Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Blockbusters!

Here's a few big films from the 1970's & 1980's that helped create the blockbuster phenomenon.

Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather (1972)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf16Vc3iZjE

George Lucas:
Jaws (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zkYRD51I34

Star Wars (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvqpFbRKtQ

Lucas and Spielberg:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiQse9XibQw

John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LydgEmQWOp0

Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqLyTdcMLhc

Stephen Spielberg
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YXw7BxYGMU

ET (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4yUQJeKZNs

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