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Archive for March 2008

The Best Films of 1980

March 30, 2008 | The Best of The Year | By Christopher Beaubien

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1. Raging Bull (dir. Martin Scorsese)
2. The Elephant Man (dir. David Lynch)
3. The Long Good Friday (dir. John Mackenzie)
4. The Blues Brothers (dir. John Landis)
5. The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
6. The Big Red One (dir. Samuel Fuller)
7. The Empire Strikes Back (dir. George Lucas)
8. Ordinary People (dir. Robert Redford)
9. Airplane (dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker)
10. Altered States (dir. Ken Russell)
11. Forbidden Zone (dir. Richard Elfman)

The Best Films of 1979

March 29, 2008 | The Best of The Year | By Christopher Beaubien

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1. Alien (dir. Ridley Scott)
2. Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
3. Kramer vs. Kramer (dir. Robert Benton)
4. Being There (dir. Hal Ashby)
5. Nosferatu (dir. Werner Herzog)
6. The Great Santini (dir. Lewis John Carlino)
7. Manhattan (dir. Woody Allen)
8. The Jerk (dir. Carl Reiner)
9. Vengeance Is Mine (dir. Shohei Imamura)
10. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (dir. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
11. Woyzeck (dir. Werner Herzog)

The Best Films of 1978

March 28, 2008 | The Best of The Year | By Christopher Beaubien

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1. Days of Heaven (dir. Terrance Malick)
2. Gates of Heaven (dir. Errol Morris)
3. Halloween (dir. John Carpenter)
4. Dawn of the Dead (dir. George A. Romero)
5. Stroszek (dir. Werner Herzog)
6. Interiors (dir. Woody Allen)
7. An Unmarried Woman (dir. Paul Mazursky)
8. Superman (dir. Richard Donner)
9. The Deer Hunter (dir. Michael Cimino)
10. National Lampoon’s Animal House (dir. Ivan Reitman)
11. Grease (dir. Randal Kleiser)

The Best Films of 1977

March 27, 2008 | The Best of The Year | By Christopher Beaubien

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1. Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen)
2. 3 Women (dir. Robert Altman)
3. Star Wars (dir. George Lucas)
4. Eraserhead (dir. David Lynch)
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg)
6. In the Realm of the Senses (dir. Nagisa Ôshima)
7. Suspiria (dir. Dario Argento)
8. Saturday Night Fever (dir. John Badham)
9. Harlan County, U.S.A. (dir. Barbara Kopple)
10. That Obscure Object of Desire (dir. Luis Buñuel)
11. New York, New York (dir. Martin Scorsese)

The Best Films of 1976

March 26, 2008 | The Best of The Year | By Christopher Beaubien

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1. Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese)
2. Carrie (dir. Brian De Palma)
3. Network (dir. Sidney Lumet)
4. Rocky (dir. Sylvester Stallone)
5. All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
6. The Omen (dir. Richard Donner)
7. Swept Away…by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August (dir. Lina Wertmuller)
8. Obsession (dir. Brian De Palma)
9. Small Change (dir. François Truffaut)
10. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (dir. Nicolas Gessner)
11. The Shootist (dir. Don Siegel)