Top 10 Films of 1979

1. "Manhattan" (Woody Allen, USA)

2. ''Alien'' (Ridley Scott, USA)

3. "Mad Max" (George Miller, Australia)

4. ''Apocalypse Now'' (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

5. "Stalker" (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)

6. "The Castle Of Cagliostro" (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)

7. ''All That Jazz'' (Bob Fosse, USA)

8. ''Vengeance Is Mine'' (Shohei Imamura, Japan)

9. ''Kramer Vs Kramer'' (Robert Benton, USA)

10. ''Tin Drum'' (Volker Schlöndorff, Germany)

Other great films:

Aktorzy prowincjonalni (Poland)

Amator (Poland)
Being There

Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra-Vixens

The Black Stallion
Buffet froid (France)

Caniche (Spain)

Christ Stopped At Eboli (Italy)

Dawn Of The Dead  

Dragon Fist (Hong Kong)

Dr Butcher MD 

Ecstasy Girls

Emanuelle, Queen Of Sados

Les Enfilées

Hair

Hardcore

Hungarian Rhapsody (Hungary)

I Am Maria (Sweden)

La Isla (Argentina)

The Lady In Red

Laura (France)

Life Of Brian (UK)

Malabimba (Italy)

The Marriage Of Maria Braun (Germany)

Moonraker

Mourir à tue-tête (Canada)

Perceval le Gallois (France)

Six Swedish Girls In Boarding School (Switzerland)

Szpital Przemienienia (Poland)

Tess 

Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (Czechoslovakia)

Three Immoral Women

The Thrushes Are Still Singing (Greece)

The Wanderers
The Warriors

You're Out Of Your Mind Maggie (Sweden)

Short Top 3:

1. "Away From It All" (John Cleese, Clare Taylor, UK)

2. "Sibylle" (Robert Cappadoro, France)

3. "Solly's Diner" (Larry Hankin, USA)

Other great shorts:

Paul Robeson: Tribute To An Artist
Z punktu widzenia nocnego portiera (Poland)

Top Music Video:

"Video Killed The Radio Star" (Russell Mulcahy, USA)

Top Commercial:

"Mean Joe Greene" (Coca-Cola)

TV Top 3:

1. "Fawlty Towers 2" (Bob Spiers, BBC, UK)

2. "Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Revue" (Olga Lipinska, TVP, Poland)

3. "Doctor Who: City Of Death" (Michael Hayes, BBC, UK)

Other great TV shows:

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Gosc (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Pieczarki (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Publicznosc (Poland)

Zalegly urlop (Poland)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Every Child" (Eugene Fedorenko, NFB)

2. "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol" (Friz Freleng, Warner)

3. "Log Driver's Waltz" (John Weldon, NFB)

Other great cartoons:

Harpya (Belgium)

Jeu de coudes (Canada)

Weak films of 1979:

10

1941
Breaking Away
Butterfly Murders (Hong Kong)
The China Syndrome
Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres (France)

Last Hurrah For Chivalry (Hong Kong)
La Luna (Italy)
My Brilliant Career (Australia)
Norma Rae
Panny z Wilka (Poland)
Quadrophenia (UK)
Star Trek I: The Motion Picture
The Third Generation (Germany)

Weak shorts:

Nails (Canada)

Weak cartoons:

Freeze Frame
Instant Sex

It's So Nice To Have A Wolf Around The House
Refleksy (Poland)
La Rose et l'anneau (Canada)
This Is Your Museum Speaking (Canada)

Weak TV shows:

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Duchy (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Dyrekcja (Poland)