What brought on this fascination with the 70s? Because my formative years between 15 to 25 were spent in that decade? Because I will be turning 70 this year and that is around the time when a DNA segment mutates causing you to be nostalgic for those formative years? So, I guess, life?
Last Sunday I mentioned watching something called The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Today I watched the nineth episode in that series and it just fed the ‘stuck in the seventies’ rut, its title, “American Cinema of the 70s.”
A few years ago, probably COVID time, I decided that I would get rid of all my physical media, I ripped all 500 of my CDs to MP3s and most all my DVDs to MKVs. I only did the DVDs that I’d probably watch again and ended up with 158. Of that total, there were 12 movies from the 70s and 3 of those got coverage in that episode of The Story of Film. Here is my list of 12 with their release dates and I italicized those three:
M*A*S*H – March 18, 1970
Woodstock – March 26, 1970
The Andromeda Strain – March 12, 1971
Le Mans – June 23, 1971
American Graffiti – August 11, 1973
Jesus Christ Superstar – August 15, 1973
Chinatown – June 20, 1974
Jaws – June 20, 1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – November 19, 1975
Star Wars – May 25, 1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind – November 25, 1977
Alien – May 25, 1979