MOVIES OF THE SEVENTIES - Movies that defined a Decade
A list of movies that defined the Seventies, a decade where risks were taken, independent cinema came alive and box office giants were created. This list of movies is taken from the book, MOVIES OF THE SEVENTIES. There are articles on countries (not just Hollywood), directors, actors and even genres that were popular in that decade. In between there are in-depth reviews of these films. Believe it or not, there were no reviews on Jaws or Star Wars! And what about NASHVILLE, TAXI DRIVER and most importantly, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE?!
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- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJean-Louis TrintignantStefania SandrelliGastone MoschinA weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.The Conformist is a story about me and Godard... I'm Marcello and I make fascists movies and I want to kill Godard who's a revolutionary... and makes revolutionary movies and is my teacher - Bernardo Bertolucci
- DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèFlorinda BolkanGianni SantuccioA chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.The film is dominated by a performance of operatic paranoia from Gian Maria Volonte - Neil Sinyard
- DirectorDon SiegelClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodAndrew RobinsonHarry GuardinoWhen a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.Remains not only the first, but far and away the best of the bunch (vigilante films) - John Russell Taylor
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsTimothy BottomsJeff BridgesCybill ShepherdIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.Bogdanovich's film is, in the Chekhovian sense, a comedy of empty lives where the characters occasionally go to ludicrous lengths to assert the fact that their existence is notable and their actions of importance - Derek Prouse
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsJenny AgutterDavid GulpililLuc RoegTwo city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.The Aborigine and the girl 30,000 years apart... together
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMilena DravicIvica VidovicJagoda KaloperAn homage to the work of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, matched with a story about a Yugoslavian girl's affair with a Russian skater. Sexual repression, social systems and the orgone theory are explored.I see the cinema as a guerilla operation - Dusan Makavejev (director)
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiRuy GuerraHelena RojoIn the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.It has the surface of an adventure film, but it is a very personal film. For me it is alive - Werner Herzog
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.What separates The Godfather from previous gangster films is the amount of money spent on it, for the money is translated into artistic values on the screen - Alan Lovell
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsMarlon BrandoMaria SchneiderMaria MichiA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.It is not an erotic film, merely a film about eroticism - Bernardo Bertolucci
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMagali NoëlBruno ZaninPupella MaggioA series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.It is clear enough in Fellini's work as a whole that fact and fancy are never far apart - Jonathan Rosenbaum
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroHarvey KeitelDavid ProvalIn New York City's Little Italy, a devoutly Catholic mobster must reconcile his desire for power, his feelings for his epileptic lover, and his devotion to his troublesome friend.It was Scorsese's memory of Sixties Rock 'n' Roll with its revolutionary power to influence people's lives and behaviour that made Mean Streets such an exciting proposition for Taplin (producer) and Warner Brothers - Martyn Auty
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsBrigitte MiraEl Hedi ben SalemBarbara ValentinA lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.The roots of fascist and racist prejudices are located in sexual jealousy - an aspect of intolerance that is certainly evoked, among others, to even more subtle effect in Fear Eats The Soul - Derek Prouse
- DirectorKen HannamStarsJack ThompsonMax CullenRobert BruningA hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.The film that did more than any other to put Australia on the international map - Tim Pulleine
- DirectorWim WendersStarsDennis HopperBruno GanzLisa KreuzerTom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.Wim Wenders is fascinated with roads, journeys, uprooting, with the sense of identity that is attached to having a place to go home to - David Roper
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRichard DreyfussFrançois TruffautTeri GarrRoy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.The effectiveness of Close Encounters lies in our ability to believe that beyond the stars superior powers are benevolent and caring - Stephen Woolley
- DirectorClaude GorettaStarsIsabelle HuppertYves BeneytonFlorence GiorgettiA reserved young woman moves into an apartment with a young student she met while on vacation.Skilfully explores some divisive elements in civilised society that normally receive scant attention - Allen Eyles
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsZbigniew ZapasiewiczEwa DalkowskaAndrzej SewerynA famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding is reduced to silence.(aka Rough Treatment) Director, Andrzej Wajda, leads his hero on an eventually fatal odyssey through the spiritual wilderness that is Poland in the late Seventies - David Robinson
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsChristopher ReeveMargot KidderGene HackmanAn alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.A masterpiece of Seventies science fiction, which relies heavily on the fantastic effects but boasts at least one great acting performance... from Christopher Reeve - Stephen Woolley
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.It's a film to despair at. It is a film about going beyond the limits, and its prevailing message is its title - Graham Fuller
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDavid BennentMario AdorfAngela WinklerIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.There can be no doubt that David Bennent's portrayal of Oskar is unique - Martyn Auty
- DirectorWalter HillStarsMichael BeckJames RemarDorsey WrightA street gang known as the Warriors must fight its way from the Bronx to its home turf on Coney Island when its members are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader.Rarely has the expertise of violent combat been so gracefully composed - Chris Peachment