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. ''La Ultima Cena" (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba)

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)

Awakening Of Annie

Barbed Wire Dolls

Blizna (Poland)

Brunet wieczorowa pora (Poland)

Bugsy Malone

Calmos (France)

Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession (Japan)

Cria cuervos (Spain)

Devil's Playground (Australia)

Don's Party (Australia)

Emanuelle In Bangkok

Family Plot

Femmes de Sade

The First Nudie Musical 

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

Maitresse (France)

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

Private Vices And Public Virtues (Yugoslavia)

Przepraszam czy tu bija (Poland)

Rocky

Seven Beauties (Italy)

Teenage Twins

La Ultima Cena (Cuba)

Up!

Veckanda i Stockholm (Sweden)

White Fire

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)

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.

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) ***

The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976) ***

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976) ***

The First Nudie Musical (1976) ***

L'Argent de poche (1976) ***

Excellent film by François Truffaut.

All The President's Men (1976) ***

Fascinating film about the Watergate scandal.

Allegro Non Troppo (1976) ***

A poor man's "Fantasia", directed by Bruno Bozzetto, with music by Debussy, Ravel, Dvorak, Sibelius, Vivaldi and Stavinsky. Segments:

"Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun"
"Bolero"
"Slavonic Dance"
"Valse triste"
"Concerto in C Minor"
"Firebird"

Bugsy Malone (1976) ***

Like "Terror Of Tiny Town" (1938), this is a cult film due to its unique High Concept idea related to casting - it's a gangster film, but all roles are played by young children.

Rocky (1976) ***

The first, Oscar-winning "Rocky" is still the best, with a stirring musical score, great performance by Sylvester Stallone and a touching story.

Family Plot (1976) ***

Small crooks interfere with big crooks in this ingeniously plotted thriller. Alfred Hitchcock's last picture.

Harlan County USA (1976) ***

An Oscar-winning documentary about a coal miners strike in eastern Kentucky. Interesting film to see, especially in light of the fact that Harlan County, presented in the film as a model of union activism and progressive idealism, in 2008 voted for John McCain over Barack Obama by a margin of 73% to 26%.

Blizna (1976) ***

Krzysztof Kieslowski's theatrical feature film debut.

Le Locataire (1976) **

Roman Polanski's film about a paranoid tenant.

La Meilleure facon de marcher (1976) ***

Noirs et Blancs en couleur (1976) ***

La Marge (1976) ***

Je t'aime moi non plus (1976) ***