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

9. Alien (1979) (Dir. Ridley Scott)

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For best Ridley Scott movie, it’s usually a toss-up between Blade Runner and Alien, his sci-fi horror masterpiece that went on to scare the living wits out of everyone who saw it. Alien succeeds brilliantly as an exercise in terror, but in Scott’s careful approach to set design and detailed aesethics, it doubles up as a certified visual masterpiece, too. Aboard the space cruiser Nostromo, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) must battle against a horrifying beast from another world who stows away inside (of all places) John Hurt’s chest. As her crew are slowly killed off one by one, it’s up to Ripley to find a way to rid herself of the beast. Without question, Alien remains the greatest blend of sci-fi/horror to have hits theatres in any decade.

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