Your Five Favorite U.S. Movies from the 1970s

Gerald So is interviewing writers from DISCOUNT NOIR over on Chatterific.


My Five Favorites (today) because truthfully I could have chosen fifty easily.

Patti Abbott
The Godfather, Chinatown, The Last Picture Show, Klute, Annie Hall

David Cranmer, THE GODFATHER, THE GODFATHER PART II, CHINATOWN, THE GETAWAY, THE CONVERSATION

Steve Oerkfitz, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, The French Connection,The Last Picture Show

Margot Kinberg, The Godfather, The Last Picture Show, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Charles Gramlich, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Wars, Revenge of the Jedi, Taxi Driver, Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Jeff Meyerson, THE GODFATHER, THE GODFATHER Part II, ANNIE HALL, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, CHINATOWN (though I almost went with CABARET)

Deb, Animal House, Annie Hall, Blazing Saddles, Chinatown, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

MP, The Godfather, Chinatown, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Don't Look Now, Halloween

Phil Abbott, Mean Streets, The Godfather, Annie Hall, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Conversation

R.Narvaez Superman, The Conversation, Jaws, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Alien

Jared, A Clockwork Orange, The Godfather, All the President's Men, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Apocalypse Now

Chad Eagleton, -Star Wars, Superman, Enter The Dragon, Rolling Thunder, The Outlaw Josey Wales

James Reasoner, The Last Picture Show, Chinatown, American Graffiti, Blazing Saddles, Star Wars

Dorte "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" (Dorte put all her eggs in one nest)

Dan Fleming, Godfather I and II, Chinatown, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver. Star Wars

Randy Johnson, TAXI DRIVER, THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, JAWS, THE GODFATHER

Paul D. Brazill, Paper Moon, The Godfather, Eraserhead, Mean Steets, Prime Cut

Anne R. Allen, NETWORK, ANNIE HALL, BLAZING SADDLES, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, THE STING

John D. STAR WARS, JAWS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER. ENTER THE DRAGON

George Kelley, CHINATOWN, ANNIE HALL, STAR WARS, TAXI DRIVER, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

Naomi Johnson, THE STING.YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, AMERICAN GRAFFITI,THE CHEAP DETECTIVE, BREAKING AWAY

Xavier, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, DAYS OF HEAVEN, JAWS, PATTON
SCARECROW

Michael, Who's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? Young Frankenstein, Sleeper, The Sting
The Wicker Man

Dan Luft, Nashville , Alice's Restaurant, Dog Day Afternoon, Chinatown, Paper Moon

E. Anders: THE LONG GOODBYE. THE CONVERSATION, CHINATOWN, ALIEN AMERICAN GRAFFITI

Lois Karlin: Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Wars, Annie Hall, The Sting"

Todd Mason, THE CONVERSATION, THE CANDIDATE, BADLANDS, THE LAST WALTZ
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

Cullen Gallagher, The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May), Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May), Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes), Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett), and What's Up Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich).