1970 ... What a Year!

We're entering another decade and I still have 40 more of these until Cinewise's end-of-year countdown. Obviously my plan hasn't worked out - I was hoping to do one of these per week until the Top 20 of 2011 ... oh well. I like a bit of a challenge and I can't wait to power my way through 40 more of these in the remaining couple of months and change.

Right, where were we? Or, more precisely, when were we? 1970. Saying goodbye to the decade that no one remembers, we're entering a decade that everyone remembers ... fondly. This decade also marks another 'golden age' for cinema as the Hollywood auteurs that we worship still to this day have crashlanded into our lives. I'm talking about Spielberg, Scorsese, Coppola, Lucas, De Palma, Bogdanovich, Ashby, Altman, Malick, Cimino, Beatty ... at least 2 of these names must have stirred something in the nether parts of your body already (which 2 will depend entirely on each reader).