My Top 20 by Year - 1978
Under construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of 166 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Sep 2015)
Notes:
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
L'arbero degli zoccoli (The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Olmi, 1978)
In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (In a Year of 13 Moons, Fassbinder, 1978)
Gates of Heaven (Morris, 1978, doc)
Magyarok (Hungarians, Fabri, 1978)
California Suite (Ross, 1978)
Jubilee (Jarman, 1978)
Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
Picassos äventyr (The Adventures of Picasso, Danielsson, 1978)
Perceval le Gallois (Perceval, Rohmer, 1978)
Cesarée (Duras, 1978, sh)
Les mains négatives (Duras, 1978, sh)
The Whole Shootin’ Match (Pennell, 1978)
Die linkshändige Frau (The Left-Handed Woman, Handke, 1978)
Oi tembelides tis eforis koiladas (The Idlers of the Fertile Valley, Panayotopoulos, 1978)
Die gläserne Zelle (The Glass Cell, Geissendörfer, 1978)
The End (Reynolds, 1978)
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of 166 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Sep 2015)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
L'arbero degli zoccoli (The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Olmi, 1978)
In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (In a Year of 13 Moons, Fassbinder, 1978)
Gates of Heaven (Morris, 1978, doc)
Magyarok (Hungarians, Fabri, 1978)
California Suite (Ross, 1978)
Jubilee (Jarman, 1978)
Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
Picassos äventyr (The Adventures of Picasso, Danielsson, 1978)
Perceval le Gallois (Perceval, Rohmer, 1978)
Cesarée (Duras, 1978, sh)
Les mains négatives (Duras, 1978, sh)
The Whole Shootin’ Match (Pennell, 1978)
Die linkshändige Frau (The Left-Handed Woman, Handke, 1978)
Oi tembelides tis eforis koiladas (The Idlers of the Fertile Valley, Panayotopoulos, 1978)
Die gläserne Zelle (The Glass Cell, Geissendörfer, 1978)
The End (Reynolds, 1978)
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