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Top ten films of 1972
posted by rudely_murraySTAFFMOD on December 18, 2017 at 12:40 AM
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)
Reply by bratface
on December 18, 2017 at 4:12 PM
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
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on January 2, 2018 at 2:22 PM
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!
Reply by bratface
on January 2, 2018 at 2:34 PM
The one with Rosey Grier? I guess we all have our 'guilty pleasures'.
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on January 2, 2018 at 2:53 PM
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
Reply by bratface
on January 2, 2018 at 3:04 PM
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
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on January 2, 2018 at 4:06 PM
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.
Reply by bratface
on January 2, 2018 at 5:28 PM
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?
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on January 2, 2018 at 6:50 PM
Early 80's. But I like your guess better.
Reply by rudely_murray
on January 2, 2018 at 9:16 PM
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.
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on January 2, 2018 at 9:43 PM
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.
Reply by bratface
on January 2, 2018 at 9:44 PM
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.
Reply by rudely_murray
on January 2, 2018 at 10:01 PM
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...
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on January 2, 2018 at 11:25 PM
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.
Reply by FrankSmith
on February 18, 2018 at 8:08 AM