1977

1. Annie Hall- Woody Allen
2. Eraserhead- David Lynch
3. Stroszek- Werner Herzog
4. Killer of Sheep- Charles Burnett
5. The Devil, Probably- Robert Bresson
6. Martin- George A. Romero
7. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas- Jim Henson
8. 3 Women- Robert Altman
9. Sorcerer- William Friedkin
10. La Soufriere- Werner Herzog [short]
11. Cross of Iron- Sam Peckinpah
12. Amar Akbar Anthony- Manmohan Desai
13. Harlan County USA- Barbara Kopple
14. Close Encounters of the Third Kind- Steven Spielberg
15. Rabid- David Cronenberg
16. Opening Night- John Cassavetes
17. That Obscure Object of Desire- Luis Buñuel
18. Star Wars- George Lucas
19. Smokey and the Bandit- Hal Needham
20. Suspiria- Dario Argento
21. The American Friend- Wim Wenders
22. The Perfumed Nightmare- Kidlat Tahimik
23. The Late Show- Robert Benton
24. Peppermint Soda- Diane Kurys

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Duellists (Ridley Scott), House (Nobujiro Obayashi), Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis), Powers of Ten (Charles and Ray Eames), The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert)

Need to see: 11x14 (James Benning), ABBA: The Movie (Lasse Hallstrom), Abigail’s Party (Mike Leigh), Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver), Blood Relatives (Claude Chabrol), Bolweiser (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Boys (Nils Malmros), Burlesk Queen (Celso Ad. Castillo), The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray), Desperate Living (John Waters), God Told Me To (Larry Cohen), The Goodbye Girl (Herbert Ross), A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker), Iodo (Kim Ki-young), The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta), Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jon Jost), The Last Wave (Peter Weir), Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda), News From Home (Chantal Akerman), One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning), Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Larry Cohen), Providence (Alain Resnais), Un Sale Histoire (Jean Eustache), Untitled [1977] (Ernie Gehr), Soldier of Orange (Paul Verhoeven), The Turning Point (Herbert Ross), Twilight’s Last Gleaming (Robert Aldrich), Valse Triste (Bruce Conner)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Annie Hall
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Annie Hall
César Awards, Best Film: Providence
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Padre Padrone
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Ascent