"You talking to me?" THE 70s COUNTDOWN IS DONE!

[cannastop]

#60

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

31 points, 9 lists, 1 top 10

Still in limited release four decades after its premiere, it is the longest-running theatrical release in film history.

 

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Richard O'Brien was living as an unemployed actor in London during the early 1970s. He wrote most of The Rocky Horror Show during one winter just to occupy himself.[7][8] Since his youth, O'Brien had loved science fiction and B horror movies. He wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle flicks, and fifties rock and roll into his musical.[9] O'Brien conceived and wrote the play set against the backdrop of the glam era that had manifested itself in British popular culture in the 1970s.[10] Allowing his concept to come into being, O'Brien states "glam rock allowed me to be myself more".[11]

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

[Jake Gittes]

Dog Day Afternoon excepted, Rocky Horror is the movie I'm most glad I caught up with for this countdown. Delightful. 

[cannastop]

#59

Nashville (1975)

 

33 points, 6 lists, 1 top 5, 2 top 10

2012 Sight & Sound: 22 critics, 5 directors

 

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The original screenplay for Nashville was written by Joan Tewkesbury, who had collaborated with Altman on several of his films, including McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) and Thieves Like Us (1974).[17] She had proposed a Nashville-set film to Altman prior to his filming of McCabe & Mrs. Miller; he became interested in the setting and sent Tewkesbury to Nashville in the fall of 1973 to observe the area and its citizenry.[18] Tewkesbury's diary of her trip provided the basis for the screenplay, with many observations making it into the finished film, such as the highway pileup.[19] However, as with most Altman projects, much of the dialogue was improvised with the script acting as a "blueprint" dictating the actions of the characters and the plot.[20]

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

[cannastop]

Just now, cannastop said:

33 points, 6 lists, 1 top 5, 2 top 10

Clarification:

 

This means that 1 person had it 2-5 on their list and 2 people had it 6-10 on their list.

 

This is true for all the movies I've counted down to.

[cannastop]

#55 (tie)

Watership Down (1978)

33 points, 8 lists, 1 top 10

82% on Rotten Tomatoes with 34 reviews

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Production of the film began in 1975 and was originally to be directed by John Hubley, who left after disagreements with the film's producer Martin Rosen. His work can still be found in the film, most notably in the "fable" scene. He was replaced by Rosen, his directorial debut.

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

[cannastop]

#55 (tie)

The Outlaw Josie Wales (1976)

33 points, 8 lists

2012 Sight & Sound: 2 Critics

 

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The Outlaw Josey Wales was inspired by a 1972 novel by former KKK leader Forrest Carter, and was originally titled The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales and later retitled Gone to Texas. The script was worked on by Sonia Chernus and producer Bob Daley at Malpaso, and Eastwood himself paid some of the money to obtain the screen rights.[6] Michael Cimino and Philip Kaufman later oversaw the writing of the script, aiding Chernus. Kaufman wanted the film to stay as close to the novel as possible in style and retained many of the mannerisms in Wales's character which Eastwood would display on screen, such as his distinctive lingo with words like "reckon", "hoss" (instead of "horse"), and "ye" (instead of "you") and spitting tobacco juice on animals and victims.[6] The characters of Wales, the Cherokee chief, Navajo woman, and the old settler woman and her daughter all appeared in the novel.[7] On the other hand, Kaufman was less happy with the novel's political stance; he felt that it had been "written by a crude fascist" and that "the man's hatred of government was insane".[4] He also felt that that element of the script needed to be severely toned down, but, he later said, "Clint didn't, and it was his film".[4] Kaufman was later fired by Eastwood, who took over the film's direction himself.

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

[cannastop]

#55 (tie)

Sorcerer (1977)

 

33 points, 8 lists, 2 top 10

2012 Sight & Sound: 2 directors

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The film's title refers to one of the trucks, which has the name "Sorcerer" painted across the hood (the other is named "Lazaro"); there is no supernatural or magical character or event. As director William Friedkin went location scouting in Ecuador and researched the peculiar ornaments on cargo trucks he had seen there, he noticed there were names painted on them, which ranged from relatives to mythological references.[36] First the director came up with the name Lazaro after Lazarus. Then after some time struggling to think on another moniker, a listen to the Miles Davis album Sorcerer served as an inspiration to name the other truck, though the word was painted in French: "Sorcier". Friedkin then decided to change his working title Ballbreaker for Sorcerer, which he described as "an intentional but ill-advised reference to The Exorcist".[37]

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

[Jake Gittes]

fuck yeah sorcerer

[cannastop]

#55 (tie)

Eraserhead (1977)

33 points, 8 lists, one top 5

2012 Sight & Sound: 12 critics, 3 directors

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Initial casting for the film began in 1971, and Jack Nance was quickly selected for the lead role. However, the staff at the AFI had underestimated the project's scale—they had initially green-lit Eraserhead after viewing a twenty-one page screenplay, assuming that the film industry's usual ratio of one minute of film per scripted page would reduce the film to approximately twenty minutes. This misunderstanding, coupled with Lynch's own meticulous direction, caused the film to remain in production for a number of years.[4] In an extreme example of this labored schedule, one scene in the film begins with Nance's character opening a door—a full year passed before he was filmed entering the room. Nance, however, was dedicated to producing the film and retained the unorthodox hairstyle his character sported for the entirety of its gestation.[13]

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

Edited October 10, 2019 by cannastop

[cannastop]

If you want to do a write-up, message both me and @Jason.

 

I'm pretty sure this list will be done by Monday.

[CoolioD1]

11 minutes ago, cannastop said:

If you want to do a write-up, message both me and @Jason.

 

I'm pretty sure this list will be done by Monday.

i'd have to know the rest of the list to pick a film to write up.

[Plain Old Tele]

...76?

 

[cannastop]

12 minutes ago, Plain Old Tele said:

...76?

 

Which one? 👀

[cannastop]

#54

Fiddler On the Roof (1971)

34 points, 6 lists, 2 top 5, 1 top 10

Nominated for 8 Oscars, winning 3

 

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As a result, either Topol, or someone else suggested he should be made an honorary Jew and and renamed Norman Christianson.

https://books.google.com/books?id=C-YRDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=jewison+fiddler+on+the+roof+christianson&source=bl&ots=SX8k3R0M2r&sig=ACfU3U3kkFo_AsdTiYU0fFJ9aES4TDZJKQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjosaXr7ZLlAhVFRK0KHYi8DzgQ6AEwGHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=jewison fiddler on the roof christianson&f=false

 

I'm pretty sure I saw video of Topol saying that.

[cannastop]

#53

Rocky II (1979)

34 points, 8 lists, 1 top 5.

People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture

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After the enormous success of the first Rocky, the producers were anxious to make a sequel. Stallone again wrote the script, originally titled Rocky II: Redemption, but John G. Avildsen declined to direct again because he was busy with pre-production on Saturday Night Fever. Stallone wanted the job and waged as big a campaign as he had for the lead role in the previous film. United Artists executives were reluctant to give the actor the directing reins because, while he had previously directed the drama Paradise Alley, it was not a success. However, producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff understood how much of the success of the first Rocky had come from Stallone's enormous input and lobbied hard to get him the job.

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

[cannastop]

#52

Badlands (1973)

35 points, 9 lists, 1 top 5

2012 Sight & Sound 8 critics, 9 directors

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The film is the on-screen debut of Sheen's sons Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, as uncredited extras.

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

[cannastop]

#50 (tie)

Slap Shot (1977)

36 points, 8 lists, 2 top 10

Entertainment Weekly ranked the film #31 on their list of "The Top 50 Cult Films".

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Yvan Ponton and Yvon Barrette (who played forward Jean-Guy Drouin and goaltender Denis Lemieux, the two French-Canadian players in the film) dubbed their own voices for the film's translated French version. The film is one of few mainstream American films that was translated in colloquial Québécois French and not Standard French. Heavy use of French-Canadian language and foul language has made this version of the film a cult classic in French Canada, where lines from the movie such as "Dave est magané" ("Dave's a mess") and "Du hockey comme dans le temps" (lit., "like hockey from the times" – "Old Time Hockey") are common catch phrases.[6]

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

[cannastop]

#50 (tie)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

36 points, 8 lists, one #1

2012 Sight & Sound 25 critics, 19 directors

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The film—as with "almost every Kubrick film"—is a "showcase for [a] major innovation in technique."[7] While 2001: A Space Odyssey had featured "revolutionary effects," and The Shining would later feature heavy use of the Steadicam, Barry Lyndon saw a considerable number of sequences shot "without recourse to electric light."[7] Cinematography was overseen by director of photography John Alcott (who won an Oscar for his work), and is particularly noted for the technical innovations that made some of its most spectacular images possible. To achieve photography without electric lighting "[f]or the many densely furnished interior scenes… meant shooting by candlelight," which is known to be difficult in still photography, "let alone with moving images."[7]

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

[cannastop]

#49

Enter the Dragon (1973)

37 points, 8 lists

94% on Rotten Tomatoes with 47 reviews

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The film was shot on location in Hong Kong. All scenes were filmed without sound: dialogue and sound effects were added or dubbed in during post-production. Bruce Lee, after he had been goaded or challenged, fought several real fights with the film's extras and some set intruders during filming.[24] The scenes of Han's Island were filmed at a residence known as Palm Villa near the coastal town of Stanley.[25]

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

Edited October 11, 2019 by cannastop

[cannastop]

#48

Kramer vs. Kramer 

37 points, 9 lists

won 5 Oscars, including Best Picture

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Cinematographer Néstor Almendros, a collaborator on numerous François Truffaut films, had been hired with the expectation that Truffaut would direct. Truffaut seriously considered it, but was too busy with his own projects and suggested screenwriter Robert Benton direct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramer_vs._Kramer

Edited October 11, 2019 by cannastop