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Top 10 Movies of the 70s is now available in Blu-ray

Many people have called the decade of 1970, the second Golden Age of Cinema, a par with the films produced during the 1920s until the end of 1950. With new directors like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese are coming onto the scene, it is very difficult to discuss this. The 70s were certainly a time of great stories, the production of high quality films driven by the characters rather than plot. Great films that still hold up today.

Here are some of those 70's movies available on Blu-ray. Each is a great achievement in film and would be essential to anyone's movie collection. One of the biggest advantages of owning a Blu-ray DVD Player is the fact that it comes to relive seeing all these wonderful movies you enjoyed in the past, as if looking for the first time. Check out these top films of the years 70 and enjoy them once again.

M * A * S * H (Director: Robert Altman, 1970)

While it is one of the most acclaimed comedies ever made, M * A * S * H is also one of the anti-war films ever produced more iconic. Directed by Robert Altman, based on the novel "MASH: a novel about three Army doctors "by Richard Hooker. Adapted for the screen by Ring pantry Jr., tells the story of a group of doctors and nurses stationed in Korea during the Korean War. No real plot, the movie is about the arrival of two surgeons, captains "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Duke" Forrest and its interaction with the surgical staff. Employ a range of high fun humor to keep your sanity during all the horror that war brings.

Video Grade: M * A * S * H never was a movie that seemed clear and sharp, or particularly bright. This was the intended purpose of the original filmmakers. Used filters and brown tones to give the film its unique look. Although this aspect is still in its 1080p AVC encoded transfer, it still gives us the best quality image of the film has ever had.

Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 2:35.1
Original Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1

Audio quality: The film has been given a new lossless audio in the form of a DTS-HD Master 5.1 band sound.

English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Thailand: Dolby Digital 5.1
German: DTS 5.1
English: Dolby Digital Mono

Special Features:
– "The Guide Complete Interactive M * A * S * H "
– "AMC Backstory: M * A * S * H"
– "Enlisted: The Story of M * A * S * H"
– "M * A * S * H: history through the lens"
– "Remembering M * A * S * H: 30th Annual Cast & Crew Reunion"
– Two trailers
– Still Gallery

A Clockwork Orange (Director: Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

A controversial film even today. His description of sex and violence are some of the most graphic ever put on screen. But few words, a Stanley Kubrick Orange mechanics is a masterpiece of cinema. Adapted from the novel by Anthony Burgress the same name, the film is about a man, Alex DeLarge, a psychopathic criminal. Among its many charms is Beethoven, rape, and ultra-violence. He is the leader of a group of young offenders who spend their nights stealing cars, breaking into people's homes and violent attacks against their follow humans. Alex is taken by the government and used as a test subject in an experiment to force criminals to behave and become a citizen. With this film, Kubrick asked us to consider the greater evil. The monstrous acts committed by Alex over the film or our will to destroy a person's own moral choices to maintain social order.

Video Quality: The film is presented on Blu-ray 1080p encoding VC-1 and a 1.66:1 aspect ratio. Their bright colors and oil there is a tremendous improvement.
Video Codec: VC-1
Video resolution: 1080p
Relationship Aspect: 1.66:1

Audio Quality: The audio of the film has been remixed in an uncompressed PCM 5.1 track and a Dolby Digital 5.1 track. Now you can enjoy the symphonies of Beethoven synthesized in all its glory.
English: PCM 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
German: Dolby Digital 5.1

Special Features:
– The opinion of Malcolm McDowell and film historian Nick Redman
– "Still Tickin ': The Return of Clockwork Orange
– Great Yarblockos bolshy: The Making of The Clockwork Orange
– "O Lucky Malcolm"
– Theatrical Trailer

The Godfather I and II (Director: Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 / 1974)

Generally considered two of the best American films ever made and benchmarks in world cinema. Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and Godfather II is a series of multi-generational crime family. Looking Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone and Al Pacino as his son Michael, history takes place in New York in late 1940. The Corlones are a mafia family, and Vito is the Godfather or Don. Michael is a strange principle in the family. Making the decision to stay outside the family business. Through a series of unfortunate events, Michael is ready for a life of crime and eventually rising to the position of ultimate power. Through the two movies shown all aspects of their lives, from births, marriages, relationships with friends and allies, to the deaths. What remains, in essence, is a great family drama.

Video Quality: Very good better than their DVD counterparts, the films The Godfather on Blu-ray 1080p delivered with MPEG-4 AVC encoding an aspect ratio of 1.78:1. It offers a great fullness and sharp images.
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Audio quality: Submission Dolby Surround 5.1 TruHD for all films, which offers great clarity and the best sound ever for Godfather films.
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (48kHz/24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital Mono
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1

Young Frankenstein (Director: Mel Brooks, 1974)

They do not come any funnier than Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein. A parody of classic horror films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Using the same group as the original, the story centers around Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) and their effects going to reanimate the dead. With the help of a bumbling assistant Igor (Marty Feldman), and the beautiful Inga (Teri Garr) is capable of creating life, the monster (Peter Boyle). In scene after scene of the comedy highlights, Mel Brooks performs best in its cast, which includes: Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Hackman in a classic cameo. Unlike many comedy films, it does not age and jokes are as funny as they were 30 years ago.

Video Quality: It gets the absolute most out of your AVC-encoded 1080p. The remastering of the images in black and white looks great.
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Audio quality: The film has a DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack and a remix of the original movie mono.
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: Mono
French: Mono
Spanish: Mono

Special Features:
– Inside the Lab: Secret Formulas in the Making of 'Young Frankenstein'
– Alive The creation of a classic monster
– Making FrankenSense of Young Frankenstein
– Transylvanian Lullaby: The Music of John Morris
– ~ Franken Track: A monstrous conglomeration of Trivia
– Mexico Interviews

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Director: Milos Forman, 1975)

Mils Forman directed this film 1975 depicting the lives of patients in a mental institution. This film is considered one of the best movies in American cinema. The main character of the story is Randle Patrick McMurphy, played to perfection by Jack Nicholson. Who is condemned to 18 months in prison for statutory rape, but soon you convince the prison guards he's crazy and need psychiatric care. His rebellious nature soon attracted many followers of other patients. Soon collects them to take Nurse Ratched, who runs the institution more like a dictator than a specialized health care giver. The resulting conflicts and battles, viewers some of the most powerful emotion ever experienced while watching a movie. A masterpiece of cinema sound, well worth experiencing again in Blu-ray.

Video Quality: This movie is Blu-ray in 1080p with VC-1 encoding. Undoubtedly the best remastered version produced. With it's images high-quality 1080p resolution is a giant forward ahead of any other version previously released.
Video Codec: VC-1
Video Resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Audio quality: The resolution of the sound is in Dolby Digital 5.1.
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital Mono
Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono
German: Dolby Digital Mono
Italian: Dolby Digital Mono

Features special:
– Audio Commentary
– The Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
– Deleted Scenes
– Theatrical Trailer
– Brochure Collection

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director: Steven Spielberg, 1977)

This Steven Spielberg film 1977 has become one of the most revered fiction Science of all time. It stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon and Teri Garr. It is the story of an electrical lineman life takes an unexpected turn one night when he meets some unidentified flying lights in the sky. It soon becomes obsessive and can not help himself from being attracted to a rural Wyoming. Government agents are also found on this site removal the general public. More than a character driven film, this science fiction story is no less fascinating and visually spectacular.

Video Quality: This is a stunning visual film transferred to 1080p AVC MPEG-4 encoding. The film continues to maintain its tone grainy but you will never see this film look as vibrant as it does on Blu-ray.
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Audio Quality: You have two options for audio, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Dolby TrueHD 5.1. Both the sound gives high resolution by the band sound absolutely brilliant too.
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
French: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Spanish: Dolby TrueHD 5.1

Special Features:
– Steven Spielberg: 30 Years of Close Encounters
– Storyboard to screen comparison
– Photo Gallery
– Making Documentaries
– "Watch the Skies"
– Deleted Scenes
– A view from above

Saturday Night Fever (Director: John Badham, 1977)

Most films come and go without much notice or impact on our everyday life. While others, all of which are rare, may occur and in one instance have an impact and even change our culture. Saturday Night Fever is one of those films. After his release in 1977, the album rules the waves of music and the dance floor. It tells the story of a 19 year old American living Italian in Brooklyn with the name of Tony Manero (John Travolta). He works at the local paint shop and still lives with his family. At night he frequents a strip club and becomes in a disco dance god. The director John Badham does a great job showing the spiritual connection between music and dance, and how Tony sees this as a means of escape of his life is limited to something bigger.

Video Quality: Great quality with Blu-ray in 1080p with an MPEG-4 AVC encoding. This version Saturday Night Fever is the best of the film has ever looked for replacements including theater.
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video Resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Audio Quality: Dolby Surround 5.1 Remixed TrueHA, the soundtrack is very impressive. You may enjoy all those classic songs like never before.
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1

Special Features:
– Commentary by Director John Badham
– Trivia pop-ups
– Documentary: Catching the fever
– To Bay Ridge (9 minutes), hosted by Joe Cali
– Dance like John Travolta and Cassese (9 minutes)
– Foot Challenge – Interactive feature
– Deleted Scenes

Midnight Express (Director: Alan Parker, 1978)

Midnight Express Billy Hayes is what happens to him when he is caught trying to smuggle two kilograms of hashish from Istanbul, Turkey. Appointment to four years' imprisonment, the sentence was extended Suddenly, Mr. Hayes experiencing terrible and intolerable acts of physical and mental torture. While committed to mental hospital of the prison where he manages to escape in 1975. Told with skill and good detail, the director Alan Parker and screenwriter Oliver Stone has created a powerful film.

Video Quality: This film is delivered with a Blu-ray 1080p MPEG-4 AVC encoding an aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The image quality is good and true to its source.
Codec Video: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Quality Audio audio is also faithful to the original source. Remixed in Dolby TrueHD 5.1 performs very well.
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
English: Dolby Digital Mono
French: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 2.0
Portuguese: Dolby TrueHD 5.1

Special Features:
– Producers
– The Production Management
– The finished movie
– The Making of 'Midnight Express'

Mr. Chance (Director: Hal Ashby, 1979)

Peter Sellers gives a winning performance as Chance the gardener (Chauncey Gardiner) to the truly classic film. He plays a simple man who has isolated his whole life in a house in Washington, DC. And all I know is nothing that has seen and heard on television. Once released the world, he encounters a series of characters from the inner circles of those responsible for political power and the consequent drop out makes this one of the best comedies of the 70s.

Video Quality: Remastered with a 1080p VC-1 transfer the image is the best this film has ever been.
Video Codec: VC-1
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Audio quality: The soundtrack is presented in Dolby Dolby Digital 1.0 or 2.0 lossless true mono.
English: Dolby TrueHD 2.0
English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Spanish: Dolby Digital 1.0
French: Dolby Digital 1.0

Special Features:
– Memories of Mr. Chance
– Deleted Scenes
– Alternative Final
– Gag Reel
– Theatrical Trailer

Once again enjoy!

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