Movie reviews, movie articles, movie information from 1970 to 1979. Movie polls on movies, movie directors and movie actors from the 1970s.
Is it possible…at all…to arrive at a list of “fundamental” films to view? Movie Irv takes a stab at beginning to assemble such a cinematic catalog, starting with his five essential picks from the sensational 1970s.
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With the Criterion Collection putting their stamp on Robert Altman’s remarkable 1975 American mosaic, longtime Nashville celebrant Movie Irv considers the film’s impact and import, then and now.
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Is Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind a sci-fi masterpiece or an overlong and overrated mess that is beautiful to look at but emotionally hollow? Find out in this review of the film from guest blogger Kim Wilson.
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Boomer Mill: Warner has lately reached into the ‘60s and ‘70s for a crop of controversial, oddball, and—what’s the term?—groovy movies for your enjoyment. A Covenant with Death (1966) Having a Wild Weekend (1965) The Chapman Report (1962) The Cool Ones (1967)
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When Paddy Chayefsky wrote his Oscar-winning screenplay for Network (1976) it was supposed to be satirical. Lensed through the 1976 eye I’m sure audiences found an opinion-spouting news anchor and a network devoted to developing reality-based programming as absurd. To…
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Apocalypse Now has always been preceded by the legendary stories of its troubled production, one of those cursed film enterprises (The Exorcist is another) whose backstories are almost as entertaining as the final product itself : in this case, weathering…
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I grew up in a small central Illinois town with no movie theater. So, as a kid with five older siblings, going to the movies was a rare treat, as it was nearly impossible for my parents to logistically corral…
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