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    Posted: March 08 2020 at 14:06
Point of order on dates: some films released at the end of 1969 in the US, weren't released until early 70 in the UK. A good example of this is the first film I saw at the cinema with my father, in the spring of 1970 - Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, which is listed in some UK cinema guides as 1970, which was first screened in the UK in Feb 70.
That said, I haven't included it on my list, even though I wanted to.

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Originally posted by tamijo_II tamijo_II wrote:

Might also mention: Hair, Easy Rider, The Last Waltz, but that is more about the music than the films


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Might also mention: Hair, Easy Rider, The Last Waltz, but that is more about the music than the films
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a shorter list, 50 is a lot Sleepy

Bernardo Bertolucci – 1900

Akira Kurosawa - Dodes'ka-den

Daniel Petrie – Sybil

Roman Polanski - Chinatown

Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver

Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones - King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

Terry Jones - Life of Brian

Franklin J. Schaffner - Papillon

Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Angst essen Seele auf

George Roy Hill - The Sting

Arthur Penn - Little Big Man

Hal Ashby - Being There

Woody Allen - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex 

Nicolas Roeg - The Man Who Fell to Earth

Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon




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^ I love the Railway Children . Might have put that in my list if I had remembered although I did go for Logan's Run as far as Jenny Agutter is concerned!
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1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. The Odessa File
3. The Railway Children


4. Watership Down
5 The Asphyx
6. Flight of the Doves
7 .The Omen
8. The Wicker Man
9. Ryans Daughter
10 The Amazing Mr Blunden


11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
12. Keetje Tippel
13. Diamonds Are Forever
14. The Eagle has Landed
15. The Thirty-Nine Steps
16. The Spy Who Loved Me


17.The Outlaw Josey Wales
18.High Plains Drifter
19.Saturday Night Fever
20.Superman
21.10 Rillington Place
22. Sleuth
23.Every Which Way but Loose


24.Kelly's Heroes
25.Vanishing Point
26.Get Carter
27.The First Great Train robbery


28. Cross of Iron
29.Moonraker
30.Jesus Christ Superstar
31.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
32.Wuthering Heights
33.Countess Dracula
34.Under Milk Wood
35.Hennessy
36.Aces High
37.At the Earth's Core
38.To the Devil a Daughter
39.A Bridge Too Far
40.Force 10 from Navarone
41.The Wild Geese


42.The Land that Time Forgot
43.The Lady Vanishes
44.Grease
45.Turkish Delight
46.Waterloo
47.Patton
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1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. The Odessa File
3. The Railway Children


4. Watership Down
5 The Asphyx
6. Flight of the Doves
7 .The Omen
8. The Wicker Man
9. Ryans Daughter
10 The Amazing Mr Blunden


11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
12. Keetje Tippel
13. Diamonds Are Forever
14. The Eagle has Landed
15. The Thirty-Nine Steps
16. The Spy Who Loved Me


17.The Outlaw Josey Wales
18.High Plains Drifter
19.Saturday Night Fever
20.Superman
21.10 Rillington Place
22. Sleuth
23.Every Which Way but Loose


24.Kelly's Heroes
25.Vanishing Point
26.Get Carter
27.The First Great Train robbery


28. Cross of Iron
29.Moonraker
30.Jesus Christ Superstar
31.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
32.Wuthering Heights
33.Countess Dracula
34.Under Milk Wood
35.Hennessy
36.Aces High
37.At the Earth's Core
38.To the Devil a Daughter
39.A Bridge Too Far
40.Force 10 from Navarone
41.The Wild Geese
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1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. The Odessa File
3. The Railway Children


4. Watership Down
5 The Asphyx
6. Flight of the Doves
7 .The Omen
8. The Wicker Man
9. Ryans Daughter
10 The Amazing Mr Blunden


11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
12. Keetje Tippel
13. Diamonds Are Forever
14. The Eagle has Landed
15. The Thirty-Nine Steps
16. The Spy Who Loved Me


17.The Outlaw Josey Wales
18.High Plains Drifter
19.Saturday Night Fever
20.Superman
21.10 Rillington Place
22. Sleuth
23.Every Which Way but Loose


24.Kelly's Heroes
25.Vanishing Point
26.Get Carter
27.The First Great Train robbery
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1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. The Odessa File
3. The Railway Children


4. Watership Down
5 The Asphyx
6. Flight of the Doves
7 .The Omen
8. The Wicker Man
9. Ryans Daughter
10 The Amazing Mr Blunden


11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
12. Keetje Tippel
13. Diamonds Are Forever
14. The Eagle has Landed
15. The Thirty-Nine Steps
16. The Spy Who Loved Me


17.The Outlaw Josey Wales
18.High Plains Drifter
19.Saturday Night Fever
20.Superman
21.10 Rillington Place
22. Sleuth
23.Every Which Way but Loose
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1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. The Odessa File
3. The Railway Children


4. Watership Down
5 The Asphyx
6. Flight of the Doves
7 .The Omen
8. The Wicker Man
9. Ryans Daughter
10 The Amazing Mr Blunden


11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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15. The Thirty-Nine Steps
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1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. The Odessa File
3. The Railway Children


4. Watership Down
5 The Asphyx
6. Flight of the Doves
7 .The Omen
8. The Wicker Man
9. Ryans Daughter
10 The Amazing Mr Blunden

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9) Straw Dogs ( Peckinhpah's finest!)
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Heaven to merggeteroids ... no way ... THE WILD BUNCH is his greatest film ever ... SD was nice, but by that time, I had already soured on the "violence" (which became pathetic in so many films!), and then Sam's use of bits and pieces of "anger" to make his point, which while it gives Dustin Hoffman, a nice "aside", in the end, I think it lowered the quality of the film ... it became a lecture for me ... and kinda hurt the quality of the film. His earlier stuff did not have this slap in the face ... it was always each individual character's take on things and how they reacted ... and I kinda thought that these bits and pieces were a sort of "justification" that was added for DH's acting style ... he has to have the "thinking" behind it! It's his history!


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Can't do 50, but have to mention Pink Flamingos .
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1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. The Odessa File
3. The Railway Children
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I can maybe do a top ten but that's it!

1) The French Connection 2
2) Jaws
3) Alien
4) Duel*
5) Logan's Run
6) Godfather 2
7) Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
8) The Wicker Man
9) Straw Dogs ( Peckinhpah's finest!)
10) Monty Python and the Holy Grail

* Duel was that brilliant suspense movie with Dennis Weaver in case its been forgotten!


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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Haven't seen everything in Friede's list, but it's by miles the most interesting so far, because it reflects world (well Occidental anyways despite Tarkovski being present - saw the new version of Stalker last year, BTW) cinema, so much that it makes the other list very short-sighted.

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Having written and posted over 500 "foreign film" reviews, for me, choosing is a problem ... yes there are things I like better than others, but to make a list for me, created internal battles and I don't want to leave behind something I love dearly ... essentially, I love a lot of movies, and have been at it since I was 15 and became aware of Luis Bunuel (father knew and met him - Portuguese Writer and reviewer of films and theater), and what got me to him, was mom ... who said he was such a "filthy degenerate" ... and I had to find out what this was all about ... and I think my mom's "fake/faux Catholicism" is what got her mad ... seeing JC laughing in Nazarin and then the last supper and later Goya and many other "paintings" defaced ... got her uptight and then some ... and if you think that was bad, you should hear what she said of Sartre, Camus and Genet! Dad had translated a lot of French Literature into Portuguese!

Making it all worse is I'm from Portugal and then from Brazil and then to America ... and got to see a lot of Spanish film (Portugal then had no movie industry that was legal) ... and then some Brazilian films ... and you arrive in America in 1965 to see the glory of the ACTING STUDIO and its results ... but I never "left" all the world cinema, and had already seen "The Seven Samurai" in Brazil and was well aware of Kurosawa.

But the "European" taste and flavor never died in me. In the Film Festival here in Portland, I always used to post that people needed to ignore American and English films (they would come out in video), and instead watch all the smaller stuff ... and let me tell you ... there was a killing to be made out there in Europe alone ... and EVERYONE ignored films from Mozambique (6 people in the theater!) and one from Senegal about women (8 people in the theater) ... and at least one from Sweden (75 people in the theater and it was a Sven Nykvist film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) ... just to give you an idea ... and Polish and Russian films ... they moved a Russian film ... no one showed up at the door!

I'm simply, not very good at "lists" ... except making comments about some of the bad things around so much of the arts ... as you can see above. While I do not dislike a lot of Hollywood stuff, for me, too much of it was just a plastic cardboard color in the background and too much of a "star" shot from the cameras, and it took the "real" life of a lot of films for me. I kinda think that the whole Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams thing and others, was really about tearing down that "star" thing.


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Haven't seen everything in Friede's list, but it's by miles the most interesting so far, because it reflects world (well Occidental anyways despite Tarkovski being present - saw the new version of Stalker last year, BTW) cinema, so much that it makes the other list very short-sighted.
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2) "Don't Look Now!" by Nicolas Roeg (1973)
4) "Die Blechtrommel" ("The Tin Drum") by Volker Schloendorff (1979)
5) "Le Fantôme de la liberté" ("The Phantom of Liberty") by Luis Buñuel (1974)
7) "Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes" ("Aguirre, the Wrath of God") by Werner Herzog (1972)
10) "La montaña sagrada" ("The Holy Mountain") by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973)
14) "Сталкер" ("Stalker") by Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
29) "Deep End" by Jerzy Skolimowski (1970)
39) "Morte a Venezia" ("Death in Venice") by Luigi Visconti (1971)
46) "La Grande Bouffe" by Marco Ferreri (1973)
50) "Zabriskie Point" by Michelangelo Antonioni (1970)
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Hi,

Interesting list. I'm not sure that "Zabriskie Point" is a good fit since it was a film delayed so much and changed by the American producers to have a "story" that kinda ruined the film for me. I have a feeling that the film was, originally, just a bunch of vignettes, although the bits and pieces from Antonioni, always suggested that PF should not have been there, but the film company liked the Roger's screams and what could be filmed with it! I have to see it again, but I think PF kinda redid the visuals in the movie Live in Pompeii so now they would also have "explosions" ... 

Love many of these ... Skolimowski's film is a beauty with fantastic cinematography ... and Jane Asher! Ferreri's film was fun to watch even if it crossed some good taste lines at the time ... but it was fun! Jodorowsky, hopefully will get his credit in due time, but his films were a masterpiece in the area of experimentation and ad-lib in film, coming from open theater scenes that he had done previously and even had at least one production shut down ... but the visualization of it all was crazy and a total trip to watch. 

Of the Roeg films (too bad we can't include "Performance" ... !!!) I think "Bad Timing, A Sensual Obsession" is fantastic with a total with it twist ending! I love "Don't Look Now" and specially by the performances by both Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland ... but the film is just such a stomach turner. I also love "The Man Who Fell To Earth", which is a very good film, though it has "flashes" of weirdness that only the "alien" would be able to explain.

Bunuel's film is one of my favorites of his, a hard choice since he has so many, but the way that the paintings are integrated, which is (of course!!!!) one of his far out abilities, really shows here ... and the framing of Goya ... is scary and so true today! you might not get a bullet, but you get "you're fired!" instead ... I don't see a difference! Phantom indeed!

Herzog's film for me is the special one, and the true example of what "krautrock" (I really don't like that expression!) was really all about ... you improvise to the very end, and the musicians at the time did it perfectly, as did so many writers ... as I said before, it is called "krautrock" but it should be called "kraut-arts", to better show the other arts ... to me, there is not too much different between what Kinski does in that film, and Damo did in CAN. You just gotta let it fly and flow ... the only one "trick" with/for an improvisation.

Ken Russell deserves a better showing ... both "The Devils" and "Savage Messiah" are incredible films, even if one is the RSC getting loose!

Bruno Bazzetto's "Allegro Non Troppo" deserves to be on this list, with the exception that it is hard to find and not many have seen this wonderful take on classical music, that is a bit better than "Fantasia", or maybe just for older folks, instead of kids!

Some other films ...
"All That Jazz"
"Being There"

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I have to look at my listing of reviews ... this is as far as I got, but I have not maintained the spreadsheet of the films with the dates and directors and such.









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