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The '70's is the golden age of film making, bar none IMO. Check out the entertaining and epic "The Outlaw Josey Wales" - The dark and rugged "Sorcerer" by William Friedkin with Roy Scheider. The tense high contrast "FailSafe" with Larry Hagman, Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, and even Dom DeLuise! (George Clooney re-made "Failsafe" as a LIVE TV presentation in the 90's, but check out the original!) In fact, watch it as a double feature one night with the 80's classic "WarGames" - two completely different takes on the same situation. When you are up to it, watch "THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS" - and see how modern and relevant the content seems, then remember that the movie was made in 1966. Oh, and yeah- The Last Detail is something you should see.

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Night of the Hunter

 

 

I came into the thread to suggest the same thing!

So how about:

Dog Day Afternoon.

The Hot Rock.

The Anderson Tapes.

The French Connection.

Taxi Driver.

Jeremiah Johnson.

McCabe and Mrs. Miller.

THX 1138

Westworld (the original with an awesome Yul Brenner).

on and on ... so many good films made in the '70s (when I was a young film buff, and movies were $1.30).

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Serpico

The Deer Hunter

Easy Rider

Kramer Vs. Kramer

Rope

The Godfather I & II

Five Easy Pieces

Rear Window

On the Waterfront

Midnight Cowboy

Chinatown

Raging Bull

Bullit

Taxi Driver

Dr. Strangelove

Lolita

A Clockwork Orange

Citizen Kane

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Vertigo

The 39 Steps

Cool Hand Luke

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (whole trilogy)

King Kong (1933)

A Shot in the Dark

Being There

The French Connection

Deliverance

Halloween (1978)

Young Frankenstein

A Streetcar Named Desire

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7 samuri is a LONG movie, but worth it


Yup - a true classic. And even though it's "Eastern", it's very "western", or at least influential on westerns.


Speaking of movies that are adaptations of Seven Samuri, check out The Magnificent Seven. Any movie with Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn and Charles Bronson in it can't be all bad - and this one rules.
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Touch of Evil, and to the person that said Citizen Kane was a joke...you are deluded, it is a masterpiece of film, bashing this film is the equivalent of hating the Beatles..ridiculous.

 

 

i read it, but didn't even reply.

 

it's a miraculous movie, not to mention Orson Welles had never picked a camera before in his entire life.

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Western: Dead Man (very alt take on westerns with Depp and directed by Jarmusch - bonus is soundtrack by Neil Young)

Others:

The original Taking of Pelham 123 (not the awful remake)

Anything by Orson Welles, anything by Alfred Hitchock, any of the early Alec Guinness films (the Ealing Studios ones)

Sunset Boulevard

The Wages of Fear and the excellent remake Sorcerer

The Manchurian Candidate (the original - Angela Landsbury like you've never seen her!) and just about any other Frankenheimer film

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TIME FOR TRASH:

Death Drug
Andy Warhol's Trash
Bad Lieutenant
Gone With The Pope
Massacre Mafia Style
Hanzo The Razor Trilogy
Hausu
Maniac
Candy Goes To Hollywood
Alucarda
Repulsion
Tokyo Fist
Vampire Circus
The Mack
Coffy
The Big Bird Cage
Night Of Death
Strozsek
Rock N' Roll High School
Galaxy Of Terror
New York Ripper
Vanishing Point
Mean Streets
My Bloody Valentine
Deadbeat At Dawn

FEEL GOOD HITS OF THE SEASON:
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Life Of A Porno Gang

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