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Apart from the director, what makes A Clockwork Orange an American film?
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IMHO, best movie ever, the Godfather.
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molly bloom
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I have to second Alexnm on this one; 'The Conversation' along with 'All the President's Men', 'Klute' and 'The Parallax View' and the remake of 'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' and there you have the quintessential paranoia quintet of 70s American cinema.
I also enjoyed, for different reasons, 'Across 100th Street', 'Shaft' and 'French Connection II', one of the rare instances where the sequel is as good as, or better than the first film- other examples being 'Alien/s' and 'The Godfather I and II'.
It was a good decade for Altman, with 'M.A.SH.' and 'Nashville' and his assistant director Alan Rudolph, with 'Welcome to L.A.' and 'Remember My Name', with a stunning jazz/blues soundtrack by Alberta Hunter and early appearances by soon to be stars such as Dennis Frantz, Jeff Goldblum and Alfre Woodard.
Then there's the wonderful 'Chinatown' whose influence I would say reaches out to 'L.A. Confidential', and the noirish 'Night Moves' with I believe Melanie Griffith's first big screen appearance. And John Sayles's 'Return of the Secaucus Seven', which if I recall, was actually shot in 1978, but not released until 79-80.
And Milius's tale of surf, disillusion and friendship, 'Big Wednesday'....
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is one way of saying it, though I prefer "mensch"
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Originally posted by molly bloom
I have to second Alexnm on this one; 'The Conversation' along with 'All the President's Men', 'Klute' and 'The Parallax View' and the remake of 'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' and there you have the quintessential paranoia quintet of 70s American cinema.
I also enjoyed, for different reasons, 'Across 100th Street', 'Shaft' and 'French Connection II', one of the rare instances where the sequel is as good as, or better than the first film- other examples being 'Alien/s' and 'The Godfather I and II'.
It was a good decade for Altman, with 'M.A.SH.' and 'Nashville' and his assistant director Alan Rudolph, with 'Welcome to L.A.' and 'Remember My Name', with a stunning jazz/blues soundtrack by Alberta Hunter and early appearances by soon to be stars such as Dennis Frantz, Jeff Goldblum and Alfre Woodard.
Then there's the wonderful 'Chinatown' whose influence I would say reaches out to 'L.A. Confidential', and the noirish 'Night Moves' with I believe Melanie Griffith's first big screen appearance. And John Sayles's 'Return of the Secaucus Seven', which if I recall, was actually shot in 1978, but not released until 79-80.
And Milius's tale of surf, disillusion and friendship, 'Big Wednesday'.... |
An excellent rundown; The Coversation in particular is one of the great unsung films of that decade. To your festival of paranoia I would add Winter Kills, which I believe was released in 78 or 79 (but only found an audience after being re-released in the early 80s). As for Altman, I'm also very fond of The Long Goodbye and especiaally McCabe and Mrs. Miller, both films that have held up very well. On my personal list you'd also find Scorsese's New York New York, a film largely dismissed in its moment but which now seems like a masterpiece -- to me, anyway.  I miss the 70s; it was the first and last decade in which the major studios made movies for grown-ups.
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Jun 2000
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That's hardly the whole story (or even an accurate one, since Indiana Jones was 80's...) - between Bonnie and Clyde and Heaven's Gate there was an almost constant stream of gritty, realistic, sassy, socially aware films like Taxi Driver, Deliverance, well, most of the films listed, really...
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Alexander's Horse
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Panmunjon, hands up!
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Patton, In 1970's Academy Awards won a Total of 8 Academy Awards..
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Yes many silly and forgotten movies have received bagfuls of academy awards. Their record on identifying great movies of artistic merit and lasting influence is terrible.
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molly bloom
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
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Keep going. It was the 60's when social issues were dealt with (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Butterflies are Free; In the Heat of the Night).
The 70's was a return to the comic-book mentality of the 30's serials (Star Wars, Indiana Jones). It may have been great pap, but it was still pap.  |
Oh please; 'Guess' and 'In the Heat' hardly touch on race issues, except in the most patronising way. Look, Sidney Poitier is a saint, and he's black! You can let your daughter marry him/children be taught by him/meter be read by him.... Gah. The sixties was also a comic book era- Man From Uncle films, Bond films, Matt Helm, Our Man Flint, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello beach party films, obligatory 'Swingin' London' films (groovy baby! Yeah!)
Douglas Sirk dealt with race and its implications in a more adult (if lush) way in the fifties- try 'Imitation of Life'.
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29-11-2002 12:47
I had that thought myself after I posted; shame, too, since I could have used the space for All the Presidents Men (or Being There, or Cabaret, or Manhattan, or All that Jazz, or Mean Streets, or...)
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