My Name Is Henry Krinkle: The 10 Best Films Of The Seventies

Join us in our decade-based film retrospective, as we delve backwards all the way from 2009 to 1910. Most decade-based best movie lists grant you a whooping 50-100 entries, which makes perfect sense given all the years you have to take into consideration. But what if you were defining a decade in just ten films? Which movies would you recommend to somebody who might only watch a handful from a given decade? This week, we look back at the Seventies.

T.J. Barnard Dec 5, 2012 5:37 pm2014-05-11T22:44:27-05:00

7. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) (Dir. Robert Altman)

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Robert Altman was renowned for his overlapping, realistic dialogue cues and free-wheeling filmmaking style, none of which was put to better use than in his 1975 anti-western McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Described by late film critic Pauline Kael as “a great pipe dream of a movie” and by Roger Ebert as “perfect”, Altman’s best film tells the story of a “famous” gunslinger (Warren Beatty) who starts up a business in an Old Mining Town in the snow-drenched hills of Presbyterian Church, somewhere in the Northwestern United States. Altman resists all temptation to stick with the established rules of the genre, resulting in a sad, strange and ultimately haunting film that won’t fall out of your memory anytime soon. McCabe and Mrs. Miller is without a doubt the most accomplished revisionist western ever made – just like a photograph, it seems to somehow transcend all time and place.

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