1970s

A Look Back at Our AotYs and MotYs: 1963-2012

by Greg W. Locke January 2, 2013

To follow up the big year-end bash we had a couple of weeks ago, we have compiled a list of our Albums of the Year and Movies of the Year for the past 50 years, making for a list of 100 essential works we hope you’ve seen/heard. And, if you haven’t seen/heard them all, we, [...]

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ZeCat’s Top 20 Favorite Films of All-Time

by Greg W. Locke December 31, 2011

About a week ago I did a little write-up about the Top 5+ albums of my lifetime. It was a tough list to commit to, but now I feel the need to do a similar film list. But, instead of five, I’ll be doing my Favorite 20 Films Ever. In order, top to bottom, printable [...]

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Our 100 Favorite Films of the Last 40 Years

by Greg W. Locke May 7, 2011

1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) 2. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) 3. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick) 4. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) 5. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) 6. The Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola) 7. Rushmore (Wes Anderson) 8. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nic Roeg) 9. Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson) 10. [...]

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Best Films of the 1970s

by Greg W. Locke December 6, 2008

1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) 2. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick) 3. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nic Roeg) 4. The Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola) 5. Badlands (Terrence Malick) 6. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola) 7. Nashville (Robert Altman) 8. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick) 9. Manhattan (Woody Allen) 10. The Godfather (Francis Ford [...]

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Film :: 1979

by Greg W. Locke April 6, 2007

1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola) 2. Alien (Ridley Scott) 3. Manhattan (Woody Allen) 4. Being There (Hal Ashby) 5. Breaking Away (Peter Yates) 6. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton) 7. Rocky II (Slyvester Stallone) 8. Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel) 9. The Muppet Movie (James Frawley) 10. The Electric Horseman (Syndey Pollack) 11. The [...]

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Film :: 1978

by Greg W. Locke March 6, 2007

1. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick) 2. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino) 3. Coming Home (Hal Ashby) 4. Midnight Express (Alan Parker) 5. Stroszek (Werner Herzog) 6. Grease (Randal Kleiser) 7. Interiors (Woody Allen) 8. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese) 9. Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty) 10. Up In Smoke (Tommy Chong and Lou Adler) [...]

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Film :: 1977

by Greg W. Locke February 6, 2007

1. Annie Hall (Woody Hall) 2. Suspiria (Dario Argento) 3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg) 4. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett) 5. Stroszek (Werner Herzog) 6. The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven) 7. Equus (Sidney Lumet) 8. Opening Night (John Cassavetes) 9. The American Friend (Wim Wenders) 10. The Last Wave (Peter [...]

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Film :: 1976

by Greg W. Locke January 6, 2007

1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) 2. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nic Roeg) 3. Network (Sidney Lumet) 4. Eraserhead (David Lynch) 5. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes) 6. Rocky (John G. Avildsen 7. The Tenant (Roman Polanski) 8. 1900 (Berbardo Betrolucci) 9. Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby) 10. Small Change (Francois [...]

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Film :: 1975

by Greg W. Locke December 6, 2006

1. Nashville (Robert Altman) 2. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick) 3. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa) 4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman) 5. Jaws (Steven Spielberg) 6. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet) 7. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni) 8. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir) 9. Love and Death (Woody Allen) 10. The Magic Flute [...]

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Film :: 1974

by Greg W. Locke November 6, 2006

1. The Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola) 2. Chinatown (Roman Polanski) 3. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes) 4. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola) 5. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks) 6. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese) 7. F For Fake (Orson Welles) 8. Lenny (Bob Fosse) 9. Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman) 10. [...]

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