Top 10 Films of 1974

1. ''Chinatown'' (Roman Polanski, USA)

2. "The Godfather. Part II" (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

3. "Alice In The Cities" (Wim Wenders, Germany)

 

4. ''Arabian Nights'' (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)

5. "Swallows And Amazons" (Claude Whatham, UK)

6. ''Les Valseuses'' (Bertrand Blier, France)

7. ''Le Fantôme de la liberté'' (Luis Bunuel, France)

8. "Martha" (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany)

9. "The Cars That Ate Paris" (Peter Weir, Australia)

10. "The Traveller" (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)

Other great films:

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Germany)

Amarcord (Italy)

The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz (Canada)

Bacchanales sexuelles (France)

Bingo (Canada)

Céline et Julie vont en bateau (France)

The Conversation

Cousin Angelica (Spain)

Dark Star

Five Shaolin Masters (Hong Kong)

Gina (Canada)

Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla (Japan)

Hardgore

Hearts And Minds

Home Among Strangers (Soviet Union)

Idi Amin Dada (Uganda)

Jej portret (Poland)

Lacombe Lucien (France)

Lancelot du lac (France)

The Man With The Golden Gun

Murder On The Orient Express

Nie bede Cie kochac (Poland)

Nie ma rozy bez ognia (Poland)

Les Ordres (Canada)

The Parallax View

Los Perros de Dios (Mexico)
Phantom Of The Paradise

Potop (Poland)
Pousse mais pousse égal (Canada)

The Private Afternoons Of Pamela Mann

Rabid Dogs (Italy)

Scenes From A Marriage (Sweden)

Swept Away (Italy)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
That's Entertainment

Thriller – A Cruel Picture (Sweden)
The Towering Inferno

Vincent, Francois, Paul et les autres (France)

Wife To Be Sacrificed (Japan)

Wiosna panie sierzancie (Poland)

A Woman Under The Influence

Zardoz

Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1974:

1. "Electra" (Miklos Jancso, Hungary)

2. "Lenny" (Bob Fosse, United Artists)

3. "Glissements progressifs du plaisir" (Alain Robbe-Grillet, France)

4. "Caged Heat" (Jonathan Demme, USA)

5. "Le Mouton enragé" (Michel Deville, France)

6. "Sweet Movie" (Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)

7. "Contes immoraux" (Walerian Borowczyk, France)

8. "Emmanuelle" (Just Jaeckin, France)

9. "Big Bad Mama" (Steve Carver, USA)

10. "School Of The Holy Beast" (Norifumi Suzuki, Japan)

Short Top 3:

1. "Dyketactics" (Barbara Hammer, USA)

2. "Naked Yoga" (Paul Corsden, UK)

3. "Brzydkie kaczatko" (Tomasz Zygadło, Poland)

Top Music Video:

"Waterloo" (Lasse Hallstrom, Sweden)

Top Commercial:

"Bubbles" (7-Up)

TV Top 3:

1. "Columbo: Negative Reaction" (Alf Kjellin, NBC)

2. "Columbo: A Friend In Deed" (Ben Gazzara, NBC)

3. "40-latek: Wpadnij kiedy zechcesz" (Jerzy Gruza, Poland)

Other great TV shows:

Gallux Show: Wieczor 10 (Poland)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Winnie The Pooh And Tigger Too" (John Lounsbery, Disney)

2. "The Diary" (Nedeljko Dragic, Yugoslavia)

3. "Closed Mondays" (Bob Gardiner, Will Vinton, USA)

Other great cartoons:

The Family That Dwelt Apart (Canada)

Hunger (Canada)

Leonardo's Diary (Czechoslovakia)
Self-Service (Italy)

Weak films of 1974:

Badlands
Blazing Saddles
California Split
Curse Of The Headless Horseman
Earthquake

The Great Gatsby

The Island At The Top Of The World
The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires (UK)
Mame
Stavisky (France)
The Sugarland Express

Thunderbolt And Lightfoot

The Truce (Argentina)
Young Frankenstein

Weak shorts:

The Violin
Would I Ever Like To Work (Canada)

Weak cartoons:

Icarus (Canada)
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