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Your absolute favourite 1970's movies

Okay I was inspired by GMKU's 1960's thread...

I think that the 70's is easily the best decade in the history of celluloid... when it was still possible to combine boundary pushing innovation (ie interesting ideas) with mainstream cinema.

Discuss, share etc...

Here are some of my favourites:

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
The Third Generation
Nashville
The Passenger
The King of Marvin Gardens
The American Friend
Performance
A Clockwork Orange
Amacord
Two-Lane Blacktop
Mean Streets
Heat
The Warriors
Play Misty For Me
Stroszek
Multiple Maniacs
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Exorcist
Dawn Of The Dead
Interiors
A Woman Under The Influence

Once again if a gun was put to my head I would say that Mean Streets is my absolute favourite...
but it is so, so difficult for me to make a final decision.

"Warriorssssss... come out to plaayyyy!"

Spooky fucking shit.

a lot of movies you mentioned, some superobscure horror movies you didn't mention, whatever. there's just too many. the 70's-80's were the best times for the movies i enjoy.

my all time favorite movies are taxi driver and el topo.

there are literally too many to choose from.

Too many and a big number is on your list already. One of my absolute favourite movies is ''Assault On Precinct 13'' that came out in 1976. The soundtrack to that is also ace.

Sorry guys... my enthusiasm for this subject led me to list too many films, which isn't much fun for you... so i have heavily edited my original list!

A woman under the influence

oh hm i'd love to answer this but i need breakfast and i don't plant to stick around here today--

but i have a question-- are we going to count movies from the 70s regardless of the times they are set? if so, i'll throw a few

tarkovki: solaris

kubrick: a clockwork orange / barry lyndon

coppola: godfather 1 & 2 / apocalypse now

polanski: chinatown / tess

woody allen: sleeper / annie hall / manhattan

john waters: pink flamingos / female trouble / desperate living

a woman under the influence / (and i want to see the killing of a chinee bookie)

milos forman: one flew over the cuckoo's nest / hair

i havent's seen any 70s bergman, i've been working on his 40s stuff-- but cries & whispers & scenes from a marriage are asking to be seen

michael cimino: the deer hunter (one of the very best, he went to shit after)

mike hodges: get carter

peckinpah: pat garret & billy the kid, straw dogs, bring me the head of alfredo garcia

robert aldrich: ulzana's raid, emperor of the north pole

ok i give up, im too hungry

besides the ones you mentioned, taxi driver, the omen, the godfather 2, deerhunter, i duno, im way to hungover right now.

the exorcist
holy mountain
aguirre
texas chainsaw massacre

texas chainsaw massacre for sure. its really hard to decide though because there are so many that i love. i cant come up with just a top ten!

A Clockwork Orange
The Warriors (this might be my favorite non-Woody Allen New York movie, that being said)
every Woody Allen from the 70s, Annie Hall is tops
Godfather 1&2
Animal House

mean streets and taxi driver are so boss. solaris was awesome. and of course Clockwork Orange is huge

other than everything that has been metnioned, what about the Wicker man?

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

The Getaway (1972)

The Harder They Come (1973)

Eraserhead (1977)