Roy Scheider Was in several great films during the 70s, Klute The French Connection The Marathon Man The Sorcerer and The Last Emrbrace. And of course the huge blockbuster Jaws. He was a great actor who doesn’t always get the credit he deserves, it’s not just a coincidence that he appears in so many great movies.
It looks how it does because Kubrick refused to use any unnatural light in it, just sunlight and lamp or candlelight. No electric lights. Gave it a special ambience.
What a fantastic list, as I watched every one of these movies in my teens in the 1970s. Bloody Sam's "Cross of Iron", Paul Newman's"McIntosh Man", "Serpent"(Night Flight from Moscow), "Scorpio", "The Executioner"(Excellent George Peppard movie, 1970), "Sorceror", "The Parallax View", and 3 of Alain Delon's "Le Gang", "Le Giton", and "Mr. Klein" could be added to your great list.
I would also add- Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland; The Panic in Needle Park starring Kitty Winn(won The Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for this performance) and Al Pacino; The Long Goodbye starring Elliot Gould; John Cassavettes's A Woman Under the Influence starring Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk and also Cassavettes earlier 1971 picture Minnie and Moskowitz also starring his hugely talented wife Gena Rowlands and their frequent collaborator Seymour Cassel; two great Robert Altman masterpieces: McCabe & Mrs. Miller starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie (a favorite film of critic Roger Ebert and directors Martin Scorsesce and Quentin Tarentino) and Altman's 1977 surreal Three Women starring Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spaceck; 1977's A Special Day starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren; Fat City starring Stacy Keech and Susan Tyrell; Badlands starring Sissy Spaceck and Martin Sheen; The Go Between; The Emigrants; Harold and Maude; Days of Heaven
Finally watched Sorceror not long ago after putting it off. Heard it was a shot by shot remake of Wages of Fear which made me suspicious but that wasn’t the case.I think i enjoyed it more tbh, the stunts and practical effects were crazy, which probably put it over the top.
Le Gitan. Alain Delon, fantastic actor, minimalist actor, acts with his eyes. Mr. Klein is a great film directed by Joseph Losey. Sorcerer is a remake of a much better film, Le Salaire de la peur, by Henri-Georges Clouzot, one of the scariest films I've ever seen. Scorpio is also a good film with Delon.
Well, Kubrick is an icon but the film itself, to many people, is "that reel in between A Clockwork Orange and The Shining". It was never a smash hit or a flick lots of people were talking about, like many of his other films.
I wouldn't trade growing up in the 70s for all the iPhones in the world! It was a magical time, the coolest fashions, cars, trucks, and bands, playing the greatest music, from Motown to rock, blues, country, soul, gospel, and everything in between!
Speaking of Randy Quaid, I might also add The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, based on a Mordecai Richler story. Also one of my all time favorites is The Last Picture Show, which really nails small town life in the west. You usually dont go wrong starting with a Larry McMurtry story.
The 70's was a decade where the Studios had less control, and it resulted in a new age of writers and directors going beyond the old boundaries. Some other gems might be Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taking of Pelham 123, White Lightning, Juggernaut, The Paper Chase, Sugarland Express, The Gambler, The Seven Ups, Sorcerer, Soylent Green... list goes on.. so many...
Thank you very much! I'm an 80's teen and always go "Back to the 80s" but I'm realizing as a continually growing and learning fan of Cinema, that there's many films from the 60s & 70s that I've missed (though I did discover Noir so I'm working my way through late 30s , 40s and 50s) Somehow the 60's and 70s got skipped! But I'm working to correct that! And lists like yours helps a ton! So much appreciated! 😎 👍
Grew up in the 70s and served in the military.. Wasn't aware of Rolling Thunder until this year. Explores a more complicated and subtle side of PTSD, well before Deer Hunter. The war was still going on when the movie came out. Hippies were still protesting and blaming soldiers, and there was guilt in others for soldiers, whom they saw suffering in the news every day, so I get why the movie didn't resonate (it was too early). The main character, however, comes home to a hero's welcome, but he doesn't care. Unlike PTSD depicted in most movies, he isn't broken, deranged, seeking therapy. He is pleasant but lacks feeling. He is self aware enough to know that he can't be the husband he was or probably the father. His response to horror was to destroy an emotional side of himself for his own mental survival. He has to recognize that he can't return to his old self during interactions with his family and friends. War doesn't just do this to people. Many people taking hits in life get destroyed piece by piece. It is almost easier to deal with emotional trauma in this way. More than just a war movie.
Hippies weren't the only ones protesting the war. A lot of protests ccame from colleges and celebrities. Plus you are wrong in that people blamed the soldiers. That was propaganda spread by corporate media and the war machine..We were protesting the war and the war machine, not the soldiers who were simply following orders..thank you for your service and I apologize to you or any service man or woman who beleived otherwise..It's always been about corporate greed then and now and nothing to do about people who are trodden on by them.
One movie I would recommend from the 70's is "The Man who Stole the Sun" a Japanese movie written by an American about a bored highschool teacher that decides to build an atom bomb in his apartment and take Tokyo hostage
Bound For Glory, with David Carradine and directed by Hal Ashby. Prime Cut with Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman. Les Valseuses ("Going Places") with Gerard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, and Patrick Deware.
Ah, yes. I saw The Heartbreak Kid when it first came out, on the undercard for Zardoz, when it came out. It stuck with me all these years as a really underappreciated film. Masterful performance by Eddie Albert and an unforgettably hilarious dinner scene involving 'sincere beef' etc. Also Cybil Shepard I think.
Scarecrow is incredibly overlooked given it stars Pacino and Hackman. I saw it decades and decades ago on late night TV and was fascinated by it. Hardly anyone I know even heard of it.
Excellent list and thank god for the internet because I have been able to enjoy each and every one of these brilliant gems because if I still had cable there's no way I would ever get a chance to watch these classics
Always reconed Barry Lyndon was a "Lost Masterpiece " One of Kubricks best. 'Bring me the Head of AG' a film so 'gritty ' you need a shower after watching it. I love BMtHoAG. Warren Oates at his finest. Add 'Vanishing Point' to the list with '2 Lane Blacktop' Warren Oates again. Another great one is the original 'Get Carter and 'Performance' with Mick Jagger. The 70s was a great decade for cinema some REAL master pieces. Thanks for reminding me about some of these films. I'm old enough to have seen quite a few of them first time around.
Barry Lyndon is the most picturesque film ever made. Freeze frame any part of the movie & your left with a framed picture, postcard or masterpiece painting. With the legendary & visionary Stanley Kubrick at the helm this film immerses you in beauty both man made & natural.
Delightful!! I've seen Straight Time and herald it!! 👏 I need to give Heartbreak Kid another chance, I was too angry with Charles Grodin to keep watching it!
Growing up in the 1970s was a treat for film fans. I was a big fan of European cinema and the BBC showed all the greats, with subtitles. Probably tiny viewing figures, but that was the advantage of non commercial television. In Britain, however, filmmaking was in the doldrums, but television drama was going through a golden age.
The problem with Le Cercle Rouge is that Le Samurai is even better. Still any movie with Yves Montand and Gian Maria Volonte (two Leone movies with Eastwood) and Alain Delon in it automatically is at least very good.
@@marknieuweboer8099 the other problem is I have heard about all these great movies with sub titles and I’m dyslexic and have no chance of catching any more than a 1/5 of the dialog, all others (with the exception of the Garcia’s head, I have not seen it either) and they are great and so was 70’s cinema
Seen 6 of 10 of these...Charley Varrick is so so grossly underappreciated...and Straight Time is just so brutal, its by far my favorite Dustin Hoffman film
@@ranchokitty1Joe Don Baker and Robert Duvall were great together in The Outfit , with a young Joanna Cassidy and an older Robert Ryan... (almost forgetting Karen Black)
Excellent list! I've watched almost all of them (exception Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia) but the selection was terrific, love particularly Barry Lyndon, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Charley Varrick, Le Circle Rouge, and Paper Moon. I'll add 10 suggestions based on some of your points throughout the video: Macon County Line, Saint Jack, Fat City, Camera Buff, Harold and Maude, Get Carter, Mikey and Nicky, Phantom of the Paradise, Blue Collar, and Life of Brian.
I remember seeing The Friends of Eddie Coyle when I was very young, but I only remembered the scenes, not the title. We stumbled upon it recently and watched it - and I remembered it! It was great to see it again, finally!
I recently rewatched STRAW DOGS.. it doesn't hold up. You just stop believing that he would go that far...and his mistreatment of his wife, she's raped, brutalized, Hoffman treats her like crap and pushes her aside because he suddenly needs to step up and be a man, even if it means stepping over his wifes beaten and psychologically brutalized body. There's a small piece missing that stops it from being a gem. Unlike Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia.
This must be a generational thing...bc Ive seen all these films and im 60 lol. Great list! (How did I turn 60!!??) Ive loved film since I was a kid. My mom used to say "oh watch this, you'll like it" when i was home from school sick. ❤
My favourite genre of all time is “1970s”. I know The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Charley Varrick. I couldn’t get through Barry Lyndon - but you’ve given me the courage to return. And I’m going all in on the other recommendations. Thank you. Liked and subscribed.
Charlie Varrick is one of my favorite films of the 1970's. It's also one of Tarantino's favorites. He liked it so much he stole dialogue - word for word - from this movie and put it in Pulp Fiction. Kudos to those who know exactly what I'm talking about.
Here's an interesting quote and observation: "One of the most famous and iconic blockbusters of 1970's-era Hollywood, "Saturday Night Fever", was also an extraordinary and singular anomoly unlike any other film of the time, insofar that its phenomenal mainstream success completely undermined its own dramatically searing and uncompromising social critique of American life that was the crucial element of its impact".
Now THIS list..Varrick & Thunder & Straight Time & Last Detail are FANTASTIC & I've seen them many many times. Lyndon is SO spectacular. It is the perfect bedridden or rainy late afternoon movie to watch alone. The scenes are almost heartbreaking they're so breathtakingly beautiful. But PAPER MOON...that one makes AT LEAST my top 10.... probably seen it 100+ times.
Heartbreak Kid is one of my top 10 films of all time. The ending is one of the most bewitching things about it. I think it was meant to be a commentary on the narcissisism and sutuational ethics of the time but who knows?
Just saw the Heartbreak Kid and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia on the big screen at my local Alamo Drafthouse. Both offbeat and eminently satisfying. Will have to watch the rest of the list!
Really want to see Barry Lyndon as it's one of Kubrick's most beloved by actors visiting the Criterion closet! Another forgotten classic from the 70's is The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.
Great list! Ill have to watch straight time and the red circle, seen the rest a few times. I'll add The Anderson tapes to your list and one made for tv that left an impression on my 8 year old mind, The Deadly Tower.
Peter Boyle was great as a working class guy who is an occasional hit man. Rolling Thunder was an excellent drive in movie that made you fear garbage disposals. The ending reminded me of Butch Cassidy…and maybe the Wild Bunch. Charlie Verrick was really good with Jo Don Baker great as usual.
Worth looking at: "The Offence" with Sean Connery. It starts off as a typical (British) police procedural, but soon becomes a look into the damaged psyche of Sean Connery's detective.
Great list! There are several of these films I did not know about, but I need to watch them now. Thank you so much for putting these films on my radar. The 70's is my favorite decade for film, and I love a good gritty film. The only film on here I would say that most people did not forget was Paper Moon. I think it might be forgotten or not as talked about now, it was critically acclaimed and a awards darling. Also, I wanted to love Barry Lyndon, but Ryan O'Neal is not a good actor, at least in my opinion. He always came off as a modern man in Barry Lyndon and never disappeared into that role. That said, you are right in saying that every frame is a masterpiece. Visually, it is one of the most stunning films ever made.
Some really great picks. Walking Tall, The Sting and The Yakuza, with Robert Mitchum, are some other good ones. Cool Hand Luke, with Paul Newman, and Thief, with James Caan. Such a good actors. Late 60's and early 80's but hey, close enough
70’s ruled for films…i wouldve been shocked if I hadnt seen all of these, and no surprise I was right which simply means you completely nailed it! Hoffman os among my faves, and obviously was in a lot of great films, but Straight time MIGHt be his best work
You mentioned that The Friends of Eddie Coyle has dialogue that sounds like a wiretap of actual criminals. That's because it pretty much is. George V Higgins was a US Attorney in Boston specializing in organized crime cases. His career was during the window after the FBI developed wiretapping tech and started using it regularly but before the criminals realized they were doing so. Because of this Higgins listened to thousands of hours of wiretaps of gangsters talking openly in what they assumed was complete privacy. It made his dialogue incredibly banal and authentic in Eddie Coyle, and in Killing Them Softly, a more recent Higgins adaptation by Andrew Dominik starring Brad Pitt.
I more or less blind-bought 'The Friends Of Eddie Coyle' a while back during one of the Criterion Collection's 24-hour 50% off sales. Some of the best money I've ever spent.
A Great list, but there are a few left off here. Let's finish your homework assignment with a few more classics. "The Yakuza" 1974, with Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura and Richard Jordan. A subtle look into culture clash of crime, Sydney Pollack directs a Paul Scrhraeder/Robert Towne screenplay. "When an American cracks up, he opens the window and shoots people on the street. when a Japanese cracks up, he closes the window and kills himself". "Blue Collar" 1978, Paul Schraeder directs a screenplay cowritten with his brother Leonard. Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel. A B&E goes poorly and hijinks ensue with a cast of every character actor in Hollywood who wanted a piece of this script. "Taxi Driver" 1976. OK, maybe not a hidden gem, but Martin Scorcese's masterpiece rarely gets it's due, fading with time and this film should remain upfront and in everyone's face. Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and 12 year old Jodie Foster working a Paul Schraeder screenplay that is the peak of the 70's 'Cinema of Loneliness'. An illustration of a small, petty, ignorant and angry bigot who goes off the rails.At least he made a decision, right?
Taxi Driver is widely considered one of the greatest movies ever made. It makes the top 3 of any sane person's best of 70s flicks. I'd say Dog Day Afternoon is much more overlooked.
I remember there was a show called "Saturday Night At The Movies" where they interviewed the guy that played Dustin Hoffman's character's parole officer. There was a scene where Hoffman beats on him and goes too far and cracked his ribs. The actor went with the flow. He said he used to be a boxer in the army or navy and he said he learned in order to throw a punch you have to learn to take a punch. He also joked that they considered giving the movie an "R" rating because there was a brief glimpse of his full frontal nudity but when reviewed they said naw, no big deal.
Seen The Last Detail, Kramer vs Kramer, Scarecrow many times. Barry Lyndon several times, it looks beautiful but its one of my lesser fav Kubrick movies. Paper Moon never grabbed me. Heartbreak Kid I've loved for decades. Charles Grodin was so underappreciated (see also Albert Brook's REAL LIFE, a completely overlooked comedy gem). I've never seen Eddie Coyle, sounds like Dog Day Afternoon gritty realism. I remember Rolling Thunder, been a long time.
Very good, missing the scarecrow with gene hackman,the ninth configuration, sometimes a great notion,red sky at morning,....the old gun w/philippe noiret ..going places,w/depardieu
Alot of these films stir up my childhood with the 70's Network movie nights..NBC Saturday Night at the Movies, ABC Movie of the Week, and The CBS Friday Night Movies...Your picks remind me of Two I really enjoyed - Slither with James Kahn....and The Lady in the Car (with Glasses and a Gun.) I was a litte too young when I saw this on TV at my grandmothers farm (the adults had gone to sleep.)
I dig your characterization of Alan Delon. Of course, he is missing from American consciousness. His five minutes in Hollywood were not enough to cement a place. Unless you lived in NYC, you had no chance of seeing a French movie. And that is tragedy after tragedy because there's a big catalogue of worth films to see. He stars in so many of them. Barry Lyndon. Need to see that one again. I was too young to appreciate it. Plus, I saw it on a television, not in the theater. New televisions should do it more complete justice. (Please stop using the "not a car, but sliver bullet from the future" set up. It's great once, but gets tedious when you use it every time.)
11:40 Kubrick famously wanted to capture the look of a world before the arrival of electric lighting, and I think this was also an ambition of Sven Nykvist when he photographed Ingmar Bergman's epic, bpisterous and hugely watchable family drama Fanny and Alexander (set in early 20th century Sweden) in 1982. F&A did use modern studio lighting, but often in a toned.down way: many scenes emphasize live candlelight or kerosene lamps, or the liquid outdoor light of Nordic summer: the feel of the picture clearly aims to show a world before modern lamps and modern media.
My ranking of these : Barry Lyndon The Heartbreak Kid Paper Moon The Friends of Eddie Coyle Straight Time Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Rolling Thunder The Red Circle The Last Detail Charley Varrick
Spielberg ruined cinema ( has never made a movie I liked). Then Lucas ran a sword through its heart. I was going to make a similar comment you beat me to it
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At 61 years old, and having lived through '70s cinema, I have to commend you and say you've nailed these!
I swear to go, if you say pure, raw, or unfiltered again
That's incredibly raw and unfiltered of you...
You'll what? Use punctuation?
Roy Scheider
Was in several great films during the 70s,
Klute
The French Connection
The Marathon Man
The Sorcerer and
The Last Emrbrace.
And of course the huge blockbuster Jaws.
He was a great actor who doesn’t always get the credit he deserves, it’s not just a coincidence that he appears in so many great movies.
The Seven Ups. With Bullitt and The French Connection the 3 best chase scenes in movie history.
The 7up’s
And finishing out the decade with All That Jazz.
Roy was a great actor, every once in a while I rewatch the highly entertaining Blue Thunder.
Excuse me, excuse me. I believe the correct title is THE Klute.
Eddie Coyle and Charley Varrick - two absolute classics.
Heard about Eddie Coyle when the comic book writer Ed Brubaker cited it as his main inspiration for his great Criminal graphic novel series.
I am 86 and while I never saw some of these films; the ones I did see I shall never forget.
Barry Lyndon, aka the best movie ever made by man. Every single photogram of it is gold. Overlook it at your own peril.
The best movie by the best movie maker ever.
I watched it on TH-cam a few months ago and definitely agree. Every shot looks like a painting, with every detail meticulously planned.
True, it surely does give food for thought to people who think Braveheart and The Patriot are historical movies.
It looks how it does because Kubrick refused to use any unnatural light in it, just sunlight and lamp or candlelight. No electric lights. Gave it a special ambience.
Too bad Ryan O’Neill ruined it!
Not hidden, but a gem, The Mechanic. I love those gritty, nihilistic 70's films.
I so loved that movie. There was a remake, don't bother.
Me too! Many say the 1970s was the greatest decade for cinema.
What a fantastic list, as I watched every one of these movies in my teens in the 1970s. Bloody Sam's "Cross of Iron", Paul Newman's"McIntosh Man", "Serpent"(Night Flight from Moscow), "Scorpio", "The Executioner"(Excellent George Peppard movie, 1970), "Sorceror", "The Parallax View", and 3 of Alain Delon's "Le Gang", "Le Giton", and "Mr. Klein" could be added to your great list.
"The Parallax View" Superb film, thank you for reminding me.
Great list.
I would also add- Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland; The Panic in Needle Park starring Kitty Winn(won The Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for this performance) and Al Pacino; The Long Goodbye starring Elliot Gould; John Cassavettes's A Woman Under the Influence starring Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk and also Cassavettes earlier 1971 picture Minnie and Moskowitz also starring his hugely talented wife Gena Rowlands and their frequent collaborator Seymour Cassel; two great Robert Altman masterpieces: McCabe & Mrs. Miller starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie (a favorite film of critic Roger Ebert and directors Martin Scorsesce and Quentin Tarentino) and Altman's 1977 surreal Three Women starring Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spaceck; 1977's A Special Day starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren; Fat City starring Stacy Keech and Susan Tyrell; Badlands starring Sissy Spaceck and Martin Sheen; The Go Between; The Emigrants; Harold and Maude; Days of Heaven
Finally watched Sorceror not long ago after putting it off. Heard it was a shot by shot remake of Wages of Fear which made me suspicious but that wasn’t the case.I think i enjoyed it more tbh, the stunts and practical effects were crazy, which probably put it over the top.
Le Gitan. Alain Delon, fantastic actor, minimalist actor, acts with his eyes. Mr. Klein is a great film directed by Joseph Losey. Sorcerer is a remake of a much better film, Le Salaire de la peur, by Henri-Georges Clouzot, one of the scariest films I've ever seen. Scorpio is also a good film with Delon.
The Parallax View is another good 70s hidden gem.
Looove that film. Now THAT is underrated!!
An absolute classic 👍
Thank you!
Three more favorites - A Woman Under the Influence, Eyes of Laura Mars, 3 Women.
Three fantastic flicks!!
@@crabstick250 3 W o m e n ! Altman at his most Lynchian before Lynch!
3 Women is a fantastic movie and a great way to time travel to the 1970s, one of my favorites
I never thought anyone would consider Barry Lyndon "a hidden gem".
As comic book guy said, “Not even I know what this is referencing.”
Well, Kubrick is an icon but the film itself, to many people, is "that reel in between A Clockwork Orange and The Shining". It was never a smash hit or a flick lots of people were talking about, like many of his other films.
There was so much hype for ‘Barry Lyndon’ when it came out … but the film was a big ‘yawn’ ….
Warren Oates , one of our greatest underrated actors ever !
he's terrific in two lane black top and the cockfighter
Forgot Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" with Dustin Hoffman.
The 70's were legendary.
Indeed.And the music to.
Why?
Legendarily awful
I wouldn't trade growing up in the 70s for all the iPhones in the world! It was a magical time, the coolest fashions, cars, trucks, and bands, playing the greatest music, from Motown to rock, blues, country, soul, gospel, and everything in between!
Ha ha yeah I think I'd agree with that I was 14 in 1975
Speaking of Randy Quaid, I might also add The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, based on a Mordecai Richler story.
Also one of my all time favorites is The Last Picture Show, which really nails small town life in the west. You usually dont go wrong starting with a Larry McMurtry story.
The 70's was a decade where the Studios had less control, and it resulted in a new age of writers and directors going beyond the old boundaries. Some other gems might be Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taking of Pelham 123, White Lightning, Juggernaut, The Paper Chase, Sugarland Express, The Gambler, The Seven Ups, Sorcerer, Soylent Green... list goes on.. so many...
Great list, I may great a new video on these, thanks for the suggestions!
Great list, I may great a new video on these, thanks for the suggestions!
The Sorcerer was a remake of the ‘50’s film “The Wages of Fear”. Worth a watch!
Juggernaut is a cracking movie. Richard Lester knew how to direct!
All excellent movies, you have good taste!
Thank you very much! I'm an 80's teen and always go "Back to the 80s" but I'm realizing as a continually growing and learning fan of Cinema, that there's many films from the 60s & 70s that I've missed (though I did discover Noir so I'm working my way through late 30s , 40s and 50s) Somehow the 60's and 70s got skipped! But I'm working to correct that! And lists like yours helps a ton! So much appreciated! 😎 👍
Grew up in the 70s and served in the military.. Wasn't aware of Rolling Thunder until this year. Explores a more complicated and subtle side of PTSD, well before Deer Hunter. The war was still going on when the movie came out. Hippies were still protesting and blaming soldiers, and there was guilt in others for soldiers, whom they saw suffering in the news every day, so I get why the movie didn't resonate (it was too early). The main character, however, comes home to a hero's welcome, but he doesn't care. Unlike PTSD depicted in most movies, he isn't broken, deranged, seeking therapy. He is pleasant but lacks feeling. He is self aware enough to know that he can't be the husband he was or probably the father. His response to horror was to destroy an emotional side of himself for his own mental survival. He has to recognize that he can't return to his old self during interactions with his family and friends. War doesn't just do this to people. Many people taking hits in life get destroyed piece by piece. It is almost easier to deal with emotional trauma in this way. More than just a war movie.
Hippies weren't the only ones protesting the war. A lot of protests ccame from colleges and celebrities. Plus you are wrong in that people blamed the soldiers. That was propaganda spread by corporate media and the war machine..We were protesting the war and the war machine, not the soldiers who were simply following orders..thank you for your service and I apologize to you or any service man or woman who beleived otherwise..It's always been about corporate greed then and now and nothing to do about people who are trodden on by them.
Yeah, we protested the war but I never knew anyone who hated or harrassed the soldiers who went there. @@mythrapi73
Tarantino has also kept that movie alive
One movie I would recommend from the 70's is "The Man who Stole the Sun" a Japanese movie written by an American about a bored highschool teacher that decides to build an atom bomb in his apartment and take Tokyo hostage
Bound For Glory, with David Carradine and directed by Hal Ashby.
Prime Cut with Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman.
Les Valseuses ("Going Places") with Gerard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, and Patrick Deware.
Loved Bound For Glory
Showed The Heartbreak Kid to my students. They thought it was misogynistic. They weren't prepared to witness. Welcome to 2024.
Ah, yes. I saw The Heartbreak Kid when it first came out, on the undercard for Zardoz, when it came out. It stuck with me all these years as a really underappreciated film. Masterful performance by Eddie Albert and an unforgettably hilarious dinner scene involving 'sincere beef' etc. Also Cybil Shepard I think.
You can’t buy it today.
I’m really glad I found your channel, the content and real narrative voice are very insightful, top shelf!
Le Cercle Rouge is a masterpiece - great call. Jean Pierre Melville was one of the greatest to ever do it.
His great film, a historically important film with a brilliant turn by Alain Delon, Le Samourai, is even greater.
The Conversation with Gene Hackman 👍👍
Just saw Straight Time which I had not even heard of until recently. It’s so good.
It also starred a young relatively unknown Kathy Bates
Also never heard of it. I'll look it up.
As a child of the 70s, I'm happy to say that I've seen at least four of these films already - and I'm looking forward to seeing the rest.
Thanks for shouting out The Friends Of Eddie Coyal ---- A Movie SOOO Gritty , it was like a light sandpaper of your eyes.
One of my All-Time favs. Mitchum never looked so beaten, and Boyle is low-key brilliant.
Boyle had that simmering menace, the ruthlessness of a boa slowly tightening around you.
The book is very good too.
Stunning movie. Just flawless from the first scene to the last.
I love the way it portrays Boston, so grimy and blue collar, and dying as evidenced by the fall setting
Scarecrow is a hidden gem. I also loved Capricorn One
Scarecrow is incredibly overlooked given it stars Pacino and Hackman. I saw it decades and decades ago on late night TV and was fascinated by it. Hardly anyone I know even heard of it.
Capricorn One is one of those rare gems starring a man who'd go on to be acquitted of murder. 😮
Excellent list and thank god for the internet because I have been able to enjoy each and every one of these brilliant gems because if I still had cable there's no way I would ever get a chance to watch these classics
Always reconed Barry Lyndon was a "Lost Masterpiece " One of Kubricks best. 'Bring me the Head of AG' a film so 'gritty ' you need a shower after watching it. I love BMtHoAG. Warren Oates at his finest. Add 'Vanishing Point' to the list with '2 Lane Blacktop' Warren Oates again. Another great one is the original 'Get Carter and 'Performance' with Mick Jagger.
The 70s was a great decade for cinema some REAL master pieces.
Thanks for reminding me about some of these films. I'm old enough to have seen quite a few of them first time around.
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Watching _Barry Lyndon_ is like walking through an art gallery. ❤️💋
Nice to see my film Vanish Point getting a mention.
Barry Lyndon is the most picturesque film ever made. Freeze frame any part of the movie & your left with a framed picture, postcard or masterpiece painting. With the legendary & visionary Stanley Kubrick at the helm this film immerses you in beauty both man made & natural.
Two fine, and often unmentioned films.....The Great White Hope (1970) and The Day of the Locust (1975). Worth a look!
Great list and good commentary. Nice to see appreciation for Eddie Coyle. Thanks.
When American society embraces its underlying rage, we get brilliant cinema.
Prime cut , 3 women, The changeling, Cruisin, The army of shadows, In cold blood, Marathon man
Is it safe? 😮
Delightful!! I've seen Straight Time and herald it!!
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I need to give Heartbreak Kid another chance, I was too angry with Charles Grodin to keep watching it!
Growing up in the 1970s was a treat for film fans. I was a big fan of European cinema and the BBC showed all the greats, with subtitles. Probably tiny viewing figures, but that was the advantage of non commercial television. In Britain, however, filmmaking was in the doldrums, but television drama was going through a golden age.
What about the long good Friday, Scum, Kes, Quadrophenia ?
Barry Lyndon a movie that will always stand the test of time its a winner 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
My favourite Kubrick movie along with 'Paths of Glory '
The problem with Le Cercle Rouge is that Le Samurai is even better. Still any movie with Yves Montand and Gian Maria Volonte (two Leone movies with Eastwood) and Alain Delon in it automatically is at least very good.
And Un Flic is more beautiful to look at than both of them.
@@marknieuweboer8099 the other problem is I have heard about all these great movies with sub titles and I’m dyslexic and have no chance of catching any more than a 1/5 of the dialog, all others (with the exception of the Garcia’s head, I have not seen it either) and they are great and so was 70’s cinema
Yes, Le Samurai! Watch it!
Seen 6 of 10 of these...Charley Varrick is so so grossly underappreciated...and Straight Time is just so brutal, its by far my favorite Dustin Hoffman film
Total grit of a film! I watch anything with Harry Dean Stanton.
Charley Varrick ...Walter Mathau was brilliant in it .
the director wanted Eastwood and he said fagettaboutit!
Joe Don Baker was great in it too, only there should have been more of him.
Glad I checked I was just gonna say Charley varrick , that was a good one
He’s great in the Taking of Pelham 123 too.
@@ranchokitty1Joe Don Baker and Robert Duvall were great together in The Outfit ,
with a young Joanna Cassidy and an older Robert Ryan...
(almost forgetting Karen Black)
How many of these films are pure and unfiltered?
Excellent list! I've watched almost all of them (exception Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia) but the selection was terrific, love particularly Barry Lyndon, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Charley Varrick, Le Circle Rouge, and Paper Moon. I'll add 10 suggestions based on some of your points throughout the video: Macon County Line, Saint Jack, Fat City, Camera Buff, Harold and Maude, Get Carter, Mikey and Nicky, Phantom of the Paradise, Blue Collar, and Life of Brian.
Fat City for sure would be a great addition here.
Saint Jack is a good one. Gotta throw in The Killing of A Chinese Bookie to that list.
I remember seeing The Friends of Eddie Coyle when I was very young, but I only remembered the scenes, not the title. We stumbled upon it recently and watched it - and I remembered it! It was great to see it again, finally!
Wonderful list! I would've added the gambler with James caan, the outside man with Roy scheider and straw dogs with Dustin Hoffman.
I recently rewatched STRAW DOGS.. it doesn't hold up. You just stop believing that he would go that far...and his mistreatment of his wife, she's raped, brutalized, Hoffman treats her like crap and pushes her aside because he suddenly needs to step up and be a man, even if it means stepping over his wifes beaten and psychologically brutalized body. There's a small piece missing that stops it from being a gem. Unlike Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia.
The Gambler is great. What about Fingers with Harvey Keitel. Unforgettable scene with Jim Brown. And Shamus with Burt Reynolds.
Loved, Loved, Loved The Gambler. I hated the main character but still felt sorry for him to a degree.
Yeah, The Gambler is an intense movie.
@@MegaFountLove SHAMUS! ❤
I'm only a third of the way through this video but giving a tick. All these in my DVD collection and I watch them regularly.😊
There are so many gems in the 70s, not just from
Hollywood but the world over. I far prefer seeking out and/or rewatching films from this era.
Same here.
This must be a generational thing...bc Ive seen all these films and im 60 lol. Great list! (How did I turn 60!!??) Ive loved film since I was a kid. My mom used to say "oh watch this, you'll like it" when i was home from school sick. ❤
The 70's supplanted the 50's as America's best in cinema, not only in terms of its well known standouts but its unsung gems, like these.
My favourite genre of all time is “1970s”. I know The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Charley Varrick. I couldn’t get through Barry Lyndon - but you’ve given me the courage to return. And I’m going all in on the other recommendations. Thank you. Liked and subscribed.
The narration is a bit over the top, but I love that this list begins with two of my three favorite movies from my favorite movie decade.
I hope you get discovered and more exposure. Next to 'film noir' this is by far the greatest era of movies. Thank you.
Charlie Varrick is one of my favorite films of the 1970's. It's also one of Tarantino's favorites. He liked it so much he stole dialogue - word for word - from this movie and put it in Pulp Fiction. Kudos to those who know exactly what I'm talking about.
Here's an interesting quote and observation: "One of the most famous and iconic blockbusters of 1970's-era Hollywood, "Saturday Night Fever", was also an extraordinary and singular anomoly unlike any other film of the time, insofar that its phenomenal mainstream success completely undermined its own dramatically searing and uncompromising social critique of American life that was the crucial element of its impact".
Now THIS list..Varrick & Thunder & Straight Time & Last Detail are FANTASTIC & I've seen them many many times. Lyndon is SO spectacular. It is the perfect bedridden or rainy late afternoon movie to watch alone. The scenes are almost heartbreaking they're so breathtakingly beautiful. But PAPER MOON...that one makes AT LEAST my top 10.... probably seen it 100+ times.
Awesome video, unfortunately I’ve seen them all! Thanks gotta go, on my way to watch Charle Varrick again!
Outstanding list! Gotta pimp my movie..Vanishing Point.
Great film, I forgot to add that in my latest video but will make note!
i love Vanishing point, Kowalski is my hero
Heartbreak Kid is one of my top 10 films of all time. The ending is one of the most bewitching things about it.
I think it was meant to be a commentary on the narcissisism and sutuational ethics of the time but who knows?
Charlie Varrick what a Fabulous Movie through the years ive seen 20 times.
Just saw the Heartbreak Kid and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia on the big screen at my local Alamo Drafthouse. Both offbeat and eminently satisfying. Will have to watch the rest of the list!
You forgot "All That Jazz".
Really want to see Barry Lyndon as it's one of Kubrick's most beloved by actors visiting the Criterion closet! Another forgotten classic from the 70's is The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.
Great list! Ill have to watch straight time and the red circle, seen the rest a few times. I'll add The Anderson tapes to your list and one made for tv that left an impression on my 8 year old mind, The Deadly Tower.
Seen 7 of the 10 and will see the rest asap. Great films all.
Only 2 obscure films. The rest were hugely popular. These movies could only be considered forgotten by someone who wasn't alive when they were made.
Peter Boyle was great as a working class guy who is an occasional hit man. Rolling Thunder was an excellent drive in movie that made you fear garbage disposals. The ending reminded me of Butch Cassidy…and maybe the Wild Bunch. Charlie Verrick was really good with Jo Don Baker great as usual.
Part Two > 10 Hidden Gems of 70s Cinema That Blew Our Minds! th-cam.com/video/-t95AVrPPpo/w-d-xo.html Let me know if you saw any of these.
Thanks, great list abd lots of suggestions. If you could include the titles in the notes section, that would be really helpful.
Is Zardoz on this list? Because the new millenium needs to see Sean Connery in a loincloth.
I saw everyone of those films at the Theater. Everyone was a HIT. Nobody has forgotten them.
Diary of a Mad Housewife. Brilliant performances by Richard Benjamin and Carrie Snodgress
Neil Young 'fell in love with the actress, she was playing a part I could understand.'
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker with Benjamin was pretty much my first soft core phorn movie to my adolescent eyes way back.
@@arise2945 Carrie Sondgress. Died way too young
I saw actually 90% of what you put on this list. I owned about 50% of the movies during the last twenty years.
Worth looking at: "The Offence" with Sean Connery. It starts off as a typical (British) police procedural, but soon becomes a look into the damaged psyche of Sean Connery's detective.
Great list! There are several of these films I did not know about, but I need to watch them now. Thank you so much for putting these films on my radar. The 70's is my favorite decade for film, and I love a good gritty film.
The only film on here I would say that most people did not forget was Paper Moon. I think it might be forgotten or not as talked about now, it was critically acclaimed and a awards darling.
Also, I wanted to love Barry Lyndon, but Ryan O'Neal is not a good actor, at least in my opinion. He always came off as a modern man in Barry Lyndon and never disappeared into that role. That said, you are right in saying that every frame is a masterpiece. Visually, it is one of the most stunning films ever made.
Some really great picks. Walking Tall, The Sting and The Yakuza, with Robert Mitchum, are some other good ones. Cool Hand Luke, with Paul Newman, and Thief, with James Caan. Such a good actors. Late 60's and early 80's but hey, close enough
Le Cercle Rouge and Barry Lyndon are two of the best films ever made.
The music in Barry Lyndon ❤
70’s ruled for films…i wouldve been shocked if I hadnt seen all of these, and no surprise I was right which simply means you completely nailed it! Hoffman os among my faves, and obviously was in a lot of great films, but Straight time MIGHt be his best work
I love "The Heartbreak Kid." It's Brilliant Elaine May.
Check out A New Leaf. May & Matthau 😂
Tatum O'Neal won an Oscar for Paper Moon. A lot of us saw it! I have the dvd.
You mentioned that The Friends of Eddie Coyle has dialogue that sounds like a wiretap of actual criminals. That's because it pretty much is. George V Higgins was a US Attorney in Boston specializing in organized crime cases. His career was during the window after the FBI developed wiretapping tech and started using it regularly but before the criminals realized they were doing so. Because of this Higgins listened to thousands of hours of wiretaps of gangsters talking openly in what they assumed was complete privacy. It made his dialogue incredibly banal and authentic in Eddie Coyle, and in Killing Them Softly, a more recent Higgins adaptation by Andrew Dominik starring Brad Pitt.
Both amazing films.
I more or less blind-bought 'The Friends Of Eddie Coyle' a while back during one of the Criterion Collection's 24-hour 50% off sales. Some of the best money I've ever spent.
A Great list, but there are a few left off here. Let's finish your homework assignment with a few more classics.
"The Yakuza" 1974, with Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura and Richard Jordan. A subtle look into culture clash of crime, Sydney Pollack directs a Paul Scrhraeder/Robert Towne screenplay. "When an American cracks up, he opens the window and shoots people on the street. when a Japanese cracks up, he closes the window and kills himself".
"Blue Collar" 1978, Paul Schraeder directs a screenplay cowritten with his brother Leonard. Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel. A B&E goes poorly and hijinks ensue with a cast of every character actor in Hollywood who wanted a piece of this script.
"Taxi Driver" 1976. OK, maybe not a hidden gem, but Martin Scorcese's masterpiece rarely gets it's due, fading with time and this film should remain upfront and in everyone's face. Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and 12 year old Jodie Foster working a Paul Schraeder screenplay that is the peak of the 70's 'Cinema of Loneliness'. An illustration of a small,
petty, ignorant and angry bigot who goes off the rails.At least he made a decision, right?
Blue Collar never really gets the credit it deserves. Compelling cinema! Great that you have singled out Paul Schrader here!
Taxi Driver is widely considered one of the greatest movies ever made. It makes the top 3 of any sane person's best of 70s flicks. I'd say Dog Day Afternoon is much more overlooked.
Good call on Blue Collar. Great movie.
Love Richard Jordan. RIP too soon.
Good list. I’ve seen 9 out of 10 and that one is one I’ve known for years but not seen. The 70’s no doubt has a lot of hidden gems.
I remember there was a show called "Saturday Night At The Movies" where they interviewed the guy that played Dustin Hoffman's character's parole officer. There was a scene where Hoffman beats on him and goes too far and cracked his ribs. The actor went with the flow. He said he used to be a boxer in the army or navy and he said he learned in order to throw a punch you have to learn to take a punch.
He also joked that they considered giving the movie an "R" rating because there was a brief glimpse of his full frontal nudity but when reviewed they said naw, no big deal.
Check out Walter Matthau in The Laughing Policeman. Gritty San Francisco 70’s crime drama.
He’s good in the Taking of Pelham 123 also
Yes! I added that to my part two video! th-cam.com/video/-t95AVrPPpo/w-d-xo.html
@@VintageVerseTVanother one I can’t believe I never have watched until the other day is Get Carter, 1971 Starring Michael Caine. Excellent film.
Seen The Last Detail, Kramer vs Kramer, Scarecrow many times. Barry Lyndon several times, it looks beautiful but its one of my lesser fav Kubrick movies. Paper Moon never grabbed me. Heartbreak Kid I've loved for decades. Charles Grodin was so underappreciated (see also Albert Brook's REAL LIFE, a completely overlooked comedy gem).
I've never seen Eddie Coyle, sounds like Dog Day Afternoon gritty realism. I remember Rolling Thunder, been a long time.
Maybe the reason these movies never gained wide notoriety is because they were all “disguised as something “ other than a movie . . .
Add Monte Hellman’s “Two Lane Blacktop” to this list.
Very good, missing the scarecrow with gene hackman,the ninth configuration, sometimes a great notion,red sky at morning,....the old gun w/philippe noiret ..going places,w/depardieu
When Paul Newman uses a chainsaw to cut the guy's desk in half....I cheered!
The Scarecrow. Downer of a movie.
@@danmcn61 excellent! "now that ain't no new truck, but it's a down payment" he says after cutting.
@@philippebryndzia3646 huge fan of Scarecrow
With respect, I don't agree with your definition of hidden gems. Most of the movies on this list have never been hidden.
Alot of these films stir up my childhood with the 70's Network movie nights..NBC Saturday Night at the Movies, ABC Movie of the Week, and The CBS Friday Night Movies...Your picks remind me of Two I really enjoyed - Slither with James Kahn....and The Lady in the Car (with Glasses and a Gun.) I was a litte too young when I saw this on TV at my grandmothers farm (the adults had gone to sleep.)
I remember critics in the 70s panning Ryan O’Neal, calling his performances stiff and wooden. But I’ve always liked him on screen. 🎬
I dig your characterization of Alan Delon. Of course, he is missing from American consciousness. His five minutes in Hollywood were not enough to cement a place. Unless you lived in NYC, you had no chance of seeing a French movie. And that is tragedy after tragedy because there's a big catalogue of worth films to see. He stars in so many of them.
Barry Lyndon. Need to see that one again. I was too young to appreciate it. Plus, I saw it on a television, not in the theater. New televisions should do it more complete justice.
(Please stop using the "not a car, but sliver bullet from the future" set up. It's great once, but gets tedious when you use it every time.)
"Wanda" with Barbara Loden....is a fave
11:40 Kubrick famously wanted to capture the look of a world before the arrival of electric lighting, and I think this was also an ambition of Sven Nykvist when he photographed Ingmar Bergman's epic, bpisterous and hugely watchable family drama Fanny and Alexander (set in early 20th century Sweden) in 1982. F&A did use modern studio lighting, but often in a toned.down way: many scenes emphasize live candlelight or kerosene lamps, or the liquid outdoor light of Nordic summer: the feel of the picture clearly aims to show a world before modern lamps and modern media.
My ranking of these :
Barry Lyndon
The Heartbreak Kid
Paper Moon
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Straight Time
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Rolling Thunder
The Red Circle
The Last Detail
Charley Varrick
We can appreciate Jack Nicholson in “the last detail” without putting his other performances down can’t we? It’s just entirely not necessary.🐿️
Then Jaws and Star Wars and we still haven't recovered. Maybe never will.
No, we never will.
Great comment!💯
Spielberg ruined cinema ( has never made a movie I liked). Then Lucas ran a sword through its heart. I was going to make a similar comment you beat me to it
The cult of Star Wars used to make me somewhat sad. Then I stopped caring.
Cimino didn't help things running crazy with Heaven's Gate, bankrupting United Artists, that threw a wet blanket on things!