December 12, 1975

Top 10 Films of 1975

1. "Ziemia obiecana" (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)

2. "Giliap" (Roy Andersson, Sweden)

3. ''Barry Lyndon'' (Stanley Kubrick, USA)

4. ''Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom'' (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)

5. ''Nashville'' (Robert Altman, USA)

6. "Love And Death" (Woody Allen, USA)

7. "Jaws" (Steven Spielberg, USA)

8. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (Jim Sharman, 20th-Fox)


10. "Mirror" (Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)


Other great films:

At Long Last Love
La Bête (France)
Dersu Uzala (Soviet Union)
Keetje Tippel (Holland)
The Magic Flute (Sweden)
Numero deux (France)
Le Sauvage (France)
Till Eulenspiegel (East Germany)

Short Top 3:

1. "Girl" (Stephen Dwoskin, UK)

2. "Plastic Surgery" (Chris Gallagher, Canada)

3. "Vibration" (Jane Arden, Jack Bond, UK)

Other great shorts:

Whistling Smith (Canada)

Top Music Video:

"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Bruce Gowers, UK)


Other great music videos:

Bang-A-Boomerang (Sweden)


Top Commercial:

"Answer To A Higher Authority" (Hebrew National)


TV Top 3:

1. "Fawlty Towers 1" (John Howard Davies, BBC, UK)

2. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Chuckles Bites The Dust" (Joan Darling, CBS)

3. "The Bob Newhart Show: Over The River And Through The Woods" (James Burrows, CBS)


Other great TV shows:

Niespotykanie spokojny człowiek (Poland)
Personel (Poland)
Wlasnie leci kabarecik 1: Sprzatanie (Poland)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Sisyphus" (Marcell Jankovics, Hungary)

2. "Great Isambard Kingdom Brunel" (Bob Godfrey, UK)

3. "Pink DaVinci" (Robert McKimson, United Artists)


Other great cartoons:

Illusion (Canada)
Thick Fog (Czechoslovakia)

Weak films of 1975:

The Day Of The Locust
Dolemite
Three Days Of The Condor
The Yakuza

Weak shorts:

I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do (Sweden)
Mamma Mia (Sweden)
SOS (Sweden)

Top Musical of 1975

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (Jim Sharman, 20th-Fox)


November 11, 1975

Giliap (1975) *****

Roy Andersson's masterpiece and that's saying something. Yet when first released in 1975, this film was a complete flop with both the public and the critics. It was 25 years ahead of its time and it was only in 2000 that Andersson would make his next feature film.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) *****


Jaws (1975) *****


Nashville (1975) *****

Barry Lyndon (1975) *****


Love And Death (1975) *****

Tolstoy's "War And Peace" is hilariously parodied in this excellent comedy from Woody Allen.

Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom (1975) *****



November 10, 1975

Ziemia obiecana (1975) *****

October 10, 1975

The Man Who Would Be King (1975) ****

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975) ****

La Bête (1975) ****


Inserts (1975) ****

Une Vraie jeune fille (1975) ****

F For Fake (1975) ****

Orson Welles' last film is also one of his best - an innovative and clever pseudo-documentary about fraud artists.

Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) ****

Excellent film about young girls who disappear while on a picnic in the Australian wilderness.

Mirror (1975) ****

A non-narrative film by Andrei Tarkovsky. Beautiful, memorable images.

Keetje Tippel (1975) ****

October 9, 1975

Que la fete commence (1975) ****

Le Sauvage (1975) ****

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) ****

September 9, 1975

The Passenger (1975) ***

Night Moves (1975) ***

A Boy And His Dog (1975) ***