September 9, 1975

The Passenger (1975) ***

Night Moves (1975) ***

A Boy And His Dog (1975) ***

The Return Of The Pink Panther (1975) ***

A typical Inspector Clouseau comedy.

Supervixens (1975) ***

Bite The Bullet (1975) ***

Excellent western starring Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen.

Dersu Uzala (1975) ***

A Soviet film directed by Akira Kurosawa, set in the Siberian taiga.

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) ***

Memorable heist film starring Al Pacino.

Funny Lady (1975) ***

A sequel to "Funny Girl" (1968), again starring Barbra Streisand.

Give 'Em Hell, Harry! (1975) ***

Excellent one-man-show film about Harry Truman.

The Magic Flute (1975) ***

Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Mozart's famous opera.

The Sunshine Boys (1975) ***

George Burns won a well-deserved Oscar (Best Supporting Actor) for this excellent film (his first since 1939).

Bilans kwartalny (1975) ***

Film Krzysztofa Zanussiego.

The Black Gestapo (1975) ***

Coonskin (1975) ***


Terror Of Mechagodzilla (1975) ***

Japanese monster movie starring Godzilla and other fearsome creatures.

Switchblade Sisters (1975) ***

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) ***

The legend of King Arthur gets a trashing from Britain's most iconoclastic comedy team.

At Long Last Love (1975) ***

A pastiche of 1930's musicals, with classic songs by Cole Porter sang (atrociously) by Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepard (and only passably by Madeline Kahn). It ranks with "Colleen" (1936) and "The Pirate Movie" (1982) as the "worst" (in the best sense) musical of all times. Songs:

"Tomorrow" **
"Which" *
"Poor Young Millionaire" *
"You're The Top" **
"Find Me A Primitive Man" *
"Friendship" **
"But In The Morning, No" **
"At Long Last Love" *
"Well, Did You Evah ?" **
"From Alpha To Omega" *
"Let's Misbehave" *
"It's De Lovely" **
"Let's Misbehave" (reprise) *
"Just One Of Those Things" *
"I Get A Kick Out Of You" *
"Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love" **
"I Loved Him (But He Didn't Love Me)" *
"A Picture Of Me Without You" **