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The Best Films of 1980

by Christopher Beaubien • March 30, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

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Raging Bull (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Mon oncle d’Amerique (dir. Alain Resnais)
The Empire Strikes Back (dir. Irvin Kershner)
The Elephant Man (dir. David Lynch)
Kagemusha (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
The Long Good Friday (dir. John Mackenzie)
The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Coal Miner’s Daughter (dir. Michael Apted)
The Blues Brothers (dir. John Landis)
The Big Red One (dir. Samuel Fuller)
Ordinary People (dir. Robert Redford)
Atlantic City (dir. Louis Malle)
Airplane (dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker)
The Falls (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Altered States (dir. Ken Russell)
Forbidden Zone (dir. Richard Elfman)

The Best Films of 1979

by Christopher Beaubien • March 29, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

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Alien (dir. Ridley Scott)
Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Manhattan (dir. Woody Allen)
Kramer vs. Kramer (dir. Robert Benton)
Being There (dir. Hal Ashby)
Nosferatu (dir. Werner Herzog)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (dir. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
Vengeance Is Mine (dir. Shohei Imamura)
Scum (dir. Alan Clarke)
The Black Stallion (dir. Carroll Ballard)
The Great Santini (dir. Lewis John Carlino)
Breaking Away (dir. Peter Yates)
The Jerk (dir. Carl Reiner)
Woyzeck (dir. Werner Herzog)

The Best Films of 1978

by Christopher Beaubien • March 28, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

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Days of Heaven (dir. Terrance Malick)
Gates of Heaven (dir. Errol Morris)
Halloween (dir. John Carpenter)
Dawn of the Dead (dir. George A. Romero)
Autumn Sonata (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Stroszek (dir. Werner Herzog)
Interiors (dir. Woody Allen)
An Unmarried Woman (dir. Paul Mazursky)
Superman (dir. Richard Donner)
The Deer Hunter (dir. Michael Cimino)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (dir. Ivan Reitman)
Grease (dir. Randal Kleiser)
Watership Down (dir. Martin Rosen)
American Hot Wax (dir. Floyd Mutrux)

The Best Films of 1977

by Christopher Beaubien • March 27, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

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Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen)
3 Women (dir. Robert Altman)
Hausu (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Eraserhead (dir. David Lynch)
Killer of Sheep (dir. Charles Burnett)
Star Wars (dir. George Lucas)
That Obscure Object of Desire (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Saturday Night Fever (dir. John Badham)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (dir. Barbara Kopple)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Suspiria (dir. Dario Argento)
Abigail’s Party (dir. Mike Leigh)
In the Realm of the Senses (dir. Nagisa Ôshima)
New York, New York (dir. Martin Scorsese)

The Best Films of 1976

by Christopher Beaubien • March 26, 2008 • Start the Discussion!

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Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Carrie (dir. Brian De Palma)
Network (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Small Change (dir. François Truffaut)
All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
Rocky (dir. Sylvester Stallone)
The Omen (dir. Richard Donner)
Swept Away…by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August (dir. Lina Wertmuller)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (dir. Nicolas Gessner)
Obsession (dir. Brian De Palma)
Logan’s Run (dir. Michael Anderson)