadline pile—
I Spit On Your Grave
Juvenile Court
We Won't Grow Old Together
The Seduction of Mimi
Bleak Moments (I had no idea about this one?— didn't know Mike Leigh was making films that early on)
And I've never actually watched Carrie, so maybe that
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Following this list I'll be posting our 70s V2 poll, which will run for the duration of summer. Feel free to get a bitchin' head start.
I've been getting a bitchin' head start...since December. This'll be fun midpoint exercise. One of the many films I've seen so far was Rocka's Punishment Park recommendation. It's a totally bonkers early 70s flick about draft dodgers, violent protesters, and young radicals being let loose in the Mojave Desert to be hunted for sport by the national guard. Made during the peak of Vietnam, and filmed like a low-budget documentary, Punishment Park reflects the ideological divide of the nation after the upheaval of the late-60s. It's cheap-looking and somewhat repetitive, but it's thought-provoking nonetheless. It must be in the public domain because it's free on YouTube:
One of the many films I've seen so far was Rocka's Punishment Park recommendation. It's a totally bonkers early 70s flick about draft dodgers, violent protesters, and young radicals being let loose in the Mojave Desert to be hunted for sport by the national guard.
Essential 70s work right there. It's high on Charli's list, and (will be) very high on mine. Hoping everyone gets around to it — and thanks for the link, this will probably be the first decade poll we've done in quite some time where films will be available on YT. Really innovative ultra-low budget film. I think it'll land our top 100 no problem.
Peter Watkins is an interesting guy— known for his interesting lens on anti-war work (Culloden, The War Game, La Commune, The Gladiators, Punishment Park), he also helmed Edvard Munch. Masterful director who never quite gets his due— a compact, challenging filmography filled with unconventional runtimes never exactly sent him into the mainstream, but his development of docudrama/pseudodocs, etc deserves it's recognition (which, luckily, Criterion Collection has done quite well).
In compiling my list I've come to realize two recent passings— Jacques Rozier (Du côté d’Orouët, Adieu Philippine) and Margit Carstensen (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Possession) both died in the last week.
In the spirit of summer I'm hoping people give Du côté d’Orouët a shot. I know it's lengthy, but it really is a beautiful slice-of-life breeze of beachy summer cinema. Slow, but it's quite heartfelt and has some great (and very French) vibes.
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— you've already added some more.
And yeah, definitely do— I know it's a (BEA thing?) to do the 1-cap, but I don't see any reason to limit yourself here.
