1978 IN FILM

My favourite films released in the U.S. in 1978. Top 30 & many honorables.






                    
                 THE RUTLES:

30.   ALL YOU NEED IS CASH

29.  THE LORD OF THE RINGS

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28.           COMING HOME

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27.        GATES OF HEAVEN

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26.                  MAGIC

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-tie- 26.       THE SHOUT

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25.          COUP DE GRACE

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24.      THE SILENT PARTNER

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23.             THE ASCENT

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22.        DRUNKEN MASTER

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21.      WHITE BIM BLACK EAR

   Белый Бим Чёрное ухо

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20.        THE DEER HUNTER

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19.
  CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING

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18.           THE LAST WAVE

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17.      FIVE DEADLY VENOMS

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16.              A WEDDING

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15.                PIRANHA

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14.  KOKO: A TALKING GORILLA

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13.   LA SOUFRIÈRE: WAITING
 FOR AN INEVITABLE DISASTER

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12.                VIOLETTE

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11.            GIRLFRIENDS

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10.              SATIEMANIA

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9.              BLUE COLLAR

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8.                  THE FURY

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7.               THE DRIVER

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6.                 SUPERMAN

                      INVASION
5.     OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

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4.     THE MEETINGS OF ANNA

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3.               HALLOWEEN

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2.            KILLER OF SHEEP

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1.             DAYS OF HEAVEN

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ALSO ESSENTIAL. NOT RANKED. 
(the other titles of '78 I loved that could've placed)

AMERICAN BOY:

A PROFILE OF STEVEN PRINCE

THE LAST WALTZ

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SPIRITUAL KUNG FU

AUTUMN SONATA

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AN UNMARRIED WOMAN

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THE BATTLE OF CHILE PT.1:

THE INSURRECTION OF THE BOURGEOISIE

THE BATTLE OF CHILE PT. II:

THE COUP D'ETAT

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THE DUELLISTS

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DEVO: MONGOLOID

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CONVOY

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WARRIORS TWO

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RITUALS

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BIG WEDNESDAY

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HEAVEN CAN WAIT

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MARTIN

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WATERSHIP DOWN

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FINGERS

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CAPRICORN ONE

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HARDWARE WARS

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SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME!

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RINGING BELL

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BOYS FROM BRAZIL

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MIDNIGHT EXPRESS

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I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND

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EYES OF LAURA MARS

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INTERIORS

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GET OUT
YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS

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ANIMAL HOUSE

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THE MONGRELOID

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GREASE

KRABAT:

THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE

LIQUID CRYSTALS

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1978

TOP 30

1. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Malick)
2. KILLER OF SHEEP (Burnett)
3. HALLOWEEN (Carpenter)
4. LES RENDEZ-VOUS D'ANNA (Chantal Akerman)
5. INVASION OF BODY SNATCHERS (Kaufman)
6. SUPERMAN (Donner)
7. THE DRIVER (Hill)
8. THE FURY (De Palma)
9. BLUE COLLAR (Schrader)
10. SATIEMANIA (Gasparovic)
11. GIRLFRIENDS (Claudia Weill)
12. VIOLETTE (Chabrol)
13. LA SOUFRIERE (Herzog)
14. KOKO: A TALKING GORILLA (Schroeder)
15. PIRANHA (Dante)
16. A WEDDING (Altman)
17. 5 DEADLY VENOMS (Cheh Chang)
18. THE LAST WAVE (Weir)
19. CELINE & JULIE GO BOATING (Rivette)
20. THE DEER HUNTER (Cimino)
21. WHITE BIM BLACK EAR (Rostotsky)
22. DRUNKEN MASTER (Woo-ping)
23. THE ASCENT (Laresa Shepitko)
24. THE SILENT PARTNER (Daryl Duke)
25. COUP DE GRACE (Schlöndorff)
26. THE SHOUT (Skolimowski)                                              -tie- MAGIC (Attenborough)
27. GATES OF HEAVEN (Morris)
28. COMING HOME (Ashby)
29. LORD OF THE RINGS (Bakshi)
30. THE RUTLES (Idle)

RUNNER-UP

AMERICAN BOY (Scorsese), LAST WALTZ (Scorsese), SPIRITUAL KUNG FU (Lo wei), AUTUMN SONATA (Bergman), AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (Mazursky), BATTLE OF CHILE PART I & II (Guzman), THE DUELLISTS (R.Scott), MONGOLOID (Bruce Conner), CONVOY (Peckinpah), WARRIORS TWO (Hung), RITUALS (Carter), BIG WEDNESDAY (Milius), HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Beatty), MARTIN (Romero), WATERSHIP DOWN (Rosen), FINGERS (Toback), CAPRICORN ONE (Hyams), HARDWARE WARS (Fosselius), SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME! (Carpenter), RINGING BELL (Masami Hata), BOYS FROM BRAZIL (Schaffner), MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (Parker), I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND (Zemeckis), EYES OF LAURA MARS (Kershner), INTERIORS (Allen), GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Blier), ANIMAL HOUSE (Landis), THE MONGRELOID (Kuchar bros), GREASE (Kleiser), THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (Zeman), CRISTAUX LIQUIDES (Painlevé)