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#76 (tie)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

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23 points, 5 lists, 2 top 10

#1 Opening Weekend ever at the the time.

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Filming of The Motion Picture's first scene began on August 7, 1978. A few ad-libbed ceremonies were performed before the cameras rolled; Roddenberry gave Wise his baseball cap, emblazoned with "Enterprise" in gold lettering (the cap was a gift from the captain of the nuclear carrier Enterprise.) Wise and Roddenberry then cracked a special breakaway bottle of champagne on the bridge set (there was no liquid inside, as flying champagne would have damaged the readied set). The scene planned was the chaotic mess aboard the Enterprise bridge as the crew readies the ship for space travel; Wise directed 15 takes into the late afternoon before he was content with the scene.[81] The first day's shots used 1,650 feet (500 m) of film; 420 feet (130 m) were considered "good", 1,070 feet (330 m) were judged "no good", and 160 feet (49 m) were wasted; only one and one-eighth pages had been shot.[82]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture

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Stalker (1979)

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23 points, 5 lists, 1 top 5

2012 Sight & Sound: 39 critics, 14 directors

 

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Several people involved in the film production, including Tarkovsky, died from causes that some crew members attributed to the film's long shooting schedule in toxic locations. Sound designer Vladimir Sharun recalled:[10]

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We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Jägala with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)

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#75

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

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23 points, 8 lists

Nominated for 5 Oscars, winning for Best Visual Effects

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Intrigued with the song "A Step in the Right Direction" on the original soundtrack album, Scott MacQueen, then-senior manager of Disney's library restoration, set out to restore the film in conjunction with the film's 25th anniversary.[12] Most of the deleted film material was found, but some segments of "Portobello Road" had to be reconstructed from work prints with digital re-coloration to match the film quality of the main content.[23] The footage for "A Step in the Right Direction" was never recovered,[23] but a reconstruction was used from the original music track linked up to existing production stills. The edit included several newly discovered songs, including "Nobody's Problems", performed by Lansbury. The number had been cut before the premiere of the film. Lansbury had only made a demo recording, singing with a solo piano because the orchestrations would have been added when the picture was scored. When the song was cut, the orchestrations had not yet been added; therefore, it was finally orchestrated and put together when it was placed back into the film.

 

The soundtrack for some of the spoken tracks was unrecoverable. Therefore, Lansbury and McDowall re-dubbed their parts, while other actors made ADR dubs for those who were unavailable. Even though David Tomlinson was still alive when the film was being reconstructed, he was in ill-health, and unavailable to provide ADR for Emelius Browne.[23]

 

The restored version of the film premiered on September 27, 1996 at the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California where it was attended by Lansbury, the Sherman Brothers, Ward Kimball, and special effects artist Danny Lee.[12] It was later broadcast on Disney Channel on August 9, 1998.[23]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedknobs_and_Broomsticks

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#74
High Planes Drifter (1973)

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24 points, 7 lists, one top 10

96% on Rotten Tomatoes with 26 reviews

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Universal wanted Eastwood to shoot the feature on its back lot, but Eastwood opted instead to film on location. After scouting locations alone in a pickup truck in Oregon, Nevada and California,[7] he settled on the "highly photogenic" Mono Lake area.[8] Over 50 technicians and construction workers built an entire town—14 houses, a church, and a two-story hotel—in 18 days, using 150,000 feet of timber.[8] Complete buildings, rather than facades, were built, so that Eastwood could shoot interior scenes on the site. Additional scenes were filmed at Reno, Nevada's Winnemucca Lake and California's Inyo National Forest.[8] The film was completed in six weeks, two days ahead of schedule, and under budget.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Plains_Drifter

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#73

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

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24 points, 9 lists, one top 10

2012 Sight & Sound: 3 critics, 4 directors

 

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A famous scene from the film takes place in a roadside restaurant where Bobby tries to get a waitress to bring him a side order of toast with his breakfast. The waitress refuses, stating that toast is not offered as a side item, despite the diner's offering a chicken salad sandwich on toast.

 

Bobby appeals to both logic and common sense, but the waitress adamantly refuses to break with the restaurant's policy of only giving customers what is printed in the menu. Ultimately, Bobby orders both his breakfast and the chicken salad sandwich on toast, telling the waitress to bring the sandwich to him without mayonnaise, butter, lettuce, or chicken, culminating in Bobby's responding to the waitress' incredulity at his order to "hold the chicken" with "I want you to hold it between your knees!" The waitress then indignantly orders them to leave, and Nicholson knocks the glasses of water off the table with a sweep of his arm.[13][14]

 

While much of the film was shot on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, this scene was at a Denny's along Interstate 5 near Eugene, Oregon.[13][14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Easy_Pieces#Chicken_salad_sandwich_scene

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#71 (tie)

The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

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26 points, 7 lists, 1 top 5

Best Selling Anime DVD of May 2001.

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Despite initially underperforming at the box office, The Castle of Cagliostro has garnered high praise, with critics and historians noting the film's influence on Miyazaki's later works, and has since become the most popular and well-regarded entry in the entire Lupin III franchise. However, some have disapproved of its depiction of Lupin as a gallant hero instead of his original persona as a ruthless criminal. The film has served as a major influence on animators and directors worldwide, most notably Pixar director John Lasseter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_of_Cagliostro

 

There's also a yikes-y quote from Monkey Punch, the creator of Lupin III, in the article.

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#71 (tie)

MASH (1970)

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26 points, 7 lists, 1 top 5

5 Oscar Nominations, including Best Picture, winning for Adapted Screenplay

 

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In his director's commentary on the DVD release, Altman says that M*A*S*H was the first major studio film to use the word fuck in its dialogue.[14] The word is spoken during the football game near the end of the film by "the Painless Pole" when he says to an opposing football player, "All right, Bud, your fucking head is coming right off!" The actor, John Schuck, said in an interview that Andy Sidaris, who was handling the football sequences, encouraged Schuck to "say something that'll annoy him." Schuck did so, and that particular statement made it into the film without a second thought.[15] Other sources, however, attribute the first audible use of the word fuck as part of the dialogue in a movie to Ulysses in 1967.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(film)

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#69 (tie)

The Warriors (1979)

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26 points, 8 lists

Entertainment Weekly named it the 16th-greatest cult film on their "Top 50 Greatest Cult Films" list.[25] The magazine also ranked it 14th in the list of the "25 Most Controversial Movies Ever."[26]

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The Rogues' car in the Coney Island confrontation was a 1955 Cadillac hearse.[8] Originally, at the Coney Island confrontation at the end of the film, actor David Patrick Kelly wanted to use two dead pigeons but Hill did not think that would work.[5] Instead, Kelly improvised by clinking three bottles in his right hand and ad-libbing his famous line, "Waaaaarriors, come out to plaaaay". Kelly was influenced by a man he knew in downtown New York who would make fun of him. Hill wanted Orson Welles to do a narrated introduction about Greek themes but the studio did not like this idea and refused to pay for it.[5] However, this sequence was finally included in the 2005 Ultimate Director's Cut, with Hill providing the narration himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_(film)

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Mean Streets (1973)

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26 points, 8 votes

97% on Rotten Tomatoes with 60 reviews

 

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Apart from his first actual feature, Who's That Knocking at My Door, and a directing project given him by early independent film maker Roger Corman, Boxcar Bertha, this was Scorsese's first feature film of his own design. Director John Cassavetes told him after he completed Boxcar Bertha: "You’ve just spent a year of your life making a piece of shit." This inspired Scorsese to make a film about his own experiences.[3] Cassavetes told Scorsese he should do something like Who's That Knocking At My Door, which Cassavetes had liked, and then came Mean Streets, which was based on actual events Scorsese saw almost regularly while growing up in New York City's Little Italy.

 

The screenplay for the movie initially began as a continuation of the characters in Who's That Knocking. Scorsese changed the title from Season of the Witch to Mean Streets, a reference to Raymond Chandler's essay "The Simple Art of Murder", wherein Chandler writes, "But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." Scorsese sent the script to Corman, who agreed to back the film if all the characters were black. Scorsese was anxious to make the film so he considered this option, but actress Verna Bloom arranged a meeting with potential financial backer Jonathan Taplin, who was the road manager for the musical group The Band. Taplin liked the script and was willing to raise the $300,000 budget that Scorsese wanted if Corman promised, in writing, to distribute the film. The blaxploitation suggestion was to come to nothing when funding from Warner Bros. allowed him to make the film as he intended with Italian-American characters.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Streets

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#68

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

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26 points, 9 lists

Nominated for 3 Oscars

 

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In September, production moved to Egypt. While the Great Sphinx of Giza was shot on the location, lighting problems caused the pyramids to be replaced with miniatures.[1] While construction of the Liparus set continued, the second unit headed by John Glen departed for Mount Asgard, where in July 1976 they staged the film's pre-credits sequence. Bond film veteran Willy Bogner captured the action, staged by stuntman Rick Sylvester, who earned $30,000 for the stunt.[17] This stunt cost $500,000 – the most expensive single movie stunt at that time. Additional scenes for the pre-credits sequence were filmed in the Bernina Range in the Swiss alps.[18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me_(film)

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#67

The Man Who Would be King (1975)

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27 points, 5 lists, 1 top 5, 1 top 10

96% on Rotten Tomatoes with 27 reviews

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The Man Who Would Be King had been a pet project of John Huston's for many years after he had read the book as a child.[3] Huston had planned to make the film since the 1950s, originally with Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart in the roles of Daniel and Peachy.[4] He was unable to get the project off the ground before Bogart died in 1957; Gable followed in 1960. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas were then approached to play the leads, followed by Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. In the 1970s, Huston approached Robert Redford and Paul Newman for the roles. Newman advised Huston that British actors should play the roles, and it was he who recommended Connery and Caine.[5] Caine was very keen to appear especially after he was told that his part had originally been written for Humphrey Bogart, his favorite actor as a young man.[6]

 

Christopher Plummer was cast as Rudyard Kipling as a last minute replacement for Richard Burton.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King_(film)

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Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

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27 points, 9 lists

Nominated for one Oscar

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Smokey and the Bandit was a sleeper hit.[16] The film premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City where it performed badly.[17] It then opened in just the South of the United States over the Memorial Day weekend and grossed $2,689,851 in 386 theatres. By the end of June it had played in major Southern markets including Charlotte, Atlanta, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Memphis, Dallas and Oklahoma City grossing $11.9 million. It opened in other Northern states at the end of July.[18]

 

With an original budget of $5.3 million (cut to $4.3 million two days before initial production),[3] the film eventually grossed $126,737,428 in North America,[19] making it the second-highest-grossing movie of 1977. The worldwide gross is estimated at over $300 million.[3] Burt Reynolds rated the film as the one he most enjoyed and had the most fun making in his career.[20]

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Alfred Hitchcock stated that the film was one of his favorites.[23] Upon meeting Burt Reynolds, Billy Bob Thornton told him that the picture was not considered a "film" in the south, so much as a documentary.[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_and_the_Bandit

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Annie Hall (1977)

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27 points, 9 lists

2012 Sight & Sound: 13 critics, 5 directors

 

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Allen suggested Anhedonia, a term for the inability to experience pleasure, as a working title,[15][16] and Brickman suggested alternatives including It Had to Be Jew, Rollercoaster Named Desire and Me and My Goy.[17] An advertising agency, hired by United Artists, embraced Allen's choice of an obscure word by suggesting the studio take out newspaper advertisements that looked like fake tabloid headlines such as "Anhedonia Strikes Cleveland!".[17] However, Allen experimented with several titles over five test screenings, including Anxiety and Annie and Alvy, before settling on Annie Hall.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Hall

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Harold and Maude (1971)

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28 points, 7 lists, one #1

2000: AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – #45[27]
2002: AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions – #69[28]
2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – #89[29]
2008: AFI's 10 Top 10:
#9 Romantic Comedy Film[30]

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UCLA student Colin Higgins wrote Harold and Maude as his master's thesis. While working as producer Edward Lewis's pool boy, Higgins showed the script to Lewis's wife, Mildred. Mildred was so impressed that she got Edward to give it to Stanley Jaffe at Paramount. Higgins sold the script with the understanding that he would direct the film but he was told he wasn't ready, after tests he shot proved unsatisfactory to the studio heads. Ashby would only commit to directing the film after getting Higgins' blessing and then, so Higgins could watch and learn from him on the set, Ashby made Higgins a co-producer.[7] Higgins says he originally thought of the story as a play. It then became a 20-minute thesis while at film school. After the film came out, the script was turned into a novel then a play, which ran for several years in Paris.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_Maude

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#63

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

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28 points, 8 lists

95% on Rotten Tomatoes with 56 reviews

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Director Philip Kaufman had been a fan of the 1956 film, which he likened to "great radio", although he had not read the novel until after he agreed to direct the remake. "I thought, 'Well this doesn't have to be a remake as such. It can be a new envisioning that was a variation on a theme,' he said on the film's 40th anniversary. The first change he anticipated was filming in color; the second was changing the location to San Francisco. "Could it happen in the city I love the most? The city with the most advanced, progressive therapies, politics and so forth? What would happen in a place like that if the pods landed there and that element of 'poddiness' was spread?"[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers_(1978_film)

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#62

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)

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30 points, 7 lists, 1 top 10

100% on Rotten Tomatoes with 13 reviews

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The film's content is derived from three previously released animated featurettes Disney produced based upon the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974). Extra material was used to link the three featurettes together to allow the stories to merge into each other.

 

A fourth, shorter featurette was added to bring the film to a close, originally made during production of Blustery Day (based on the presence of Jon Walmsley as Christopher Robin). The sequence was based on the final chapter of The House at Pooh Corner, where Christopher Robin must leave the Hundred Acre Wood behind as he is starting school. In it, Christopher Robin and Pooh discuss what they liked doing together and the boy asks his bear to promise to remember him and to keep some of the memories of their time together alive. Pooh agrees to do so, and the film closes with The Narrator saying that wherever Christopher Robin goes, Pooh will always be waiting for him whenever he returns.

 

Six years after the release of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Disney commissioned a fourth featurette based on the stories. Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore premiered in theaters on March 11, 1983, but was not originally connected to the preceding films in any manner. It has since been added to home video releases of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Many_Adventures_of_Winnie_the_Pooh

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#61

Paper Moon (1973)

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31 points, 7 lists, 2 top 5

Nominated for 4 Oscars, winning for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, with Tatum O'Neal

 

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Peter Bogdanovich also decided to change the name of the film from Addie Pray. While selecting music for the film, he heard the song It's Only a Paper Moon (by Billy Rose, Yip Harburg, and Harold Arlen). Seeking advice from his close friend and mentor Orson Welles, Bogdanovich listed Paper Moon as a possible alternative. Welles responded: "That title is so good, you shouldn't even make the picture, you should just release the title!"[4] Bogdanovich added the scene in which Addie has her picture taken in a paper moon solely so the studio would allow him to use the title.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Moon_(film)

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