70s Movies

The films of the 1970s came in a wide variety, as the socially-conscious young directors that emerged in the late ’60s grew in different directions, influenced by music, literature, and the nature of crime and war. The decade is most notable for excelling in the crime-drama and horror genres. The sub-genres, Blaxploitation were also created and peaked along with Kung fu film in the seventies. The early part of the decade focused on increasingly realistic, gritty films, including Francis Ford Coppola’s first two Godfather pictures and Robert Altman’s black comedy MASH. A trend that lasted through the decade was the popularity of disaster films, starting with Airport in 1970. Another trend was the birth of the big-budget horror film, initiated by William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, which spawned numerous imitators. A pivotal moment in films was the 1975 release of Steven Spielberg’s first major hit, Jaws, widely regarded as the birth of the blockbuster motion picture (a trend sealed two years later with the release of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The end of the decade saw two epic <Vietnam War films, from directors Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and Coppola (Apocalypse Now). …read more at Wikipedia