Title: 1970s Decade Collection
Language: English
DVDs released by: Excel Home Video
Price: Rs399
Rating: ****
Ask any normal moviegoer about Hollywood and the impression you are most likely to get is that special effects play a very special role. The bombardment of fewer ideas and more special effects was actually not the case earlier. Since the inception of motion pictures, Hollywood has always reinvented itself with new concepts. We have chosen to review the 70s decade.
At the start of the decade, Fiddler on The Roof lost the best picture award despite being nominated in several categories at the Oscars. Considered as one of the best musicals ever made, Chaim Topol’s performance as the poor milkman in czarist Russia won worldwide acclaim.
The same year saw the release of The French Connection which became the first R-rated movie to win the Oscar for the best picture and was praised immensely for being one of the most influential crime dramas ever. Based on the notorious French Connection trafficking scheme, this film features Gene Heckman who got the Oscar nod. Don’t forget to watch the car chase sequence and you will end up being speechless.
Released in 1972, The Poseidon Adventure was an action adventure movie based on a novel by Paul Gallico. Here a luxurious ocean liner capsizes in the sea and the passengers struggle to escape. One of the first disaster flicks to hit the screen, it set a benchmark for future films and has become a forefather of sorts for the now flooded catastrophe films.
Come 1976, America saw one of its biggest icons leap out of the screen and box adversities. Rocky made a hero out of Sylvester Stallone and the movie bagged the Oscar for best picture too. The popularity was so enormous that it generated five sequels.
Based on director Bob
Fosse’s own extravagant life, All That Jazz was a vibrant and spectacular film. It follows Fosse’s alter-ego Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) in his relentless pursuit of sex, drugs and self-destruction. The proceedings are set amid rapturous dream sequences, lavish production numbers and fabulous sets.
The range is from musical and action to adventure; and all the films have registered their presence in the minds and hearts of people as prominent masterpieces.
Decently priced, they would make for a great collection, so why stop yourself from buying it?
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