70s

I was just 10 when the 70s started, and 19 by the time it was all over. There are some memories there, believe me, as I progressed from girl to woman. Hot pants, maxi skirts, space hoppers, chopper bikes, clackers (break your knuckles, darned things), first boyfriend, first hangover, glam rock, disco, first baby, first marriage and first horror film. The 70s were, as far as I’m concerned, the greatest era of them all. I used to like going to the pictures with my mates. Like most kids, we used to be selective with regards to our ages. If it was a kids/youth film, we were under 18 and paid for a child’s ticket. If it was an adult film, we were over 18 ...

It's often been debated just what is the best decade or time period for films anway? What criteria do we use? The late 30's and 40's are called the Golden Age. The late 40's and 50's saw the Neo-Realists strongly influence filmmakers, the late 50's brought us the French New Wave and the American cinema at the end of the 60's and through much of the 70's is often called the Platinum Age. The 1970's was one of the most exciting periods of time in Cinema, particularly American cinema. Yes, it was more exciting then the French New Wave, or the Italian Neo Realism periods because there was so much variety, experimentation, ...

I think most of the best American films (with a few exceptions like 'Bonnie and Clyde') were made in the Seventies. Blame Nixon, blame Vietnam, blame the movie brats like Scorsese and De Palma, but this was a time when Hollywood got all adult and intelligent. Shame it didn't last... IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER 1) Taxi Driver Bernard Herrman's jazzy, sleazy score, a superbly acute and witty script by Paul Schrader, grand, operative direction from Scorsese and the electricity of Robert De Niro pretty much in his prime: this is cinema. With New York as an annex of Hell, Travis Bickle as an insane avenging angel, and the world collapsing in ...