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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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Raging Bull (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Elephant Man (dir. David Lynch)
The Empire Strikes Back (dir. Irvin Kershner)
Mon oncle d’Amerique (dir. Alain Resnais)
The Long Good Friday (dir. John Mackenzie)
The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
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)
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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Alien (dir. Ridley Scott)
Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Kramer vs. Kramer (dir. Robert Benton)
Manhattan (dir. Woody Allen)
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)
The Great Santini (dir. Lewis John Carlino)
The Jerk (dir. Carl Reiner)
Woyzeck (dir. Werner Herzog)

The Best Films of 1978

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

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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)
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)

The Best Films of 1977

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

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Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen)
3 Women (dir. Robert Altman)
Hausu (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Eraserhead (dir. David Lynch)
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)
Suspiria (dir. Dario Argento)
In the Realm of the Senses (dir. Nagisa Ôshima)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg)
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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Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Carrie (dir. Brian De Palma)
Network (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Rocky (dir. Sylvester Stallone)
All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
The Omen (dir. Richard Donner)
Swept Away…by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August (dir. Lina Wertmuller)
Obsession (dir. Brian De Palma)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (dir. Nicolas Gessner)