Thanks for coming out!

We had a blast watching Network! If the movie's peaked your interest about 1970s films, I'd recommend renting the following movies, that address the mores and concerns of the time, and capture the era's "look & feel".

Nashville with a cast of dozens
Foxes (1980 but very 70s) with Jodie Foster
The Conversation with Gene Hackman (more here)
Klute with Jane Fonda (and one the great haircuts on film)
The Parallax View with Warren Beaty
Pretty much any "disaster" movie
Taxi Driver with DeNiro
Five Easy Pieces with Jack Nicholson
Little Murders with Eliot Gould
Manhattan with Woody Allen (which manages to sum up the entire decade in one chunk of dialogue:

My first wife was a kindergarten teacher, you know. She got into drugs and she... moved to San Francisco. Went into est, became a Moonie. She's with the William Morris Agency now.

An Unmarried Woman with Jill Clayburgh
Carnal Knowledge with Jack Nicholson
Dirty Harry with Clint Eastwood (see also Death Wish and Serpico.
Straw Dogs and Dog Day Afternoon come to mind.
Pick one of many blaxploitation films.
Here's a handy "film history of the 70s" overview.

Don't forget to visit The Weird World of 70s Cinema at Pimpadelic Wonderland. The 70s Movies Rewind is fun, too.

Another list.

Essay about 70s exploitation. Plus: The story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures.


The Last House on the Left is a quintessentially 70s movie. It is also almost unwatchably gory and violent, so...

A good movie about life in the 1970s is Ang Lee's The Ice Storm (1997).

Mediocre films that nevertheless have a valuable "time capsule" quality include:
Death Race 2000
Americathon
Gassssss
Phantom of the Paradise
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Billy Jack
Little Big Man
Patty Hearst (1988)
Fun with Dick & Jane (1977)

Two movies about 70s cinema: Decade Under the Influence and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

Can anyone name a good documentary? I love Grey Gardens but it has nothing to do with anything...