1973's Oscar Nominees

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DOMESTIC GROSSES
Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation*
9 	The Exorcist 	WB 	$923,503,000
19 	The Sting 	Uni. 	$744,342,900
44 	American Graffiti 	Uni. 	$548,714,300

have never seen The Exorcist; A Touch of Class about 35 years ago on TV. Cries and Whispers is among my least fave "major" Bergmans.

So American Graffiti over The Sting. My fave Anglo-American films of the year, with AG mixed in, are probably The Long Goodbye, Sleeper, Emperor of the North, and O Lucky Man!

Sleeper my least favorite of the screwball Allens.

step into the Orgasmatron, please

What an excellent day for an exorcism, Doctor.

If you've never seen The Exorcist, don't do it now if it shows up at a rep theater. The audience will push all of your "laughing at 'quaint'/dated stuff" buttons.

Tough choice for me between that and Graffiti.

C&W is my least favorite of the major Bergmans but is by far the best movie on this list.

I can't stand AG.

The music is too good?

Cries and Whispers is another one of Bergman's horror-not-horror movies, and compliments the Exorcist quite well.

If you've never seen The Exorcist, don't do it now if it shows up at a rep theater. The audience will push all of your "laughing at 'quaint'/dated stuff" buttons.

Morbs laughs at every horror movie, so it'll even out. (And The Exorcist certainly deserves some laughter.)

good horror movies usu provoke laughter! Snoozing more likely at the nongood.

I know we've discussed it before, but I continue to be stymied by how ludicrously successful The Sting was at the B.O.

THAT movie making $744,342,900 in today dollars.

Redford/Newman as the Vince Vaughn of their day, The Sting being their Wedding Crashers.

It was the hordes of secret Harold Gould fans that really pushed it over the top.

even harder to believe that Glenda Jackson won two Oscars

For all its humble aims, The Sting is a well-crafted enetertainment with two huge male stars, sort of like... oh, nothing today.

(also making their second and last film together, after a big hit 4 years previously -- an eternity today)

Man that second Jackson win was some bullshit, but the BP nod means something about that movie struck a chord. It may be the most dated of any '70s BP nominee.

Butch Cassidy = $589,158,100 in today$

what's A TofC really about? I don't recall.

IIRC, it's like a feature length BBC episode of Maude.

the year's Best Actress nominees are the decade's weakest, no?

Streisand would've won if she hadn't already.

How did they manage to nominate C&W, and not Liv? Not a big enough solo part, I guess.

she was nominated for The Emigrants and F to F though (is the latter the only unavailable major Bergman?)

It's on DVD-R I think.

"unavailable" has replaced "rescreen" in my Lordlexicon

C&W is my least favorite of the major Bergmans but is by far the best movie on this list.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:33 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't stand AG.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:33 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for one of the Top 5 or so movies of the decade The Sting has really fallen off the radar compared to the rest of the big hitters (Jaws, Exorcist, Grease, Godfather etc).
still an amazing movie though by God.

The theatrical cut of Bergman's Face to Face is out on pressed DVD through Olive Films. They licensed it from Paramount, who may have blocked the release of the TV version over here.

Also: Since Clem hasn't shown up yet, can I just...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2XU0Hd5SvV0/UiLgmFkoBuI/AAAAAAAAGXw/9ifJTtgH3yo/s1600/mean-streets-poster.jpg

have never seen that poster -- lol map is way too south

My anglo/narrative nominees:

Badlands
The Long Goodbye
Paper Moon
Score
The Wicker Man

xp It's actually a poster made for a film society: http://designyoutrust.com/2009/12/final-cult-movie-poster/

I don't trust em to find Little Italy

American Graffiti easily. Cries and Whispers (couldn't make it to a screening a couple of weeks ago) and The Excorcist are very good. Saw The Sting once, never thought about seeing it a second time. Have never thought about seeing A Touch of Class a first time. Mean Streets ahead of AG, but for me, not lopsided. I'd probably rather watch AG than The Long Goodbye, although it's close.

My fave anglo film of that year (Scenes from a Marriage is dated 1973, but I don't think it premiered theatrically that year, at least not in North American) is actually Heavy Traffic. Really like Paper Moon and The Wicker Man too. Somehow, I have never seen The Long Goodbye.

*North America

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