The 1970s was, to put it simply, a great decade for cinema.

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Jesus appears in the background of some scenes, but isn’t really the butt of any joke.

Chinatown, Rocky, Alien

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Also,Life of Brianhas a character named Biggus Dickus.

It might well beMonty Pythons best film for that alone.

Its a somewhat daunting watch, but proves well worth devoting ones time to.

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It’s a painfully honest and emotionally brutal movie, and ranks as one ofIngmar Bergman’s greatest films.

It was also released as a miniseries in the 1970s, with a runtime approximately two hours longer.

No, certainly not completely.

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And the rest is history.

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A young girl and a man inside a car in the movie Paper Moon (1973)

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Brian and other crucifixion victims carry their crosses in Monty Pyton’s Life of Brian

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Michael Caine sitting in an armchair and staring into the distance in Sleuth (1972)

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Barry Lyndon and Lady Lyndon in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’

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Richard Gere and Brooke Adams in Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978)

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Michael Myers holding a knife in ‘Halloween’ (1978)

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Halloween 1978 Movie Poster

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Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann lying side by side in bed while having a conversation in Scenes From a Marriage

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The Ascent 1977 Boris Grigorjewitsch Plotnikow close-up shot.

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Roy Schneider in All That Jazz

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Constance Miller and John McCabe looking to the distance in McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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Actor Gene Hackman as Henry Caul watching over surveillance equipment in Francis Ford Coppola’s movie, The Conversation

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Jim the Waco Kid and Sheriff Bart smiling to each other in Blazing Saddles

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Al Pacino as Sonny aiming a gun while at a bank in Dog Day Afternoon

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Sally and the MC in full costume and makeup, in front of a blue curtain in Cabaret

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A man in a stunning landscape in Stalker

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Sylvester Stallone as Rocky at the end of the workout montage with is arms raised in Rocky Balboa

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Ellen Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo looking stressed in Alien

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Linda Blair as a possed Regan chewing on her hand in The Exorcist

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Roy Scheider in ‘Jaws’

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The Conformist (1970)

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Two people driving in a car

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Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore kneeling shirtless and looking to his right in Apocalypse Now

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Jack Nicholson as Randle yelling, surrounded by fellow residents in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

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Diane Keaton as Kay Corleone looking shocked while standing in front of Michael ‘The Godfather Part II’

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The Godfather Part II Movie Poster

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Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in ‘Taxi Driver’

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The poster for Taxi Driver

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Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness), and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) sitting in the cockpit of the Millenium Falcon in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.

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Vito and Michael Corleone from “The Godfather,” sitting across each other

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