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Movie of the Year: 1973 – Finale Part One
Movie of the Year: 1973 Finale Part One On the 1973 Finale Part One we start to whittle down our sixteen-movie bracket, closing in on our 1973 Movie of the Year! It is the beginning of the end of our 1973 season of Movie of the Year. We have watched the movies. We have participated…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1973 – American Graffiti
Movie of the Year: 1973 American Graffiti This week we discuss American Graffiti! Can this movie drive its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Cars, they mean so much to us here in America. Americans love car so much that some have even taken to living in them. There are many images that…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1973 – Coffy
Movie of the Year: 1973 Coffy This week we discuss Coffy! Can this movie blast its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Coffy is 91 minutes long…so there you go folks, our 1973 Movie of the Year, for being nearly the conically perfect runtime. We can just run the award over to Ms.…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1973 – Don’t Look Now
Movie of the Year: 1973 Don’t Look Now This week we discuss Don’t Look Now! Can this movie chase its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? After losing their daughter Christine to an accidental drowning, Laura and John Baxter relocate to Venice, Italy so he can restore an old, and somehow fake(??), church.…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1973 – Enter the Dragon
Movie of the Year: 1973 Enter the Dragon This week we discuss Enter the Dragon! Can this movie fight its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Enter the Dragon follows Lee, played by Bruce Lee, a shaolin monk who must leave the monastery and make his way to an island with no pistols…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1973 – The Harder They Come
Movie of the Year: 1973 The Harder They Come This week we discuss The Harder They Come! Can this movie play its way to our 1973 Movie of the Year? Set in Jamaica, The Harder They Come is a drama about an aspiring singer, Ivan, desperate for fame who, disillusioned by corruption in every part…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1973 – The Exorcist
Movie of the Year: 1973 The Exorcist This week we discuss The Exorcist! Is this movie diabolical enough to be our 1973 Movie of the Year? The Exorcist is our biggest 1973 movie. It was the most popular then; it’s the most popular now; it made the most money; it got hella noms; and it…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1973 – The Last Detail
Movie of the Year: 1973 The Last Detail This week we discuss The Last Detail! Can we swear this is our 1973 Movie of the Year? The Last Detail is a movie about three sailors, who are on their way to deliver one of the trio to jail. But thanks to some clever thinking ahead,…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1973 – Last Tango in Paris
Movie of the Year: 1973 Last Tango in Paris This week we discuss The Last Tango in Paris! Can a movie this uncomfortable to talk about be our Movie of the Year? Last Tango in Paris is the story of Paul, an extremely recently widowed man whose relationship with his wife was complicated, and Jeanne,…
Read MoreMovie of the Year: 1973 – The Long Goodbye
Movie of the Year: 1973 The Long Goodbye This week we discuss The Long Goodbye! Can this film solve the case of what should be our Movie of the Year? Director Robert Altman said he wanted Phillip Marlowe to wake up in the 1970’s, a man out of time, and just wander through the twists…
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