Your top 10 of 1979

Your top 10 of 1979 Jun 17, 2019 10:21:16 GMT

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Post by dirtypillows on Jun 17, 2019 10:21:16 GMT

Jun 17, 2019 9:59:17 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

Jun 17, 2019 7:49:13 GMT dirtypillows said:

Without thinking too hard about it... and in no order...

Breaking Away
Roller Boogie
Alien

...that's all I can think of for now

1979 is the only year from the awesome 1970s that is not filled with amazing movies... All the other years it would be easy to do a top ten list

Like 1974...

Airport 1975
The Conversation
Amarcord
Persecution
Badlands
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Chinatown
Born Innocent

that's it for now

Absolute tosh and piffle. It is not as extraordinary as 1978 I find, but there are many terrific gems and I have found it difficult to single out just 10. Have you even seen many from 1979, or are you just being controversial Mr. Dirty? 1979 was also a good year for me as well as a whole.

alphabetical only:

ALIEN

APOCALYSE NOW

BEING THERE

BREAKING AWAY

ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ

KRAMER vs KRAMER

A LITTLE ROMANCE

1941

THE ROSE

STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE

HM's

ALL THAT JAZZ

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR

AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

ASHANTI

THE BLACK HOLE

THE BROOD

THE CHAMP

THE CHINA SYNDROME

DRACULA

HAIR

HARDCORE

LIFE OF BRIAN

LOVE AT FIRST BITE

MAD MAX

MOONRAKER

THE MUPPET MOVIE

MUDER BY DECREE

MY BRILLIANT CAREER

NORMA RAE

THE ONION FIELD

OVER THE EDGE

PHANTASM aka THE NEVER DEAD

PROPHECY

QUADROPHENIA

ROLLER BOOGIE

SCUM

THE SILENT SCREAM

STARTING OVER

TESS

TIME AFTER TIME

THE TIN DRUM

THE WANDERERS

THE WARRIORS

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS

I don't think I was being controversial. I read your list and I guess I have seen maybe a third from your list, at most. So there is that. I did like "When a Stranger Calls" a lot, and "The Muppet Movie" was cute. And Bette Midler was phenomenal in "The Rose"... Just wrenching, and I think she should have gotten the Oscar over Sally Field. I just watched "Escape From Alcatraz" about three months ago, and I did enjoy that one. I like Clint Eastwood. But I think that by 1979, the decade was no longer fresh. It was starting to get tacky even though there was a lot of fun, fun music and tv shows. I do want to see "Being There" and I was not all that impressed by "Kramer vs Kramer". I thought it was okay. I liked the 1978 and 1980 BP winners much more.

On the other hand, every single BP nominee from 1975 is excellent. I would give them all four stars, with Barry Lyndon the one I would give ***1/2 and that is still very, very good.

I think 1971 is my all time favorite year for movies.

Klute
A Clockwork Orange
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
The Last Picture Show
X, Y and Zee
Desperate Characters
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Claude's Knee
Dirty Harry
Straw Dogs
Play Misty For Me
The Beguiled
Walkabout
Willard
THX 1138
Murmur of the Heart
Let's Scare Jessica To Death
The Garden of the Finzi Continis
Harold and Maude
The Mephisto Waltz
Summer of 42

I like/love each one of these films very much. I thought "Carnal Knowledge" and "The French Connection" were okay. The one movie that I actually did not care for was "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" and I will have to check that one out again, because I suspect I might have a different opinion on the movie 20 years later.