January 1, 1979

1941 (1979) *

10 (1979) *

December 12, 1978

Top 10 Films of 1978

1. "The Deer Hunter" (Michael Cimino, USA)

2. ''Martin'' (George Romero, USA)

3. ''Preparez vos mouchoirs'' (Bertrand Blier, France)

4. "Co mi zrobisz jak mnie zlapiesz" (Stanislaw Bareja, Poland)

5. ''Pretty Baby'' (Louis Malle, USA)

6. "Wodzirej" (Feliks Falk, Poland)

7. ''The Boys From Brazil'' (Franklin J. Schaffner, USA)

8. "La Cage aux Folles" (Edouard Molinaro, France)

9. ''Halloween'' (John Carpenter, USA)

10. "Grease" (Randal Kleiser, USA)


Other great films:

Autumn Sonata (Sweden)
Drunken Master (Hong Kong)
Spirala (Poland)
Up In Smoke


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1978:

1. "Seven Freckles" (Herrmann Zschoche, East Germany)

2. "Avere vent'anni" (Fernando Di Leo, Italy)

3. "Women Against Women" (Giovanni Brusadori, Italy)

4. "Felicity" (John D. Lamond, Australia)

5. "Frauen fur Zellenblock 9" (Jess Franco, Switzerland)

6. "Wicked Women" (Jess Franco, Switzerland)

7. "Slave Of The Cannibal God" (Sergio Martino, Italy)

9. "Debbie Does Dallas" (Jim Buckley, USA)

10. "Pretty Peaches" (Alex de Renzy, USA)


Short Top 3:

1. "Double Strength" (Barbara Hammer, USA)

2. "Burial Path" (Stan Brakhage, USA)

3. "The Flight Of The Gossamer Condor" (Ben Shedd, USA)


Other great shorts:

Rzepka (Poland)
Vampiros da Miseria (Colombia)

Top Music Video:

"Bicycle Race" (Dennis De Vallance, UK)


Other great music videos:

Sur des musiques erotiques (France)


Top Commercial:

"Coke Adds Life" (Coca-Cola)


TV Top 3:

1. "WKRP In Cincinnati: Turkeys Away" (Michael Zinberg, CBS)

2. "Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Gwiazda" (Olga Lipinska, TVP, Poland)

3. "Columbo: The Conspirators" (Leo Penn, NBC)


Other great TV shows:

07 zglos sie 2 (Poland)
Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Kontrola (Poland)
Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Premiera (Poland)

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Special Delivery" (John Weldon, Eunice Macaulay, NFB)

2. "Satiemania" (Zdenko Gasparovic, Yugoslavia)

3. "Tale Of Tales" (Yuri Norstein, Soviet Union)


Other great cartoons:

Oh My Darling (Holland)
Why Me ? (Canada)

Weak films of 1978:

California Suite
Caravans
Comes a Horseman

Weak TV shows:

Top Musical of 1978

"Grease" (Randal Kleiser, Paramount)

October 10, 1978

'The Boys From Brazil (1978) ****

Wodzirej (1978) ****

Pretty Baby (1978) ****

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Co mi zrobisz jak mnie zlapiesz (1978) ****

Preparez vos mouchoirs (1978) ****

Martin (1978) ****

The Deer Hunter (1978) ****

One of the greatest films about the Vitnam War, a timeless classic.

Grease (1978) ****

An enormously popular musical starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-Johns and Stockard Channing. Superb songs include:

"Grease" ***
"Summer Nights" ***
"Look At Me, I'M Sandra Dee" *
"Hopelessly Devoted To You" **
"Greased Lightnin'" **
"Beauty School Dropout" ***
"Rock 'n Roll Is Here To Stay" **
"Tears On My Pillow" **
"Hound Dog" *
"Born To Hand-Jive" ***
"Blue Moon" *
"Sandy" *
"There Are Worse Things I Could Do" *
"You're The One That I Want" ***
"We Go Together" ***
"Grease" (reprise) ***

September 9, 1978

Animal House (1978) ***

Halloween (1978) ***

An Unmarried Woman (1978) ***

A Wedding (1978) ***

Drunken Master (1978) ***

A Hunting Accident (1978) ***


Autumn Sonata (1978) ***

An Ingmar Bergman film starring Ingrid Bergman.

The Buddy Holly Story (1978) ***

A musical biopic about the famous singer.

La Cage aux Folles (1978) ***

Classic French farce about a gay couple (Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi) pretending to be straight.