Top 10 Films of 1973

1. ''Last Tango In Paris'' (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)

2. ''La Maman et la putain'' (Jean Eustache, France)

3. "Sex and Fury" (Norifumi Suzuki, Japan)

4. ''The Wicker Man'' (Robin Hardy, UK)

5. "The Day Of The Jackal" (John Frankenheimer, USA)

6. ''Mean Streets'' (Martin Scorsese, USA)

7. ''Cries And Whispers'' (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

8. "Touki bouki" (Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal)

9. "La Nuit americaine" (François Truffaut, France)

10. ''Turkish Delight'' (Paul Verhoeven, Holland)

Other great films:

24 heures ou plus (Canada)
American Graffiti

Anita Swedish Nymphet (Sweden)

The Arousers

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes

Black Caesar

Black Mama White Mama

Black Snake

Breezy

Coffy

Daddy 

The Devil In Miss Jones

Diary Of Forbidden Dreams 

Enter The Dragon (Hong Kong)

Eugenie de Sade

The Exorcist

Female Vampire

Fruhreifen Report (Germany)

La Grande bouffe (Italy)

Heavy Traffic    

High Plains Drifter

The Holy Mountain (Mexico)

Jailbait (Germany)

Jesus Christ Superstar

Lady Snowblood (Japan)

The Last Detail

Legend Of Paul And Paula (East Germany)

Live And Let Die

The Long Goodbye 

Love And Anarchy (Italy)

La Mort d'un bucheron (Canada)

O Lucky Man! (UK)

Opis obyczajow (Poland)

Paperback Hero (Canada)

Paper Moon
La Planete sauvage (France)
Poszukiwany poszukiwana (Poland)

La Punition (France)

The Reincarnation of Isabel

Rejeanne Padovani (Canada)

Robin Hood
Robinson Crusoe (Soviet Union)

Sanatorium pod klepsydra (Poland)

The Sex Thief (UK)

Shaft In Africa

The Sinful Dwarf (Denmark)

Sleeper

The Spirit Of The Beehive (Spain)

The Sting

La Tierra Prometida (Chile)

A Touch Of Class (UK)

Vampire's Night Orgy (Spain)

Virgin Among The Living Dead

Zazdrosc i medycyna (Poland)

Short Top 3:

1. "L'Ambassade" (Chris Marker, France)

2. "H Is For House" (Peter Greenaway, UK)

3. "Christo's Valley Curtain" (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Giffard, USA)

Other great shorts:

Could This Be Love

Marilyn Times Five

A Visszhang titka (Hungary)

Top Music Video:

"Life On Mars" (Mick Rock, UK)

Top Commercial:

"Bike" (Ridley Scott, Hovis)

TV Top 3:

1. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Lars Affair" (Jay Sandrich, CBS)

2. "Columbo: Any Old Port In A Storm" (Leo Penn, NBC)

3. "Columbo: Double Exposure" (Richard Quine, NBC)

Other great TV shows:

Gallux Show: Wieczor 6 (Poland)

Gallux Show: Wieczor 7 (Poland)

Gallux Show: Wieczor 8 (Poland)

Gallux Show: Wieczor 9 (Poland)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Kierdel" (Andrzej Czeczot, Bronislaw Zeman, Poland)

2. "Frank Film" (Caroline Mouris, Frank Mouris, USA)

3. "Opera" (Bruno Bozzetto, Italy)

Other great cartoons:

Pulcinella (Italy)

Weak films of 1973:

Crypt Of The Living Dead
Detroit 9000
Ludwig
The Paper Chase
El Santo Officio (Mexico)
The Way We Were
The Werewolf Of Washington
Wniebowzieci (Poland)

Weak shorts:

Four Stones For Kanemitsu
Princeton A Search For Answers
Ring Ring (Sweden)

Weak cartoons:

The Legend Of John Henry
Teacher Lester Bit Me

Top Musical of 1973

"The Harder They Come" (Perry Henzell, Jamaica)

La Maman et la putain (1973) *****

Last Tango In Paris (1973) *****

The Wicker Man (1973) ****

The Day Of The Jackal (1973) ****

Mean Streets (1973) ****

Cries And Whispers (1973) ****

Turkish Delight (1973) ****

Sex and Fury (1973) ****

O Lucky Man! (1973) ****

The Long Goodbye (1973) ****

Legend Of Paul And Paula (1973) ****

The Spirit Of The Beehive (1973) ****

Touki bouki (1973) ****

The Sting (1973) ****

Winner of the Best Picture Oscar.

La Nuit americaine (1973) ****

François Truffaut's film set in a movie studio.

American Graffiti (1973) ****

A great movie about adolescent youth. A model for countless films to come.

Heavy Traffic (1973) ****

Breezy (1973) ****

Robinson Crusoe (1973) ***

Probably the best adaptation of Daniel Defoe's famous novel, superior even to the 1954 Luis Bunuel's version.

Diary Of Forbidden Dreams (1973) ***

Coffy (1973) ***

Black Snake (1973) ***

The Last Detail (1973) ***

Poszukiwany poszukiwana (1973) ***

Polish comedy about a museum director forced into hiding and pretending to be a housekeeper.

Shaft In Africa (1973) ***

24 heures ou plus (1973) ***

A radical documentary from Quebec.

Sleeper (1973) ***

A science-fiction comedy directed by Woody Allen.

Robin Hood (1973) ***

The first Disney animated film not initiated by Walt Disney himself.

Paper Moon (1973) ***

Tatum O'Neal won an Oscar as best supporting actress for this nostalgic drama set during the Great Depression.

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) ***

A memorable adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera.

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) ***

Directed by J.Lee Thompson. Humans fight apes for the possession of the Earth.

The Exorcist (1973) ***

Scary horror movie about an ancient spirit taking over a young girl. There is a hilarious mock trailer of this film.

High Plains Drifter (1973) ***

Actor and director Clint Eastwood successfully imitates Sergio Leone in this excellent western.

Live And Let Die (1973) ***

Roger Moore made his debut as James Bond in this uneven spy movie set in the Caribbean. The film has the most memorable Bond girl (Jane Seymour) and a great title song by Paul McCartney. The best action scenes are in the second half of the film.

La Planete sauvage (1973) ***

Innovative animated film about humans fighting against gigantic blue creatures.

Black Mama White Mama (1973) ***

Black Caesar (1973) ***

Rejeanne Padovani (1973) ***

Gangster film directed by Denys Arcand.