Just make a list of things that gross you out ... It separates itself from all the 1970s films that merely depict sleaze without being sleazy by taking the side of the second-sleaziest character ...

Movie soundtracks as albums were just beginning to take off by the 1970s. Of course, there were earlier examples, The ...

Also, they did a lot of cocaine. Like David O. Russell, Jason Reitman is a polarizing filmmaker, but he got to making a proper “SNL” movie first, and he made a 1970s New York movie in the process.

Some movies just sort of lose their luster. Some, but not all. Harkening back to the 1970s — to many the best decade of American movies — here are a selection of films that hold up and are ...