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Top 10 films of the 1970s?

Aug 16, 2006 by Evil Atheist Cannibal | Posted in Movies

Mine are:

1. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) – Wernor Herzog
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) – Luis Bunuel
3. Fear Eats the Soul (1974) – R.W. Fassbinder
4. The Godfather (1972) – Francis Ford

1. Days of Heaven (78)
2. The Godfather(s) (72-)
3. Taxi Driver (76)
4. Clockwork Orange (71)
5. Annie Hall (77)
6. 5 Easy Pieces (70)
7. Jaws (75)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (75)
9.

charmingchatty | Aug 16, 2006

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) - Official Trailer

If you never seen a Luis Buñuel film, then you must start with this one. A charmful grotesque OSCAR WINNER comedy, produced with the finest ...

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: I Shit On Your Entire Army

A memorable scene from Luis Buñuel's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), featuring what is certainly the greatest open-handed slap in ...

Criterion Files #117: 'Diary of a Chambermaid' and the History of Buñuel

01.01.70

. The hour-long film is a more involved and thorough critique of bourgeois culture and religious symbology (and a superior film in this author’s opinion). During a screening held on December 3, 1930, the anti-Semitic and pseudo-fascist organization The League of Patriots organized an in-house protest of the film, complete – in perhaps the dumbest and most futile attempt at “destroying” a film on historical record – with throwing black ink at the screen onto which the film was projected. The moment that motivated their ire was the juxtaposition of a Catholic monstrance next to a woman’s bare legs as she is let out of a town car for a social soiree. The joint critique of class and religious institution is abundantly clear. If only the rioters had stuck around long enough to see Jesus Christ portray the Marquis de Sade in the film’s last act.

The 1930 riot predicted a rise in far-right politics that would lead to the Catholic Church’s complicity in (through

Source: Film School Rejects

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 - Bookshelf


Luis Buñuel's The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
225 pages 		Luis Buñuel's The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie

Creator: Marsha Kinder | Performing Arts - 1999
Nowhere was this "discreet charm of the postmodern" so pronounced as in Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972). ...
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Diversions of pleasure, Luis Buñuel and the crises of desire
172 pages 		Diversions of pleasure, Luis Buñuel and the crises of desire

Creator: Paul Sandro | Performing Arts - 1987
... and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie J^lthough ten years separate The Exterminating Angel (1962) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), ...

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 - News


Word and image: my top 10 books on film
The Guardian - Dec 31, 1969
Word and image: my top 10 books on film There is mischief everywhere from this staid man with a wild mind, who understood the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie from the inside. The Wizard of Oz by Salman Rushdie (1992) This is among Rushdie's best works of non-fiction.

Was 1939 the greatest year ever for movies?
Irish Times (blog) - Dec 31, 1969
There are other contenders, of course. We could make a very good case for 1972. The Godfather, Deliverance, Cabaret, Aguirre: Wrath of God, Solaris, Cries and Whispers, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: what do you make of them lovely apples?

A Charismatic Chameleon: On Luis Buñuel
The Nation. - Dec 31, 1969
Anticipating the premise of mature Buñuel films like The Exterminating Angel (1962) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), the rest of the movie concerns the couple's attempts to get back together; it ends, after numerous,