April 4, 1973

A Visszhang titka (1973) ***

Christo's Valley Curtain (1973) ***

Oscar-nominated short documentary from Albert and David Maysles.

Bike (1973) ***

British advert for Hovis bread, directed by Ridley Scott.

Princeton A Search For Answers (1973) **

Oscar-winning short documentary about Princeton.

Four Stones For Kanemitsu (1973) *

Very boring documentary short that inexplicably received an Oscar nomination.

Ring Ring (1973) *

ABBA's first music video, directed by Lasse Hallstrom.

Pulcinella (1973) ***

Oscar-nominated cartoon from Italy.

Frank Film (1973) ***

A man talks about his life. Excellent avant-garde cartoon. Almost abstract and very inventive.

Kierdel (1973) ****

Opera (1973) ***

Teacher Lester Bit Me (1973) **

Cartoon about unruly kids in a kindergarten.

The Legend Of John Henry (1973) **

Nice song, but very weak visuals.

March 3, 1973

Gallux Show: Wieczor 9 (1973) ***

Piosenki:

"Nowy Rok 1974" **
"Usiadziemy naprzeciwko siebie" *
"Umarl ci on umarl" **
"Lulaj moj koteczku" *
"Wypluty przez morze" *
"Wielki pan" **
"Zandarm" *
"Bul.bul,bul." *
"Swiety Augustyn" *
"Donosze panie naczelniku" **
"Malpa" *
"Kumple" *
"Czas Sylwestra" **

Gallux Show: Wieczor 8 (1973) ***

Piosenki:

"Polska zupa" **
"Jutro bedzie dobry dzien" **
"Karta z dziejow ludzkosci" **
"Marianna ruda" **
"Wszystko siÄ™ ulozy jak w pudeleczku" **
"Nie mow nic" **
"Pamelo zegnaj" **
"Rodzinka" **

Columbo: Double Exposure (1973) ***


Columbo: Any Old Port In A Storm (1973) ***


Virgin Among The Living Dead (1973) ***

Gallux Show: Wieczor 7 (1973) ***

Piosenki:

"Szanujmy cisze sasiada" *
"Problemy ducha" *
"Wielkanoc Japonczyka" *
"Sensacja" *
"Ojciec Piotr Karmelita" *

The Devil In Miss Jones (1973) ***

Gallux Show: Wieczor 6 (1973) ***

Piosenki:

"Wesola dwururka" *
"Zubr" *
"Kajak i kretyn" *
"Mario" *
"Ballada o samotnej pompie" *
"Pewnej praczce" *
"Milaja" *

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Lars Affair (1973) ***


Female Vampire (1973) ***

Eugenie de Sade (1973) ***

February 2, 1973

Detroit 9000 (1973) **

Directed by Arthur Marks. With Alex Rocco amd Vonetta McGee. An average blaxploitation flick, with two cops (one black, one white) investigating a robbery during a political fundraiser.

The Paper Chase (1973) **

A university professor gives one of his students a hard time.

The Way We Were (1973) **

Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford play two college radicals in 1930's.

January 1, 1973

The Werewolf of Washington (1973) *

A hopelessly inept horror movie that tries to be a satire about Richard Nixon's White House, but fails miserably. The first reel has dialogues wildly out of synch, but the rest of the movie is just as ridiculous. Milton Moses Ginsberg, who made the celebrated "Coming Apart" (1969), proves once again that some avant-garde directors should never try to make genre movies...

Crypt of the Living Dead (1973) *

Worthless horror movie about female vampires.

December 12, 1972

Top 10 Films of 1972

1. ''The Godfather'' (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

2. "Cabaret" (Bob Fosse, USA)

3. "Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie" (Luis Bunuel, France)

4. ''The Canterbury Tales'' (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)

5. ''Deliverance'' (John Boorman, USA)

6. ''The Ruling Class'' (Peter Medak, UK)

7. "Sleuth" (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, UK)

8. ''Red Psalm'' (Miklos Jancso, Hungary)

9. "The Harder They Come" (Perry Henzell, Jamaica)

10. "Trzeba zabic te milosc" (Janusz Morgenstern, Poland)


Other great films:

Diabel (Poland)
Fist Of Fury (Hong Kong)
Letter To Jane (France)
The New Land (Sweden)
Pictures Of The Old World (Czechoslovakia)
Solaris (Soviet Union)
Tout va bien (France)


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1972:

1. "L'Amour l'après-midi" (Eric Rohmer, France)

2. "Perla w koronie" (Kazimierz Kutz, Poland)

3. "Boxcar Bertha" (Martin Scorsese, USA)

4. "Lunch" (Curt McDowell, USA)

5. "Ciao Manhattan" (John Palmer, David Weisman, USA)

6. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (George Roy Hill, USA)

7. "Last House On The Left" (Wes Craven, USA)

8. "Savage Messiah" (Ken Russell, UK)

9. "What The Peeper Saw" (Andrea Bianchi, James Kelley, UK)

10. "Street Of A Thousand Pleasures" (William Rotsler, USA)


Short Top 3:

1. "La Cabina" (Antonio Mercero, Spain)

2. "Frog Story" (Ron Satlof, USA)

3. "Lucifer Rising" (Kenneth Anger, USA)


Other great shorts:


Top Music Video:

"John I'M Only Dancing" (Mick Rock, UK)


Top Commercial:

"Mickey Likes It" (Life)


Other great commercials:

Polski Fiat (Poland)

TV Top 3:

1. "Gallux Show: Wieczor 5" (Olga Lipinska, Poland)


3. "Mission Impossible: Kidnap" (Peter Graves, CBS)


Other great TV shows:


Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Och! Och!" (Bronislaw Zeman, Poland)

2. "Kama Sutra Rides Again" (Bob Godfrey, UK)

3. "Tup Tup" (Nedeljko Dragic, Yugoslavia)


Other great cartoons:

For The Love Of Pizza
Pecking Holes In Poles

Top Musical of 1972

"Cabaret" (Bob Fosse, Allied Artists)


November 11, 1972

The Godfather (1972) *****

One of the greatest gangster films of all time, starring Marlon Brando as the head of an influential mafia family in New York City. Al Pacino plays his youngest son.