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Favorite Movies of the 1960s and 1970s?


1960s
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
The Battle of Algiers
The Swimmer
Sult
A Child Is Waiting
Birdman of Alcatraz
An Autumn Afternoon
Ladybug, Ladybug
The Happy Ending
The Misfits
The Face of Another
The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner
Midnight Cowboy
The Sign of the Leo
The Professionals
Le Trou
Il Sorpasso
The Incident
Persona
Never On Sunday
David and Lisa
Hombre
Too Late Blues
The Face of Another
Dry Summer
High and Low
Too Late Blues
Woman In The Dunes
Two Women
The Collector
The Professionals
Hombre
Harakari
L'Eclisse
In Cold Blood
Peeping Tom
Contempt
Pitfall
Boy
The Hunt
Who Saw Him Die?
Raven's End
Kapo
Two Half-Times In Hell
The Prophet
The Doll
My Way Home
Carriage To Vienna
His Days Are Numbered
Cairo 30
The Leopard
Onibaba
Purple Noon
Eyes Without a Face
Lord of the Flies
One Eyed Jacks
Flight of the Phoenix
La Dolce Vita
Cool Hand Luke
Easy Rider
Yesterday's Girl
A Dance In The Rain
Romeo, Juliet a tma
Nahr el Hub
Spartacus
Lolita
The Best Man
To Kill a Mockingbird
La Notte
Belle de Jour
The Pumpkin Eater
Alfie
Rocco And His Brothers
Splendor In The Grass
Elmer Gantry
Ride The High Country
Knife In The Water
The Hill
Seven Days in May
Red Beard
Momma Roma
Lonely Are The Brave
Shame
The Fire Within
That Cold Day In The Park
A Patch of Blue
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Accatone
The Deadly Companions
Seance On a Wet Afternoon
The Little Soldier
Home From The Hill
A Gentle Woman
Something Wild
The Organizer
Fists In The Pocket
Sundays and Cybele
The Round-Up
The Red Angel
Pale Flower
All Fall Down
This Man Must Die
The End of the Summer
Sands of the Kalahari
The Shop On Main Street
The Splendor Thread
Late Autumn
The Visit
A Taste of Honey


1970s
Harry and Tonto
Nashville
A Woman Under the Influence
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Network
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part 2
Mikey and Nicky
Fat City
A Clockwork Orange
Harold and Maude
Last Tango In Paris
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Sunflower
The Conversation
Annie Hall
Stroczek
Alice in the Cities
The Deer Hunter
Chinatown
The Last Detail
Rocky
Dog Day Afternoon
Series Noire
The Ear
Zandy's Bride
Slap The Monster On Page One
Hope
Taxi Driver
Five Easy Pieces
Chit-Chat On The Nile
A Special Day
The Working-Class Goes To Heaven
Autumn Sonata
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Fifth Seal
Wise Blood
Minnie and Moskowitz
An Enemy of the People
One is a Lonely Number
Barry Lyndon
Hothead
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Johnny Got His Gun
Blume In Love
The New Centurions
Le Chat
Adoption
I Only Want You To Love Me
Lies My Father Told Me
Mother Kuesters Goes To Heaven
The Punishment
Nuts In May
Payday
Papillon
The Yellow Handkerchief
Whity
Horse
The Beguiled
Death In Venice
The Red Circle
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Scarecrow
Turkish Delight
The Emigrants
Scenes From a Marriage
Made For Each Other
Opening Night
Joe
Mr Klein
The Outfit
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
My Brilliant Career
The Day of the Jackal
Equus
The Ascent
Love In The Afternoon
Dirty Harry
The Long Goodbye
The Getaway
And Justice For All
Straw Dogs
Hardcore
Ode To Billy Joe
Two Men In Town
Sounder
Camera Buff
I For Icarus
The Visitors
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Paper Moon
The Way We Were
10 Rillington Place
The Castle of Purity
Midnight Express
Breezy
Kramer vs. Kramer
Love Story

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Off the top of my head, and these are all from the 1970s:

Duel
Harold and Maude
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Omen
Carrie
The Poseidon Adventure

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Mighty wide brush you're painting with, friend... Best I can do is a handful of my 9/10s from each with fewer than 50K IMDb votes...

Red Beard (1965) - possibly my favorite Kurosawa
A Man for All Seasons (1966) - I am neither a history buff nor particularly religious, but this film enthralls me every time
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
I Am Cuba (1964)
Adauchi [Revenge] (1964) - a chanbara that should be more widely known

Nashville (1975)
The China Syndrome (1979)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
The Black Stallion (1979)

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Red Beard is also one of my favorite Kurosawa movies.. It's too bad of the falling out between Mifune and Kurosawa (over the beard!)

I liked "I Am Cuba" but the shaky cam made me a bit dizzy.

I looked up a movie I didn't see, and noticed "Adauchi" was on my watch-list. I'll definitely expedite this. Thanks!

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Mifune apparently possessed a "strong personality;" there is a great story about him and John Boorman during the filming about Hell in the Pacific that you've likely heard, as it's on the commentary. Happy to tell it if you' haven't.

I can relate, as one particular video game gave me literal motion sickness, but I'm sure everyone's equilibrium and camera motion tolerances are relatively individual.

And many of yours are on my watchlist as well. Reminds me I need to give I... for Icarus another shot, and have put off Knife in the Water for years as I am still waiting for apparently improved subtitles. Anyway, glad to expose a rare gem from a genre I'm fond of, though hardly a connoisseur. Adauchi compares with standouts of the genre, and it's crazy how unknown it it is.

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I've seen the movie, but never the commentary - I'd love to hear the story!

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Years before I semi-recently listened to the commentary track, this was told to me in person by film critic Joe Morgenstern, told to him in person by John Boorman himself. Mifune and Boorman butted heads constantly during the difficult filming that took place on a remote Micronesian island between the Philippines and Guam, where *everything* had to be shipped or flown in from, assuming except the crucial camera package(s) all the way from L.A.. Screaming matches and refusals to work together for costly hours were not uncommon.

These factors combined with other things that make production a frequently challenging department to work in put the film far behind schedule and over budget. After a few status reports, the studio head sent a couple executives all the way there to fire Boorman and arrange for a another director to take over. Since it was a small island and word travelled fast, Mifune heard of the goings on and much to Boorman's surprise told the execs that if Boorman went, he'd go too. So Boorman finished the film thanks to Mifune. :D

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Ha. That story is very Hollywood! It's just like "Hell In The Pacific" - joining together to defeat the enemy

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1960s
Planet of the Apes
1970s
Star Wars
The Count of Monte Cristo ( Richard Chamberlain)

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Way too many to list, so I'll list one from each decade.

Seconds from 1966 and Every Which Way But Loose from 1978.

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I’ll just do the 70s
The Onion Field
Escape From Alcatraz
Alien
Saturday Night Fever
Dirty Harry
The French Connection
The Sting
Dog Day Afternoon
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Day of The Jackal
Jaws
Halloween
Taxi Driver
Network
Three Days of the Condor
Pat Garret and Billy the Kid
The 3 Musketeers
The Parallax View
The Long Goodbye
Deliverance


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Some of my favorites:
1960s
The Sound of Music 1965
The Birds 1963
Hello Dolly 1969
Barefoot in the Park 1967
West Side Story 1961
Splendor in the Grass 1961
Ocean’s Eleven 1960
Hellfighters 1968
Yours, Mine and Ours 1968
The Misfits 1961

1970s
American Graffiti 1973
Play Misty for Me 1971
Duel 1971
The Goodbye Girl 1977
Kotch 1971
Grease 1978
The Out of Towners 1970
Airport 1970
The Poseidon Adventure 1972
Kramer vs Kramer 1979
Earthquake 1974

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‘Hippies are not Welcome to Mooseport’ (1968).


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Star Wars
Romeo and Juliet
Death on the Nile
The Graduate



There’s some foreign movies by people like Fellini, Kurosawa I also like but I am not sure of their date. I also like Kubrick.

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