Your Favourite Top Five of the 70s Movies EVER?

I did the same!

 

I can't pick my five, sorry.

 

Godfather II
Animal House
Monty Python/Holy Grail
Sunshine Boys
Paper Chase

 

The Godfather (1972)
The French Connection (1971)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Jaws (1975)
Marathon Man (1976)

 

The Deer Hunter
Strozsek
Halloween
Dog Day Afternoon
Nosferatu

 

Great decade for Hollywood. Not an overabundance of great foreign films from the 70's (yes there are several, but not a huge list).

Anyway, I guess I'd pick these:

Definitely:
1) All The President's Men
2) Apocalypse Now
3) Jaws

I guess:
4) Alien
5) Superman

 

Too many to choose from?

 

One I loved in 1971, but has lost its appeal is Ken Russell's "The Devils".

 

The Godfather
A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Blazing Saddles

 

Yes.

 

Two-Lane Blacktop
Vanishing Point
Woodstock
Zabriskie Point
Electra Glide in Blue

 

The 70s: The rise of the "anti-hero":
The Harder They Come
Dirty Harry
Death Wish
Lemora: A Child's Tale Of The Supernatural
Chinatown

 

Here are mine:

1. Patton
2. Apocalypse Now
   
3. Animal House
   
4. Alien
   
5. Kelly's Heroes

 

In no particular order:

Jaws
Star Wars
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Animal House

 

How did I forget The Paper Chase?
Houseman is beautifully perverse.

 

Straight Time
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Chinatown
American Graffiti
Vanishing Point

 

The posters are what stood out for me. For most they actually commissioned an artist, cool

 

Five is too few, have to add these as well...

Paper Moon
Walkabout
Day Of The Locust

 

Apocalypse Now
Don't Look Now
Godfather
Mean Streets
Nashville

 

1. Deep End
2. Harold & Maude
3. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
4. Annie Hall
5. Halloween

 

Magnum Force
Outlaw Josey Wales
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
Rocky
Godfather 2

 

Apocalypse Now
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Deer Hunter
Alien
Network

 

My favorite decade for cinema as well. In much the same way that the record labels were willing to nurture less commercial artists, the movie studios were releasing personal, striking films that weren’t necessarily box office guarantees.

In no particular order:

PERFORMANCE- Donald Cammell and Nic Roeg

AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD- Werner Herzog

APOCALYPSE NOW- Francis Ford Coppola

THE CONFORMIST- Bernardo Bertolucci

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- Stanley Kubrick

A few observations:
it’s nice to see APOCALYPSE NOW mentioned so often. At first considered an expensive, indulgent flop, over the years its risen in estimation and seen now as an expensive, indulgent, hypnotic film.

BARRY LYNDON is another film that is looked upon more fondly than upon release. It was impossible not to have a Kubrick film on the list, and I went with the obvious choice. BARRY LYNDON, however is much more than a triumph of cinematography. It bears the Kubrick stamp in every part of its creation.

 

Alien
Star Wars
Papillon
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Wow not easy to list only 5!!!

 

Slap Shot
Chinatown
Three Days of the Condor
Godfather 1 & 2