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The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
1971 | Classics, Drama
7.0 (3 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"A masterpiece and one of the key achievements of 1970s New Hollywood—maybe only behind the Godfather films. Its mix of loving classicism, European influences, and ’70s permissiveness is jolting and desperately real. American small-town life has never been rendered with such empathy, unapologetic frankness, sadness, and despair. Timothy Bottoms’s performance is the most wrenching portrayal of male adolescence ever."

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Wish this show would've lasted longer!
The sci-fi craze after Star Wars in 1977 was amazing producing a James Bond film, Battlestar Galactica and the revival of Buck Rogers among countless other crap. This was a great 1970s sci-fi show with good mix of action, comedy and drama and some great guest stars including Jack Palance and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Well worth checking out.
  
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Rachel Kushner recommended Ingrid Caven in Books (curated)

 
Ingrid Caven
Ingrid Caven
Jean-Jacques Schuhl | 2004 | Biography, Fiction & Poetry, Film & TV
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"I can’t help but include this book on any list I’d ever make of books I love. It is bewitching, playful, poetic, and really beautiful. Ingrid Caven looks like Marlene Dietrich and sings like Lotte Lenya. She was Fassbinder’s muse on film and Schuhl’s in life, and the book creates a fictive plane of reality in between all four, plus postwar German history, plus the 1970s."

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The Core (2003)
The Core (2003)
2003 | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Somebody stop the planet! I want to get off!!
Disaster movie starring Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank as part of a crew who are assembled to travel deep (deep) underground, down to the Earths core, when it stops spinning leading to world wide natural disasters.

In other words, forget the ridiculous premise and go for the effects - some of which are like something from the 1970s! - instead.