A portrait of a coal mining community in 1970s Kentucky, where the company is king but the locals risk life and limb to unionize, as did the filmmakers to tell their story.
Category Archives: 1970s Movies
PLAY MISTY FOR ME (1971)
Those who know Jessica Walter’s work on “Arrested Development” may be interested in her early performance as a crazy stalker terrorizing Clint Eastwood’s handsome jazz DJ.
CABARET (1972)
A “musical for people who don’t like musicals,” set in 1930s Germany right before everything goes haywire.
THE ASCENT (1977)
An extremely depressing Soviet World War II movie that is also probably a great work of art.
RYAN’S DAUGHTER (1970)
Lots of beautiful Irish locations can’t save a movie that is incredibly long for the amount of story it has and includes a series of truly awful performances.
M*A*S*H (1970)
A war movie for the anti-war crowd, and a comedy that inadvertently launched the biggest TV series of all time.
TAXI DRIVER (1976)
Scorsese’s portrait of the classic lone wolf white male remains highly acclaimed, but I wonder if it hasn’t done more harm than good.
AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES (1972)
A descent into madness with conquistadors searching fruitlessly for El Dorado, that Werner Herzog dragged a full movie crew down the Amazon to shoot.
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)
Cloris Leachman won an Oscar for her performance in this drama about teenagers in what Roger Ebert called “a town that should not exist.”
SOUNDER (1972)
The great actress Cicely Tyson received her only Oscar nomination for her role in this family drama about 1930s Black sharecroppers, and also their dog.
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