Sunday, August 5, 2007

1976

1. Taxi Driver- Martin Scorsese
2. Assault on Precinct 13- John Carpenter
3. The Man Who Fell to Earth- Nicolas Roeg
4. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie- John Cassavetes
5. Mikey and Nicky- Elaine May
6. In the Realm of the Senses- Nagisa Oshima
7. Obsession- Brian De Palma
8. Up!- Russ Meyer
9. The Tenant- Roman Polanski
10. Cria Cuervos- Carlos Saura
11. 1900- Bernardo Bertolucci
12. The Outlaw Josey Wales- Clint Eastwood
13. Carrie- Brian De Palma
14. The Front- Martin Ritt
15. Marathon Man- John Schlesinger
16. Small Change- Francois Truffaut
17. Seven Beauties- Lina Wertmüller
18. All the President’s Men- Alan J. Pakula

Notable shorts: Gravity (Michael Nankin and David Wechter), Projection Instructions (Morgan Fisher)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker), Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman), The Shootist (Don Siegel)

Need to see: The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko), The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie), The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (John Badham), Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby), Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (Robert Altman), Casanova (Federico Fellini), Ceddo (Ousmane Sembene), Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Coup de Grace (Volker Schlondorff), Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini), The Devil’s Playground (Fred Schepisi), Duelle (Jacques Rivette), Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock), God Told Me To (Larry Cohen), Ici et Ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard), Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi), The Innocent (Luchino Visconti), Insiang (Lino Brocka), I Only Want You to Love Me (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders), The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer), The Middleman (Satyajit Ray), Monsieur Klein (Joseph Losey), Noroit (Jacques Rivette), A Slave of Love (Nikita Mikhalkov), The Scar (Krzystzof Kieslowski), Stay Hungry (Bob Rafaelson), Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Conner), Three Years Without God (Mario O’Hara), Welcome to L.A. (Alan Rudolph)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
César Awards, Best Film: M. Klein
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Taxi Driver
Berlin, Golden Bear: Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson

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