Sure, you know the drill now. During the declining weeks in August, just like the last days of the summer blockbuster season starts to make room for the promise of the autumn festivals, we offer here at IndieWire a little Throwback treatment.
We launched with ’90’s week 2022 went back in time with 80’s The following year, and of course made the obvious year after that by … jumping forward to focus on Aghts. As our own David Ehrlich Wrote last week, we chose to mix things (read: slide around the timeline in unexpected ways) because “70s seemed just too huge – too robust – to contain within a few short days of lists, essays, interviews and the like.”
We feel ready now. Well, as ready as we will ever be.
Tighten up for indieviews’70sWhen we take the rebellious spirit that defined the era and turn it into five days of unexpected and original content. (And if you think we customs about the “Salo” day, I promise, we really, really isn’t that.)
Get ready for sharp and exploratory essays on everything from post-colonial African film and Meiko Kaji to the woman who wrote “Slap Shot” and the glory of Martin Scorsese’s misunderstood “New York, New York.” A star -studded tribute to Glory Days of Roger Corman, with contributions from Scorsese himself, Robert De Niro, Joe Dante, and more of his most famous acolytes. Keith Carradine on making “Nashville.” Walter Hill to make “The Warriors.” Horror. Anime. The list continues.
Below you will find a taste of wealth in the 70s week goodness that comes, which will be updated with links to our stories when they go live during the week.
Monday 18 August
The 100 best films in the 1970s
Libra broke: How the films at the beginning of the 1970s crystallized the cynical individualism of “I decade” by Jake Cole
Roger Corman School of Filmmaking Remember: Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Robert De Niro, and more on the B-movie king, by Donald Liebsman
“Sholay” at 50: A Millennial Indian critic learns to love a timeless Bollywood masterpiece, by Proma Khosla
Tuesday 19 August
The top 30 Film 1970
Easy doing it: Keith Carradine looks back on her collaboration with Robert Altman On “McCabe & Mrs. Miller”, “Nashville” and “Thieves like us”
Each sucker for himself: How “Slap Shot” cut to the soul of the American character, by Vikram Murthi
In the 70s’ post-colonial African cinemas, by Lovia gurkye
Wednesday, August 20
The top 25 movie results in the 1970s
Fierce Mothers: How Meiko Kaji and Pam Grier gave birth to the modern action hero
Unfortunately, “Star Wars” – with “New York, New York,” Martin Scorsese made the best movie 1977, by Jim Hemphill
Juliet Mills updates her overlooked Billy Wilder Classic, “Avanti!” By Rance Collins
Celebrates 50 years ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ by Alison Foreman
Thursday 21 August – ‘Saló Day’
The top 10 anime films in the 1970s, by Kambole Campbell
John Waters on “Saló or 120 days by Sodom”
Bruce Labruce on “Saló”
When “Salo” was the hottest criterion DVD Money (could not) buy, by Mike Ryan
The History of Coprophagia on Screen, by Alison Foreman
An exclusive excerpt from a brand new book on “Saturday Night FeverThe“ by Kate Er.
Friday 22 August
The top 10 horror films in the 1970s, by Alison Foreman
Hollywood’s leading production designers on why the 70’s Is hard to get right, by Sarah Shachalat
“Star Wars” meets Oscars: When Hollywood took blockbuster seriously, by Christian Blauvet
Walter Hill looks back on “The Warriors” by Jim Hemphill
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