ILX Best Films of the 1970s

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OK Dr. M, that's a nice list. I appreciate it. Don't agree with all of it, naturally. I'm not nearly the fan of Chinatown or Nashville that others are, although the former would at least make my top 30. As would Fox and His Friends and Amarcord, probably.

Come to think of it, why isn't Little Big Man on more of these lists? What's the matter with you people?!?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I dunno. I have only the vaguest memory of it. Saw it on TV -- kind of a Saturday afternoon matinee movie. I never thought much of it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

As Arthur Penn said at a screening of Little Big Man, "Isn't it better than the remake, Dances with Wolves?"

I like the movie fine -- it probly works on me better than any other of AP's, including Bonnie & Clyde -- but there are sequences where the picaresque shtick works less well than others (the gay stay-at-home brave, Richard Mulligan as Custer). It's just not in serious contention for best 20 of the decade. Chief Dan George (in this and Josey W) is certainly one of the supporting actors of the '70s.

btw I spent maybe 15 minutes on my ballot. And am already rueing the absence of Maurice Pialat, "The Day of the Locust," etc.

haha, Bedknobs and Broomsticks is probably the first film I saw of all mentioned.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay, I just got home, and at 6pm CST, I am no longer accepting any more ballots. I will accept all the ones that came in the afternoon though. If I didn't received it via email, it will not be counted. I'm not going by lists posted in this threads. I will finish tabulating the results now, expect the reveal to start in a few days, in a new thread. Thank you all.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

yay jeff!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Votes counted. It was closer, the top two are seperated by 1 vote.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

When do we get to see the results?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link

This weekend at the earliest, all the votes are counted, i'm just gathering comments (feel free to send me some) and writing the html for each entry, finding pics. Shouldn't take too long, I could knock it out if a few hours if I don't stop, but I'll allow myself a week.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I promise it will be light years faster than the 80s poll.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh crap, I just remembered this and I was going to submit a ballot right now, thinking there was a midnight deadline. Oh well. I didn't even have a clue as to what my list would look like, so yeah, whatever.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Should "Performance" actually be included? I know it was released in the 1970s, but it was made in 1968 or 9.

― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't check any of the dates, I was just going on what you guys thought. Anyway, Performance didn't place in the top 100.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

"Performance" was released in 1970. "Raging Bull" was 'made' (ie principal photography) in '79, so I don't see what that has to do with anything. A movie doesn't exist til someone sees it.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Comcast fucked me for two days, so a small delay. I'm still planning for a weekendish reveal though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 26 August 2005 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG, I can't believe I forgot to include Greaser's Palace in my list. Of course, I would have been the only person to vote for it anyway.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Results are going well. Revel will start today or tomorrow.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

You're expecting more joy and festivity than the results will actually get, I suspect.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Probably so, I just don't want to drag this thing out.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

(that was a gag about your typo)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

oh! I'm very slow and hung over.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

What does an ILXor think of Joe? I watched this a couple of days ago -- it certainly wasn't fun, and by the end of it I thought it was a bad movie, but it's stuck with me pretty well, and I think maybe it's a decent film without any sympathetic characters.

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 5 January 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Man I've wanted to see that movie for so long. I was under the impression that the characters weren't meant to be unsympathetic tho?

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 January 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link

i.e. isn't it a "fuck these lousy hippies" rant?

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 January 2008 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Nobody's cast in a very good light. Even big-eyed baby Susan Sarandon is a fairly whiny weakling with her boyfriend.

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 5 January 2008 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

My picks!.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link

Cool, I've bought like five of those (which I have yet to see) in the past month, good to see my taste is in fact impeccable.

I don't think I will ever see what other people see in Suspiria, sadly.

― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Friday, 31 July 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link

88. Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi)

OTM; I'm slightly disappointed cadaveri eccellenti didn't do as well as possession (1982)

― oder doch?, Friday, 31 July 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link

Maybe it's a measure of how hard it is to make a comedy that stays funny, but I note a distinct dominance of serious films in your list.

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Friday, 31 July 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link

it's OK, OL, ~~Suspiria is~~ giallos are shit

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 July 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link

The Driver and Apocalypse Now are both pretty funny.

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 July 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link

Giallo directors doing poliziotteschi are the best though.

And since Morbz is here, where is The Night Porter?

― oder doch?, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link

ONE of Bunuel's '70s films? And it's not Tristana? Away with thee...

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 July 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link

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