1941 (1979) *

10 (1979) *

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:

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (Czechoslovakia)

Animal House

Autumn Sonata (Sweden)

Bez znieczulenia (Poland)

Bilbao (Spain)
The Brink's Job
The Buddy Holly Story
Days Of Heaven

Drunken Master (Hong Kong)

Empire Of Passion (Japan)

Eraserhead

Gates Of Heaven
A Hunting Accident (Soviet Union)

In Praise Of Older Women (Canada)

Interiors

Just Like Home (Hungary)
The Last Waltz
The Lord Of The Rings

Revenge Of The Pink Panther

The Shout (UK)

Spirala (Poland)

Stay As You Are (Italy)

An Unmarried Woman

Up In Smoke

Violette Noziere (France)

Watership Down

A Wedding

Who'll Stop The Rain

The Wiz

You Are Not Alone (Denmark)

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)

8. "Emanuelle And The Girls Of Madame Claude" (Joe D'Amato, 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:

The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey

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)

Rip Van Winkle
The Small One

Why Me ? (Canada)

Weak films of 1978:

California Suite
Caravans
Comes a Horseman

Coming Home
Crippled Avengers (Hong Kong)
Despair

Heaven Can Wait

Midnight Expess

The Orchestra Rehearsal (Italy)

Same Time Next Year
Superman
The Swarm
The Tree Of Wooden Clogs (Italy)
War Of The Robots (Italy)

Weak shorts:

An Encounter With Faces
Salome (Spain)
Xenogenesis

Weak cartoons:

Afterlife (Canada)
Entre chiens et loup (Canada)

Weak TV shows:

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Komisja (Poland)

Kabaret Olgi Lipinskiej: Rury (Poland)

Top Musical of 1978

"Grease" (Randal Kleiser, Paramount)

'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) ***

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.