December 12, 1973

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
Enter The Dragon (Hong Kong)
Jailbait (Germany)
La Punition (France)


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1973:

1. "Breezy" (Clint Eastwood, USA)

2. "The Legend Of Paul And Paula" (Heiner Carow, East Germany)

3. "La Grande bouffe" (Marco Ferreri, Italy)

4. "Coffy" (Jack Hill, USA)

5. "Diary Of Forbidden Dreams" (Roman Polanski, Italy)

6. "Paperback Hero" (Peter Pearson, Canada)

7. "The Sex Thief" (Martin Campbell, UK)

8. "Eugenie de Sade" (Jess Franco, Liechtenstein)

9. "Female Vampire" (Jess Franco, France)

10. "The Sinful Dwarf" (Eduardo Fuller, Denmark)


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:


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:


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

"Jesus Christ Superstar" (Norman Jewison, Universal)

November 11, 1973

Sex and Fury (1973) *****

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

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

October 10, 1973

The Wicker Man (1973) ****

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


Mean Streets (1973) ****

Cries And Whispers (1973) ****

Turkish Delight (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) ****