Films/DVD Asylum

• You gotta be kidding. - Analog Scott 13:28:10 08/16/06 (5)
  In Reply to: I agree that there was a decline.... posted by BJordan on August 16, 2006 at 11:25:55:

  The 70s is widely regarded as the golden age of Hollywood film making.
  
  

  ---

  • which 70's films would you recommend... - BJordan 14:53:14 08/16/06 (4)
    In Reply to: You gotta be kidding. posted by Analog Scott on August 16, 2006 at 13:28:10:

    thanks,
    
    

    ---

    • Start with Coppola's The Conversation and... - Harmonia 00:50:22 08/17/06 (2)
      In Reply to: which 70's films would you recommend... posted by BJordan on August 16, 2006 at 14:53:14:

      ...and proceed to Apocalypse Now, and of course the Godfathers I & II.

      Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, Taxi Driver & The Last Waltz.

      John Houston's The Man Who Would Be King, Wise Blood & Fat City

      Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show & Paper Moon

      Roman Polanski's Chinatown

      Robert Altman's Nashville, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us & A Wedding

      Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange & Barry Lyndon

      Robert Fosse's Cabaret & All That Jazz (gotta have a little song & dance)

      Robert Wiseman's groundbreaking documentary Titicut Follies

      John Cassevetes' Minnie & Moskowitz, A Woman Under The Influence & Opening Night

      Don Siegel's The Shootist (Farewell, Duke)

      Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter

      William Fredkin's The French Connection

      Fred Zinneman's The Day of The Jackal

      Ridley Scott's The Duellists

      Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue

      Just for fun & kicks throw in Hitchcock's Frenzy and Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Eastwood's High Plains Drifter and Ridley Scott's Alien as the anti-Star Wars. Spielberg's Close Encounters has held up reasonably well (but I so despise Jaws I would never recommend it to anyone).

      All in all, not a bad Hollywood decade at all.

      The 60's weren't so bad in Tinsel Town either:

      Lean's Lawrence of Arabia
      Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, 2001 & Spartacus
      Rossen's The Hustler
      Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor & The Naked Kiss
      Wilder's The Apartment
      To Kill A Mockingbird
      Polanski's Rosemary's Baby & Repulsion
      Ford's The Man WHo Shot Liberty Valance
      Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate
      Cassevetes' Faces
      Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch
      Mike Nichol's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf
      Hitchock's Psycho & The Birds
      In Cold Blood

      etc.

      
      
      
      

      ---

      • Re: Wonderful post but - rico 09:22:43 08/17/06 (0)
        In Reply to: Start with Coppola's The Conversation and... posted by Harmonia on August 17, 2006 at 00:50:22:

        just why do you so despise "Jaws"?
        
        

        ---
      • Well.... - Victor Khomenko 06:07:59 08/17/06 (0)
        In Reply to: Start with Coppola's The Conversation and... posted by Harmonia on August 17, 2006 at 00:50:22:

        While there are definitely some good ones on the list (not all of them in my view, but that is of course quite subjective, so I am not going to start an argument...) for the industry that produces what... hundreds films a year?... this is not particularly impressive.

        Subjective... yes... and yet... if we put things like Shootist and Cabaret on that list - we are like REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel.
        

        
        
        
        

        ---
    • There are far to many to name. But here are just a few - Analog Scott 16:22:01 08/16/06 (0)
      In Reply to: which 70's films would you recommend... posted by BJordan on August 16, 2006 at 14:53:14:

      The Exorcist
      Alien
      And Justice For All
      Apocalypse Now
      Jaws
      Young Frankenstein
      Godfather II
      The Inn Laws
      Rocky
      The Godfather I
      Close encounters of the Third kind
      The Omega Man
      Soylent Green
      Star Wars
      The Deer Hunter
      Taxi Driver
      Chinatown
      Network
      Dog Day Afternoon
      a Clockwork Orange
      Patton
      Deliverence
      American Graffiti
      Mean Streets
      Harold and Maude
      Being There
      All that Jazz
      Cabaret
      Annie Hall
      One Flew over the Cukoo's nest
      Billy Jack
      Nashville
      The French Connection

      
      Thats just a few
      
      

      ---

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:

Parts Connexion

---

[ Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]

---

[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]

---