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Helrunar		#21	[-]
Apr 27 12 9:39 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Pasolini's Salo has to rate as one of the most controversial films of ANY decade. A few years later in the decade, this bloated monstrosity called "Heaven's Gate" became notorious for quite different reasons. It was quite a time--some called it "the Decade that Taste Forgot." H.
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Koukol 5		#22	[-]
Apr 27 12 10:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Helrunar wrote: It was quite a time--some called it "the Decade that Taste Forgot." H. SALO is a brilliant film.
Spoiler II		#23	[-]
Apr 27 12 11:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Helrunar wrote: It was quite a time--some called it "the Decade that Taste Forgot." Sounds like a ringing endorsement to me!
Grant		#24	[-]
Apr 28 12 8:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I know I'm the wet blanket when it comes to almost any kind of classifying of decades and generations and so on, but "Decade That Taste Forgot"? - that's ALL of them. That's a little like people apologizing for the greedy ' 80s and the conformist ' 50s. Someone's going to have to explain to me how one period of time can be narrowed down when it comes to any of those things.
Mora		#25	[-]
Apr 28 12 1:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think the film JOE deserves some mention as well. Legend has it that star Peter Boyle was so taken aback by the audiences gratified reaction to the on screen violence that he decided never to play such a part again- forcing him to turn down the part of Popeye Doyle in THE FRENCH CONNECTION. But did not Boyle follow JOE up with the equally violent and semi-factual CRAZY JOE?
Dudley Manlove		#26	[-]
Apr 29 12 3:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It was certainly a time of its own. What other decade could have produced the early films of John Waters?????!!!!!! and actually have them shown in cinemas!!
Earl B		#27	[-]
Apr 29 12 6:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think the film JOE deserves some mention as well. Legend has it that star Peter Boyle was so taken aback by the audiences gratified reaction to the on screen violence that he decided never to play such a part again- forcing him to turn down the part of Popeye Doyle in THE FRENCH CONNECTION. But did not Boyle follow JOE up with the equally violent and semi-factual CRAZY JOE? Indeed. And then, in '85, we almost got this:
Earl B		#28	[-]
Apr 29 12 6:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I recall at the time that DEATH WISH was debated in the papers and on television (i.e. "Should people be allowed to make such movies?")
Koukol 5		#29	[-]
Apr 29 12 6:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tomorrow a Canadian filmmaker goes on trial for making two short films INNER DEPRAVITY 1&2 He's being charged with the obscenity act. Ironically it was someone in Germany who complained. The director claims his films are not much different than the SAW series. It will be interesting to see the outcome of the trial. I can also list some films that are banned in Canada so controversial films are being made today not just in the 70's.
Rider		#30	[-]
Apr 29 12 7:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Koukol 5 wrote: Tomorrow a Canadian filmmaker goes on trial for making two short films INNER DEPRAVITY 1&2 He's being charged with the obscenity act. Ironically it was someone in Germany who complained. The director claims his films are not much different than the SAW series. It will be interesting to see the outcome of the trial. I can also list some films that are banned in Canada so controversial films are being made today not just in the 70's. Interesting I can find the movies online but nothing about the charges or trial. Have any links?
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Koukol 5		#31	[-]
Apr 29 12 7:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	www.supportremy.com
Hausenfan		#32	[-]
Apr 30 12 2:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Filmmakers in the 70's had a license to experiment, as the ratings system was finally put in place in 1968. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf was the first film to receive an R rating. The early 70's is probably one of the most violent periods in cinema, possibly because directors and writers felt for the first time totally free, and that they could truly express themselves.
Dudley Manlove		#33	[-]
Apr 30 12 3:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dear dear me.......... dont forget the Harry Reesms film Forced Entry! Tell me that could be made and shown now!!!!
MovieBaron		#34	[-]
Sep 23 12 8:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Blood Sucking Freaks ....... WTF I ask you!!!!
Scathach80		#35	[-]
Sep 24 12 6:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hausenfan wrote: Filmmakers in the 70's had a license to experiment, as the ratings system was finally put in place in 1968. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf was the first film to receive an R rating. The early 70's is probably one of the most violent periods in cinema, possibly because directors and writers felt for the first time totally free, and that they could truly express themselves. What of the The Split (featuring Richard Stark's Parker under another name)?
Scathach80		#36	[-]
Sep 24 12 7:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have seen The Split (1968) listed as the first R-rated film. Did it cause much controversy upon release?
Scathach80		#37	[-]
Sep 24 12 7:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Did the '70's feature any particularly jingoistic controversial films, or did the more hawkish viewers have to content themselves with prose adventures of Sam Durrell, Joe Gall, Nick Carter, etc.?
bipolarber		#38	[-]
Sep 26 12 8:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Story of O Zardoz Last Days of Man on Earth The Bed Sitting Room Candy Silent Running "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
kneeteartap.marvelmasterwor...		#39	[-]
Sep 27 12 12:18 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Koukol 5 wrote: The patrons at a screening of UN CHIEN ANDALOU burnt the theater down. Well , people wanted to burn the theater down after seeing DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN too but that doesn't necessarily mean the film was controversial. Kneeteartap Last Edited By: kneeteartap Sep 27 12 11:39 AM. Edited 1 times.
drmedula		#40	[-]
Sep 27 12 8:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Little bit surprised no one's mentioned THE EXORCIST. And, in a weird way, the most controversial film of the 1970s is actually STAR WARS- because of it's massive and lasting effect on the entire film industry.
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