70's

[GaryCooper]

Movie portended what was coming for the American male. Divorce rates are sky-high and feminism has a strong footing in today's America.

G.C.

[CinemaInternational]

Films of the year 1970 ranked.

1. Darling Lili
2. The Landlord
3. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
4. Little Big Man
5. Donkey Skin
6. Lovers and Other Strangers
7. Puzzle of a Downfall Child
8. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
9. Patton
10. The Walking Stick
11. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
12. Sunflower
13. Ryan's Daughter
14. Catch-22
15. The Conformist
16. The Owl and the Pussycat
17. The Aristocats
18. The Railway Children
19. The Great White Hope
20. The Wild Child
21. The Only Game in Town
22. The Boys in the Band
23. I Never Sang for My Father
24. The Out-of-Towners
25. I Walk the Line
26. On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever
27. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
28. M*A*S*H
29. Five Easy Pieces
30. The Twelve Chairs
31. The Liberation of L.B. Jones
32. Something for Everyone
33. Brewster McCloud
34. Airport
35. Wanda
36. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
37. They Call Me Mr. Tibbs
38. Watermelon Man
39. The Phantom Tollbooth
40. The Adventurers
41. How Do I Love Thee?
42. The Cheyenne Social Club
43. Quackster Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
44. Diary of a Mad Housewife
45. The Angel Levine
46. Loving
47. Claire's Knee
48. Getting Straight
49. Rabbit, Run
50. The Grasshopper
51. Love Story
52. Alex in Wonderland
53. There's a Girl in My Soup
54. Take a Girl like You
55. Connecting Rooms
56. The Molly Maguires
57. The Wild Country
58. Leo the Last
59. Jenny
60. Bed and Board
61. Two Mules for Sister Sara
62. A Walk in the Spring Rain
63. Too Late the Hero
64. The Kremlin Letter
65. Start the Revolution Without Me
66. Hello-Goodbye
67. Scrooge
68. Tristana
69. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
70. Song of Norway
71. Myra Breckinridge
72. There Was a Crooked Man
73. Zabriskie Point

[LostHorizons]

Sad to see Myra so far down. It’s a rather faithful adaptation of the book for the most part.

[LawrenceA]

Sad to see Myra so far down. It’s a rather faithful adaptation of the book for the most part.

He has a lot of movies ranked low that I enjoyed quite a bit, like Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Tristana, and Start the Revolution Without Me. In fact, those first two would be in my top ten for the year.

[Swithin]

I'm pleased to see Donkey Skin high on the list, a film I enjoyed very much but have not seen for yonks. I Never Sang for My Father places fairly high as well, just below another favorite, The Boys in the Band.

I knew Robert Anderson, the playwright/screenwriter of I Never Sang for My Father. I learned a lot from him. Lovely man. The original Broadway cast of the play starred Hal Holbrook, Teresa Wright (Bob's wife at one time), and Lillian Gish. Bob of course also wrote Tea and Sympathy.

[CinemaInternational]

Sad to see Myra so far down. It’s a rather faithful adaptation of the book for the most part.

Myra could have been worse. I still loved Mae West in it, and I do feel the film is better than its reputation as one of the worst films ever made. It's middling, rather than outright bad. However, the final film on the list, Zabriskie Point was one that bored me senseless.

[HoldenIsHere]

Films of the year 1970 ranked.

16. The Owl and the Pussycat

Will we ever get a digital release (either DVD or streaming) of THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT with Streisand's f-bomb to the catcallers in the car intact???

[EP Millstone]

Will we ever get a digital release (either DVD or streaming) of THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT with Streisand's f-bomb to the catcallers in the car intact???

[HoldenIsHere]

Will we ever get a digital release (either DVD or streaming) of THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT with Streisand's f-bomb to the catcallers in the car intact???

Yes, that's the part I'm referring to. At the 2:10 point, someone has inserted the portion with the f-bomb that was included on the pan-and-scan VHS release.
My mother has that VHS version.

I'm not sure why it is missing from the widescreen DVD release as well as from the digital print that has aired on TCM.

[EP Millstone]

. . . How did you happen to see Puzzle of a Downfall Child and Something for Everyone, if you recall? I understand that they are not easy to find . . .

Puzzle of a Downfall Child and Something for Everyone are available on the Russian website OK. All presentations are in English.

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Merrigan Able Cinema

Sunflower Movies (Better quality!)

Something for Everyone

Juan Rodriguez (In English with Spanish subtitles)

Celia Valdelomar (In English with Spanish subtitles)

[LostHorizons]

Sad to see Myra so far down. It’s a rather faithful adaptation of the book for the most part.

Myra could have been worse. I still loved Mae West in it, and I do feel the film is better than its reputation as one of the worst films ever made. It's middling, rather than outright bad. However, the final film on the list, Zabriskie Point was one that bored me senseless.

Yeah, Antonioni is “amateur” as Bergman put it (see the discussion in the neorealism thread).

[CinemaInternational]

1971
1 Fiddler on the Roof
2 The Emigrants
3 Nicholas and Alexandra
4 Harold and Maude
5 The Night Digger
6 The Hired Hand
7 A New Leaf
8 The Touch
9 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
10 Tales of Beatrix Potter
11 Straw Dogs
12 Summer of '42
13 The Boy Friend
14 Sunday Bloody Sunday
15 The Last Valley
16 Play Misty for Me
17 The Grissom Gang
18 They Might be Giants
19 Wild Rovers
20 Klute
21 McCabe and Mrs. Miller
22 The Beguiled
23 The Trojan Women
24 Taking Off
25 Such Good Friends
26 Bedknobs and Broomsticks
27 Support Your Local Gunfighter
28 Brian's Song
29 Kotch
30 The French Connection
31 What's the Matter with Helen?
32 Going Home
33 Get Carter
34 The Anderson Tapes
35 The Hospital
36 Death in Venice
37 Carnal Knowledge
38 Made for Each Other
39 Flight of the Doves
40 The Panic in Needle Park
41 10 Rillington Place
42 The Last Picture Show
43 The Go-Between
44 X, Y, and Zee
45 Big Jake
46 Shaft
47 The Horsemen
48 Sometimes a Great Notion
49 Dollars
50 Gumshoe
51 Mary Queen of Scots
52 Mrs. Polifax Spy
53 Believe in Me
54 The Andromeda Strain
55 Bananas
56 A Safe Place
57 Plaza Suite
58 The Love Machine
59 Minnie and Moskowitz
60 A Clockwork Orange
61 THX 1138
62 Who is Harry Kellerman?
63 Diamonds are Forever
64 Bless the Beasts and Children

1972
1 The Godfather
2 What's Up, Doc?
3 Cabaret
4 1776
5 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
6 Avanti!
7 The New Land
8 Butterflies Are Free
9 The Heartbreak Kid
10 The King of Marvin Gardens
11 Sounder
12 Junior Bonner
13 Lady Sings the Blues
14 Chloe in the Afternoon
15 Jeremiah Johnson
16 Pete N Tillie
17 Travels with My Aunt
18 One is a Lonely Number
19 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
20 Images
21 Play It Again, Sam
22 The Public Eye
23 Ulzana's Raid
24 Cries and Whispers
25 J.W. Coop
26 The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid
27 The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
28 Brother Sun, Sister Moon
29 Play It As It Lays
30 Man of La Mancha
31 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
32 Kansas City Bomber
33 Snoopy Come Home
34 Up the Sandbox
35 Last Tango in Paris
36 The Poseidon Adventure
37 Young Winston
38 The War Between Men and Women
39 Fat City
40 Frenzy
41 Sleuth
42 Deliverance
43 The Candidate
44 Bad Company
45 Child's Play
46 The Hot Rock
47 Pocket Money
48 Skyjacked
49 Joe Kidd
50 The Pied Piper
51 Snowball Express
52 Every Little Crook and Nanny
53 The Carey Treatment
54 Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex

1973
1 Cinderella Liberty
2 Breezy
3 Paper Moon
4 Sleeper
5 Amarcord
6 Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
7 The Friends of Eddie Coyle
8 The Way We Were
9 Day for Night
10 The Three Musketeers
11 Charley Varrick
12 Oklahoma Crude
13 The Last of Sheila
14 Emperor of the North
15 Serpico
16 The Spirit of the Beehive
17 The Sting
18 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
19 Godspell
20 A Warm December
21 Badlands
22 Bang the Drum Slowly
23 Kid Blue
24 Harry in Your Pocket
25 Slither
26 The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
27 Papillon
28 The Exorcist
29 40 Carats
30 Tom Sawyer
31 Mean Streets
32 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
33 Lost Horizon
34 The Last Detail
35 Charlotte's Web
36 American Graffiti
37 Don't Look Now
38 Save the Tiger
39 The Hideaways
40 The Long Goodbye
41 Night Watch
42 Shamus
43 Soylent Green
44 The Day of the Jackal
45 The Paper Chase
46 Cleopatra Jones
47 Executive Action
48 Westworld
49 White Lightning
50 The Last American Hero
51 Steelyard Blues
52 High Plains Drifter
53 Robin Hood
54 Jonathan Livingston Seagull
55 The Mackintosh Man
56 A Touch of Class
57 Blume in Love
58 Live and Let Die
59 The Thief Who Came to Dinner

1974
1 Chinatown
2 Harry and Tonto
3 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
4 The Great Gatsby
5 That's Entertainment
6 Alice in the Cities
7 Young Frankenstein
8 Thieves Like Us
9 Murder on the Orient Express
10 The Tamarind Seed
11 The Taking of Pellham One Two Three
12 The Conversation
13 The Gambler
14 Claudine
15 Blazing Saddles
16 The Longest Yard
17 The Parallax View
18 The Odessa File
19 A Woman Under the Influence
20 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
21 Scenes from a Marriage
22 The Godfather Part II
23 Conrack
24 Lenny
25 For Pete's Sake
26 Daisy Miller
27 11 Harrowhouse
28 California Split
29 The Abdication
30 Mame
31 The Sugarland Express
32 The Little Prince
33 Phantom of the Paradise
34 The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
35 Where the Lilies Bloom
36 Thomasine and Bushrod
37 Zardoz
38 Zandy's Bride
39 The Towering Inferno
40 The Yakuza
41 Benji
42 Herbie Rides Again
43 Shanks
44 The Man with the Golden Gun
45 Airport 1975
46 The Girl from Petrovka

1975
1 The Day of the Locust
2 Nashville
3 Love and Death
4 At Long Last Love
5 The Man Who Would Be King
6 French Connection II
7 Dog Day Afternoon
8 The Magic Flute
9 The Sunshine Boys
10 Barry Lyndon
11 Hearts of the West
12 Farewell My Lovely
13 The Prisoner of Second Avenue
14 The Stepford Wives
15 The Story of Adele H
16 Crazy Mama
17 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
18 Jaws
19 Mirror
20 Picnic at Hanging Rock
21 Night Moves
22 Smile
23 The Passenger
24 Three Days of the Condor
25 Hester Street
26 Friday Foster
27 Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
28 The Wind and the Lion
29 The Return of the Pink Panther
30 Mahogany
31 The Great Waldo Pepper
32 The Other Side of the Mountain
33 The Drowning Pool
34 The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
35 Rosebud
36 Peeper
37 Cousin Cousine
38 The Fortune
39 Shampoo
40 The Hindenberg
41 Tommy
42 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
43 Jacqueline Susann's Once is Not Enough
44 Jeanne Dielman
45 Grey Gardens
46 Funny Lady
47 Lucky Lady

1976
1 Taxi Driver
2 Network
3 Face to Face
4 The Shootist
5 Family Plot
6 Obsession
7 Voyage of the Damned
8 Small Change
9 Rocky
10 Nickelodeon
11 Silent Movie
12 The Front
13 Bugsy Malone
14 A Matter of Time
15 Robin and Marian
16 That's Entertainment Part II
17 The Last Tycoon
18 Bound for Glory
19 A Star is Born
20 Mikey and Nicky
21 All the President's Men
22 Freaky Friday
23 The Bad News Bears
24 Logan's Run
25 King Kong
26 Buffalo Bill and the Indians
27 The Pink Panther Strikes Again
28 The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
29 Murder by Death
30 The Tenant
31 Carrie
32 The Seven Per-Cent Solution
33 Next Stop, Greenwich Village
34 Harlan County USA
35 Sparkle
36 News from Home
37 Silver Streak
38 Car Wash
39 Marathon Man
40 St. Ives
41 The Big Bus
42 The Shaggy D.A.

1977
1 A Special Day
2 Citizens Band
3 Julia
4 Star Wars
5 The Goodbye Girl
6 Roseland
7 A Little Night Music
8 3 Women
9 Black Sunday
10 Islands in the Stream
11 The Duellists
12 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
13 Opening Night
14 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
15 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
16 The Turning Point
17 Annie Hall
18 The Rescuers
19 The Late Show
20 Looking for Mr. Goodbar
21 High Anxiety
22 Candleshoe
23 The Spy Who Loved Me
24 Outlaw Blues
25 Oh, God!
26 Smokey and the Bandit
27 The Chess Players
28 MacArthur
29 Bobby Deerfield
30 ABBA: The Movie
31 New York New York
32 You Light Up My Life
33 Airport '77
34 Fun with Dick and Jane
35 Saturday Night Fever
36 Pete's Dragon
37 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

1978
1 Autumn Sonata
2 Fedora
3 Foul Play
4 An Unmarried Woman
5 Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
6 The Green Room
7 Death on the Nile
8 The Cheap Detective
9 Superman
10 Movie Movie
11 I Wanna Hold Your Hand
12 Days of Heaven
13 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
14 The Great Train Robbery
15 House Calls
16 Comes a Horseman
17 Remember My Name
18 Who'll Stop the Rain
19 Revenge of the Pink Panther
20 Same Time Next Year
21 International Velvet
22 Girlfriends
23 Coming Home
24 California Suite
25 The Deer Hunter
26 Interiors
27 Heaven Can Wait
28 Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
29 Eyes of Laura Mars
30 A Night Full of Rain
31 A Wedding
32 Gates of Heaven
33 Coma
34 Grease
35 The Wiz
36 National Lampoon's Animal House
37 The Buddy Holly Story
38 Goin' South
39 The Fury
40 Watership Down
41 The Cat from Outer Space
42 Midnight Express
43 The Swarm

1979
1 All That Jazz
2 Breaking Away
3 My Brilliant Career
4 Apocalypse Now
5 A Little Romance
6 10
7 Starting Over
8 Tess
9 Norma Rae
10 Time After Time
11 Yanks
12 Alien
13 Agatha
14 Manhattan
15 Last Embrace
16 Kramer Vs. Kramer
17 The Black Stallion
18 The Muppet Movie
19 Star Trek: The Motion Picture
20 The Electric Horseman
21 Chapter Two
22 A Perfect Couple
23 The Jerk
24 The Champ
25 The China Syndrome
26 Hair
27 The Lady Vanishes
28 Voices
29 The Seduction of Joe Tynan
30 The Human Factor
31 The Europeans
32 The North Avenue Irregulars
33 Being There
34 Rocky II
35 The Rose
36 Going in Style
37 Real Life
38 The In-Laws
39 Moonraker
40 The Main Event
41 The Great Santini
42 And Justice for All

[CinemaInternational]

Films of the year 1970 ranked.

1. Darling Lili
2. The Landlord
3. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
4. Little Big Man
5. Donkey Skin
6. Lovers and Other Strangers
7. Puzzle of a Downfall Child
8. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
9. Patton
10. The Walking Stick
11. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
12. Sunflower
13. Ryan's Daughter
14. Catch-22
15. The Conformist
16. The Owl and the Pussycat
17. The Aristocats
18. The Railway Children
19. The Great White Hope
20. The Wild Child
21. The Only Game in Town
22. The Boys in the Band
23. I Never Sang for My Father
24. The Out-of-Towners
25. I Walk the Line
26. On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever
27. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
28. M*A*S*H
29. Five Easy Pieces
30. The Twelve Chairs
31. The Liberation of L.B. Jones
32. Something for Everyone
33. Brewster McCloud
34. Airport
35. Wanda
36. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
37. They Call Me Mr. Tibbs
38. Watermelon Man
39. The Phantom Tollbooth
40. The Adventurers
41. How Do I Love Thee?
42. The Cheyenne Social Club
43. Quackster Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
44. Diary of a Mad Housewife
45. The Angel Levine
46. Loving
47. Claire's Knee
48. Getting Straight
49. Rabbit, Run
50. The Grasshopper
51. Love Story
52. Alex in Wonderland
53. There's a Girl in My Soup
54. Take a Girl like You
55. Connecting Rooms
56. The Molly Maguires
57. The Wild Country
58. Leo the Last
59. Jenny
60. Bed and Board
61. Two Mules for Sister Sara
62. A Walk in the Spring Rain
63. Too Late the Hero
64. The Kremlin Letter
65. Start the Revolution Without Me
66. Hello-Goodbye
67. Scrooge
68. Tristana
69. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
70. Song of Norway
71. Myra Breckinridge
72. There Was a Crooked Man
73. Zabriskie Point

How did you happen to see Puzzle of a Downfall Child and Something for Everyone, if you recall? I understand that they are not easy to find.

Little Big Man and Lovers and Other Strangers would also be high on my list. I've only seen 28 of these films, and I am not overly fond of The Landlord (by the numbers, for my taste, with Lee Grant making the most obvious acting choices) or The Ballad of Cable Hogue (not usually a Jason Robards fan) but I could say a kind word or two about The Kremlin Letter (great cinematography) or Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion or There Was a Crooked Man. As for Zabriskie Point, it is as purty to look at as it is brainless and dated. I'm always interested in your observations.

I saw both Puzzle of a Downfall Child and Something for Everyone on YouTube, one just this year, the other several years back. Both have received DVD releases, and I do now have a copy of the Dunaway film. The YouTube print of Something for Everyone was admittedly washed out, but it still preserved the fine performances of Angela Lansbury, Michael York, and Jane Carr.


The Kremlin Letter isn't a truly bad film (I have been working on ranking the 90s films for another thread and there are some truly ghastly films to the bottom of those lists that I despise), but it is an uncomfortable one, and I docked it a few positions for a particularly nasty rape/murder sequence late in the film. That said, it had a strong cast, and as usual, John Huston did a good job directing it. Investigation of a Citizen was just a little too repetitive for its own good, and There was a Crooked Man was a bad combination of being both bitter and painfully slow.