What are your favourite films of 1972?
- Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Cries & Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
- Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
- Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
- Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Deliverance (John Boorman)
1973 top ten
bratface 的回复
于 2017 年 12 月 18 日 4:12下午
No particular order (except for the first one):
The Godfather
Cries and Whispers
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Play It Again, Sam
Honorable mentions:
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Super Fly
JustinJackFlash 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 2:22下午
A special mention must go out to a film called The Thing With Two Heads. Although it may be misleading that it hasn't placed in my top ten, it is actually the greatest film ever made, ever!
bratface 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 2:34下午
The one with Rosey Grier? I guess we all have our 'guilty pleasures'.
JustinJackFlash 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 2:53下午
Whoah! I never thought anyone would actually have heard of that yet you know the star.
Well, yeah. I didn't actually include it in my top ten because I didn't think it would be fair to The Godfather. It shouldn't have to fight off such steep competition :p
bratface 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 3:04下午
It helps that I'm as old as dirt. I bet you didn't know that he was a singer & was also known for his hobby that was normally considered a 'woman's' hobby. He also was working as a bodyguard the night of Bobby Kennedy's assassination in 1968 (he was guarding Ethel Kennedy) & helped subdue Sirhan.
https://www.crochetconcupiscence.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rosey-grier.jpg
JustinJackFlash 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 4:06下午
No idea. I'd never even heard of him. I thought I had encyclopedic film knowledge but you've certainly put me to shame.
I assumed it was an obscure film even in 1972.
Well, he can even make sewing look badass.
bratface 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 5:28下午
Well like I said, I'm as old as dirt. Can I take a guess here & say you were born in the 90's? Or maybe the late 80's?
JustinJackFlash 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 6:50下午
Early 80's. But I like your guess better.
rudely_murray 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 9:16下午
I haven't seen The Thing with Two Heads but following this discussion it has been added to my 1972 watchlist... I hope I am not disappointed!
1972 is the year of my birth and yet I have seen fewer films, I believe, than from any other year of the 1970s. This needs to be rectified.
JustinJackFlash 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 9:43下午
There is a small percentage chance that I wasn't being completely serious.
Yeah, same here. Apart from being born in 72 that is. I struggled with this year. There didn't seem to be much out. I'll be honest I didn't like Last Tango in Paris but I had to put it in to make up the numbers.
bratface 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 9:44下午
In my opinion the 70's weren't exactly a stellar decade for film. Except for The Godfather (I & II), Serpico, and a couple of others it was pretty dismal.
rudely_murray 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 10:01下午
Oh, I have a large number of favourites from the 1970s, some of which I have only discovered in the past few years. I feel that filmmakers aimed high back then. I do feel one has to cut through a lot of dreck to find the gems, however.
I posted my top fifty of the 70s here a few months back and I could easily make another list of fifty which I love almost as much. Maybe in the future I shall also compile a worst of the decade list...
JustinJackFlash 的回复
于 2018 年 01 月 02 日 11:25下午
Oh, I have a lot of respect for the 70's. The American New Wave. It has to be the most progressive decade for cinema. I know the 60's started off the whole 'breaking the rules' schtick. But the 70's took things darker and bolder. They had more to say. They took that new 60's rebellious cinematic form and grounded and honed it into something with more voice.
FrankSmith 的回复
于 2018 年 02 月 18 日 8:08上午