Monty Python and the Holy Grail(Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(Milos Forman)
Love and Death(Woody Allen)
Mirror(Andrei Tarkovsky)
French Connection II(John Frankenheimer)
Hester Street(Joan Micklin Silver)
Additional 1975 Films By Rating
Smile(Michael Ritchie)
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven(Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Death Race 2000(Paul Bartel)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum(Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta)
India Song(Marguerite Duras)
Three Days of the Condor(Sydney Pollack)
Barry Lyndon(Stanley Kubrick)
The Man Who Would Be King(John Huston)
Manila in the Claws of Light(Lino Brocka)
Sholay(Ramesh Sippy)
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest(William Klein)
The Important Thing Is to Love(Andrzej Zulawski)
Overlord(Stuart Cooper)
The Passenger(Michelangelo Antonioni)
Hard Times(Walter Hill)
Grey Gardens(David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
Wrong Move(Wim Wenders)
Shampoo(Hal Ashby)
Deep Red(Dario Argento)
Picnic at Hanging Rock(Peter Weir)
Maîtresse(Barbet Schroeder)
Race With the Devil(Jack Starrett)
The Magic Flute(Ingmar Bergman)
The Story of Adèle H.(François Truffaut)
Mandingo(Richard Fleischer)
Fox and His Friends(Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Image(Radley Metzger)
The Travelling Players(Theodoros Angelopoulos)
Dolemite(D'Urville Martin)
Tommy(Ken Russell)
Giliap(Roy Andersson)
Black Moon(Louis Malle)
The Beast(Walerian Borowczyk)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom(Pier Paolo Pasolini)
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year
it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been
commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists
won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa); Doc
Savage: The Man of Bronze (Anderson); Jacob the Liar (Beyer);
The Middleman (Ray); Night Moves (Penn); The Rocky
Horror Picture Show (Sharman); Shivers (Cronenberg);
Welfare (Wiseman); Xala (Sembene)
As yet unseen:Love Among the Ruins
(Cukor); Return of the Chinese Boxer (Yu); Story of Sin
(Borowczyk); Switchblade Sisters (Hill); The Wind and the
Lion (Milius)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.