I Want You To Hold It Between Your Knees.
I don't know why I took a good line from one of the last movies on the list to title this blog post. Scroll to the end of the post if you don't know where the line is from.
Through IMDb, I found this list of the best 100 films of the 1970s. I've long been an admirer of films from the 1970s, if only because a lot of these films took time to develop character and plot and weren't constrained the same way films are now. There's very much a tell the story, get in, get out thing going on with most movies these days. They don't take the time to develop anything outside of a linear story, and I think they suffer for it. In fact, it's one of the essays that I wanted to write for our forthcoming book. I believe that movies from this era (I call them "1970s auteur films") are wildly overlooked in the discussion of the greatest films of all-time, excepting the Godfather and the Godfather, Part II, which get tons and tons of recognition (rightly so).
For the record, this list doesn't include Rocky, which seems like a pretty serious omission to me. But it does include several films that I'd never even heard of (pretty much the whole first page) and several others that I've heard of but never seen. It includes 4 Woody Allen films (all of which I could probably recite from memory, most notably Manhattan, which is my favorite Woody film) and it includes the Robert Altman film Nashville, which is a great film.
I'll probably take time over the next couple of month to watch them. Check the list and leave a comment about any movie that you've seen and have some thoughts on. I'd be interested to hear some feedback about these films.
By the way, the quote is from Five Easy Pieces, right before Jack Nicholson swipes all the stuff off of the table.
Through IMDb, I found this list of the best 100 films of the 1970s. I've long been an admirer of films from the 1970s, if only because a lot of these films took time to develop character and plot and weren't constrained the same way films are now. There's very much a tell the story, get in, get out thing going on with most movies these days. They don't take the time to develop anything outside of a linear story, and I think they suffer for it. In fact, it's one of the essays that I wanted to write for our forthcoming book. I believe that movies from this era (I call them "1970s auteur films") are wildly overlooked in the discussion of the greatest films of all-time, excepting the Godfather and the Godfather, Part II, which get tons and tons of recognition (rightly so).
For the record, this list doesn't include Rocky, which seems like a pretty serious omission to me. But it does include several films that I'd never even heard of (pretty much the whole first page) and several others that I've heard of but never seen. It includes 4 Woody Allen films (all of which I could probably recite from memory, most notably Manhattan, which is my favorite Woody film) and it includes the Robert Altman film Nashville, which is a great film.
I'll probably take time over the next couple of month to watch them. Check the list and leave a comment about any movie that you've seen and have some thoughts on. I'd be interested to hear some feedback about these films.
By the way, the quote is from Five Easy Pieces, right before Jack Nicholson swipes all the stuff off of the table.
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