We go back half a century to offer up ten essential films from 1974… It’s incredible to think that it’s been half a century since the year 1974. As a year of cinematic offerings, it takes some beating too with a slew of incredible films. This was still right in the midst of Hollywood’s golden […]
  • xyzzy
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    10 months ago

    Zardoz. Seriously! From Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1985 reappraisal:

    Probably John Boorman’s most underrated film—an impossibly ambitious and pretentious but also highly inventive, provocative, and visually striking SF adventure with metaphysical trimmings (1974). Set in a postapocalyptic society in 2293, it stars Sean Connery as a warrior and noble savage with dawning awareness; interestingly enough, the plot in many ways resembles that of Boorman’s best film, Point Blank.

    It’s such a strange movie, and it doesn’t quite succeed, but the leap it attempts is admirable. The surreality is the main reason I find it so memorable. It’s definitely not like the other films on the list.