1979 IN FILM

My favourite films released in the U.S. in 1979. Top 30 & many honorables.






30.             ASPARAGUS

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29.                JUBILEE

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28.          LONG WEEKEND

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27.      SOLDIER OF ORANGE

26.   

ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ

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25.  THE THIRD GENERATION

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24.  

NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE

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23.              PHANTASM

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22.               REAL LIFE

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21.           THE 36TH 
     CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN

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20.           BREAKING AWAY

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                   THE WHO:
19.    THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT

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18.                   1941

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17.             BEING THERE

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16.            THE TIN DRUM

                 
15.       LUPIN THE 3RD:

CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO

                 

14.        TALE OF TALES 

               Сказка сказок

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13.          THE WANDERERS

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12.               THE
  TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS

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11.           THE BROOD

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10.             MONTY

   PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN

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9.         THE MUPPET MOVIE

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8.                 THE JERK

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7.      THE BLACK STALLION

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6.

IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS

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                         THE MARRIAGE

-tie- 6.    OF MARIA BRAUN

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5.                    ALIEN

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4.           APOCALYPSE NOW

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3.             THE WARRIORS

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2.          DAWN OF THE DEAD

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1.               ALL THE JAZZ

*****

ALSO ESSENTIAL. NOT RANKED. 

(other titles of '79 I loved that could've placed) 

THE DRILLER KILLER

ROCK 

'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL

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EMPIRE OF PASSION

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HARPYA

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LOVE ON THE RUN

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TIME AFTER TIME

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THE BUGS BUNNY / 

ROAD RUNNER MOVIE

KATAKU 火宅

[HOUSE OF FLAMES]

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WHEN 

A STRANGER CALLS

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QUADROPHENIA

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THE WRONG MOVE

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THE GREEN ROOM

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VENGEANCE IS MINE

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SHOCK

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DESPAIR

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GOING IN STYLE

..
 

NORTH DALLAS FORTY

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LA LUNA

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TOURIST TRAP

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NORMA RAE

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THE IN-LAWS

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NEZHA CONQUERS THE 

DRAGON KING 哪吒鬧海

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

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THE 

MAGNIFICENT BUTCHER

HAIR

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DEEWAAR

[THE WALL]  दिवार

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STAR TREK:

THE MOTION PICTURE 

[Director's cut]

KRAMER VS. KRAMER

THE LADY IN RED

.

THE CHINA SYNDROME

LAST EMBRACE

HARDCORE

*****

1979
TOP 30

1. ALL THAT JAZZ (Fosse)
2. DAWN OF THE DEAD (Romero)
3. THE WARRIORS (Hill)
4. APOCALYPSE NOW (Coppola)
5. ALIEN (Ridley Scott)
6. MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Fassbinder)                      -tie- IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS (Fassbinder)
7. THE BLACK STALLION (Ballard)
8. THE JERK (Carl Reiner)
9. MUPPET MOVIE (Henson/Frawley)
10. LIFE OF BRIAN (Terry Jones)
11. THE BROOD (Cronenberg)
12. TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS (Ermanno Olmi)
13. THE WANDERERS (Kaufman)
14. TALE OF TALES (Yuriy Norshteyn)
15. CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO (Miyazaki)
16. THE TIN DRUM (Schlöndorff)
17. BEING THERE (Ashby)
18. 1941 (Spielberg)
19. THE WHO: KIDS ARE ALRIGHT (Jeff Stein)
20. BREAKING AWAY (Yates)
21. 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Chia-Liang Liu)
22. REAL LIFE (Albert Brooks)
23. PHANTASM (Coscarelli) 
24. NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Herzog)
25. THIRD GENERATION (Fassbinder)
26. ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (Siegel)
27. SOLDIER OF ORANGE (Verhoeven)
28. LONG WEEKEND (Eggleston)
29. JUBILEE (Jarman)
30. ASPARAGUS (Pitt)

RUNNER UP:

THE DRILLER KILLER (Ferrara), ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (Arkush), EMPIRE OF PASSION (Nagisa Oshima), HARPYA (Servais), LOVE ON THE RUN (Truffaut), TIME AFTER TIME (Meyers), GREAT AMERICAN CHASE (C.Jones), HOUSE OF FLAME (Kihachiro Kawamoto), WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (Walton), QUADROPHENIA (Roddam), FALSCHE BEWEGUNG (Wenders), THE GREEN ROOM (Truffaut), VENGEANCE IS MINE (Imamura), SHOCK (Bava), DESPAIR (Fassbinder), GOING IN STYLE (Brest), NORTH DALLAS FORTY (Kotcheff), LA LUNA (Bertolucci), TOURIST TRAP (Schmoeller), NORMA RAE (Ritt), THE IN-LAWS (Hiller), NEZHA CONQUERS THE DRAGON KING (Y.D. Xian/S.Wang/Jingda/Kexuan), LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (Poiret), MAGNIFICENT BUTCHER (Vien Hoa Binh), HAIR (Foreman), DEEWAAR (Chopra), STAR TREK MOTION PICTURE (Wise), KRAMER VS KRAMER (Benton), LADY IN RED (Teague), CHINA SYNDROME (Bridges), LAST EMBRACE (Demme), HARDCORE (Schrader)