Movies Best Director of the 70s

[The Good The Bad The HBK]

Coppola

The Godfather Epic
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now


Lumet

Serpico
Dog Day Afternoon
Network


Scorsese

Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
The Last Waltz


Spielberg

Duel
Jaws
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

Friedkin

The French Connection
The Exorcist
Sorcerer

Carpenter

Dark Star
Assault on Precent 13
Halloween


Lucas

THX 1138
American Graffiti
Star Wars

Brooks

Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Silent Movie


De Palma

Carrie
Phantom of the Paradise
Obsession


Tarkovsky

Solaris
Mirror
Stalker

Siegel

Dirty Harry
The Shootist
Escape From Alcatraz

Altman

M*A*S*H
McCabe & Mrs Miller
The Long Goodbye

Allen

Annie Hall
Manhattan
Love & Death


Polanski

Macbeth
Chinatown
The Tenant

Peckinpah​

Cross of Iron
The Getaway
Straw Dogs

 

[BisexualMMA]

He's a piece of shit but I have to go with Francis Ford Coppola.

 

[The Good The Bad The HBK]

He's a piece of shit but I have to go with Francis Ford Coppola.

Lol

 

[HenryFlower]

Tarkovsky then Kubrick then Altman then Cassavetes then Herzog then Jodorowsky then Coppola

 

[Nathan LaMontagne]

I'll rake Kubrick.

Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange. . I mean really.

Quality over quantity

 

[Sweater of AV]

It's not really close.

 

[The Good The Bad The HBK]

I'll rake Kubrick.

Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange. . I mean really.

Quality over quantity

I was doing a 3 film minimum which is why I left him off.

 

[Nathan LaMontagne]

I was doing a 3 film minimum which is why I left him off.

Yeah that's completely fair.

Though he did start filming the shining in 79 I believe.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I haven't seen any tarkovsky films yet but I think I'm going to go with Mel Brooks.

It's not a pretentious choice, but if you look at the goal of a comedy film, it's different than the goal of a dramatic film. And I would argue that Brooks succeeded in his goal MORE than Coppola or anyone else succeeded in theirs.

Plus look at the variety. 1 film in color, 1 film in black and white, and a SILENT film? Are you kidding me? The fact that he was effective in all 3 really shows his skill. And to this day they're still 3 of the best comedies ever made.

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Sam Peckinpah?

Of those listed:
Siegel
Coppola
Lumet

 

[StopDucking]

I'll rake Kubrick.

Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange. . I mean really.

Quality over quantity

- Godfather 1 > Barry Lyndon (another top 10 of mine)
- Godfather 2 > Clockwork Orange
- Apocalypse Now >>> 404 not found

Verdict: not even close.

 

[HenryFlower]

I was doing a 3 film minimum which is why I left him off.

yeah, but, like, A Clockwork Orange & Barry fucking Lyndon are worth more than most filmographies. add in their being sandwiched between 2fucking001: A mutha fuckin’ Space Odyssey (1968) & The Shining (1980)?

 

[HenryFlower]

- Godfather 1 > Barry Lyndon (another top 10 of mine)
- Godfather 2 > Clockwork Orange
- Apocalypse Now >>> 404 not found

Verdict: not even close.

put down the edibles bruh, you’re speaking gobbledygook

 

[The Good The Bad The HBK]

Sam Peckinpah?

Of those listed:
Siegel
Coppola
Lumet

Added him for you.

 

[The Good The Bad The HBK]

yeah, but, like, A Clockwork Orange & Barry fucking Lyndon are worth more than most filmographies. add in their being sandwiched between 2fucking001: A mutha fuckin’ Space Odyssey (1968) & The Shining (1980)?

I mean that's nice and all but that doesn't qualify for the decade of the 70s.

Also FMJ is Kubrick's best work.

 

[HenryFlower]

I mean that's nice and all but that doesn't qualify for the decade of the 70s.

Also FMJ is Kubrick's best work.

if it wasn’t for Tarkovsky over there in Russia literally risking his life for the sake of artistic cinema, Barry Lyndon & A Clockwork Orange would be lording over the rest.

 

[StopDucking]

yeah, but, like, A Clockwork Orange & Barry fucking Lyndon are worth more than most filmographies. add in their being sandwiched between 2fucking001: A mutha fuckin’ Space Odyssey (1968) & The Shining (1980)?

Are you retarded and illiterate?

 

[HenryFlower]

Are you retarded and illiterate?

please elaborate

 

[Takes_Two_To_Tango]

Coppola.

 

[ssBaldy]

Coppola by KO.
Also I only seen Manhattan out of Allen's films and found it to be painfully bad, are the other 2 like it?