Sunday, August 5, 2007

1979

1. Monty Python's Life of Brian- Terry Jones
2. Apocalypse Now- Francis Ford Coppola
3. Alien- Ridley Scott
4. Stalker- Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Being There- Hal Ashby
6. Nosferatu the Vampyre- Werner Herzog
7. Manhattan- Woody Allen
8. Breaking Away- Peter Yates
9. The Brood- David Cronenberg
10. All That Jazz- Bob Fosse
11. The Marriage of Maria Braun- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
12. Camera Buff- Krzystzof Kieslowski
13. The Warriors- Walter Hill
14. Vengeance Is Mine- Shohei Imamura
15. Real Life- Albert Brooks
16. Woyzeck- Werner Herzog
17. Mad Max- George Miller
18. The In-Laws- Arthur Hiller
19. Tess- Roman Polanski
20. Time After Time- Nicholas Meyer
21. Best Boy- Ira Wohl
22. The Jerk- Carl Reiner
23. The Black Stallion- Carroll Ballard
24. My Brilliant Career- Gillian Armstrong

Ripe for re-appraisal: Graduate First (Maurice Pialat), North Dallas Forty (Ted Kotcheff), The Onion Field (Harold Becker), Rock’n’Roll High School (Allan Arkush)

Need to see: Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (Russ Meyer), Bloody Kids (Stephen Frears), Buffet Froid (Bertrand Blier), Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues), The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki), Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver), Demon Lover Diary (Joel DeMott), Doomed Love (Manoel de Oliveira), Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara), Drugstore Romance (Paul Vecchiali), Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel), Fast Company (David Cronenberg), The Herd (Zeki Okten), Home Movies (Brian De Palma), The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raul Ruiz), Love on the Run (Francois Truffaut), La Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci), Norma Rae (Martin Ritt), On the Marriage Broker Joke As Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? (Owen Land), Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan), Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich), Scum (Alan Clarke), That Sinking Feeling (Bill Forsyth), The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Trouble at Night (Catherine Breillat), The Virgin of Pessac (Jean Eustache), The Wanderers (Philip Kaufman), Winter Kills (William Reichert)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Manhattan
César Awards, Best Film: Tess
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) Apocalypse Now and The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff)
Berlin, Golden Bear: David (Peter Lilienthal)
Toronto, Audience Award: Best Boy

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