Top Ten Favorite Films Of The Seventies
Just my favorite films from the nineteen-seventies in no particular order.
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- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. ReinigerDuring an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.Stark, bleak, satirical, ultra-violent and revolutionary. This isn't just my favorite Romero film, horror film or even seventies film. This is my favorite film of ALL time.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyJosé LegarretaA mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.Eastern mysticism and surrealism meet in this offbeat and brutally violent send-up of spaghetti westerns that is both wildly absurd and deeply metaphorical.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen JosephHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.The be-all end-all in surrealistic art films, David Lynch's debut feature is just as strange, off-putting and intoxicating now, as it was when it premiered over thirty years ago.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.My favorite of Martin Scorsese's films, it's a deeply misanthropic story told ENTIRELY from the perspective of a single character. It's dark, gritty and bleak, not unlike the world that surrounds the film's (Fascinatingly) violent, psychopathic lead character.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRoy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard DreyfussWhen a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.Never have horror and action-adventure conventions been mixed together as well as they were in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest films of all time. One of the most influential film that has ever, and will ever be made.
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsDonald SutherlandBrooke AdamsJeff GoldblumWhen strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.Brilliantly written, visually startiling and undeniably creepy, this is one of very few remakes that manages to, in my opinion, not only live up to it's original........but also surpass it.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece works just as well as a scathing social satire as it does a balls-out exploitation film. This movie is absolutely impossible to forget, and demands to be viewed several times.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsJon VoightBurt ReynoldsNed BeattyIntent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.One of the most misunderstood films of the twentieth century. Brilliantly acted and directed, this is without a doubt the be-all end-all of survival movies that, in my opinion, has yet to be surpassed.
- DirectorJohn FlynnStarsWilliam DevaneTommy Lee JonesLinda HaynesA recently-returned Vietnam POW loses his family and his right hand during a violent home invasion, and seeks retribution against those responsible.One of the best entries in the Revenge sub-genre, it's gritty, dark and angry. William Devane's turn as the one-handed Viet Nam vet is just as iconic and badass as it ever was.
- DirectorDalton TrumboStarsTimothy BottomsKathy FieldsMarsha HuntDuring World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.One of the best anti-war films ever made. It's an incredibly tragic and heartfelt indictment of war, and the lives of young people wasted in battle. It's just absolutely remarkable from beginning to it's heart-braking and infuriating end.