The
1970s is by and far my favorite decade in cinema. I love more movies from the ‘60s but the incredible evolution of genre and
style the next decade heralded, in particularly for the waning Hollywood
market, cements it for me as the greatest set of 10 years the medium has ever
endured.
One of its most admirable
traits is definition: You can’t always place flicks from other decades. The
lines blur and you wonder if you’re watching something from the 50s, 40s, maybe
even 30s. On the contemporary end I couldn’t tell you if something that came
out a week ago was actually from 2006. But when you watch a 70s movie… you know
you’re watching a 70s movie. It’s as simple as that.
