Top 10 Films of 1976

1. "Queen Of The Gypsies" (Emil Loteanu, Soviet Union)

2. ''Taxi Driver'' (Martin Scorsese, USA)

3. ''In The Realm Of The Senses'' (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)

4. ''Massacre At Central High'' (Rene Daalder, USA)

5. "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (Clint Eastwood, USA)

6. ''Novecento'' (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)

7. ''Carrie'' (Brian De Palma, USA)

8. "To The Devil A Daughter" (Peter Sykes, Don Sharp, UK)

9. ''Marathon Man'' (John Schlesinger, USA)

10. ''The Innocent'' (Luchino Visconti, Italy)

Other great films:

Alice In Wonderland

Allegro Non Troppo (Italy)
All The President's Men
L'Argent de poche (France)

Arvacska (Hungary)

Blizna (Poland)

Brunet wieczorowa pora (Poland)

Bugsy Malone

Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession (Japan)

Cria cuervos (Spain)

Devil's Playground (Australia)

Don's Party (Australia)

Emanuelle In Bangkok

Family Plot

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

The Hand Of Death (Hong Kong)

Harlan County USA
Hollywood On Trial

Ilsa, Harem Keeper Of The Oil Sheiks

Je t'aime moi non plus (France)

The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie

Kings Of The Road (Germany)

The Last Tycoon

The Man Who Fell To Earth

La Marge (France)

The Marquise Of O (Germany)

La Meilleure facon de marcher (France)

Mr Klein (France)

Network        

Noirs et Blancs en couleur (Ivory Coast)

Obsession
The Omen

The Opening Of Misty Beethoven

La Orca (Italy)

Pacho hybsky zbojnik (Czechoslovakia)

El Pacto (Mexico)

Parlez-nous d'amour (Canada)

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Przepraszam czy tu bija (Poland)

Rocky

Seven Beauties (Italy)

Teenage Twins

La Ultima Cena (Cuba)

Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1976:

1. "Maitresse" (Barbet Schroeder, France)

2. "Calmos" (Bertrand Blier, France)

3. "Private Vices And Public Virtues" (Miklos Jancso, Yugoslavia)

4. "The First Nudie Musical" (Mark Haggard, Bruce Kimmel, Paramount)

5. "Awakening Of Annie" (Zygmunt Sulistrowski, Brazil)

6. "Up!" (Russ Meyer, USA)

7. "Femmes de Sade" (Alex de Renzy, USA)

8. "Barbed Wire Dolls" (Jess Franco, Switzerland)

9. "White Fire" (Zebedy Colt, USA)

10. "Veckanda i Stockholm" (Ann-Marie Berglund, Sweden)

Short Top 3:

1. "Breakfast: Table Top Dolly" (Michael Snow, Canada)

2. "Atmosphere" (Chris Gallagher, Canada)

3. "The Morning Spider" (Claude Chagrin, UK)

Top Music Video:

"Money Money Money" (Lasse Hallstrom, Sweden)

Top Commercial:

"Clydesdale Horses" (Budweiser)

TV Top 3:

1. "Rich Man Poor Man" (David Greene, Boris Sagal, ABC)

2. "Barney Miller: Hash" (Noam Pitlik, ABC)

3. "07 zglos sie 1" (Krzysztof Szmagier, Poland)

Other great TV shows:

Wlasnie leci kabarecik 4: Mecz (Poland)

Wlasnie leci kabarecik 5: Choroba Wojtka (Poland)

Wlasnie leci kabarecik 6: Przyjazd Krysi (Poland)

Wlasnie leci kabarecik 7: Pigulki nasenne (Poland)

Wlasnie leci kabarecik 8: Brydz (Poland)

Wlasnie leci kabarecik 9: Ksiazeczka PKO (Poland)

Wlasnie leci kabarecik 10: Imieniny Basi (Poland)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Leisure" (Bruce Petty, Australia)

2. "The Street" (Caroline Leaf, NFB)

3. "High Fidelity" (Antoinette Starkiewicz, UK)

Other great cartoons:

Taratata (Canada)

Weak films of 1976:

Con amore (Poland)
Fellini's Casanova (Italy)
The Front

King Kong
Le Locataire (France)

Logan's Run
Master Of The Flying Guillotine (Taiwan)
Robin And Marian
Voyage Of The Damned

Weak shorts:

Dear Phone (UK)
Jailbreak (Australia)
Universe

Weak TV shows:

Six fois deux - Sur et sous la communication (France)

Weak cartoons:

Dedalo (Italy)

Top Musical of 1976

"The First Nudie Musical" (Mark Haggard, Bruce Kimmel, Paramount)

Queen Of The Gypsies (1976) *****

Taxi Driver (1976) *****

In The Realm Of The Senses (1976) ****

Massacre At Central High (1976) ****

Carrie (1976) ****

Marathon Man (1976) ****

The Innocent (1976) ****

Novecento (1976) ****

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) ****

Mr Klein (1976) ****

Maitresse (1976) ****

La Ultima Cena (1976) ****

Amazing Cuban film about a slave revolt. A classic of the Latin American revolutionary cinema. Provocative and ironic.

To The Devil A Daughter (1976) ****

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) ***

Hollywood On Trial (1976) ***

Fascinating documentary about congressional hearings during the McCarty era, which led to the blacklisting of those Hollywood writers, directors and actors, who refused to deny their Communist sympathies.

The Marquise Of O (1976) ***

Story of a pregnant woman.

The Omen (1976) ***

Impressive horror film starring Gregory Peck. It picks up where "Rosemary's Baby" has left off. Jerry Goldsmith won an Oscar for best musical score over Bernard Herrmann (nominated for "Taxi Driver" and "Obsession").

Obsession (1976) ***

A rich man's wife is murdered by kidnappers. Years later, he meets a woman who looks exactly like her. Directed by Brian De Palma, with a script by Paul Schrader. A superb musical score by Bernard Herrmann (nominated for an Oscar).

Up! (1976) ***

The Last Tycoon (1976) ***

Network (1976) ***