Best In Film: 1976
August 12th, 2006
01) Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
02) All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula)
03) Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
04) Carrie (Brian De Palma)
05) Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)
06) Obsession (Brian De Palma)
07) The Front (Martin Ritt)
08) Network (Sidney Lumet)
09) Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
10) The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
Honorable Mention: Logan’s Run (Michael Anderson), Bound For Glory (Hal Ashby), The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan), The Omen (Richard Donner), The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), Murder by Death (Robert Moore), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
Undiscovered: In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima), Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman), Robin and Marian (Richard Lester), Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller), Fellini’s Casanova (Federico Fellini), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Herbert Ross), A Star is Born (Frank Pierson), The Shootist (Don Siegel), The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer)
August 14th, 2006 05:55
I like the list (and your site a lot) but I think both “Assault…” and “Carrie” should be lower down, and Network higher up (4 or 5 perhaps). I also think “The Killing of Chinese Bookie” (one of my favorites and a truely underappreciated Cassavetes film) should certainly be in the top ten.
You lists beg the question of how to rank films; cultural/cinematic importance, aesthetic or acting value, personal impact, etc. Would you talk a little bit about the criteria you use?