Best of 1978


  1. Days of Heaven                                                                           Terrence Malick
  2. The Marriage of Maria Braun                                                     RW Fassbinder
  3. Pennies From Heaven                                                    Dennis Potter, Piers Haggard
  4. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith                                              Fred Schepisi
  5. Martin                                                                                           George Romero
  6. Straight Time                                                                               Ulu Grosbard
  7. Girlfriends                                                                                    Claudia Weill
  8. The Last Waltz                                                                             Martin Scorsese
  9. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs                                                      Bertrand Blier
  10. The Shout                                                                                    Jerzy Skolimowski
          Honorable Mention
          
          Halloween -- Carpenter

          Films I Enjoyed

         An Unmarried Woman, Perceval le Gallois, 
         The Deer Hunter, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 
         Who'll Stop the Rain, Movie Movie,
         The Driver, Grease, 
         Pretty Baby, The Other Side of Evil,
         Every Which Way But Loose,
         Heaven Can Wait, Big Wednesday, 
         Piranha, Interiors,
         Animal House, The Eyes of Laura Mars, Magic

         Below the Mendoza Line

         Blue Collar, Summer of Fear, 
         La Cage Aux Folles, Fedora,
         The Cheap Detective, Goin' South,
         The Wild Geese, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Coma,
         California Suite, The Betsy, 
         The Fury, Revenge of the Pink Panther,
         The Buddy Holly Story, Force 10 from Navarone, Up in Smoke,
         Superman, Jaws 2, 
         Grey Lady Down, Midnight Express,
         Convoy, The Boys from Brazil, 
         The Swarm, The Brass Target,
         Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

                                           

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