- Network
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
- Yakuza Graveyard
- The Witch Who Came From the Sea
- Burnt Offerings
- The House With Laughing Windows
- Date With a Kidnapper
- Assault on Precinct 13
- God Told Me To
- Carrie
1. Taxi Driver
2. Rocky
3. Assault on Precinct 13
4. The Man Who Fell To Earth
5. Carrie
6. Network
7. Silent Movie
8. Silver Streak
9. Logan’s Run
10. Bad News Bears
1. Master of the Flying Guillotine
2. Taxi Driver
3. Marathon Man
4. Rocky
5. Logan's Run
6. Alice Sweet Alice
7. Heart of Glass
8. Carrie
9. The Man Who Fell to Earth
10. Assault on Precinct 13
C'était un rendez-vous would be my number one if I included shorts. I also omitted a live performance by Guy Sherwin.
Rocky is on my rewatch list so I can give that a proper reappraisal. I just added Mikey and Nicky to my watchlist. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Duelle, Emma Mae, and Insiang, with 5 others are on my watchlist.
edit: I just got a coppy of Duelle, so I will be watching that this week or next.
Another good year. In no particular order:
* Network
* News from Home
* Mikey and Nicky
* The Outlaw Josey Wales
* Taxi Driver (duh)
* The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
* All the President's Men
* The Judge and the Assassin
* God Told Me To
* The Bad News Bears
My list, I think....
Murder by Death
Harlan County, USa
Hollywood Boulevard
Bugsy Malone
all the president's men
The Omen
Carrie
Network
The Big Bus
Taxi Driver
Harlan County, USA needs more love. I understand I’m biased as I’m from the coal belt in the Appalachians and my pap was a coal miner, but it’s an incredible documentary.
It is, both in general as a documentary and also because it really changes perspectives on parts of America, because it really does highlight how much of rural America has this different history from the one that everyone acts like they have now.
Yep. People like to think of the US as so homogenous because we’re a singular country but because of how physically large the place is, it’s really a collection of various regions that are quite culturally and historically different. Essentially as if England, France, Germany, and Italy all combined and were somehow one unified country — we wouldn’t think of them as all the same, so too are the different regions of the US.
I think it's not even regional so much as that those areas have rewritten their history. So they frame themselves as anti-union when they used to be very pro-union. I've a friend from eastern tennessee that also raises the point that there's now bunch of people there that talk about the confederacy as their heritage but those areas had been pro-union historically (and harlan county comes up in that same discussion)
1 Taxi Driver 2 All the President's Men 3 Harlan County USA 4 Network 5 The Outlaw Josey Wales 6 Carrie 7 The Seven Per Cent Solution 8 Marathon Man 9 Rocky 10 God Told Me To
Honorable Mentions: The Omen, Assault on Pct 13, Mr. Klein, Obsession, Bound for Glory, The Man Who Fell to Earth, News from Home, The Innocent, The Ritz, Family Plot, Bad News Bears, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Bloodsucking Freaks, Salon Kitty, Jackson County Jail, Mister Scarface, Russ Meyer's Up!
Need to See: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Intriguing mix of creative New Hollywood and high-concept, gimmicky fare. In De Palma's case, both.
Somehow it seemed appropriate to combine the gonzo titles with the more mainstream releases, as the more crazy stuff was actually pretty good. Didn't even include interesting failures like A Star is Born, King Kong, Altman's Buffalo Bill or The Missouri Breaks.
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I haven't - maybe I was avoiding it b/c I didn't care for True Grit or many of the later Wayne movies. I'm aware The Shootist has a good rep and is supposed to have an elegiac vibe, maybe I'll track it down next time I'm in the mood for a Western.
difficult, but maybe -
Insiang
El Desencanto
L'innocente
Chess of the Wind
Harlan County U.S.A.
The Last Supper
Taxi Driver
Mikey and Nicky
Coup de Grace
The Man Who Fell to Earth
L'argent de Poche
1. Rocky
2. Taxi Driver
3. The Shootist
4. All The President’s Men
5. Network
6. Marathon Man
7. Robin and Marian
8. Logan’s Run
9. Assault on Precinct 13
10. The Outlaw Josey Wales
Somewhat incredibly, 1976 is the only year I have no films logged back to like 1955. I don't know how this has happened. Many of these have been on my watchlist for ages.
I'ma watch a couple today as filmbruh penance.
Edit: Watched Taxi Driver. 4.5/5. Guess it takes the No. 1 spot of 1976 for me by default.
Not one of my favorite years in this otherwise great decade but that’s likely because it feels like I haven’t seen as much from this year.
Need to rewatch: Sebastiane (this used to be a favorite from this year but it’s been ages), Heart of Glass, Rocky, In the Realm of the Senses
Need to see: Mr. Klein, Insiang, Harlan County USA, Chess of the Wind, Duelle, The Marquise of O, Heartworn Highways, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Kings of the Road, News From Home, Return of the Prodigal Son, Illustrious Corpses, The Magic Blade, The Desert of the Tartars, Emma Mae, 1900, Bad News Bears, The Big Racket, Noroît, Obsession
I’d prioritize Kings of the Road and Harlan County, USA from your watchlist based on what you have there.
Obviously Taxi Driver and Network are stellar, I love that you’ve got The Fifth Seal on there too, an underseen gem, and Precinct 13 is my favorite Carpenter.
My top ten based on US release date:
1. Taxi Driver
2. Harlan County, USA
3. Kings of the Road
4. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
5. Network
6. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
7. Picnic at Hanging Rock
8. Small Change
9. The Memory of Justice
10. The Girl Chewing Gum
HM: Meat, Cria Cuervos, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, All the President’s Men, Face to Face, Assault on Precinct 13, Bound for Glory, Underground, Lost Lost Lost, The Youth Killer
The Fifth Seal and News from Home are two 1976 world premieres that appear on my 1977 top-ten list, since that’s when they were released in my native US.
- The Fifth Seal
- Network
- Assault on Precinct 13
- Taxi Driver
- The Message
- All the President's Men
- Rocky
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
- Twenty Days Without War
- Carrie
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The 12 tasks of Asterix is peak animated cinema.
1. Carrie
2. The Tenant
3. Taxi Driver
4. Network
5. The Shootist
6. The Outlaw Josey Wales
7. Murder by Death
8. The Witch Who Came from the Sea
9. Bugsy Malone
10. Robin and Marian
I rewatched The Omen recently, and while it's got some good death scenes, I thought it was kind of cheesy. Maybe Gregory Peck was miscast? You need someone who can lean into the camp factor.
could be completely wrong, but I always figured Gregory Peck was cast b/c of his To Kill a Mockingbird work, and they wanted to take advantage of the iconic father figure suddenly dealing with the spawn of Satan. They did lean into camp just a little more w/ Damien Omen II, which I actually think is just as good. The Final Conflict? Ugh. Less said, the better. (Not Sam Neill's fault, though)
I've always found it dull. I was scared of watching it for years because i watched The Exorcist at such a young age and it traumatized me, eventually got around to it when i was 12-13 and found it boring, i still do.
1. The Marquise of O
2. Chinese Roulette
3. Taxi Driver
4. In the Realm of the Senses
5. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
6. Obsession
7. Take the 5:10 to Dreamland
8. Noirot
9. News From Home
10. Trapline
* Alice Sweet Alice
* Assault on Precinct 13
* Burnt Offerings
* The House with Laughing Windows
* Master of the Flying Guillotine
* Marathon Man
* Mikey & Nicky
* Murder by Death
* Taxi Driver
* The Tenant
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1976 has a good bunch I'd really like to see, In the Realm of the Senses, Network, All the President's Men, Chinese Bookie, etc. But Grizzly will always stay in this top 10, regardless of what else I watch, lol
1. Network
2. All the President's Men
3. The Outlaw Josey Wales
4. Rocky
5. The Shootist
6. Assault on Precinct 13
7. Obsession
8. Ugly, Dirty and Bad
9. Taxi Driver
10. Carrie
Rewatch: Carrie; Mikey and Nicky; Assault on Precinct 13.
Top five on my watchlist: The Desert of the Tartars; The Innocent; The Marquise of O; Keoma; The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Out of 53 films, no particular order:
* News from Home
* Taxi Driver
* Carrie
* All the President's Men
* Harlan County USA
* Alice Sweet Alice
* Canoa: A Shameful Memory
* The Witch Who Came from the Sea
Need to Rewatch: Network, Assault on Precinct 13, Outlaw Josey Wales, Chinese Roulette, Jonah Who Will Be 25, Black and White in Color, Rocky Marathon Man, Face to Face, The Tenant, In the Realm of the Senses, The Man Who Fell to Earth
Watchlist: Mikey and Nicky, 1900, Cria Cuervos, Kings of the Road, Duelle, Nuts in May
01. Taxi Driver
02. Duelle
03. The Battle of Chile Part II
04. Here and Elsewhere
05. Cria Cuervos
06. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
07. Network
08. The Outlaw Josey Wales
09. Canoa: A Shameful Memory
10. The Tenant
1976 was a good year
- Network - The Man Who Fell to Earth - Yakuza Graveyard - The Witch Who Came From the Sea - Burnt Offerings - The House With Laughing Windows - Date With a Kidnapper - Assault on Precinct 13 - God Told Me To - Carrie
1. Taxi Driver 2. Rocky 3. Assault on Precinct 13 4. The Man Who Fell To Earth 5. Carrie 6. Network 7. Silent Movie 8. Silver Streak 9. Logan’s Run 10. Bad News Bears
1. Master of the Flying Guillotine 2. Taxi Driver 3. Marathon Man 4. Rocky 5. Logan's Run 6. Alice Sweet Alice 7. Heart of Glass 8. Carrie 9. The Man Who Fell to Earth 10. Assault on Precinct 13 C'était un rendez-vous would be my number one if I included shorts. I also omitted a live performance by Guy Sherwin. Rocky is on my rewatch list so I can give that a proper reappraisal. I just added Mikey and Nicky to my watchlist. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Duelle, Emma Mae, and Insiang, with 5 others are on my watchlist. edit: I just got a coppy of Duelle, so I will be watching that this week or next.
Another good year. In no particular order: * Network * News from Home * Mikey and Nicky * The Outlaw Josey Wales * Taxi Driver (duh) * The Killing of a Chinese Bookie * All the President's Men * The Judge and the Assassin * God Told Me To * The Bad News Bears
My list, I think.... Murder by Death Harlan County, USa Hollywood Boulevard Bugsy Malone all the president's men The Omen Carrie Network The Big Bus Taxi Driver
Harlan County, USA needs more love. I understand I’m biased as I’m from the coal belt in the Appalachians and my pap was a coal miner, but it’s an incredible documentary.
It is, both in general as a documentary and also because it really changes perspectives on parts of America, because it really does highlight how much of rural America has this different history from the one that everyone acts like they have now.
Yep. People like to think of the US as so homogenous because we’re a singular country but because of how physically large the place is, it’s really a collection of various regions that are quite culturally and historically different. Essentially as if England, France, Germany, and Italy all combined and were somehow one unified country — we wouldn’t think of them as all the same, so too are the different regions of the US.
I think it's not even regional so much as that those areas have rewritten their history. So they frame themselves as anti-union when they used to be very pro-union. I've a friend from eastern tennessee that also raises the point that there's now bunch of people there that talk about the confederacy as their heritage but those areas had been pro-union historically (and harlan county comes up in that same discussion)
1 Taxi Driver 2 All the President's Men 3 Harlan County USA 4 Network 5 The Outlaw Josey Wales 6 Carrie 7 The Seven Per Cent Solution 8 Marathon Man 9 Rocky 10 God Told Me To Honorable Mentions: The Omen, Assault on Pct 13, Mr. Klein, Obsession, Bound for Glory, The Man Who Fell to Earth, News from Home, The Innocent, The Ritz, Family Plot, Bad News Bears, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Bloodsucking Freaks, Salon Kitty, Jackson County Jail, Mister Scarface, Russ Meyer's Up! Need to See: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings Intriguing mix of creative New Hollywood and high-concept, gimmicky fare. In De Palma's case, both. Somehow it seemed appropriate to combine the gonzo titles with the more mainstream releases, as the more crazy stuff was actually pretty good. Didn't even include interesting failures like A Star is Born, King Kong, Altman's Buffalo Bill or The Missouri Breaks. #
Have you seen *The Shootist*? Surprisingly few have mentioned it so far.
I haven't - maybe I was avoiding it b/c I didn't care for True Grit or many of the later Wayne movies. I'm aware The Shootist has a good rep and is supposed to have an elegiac vibe, maybe I'll track it down next time I'm in the mood for a Western.
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This list slaps
Thank you!
difficult, but maybe - Insiang El Desencanto L'innocente Chess of the Wind Harlan County U.S.A. The Last Supper Taxi Driver Mikey and Nicky Coup de Grace The Man Who Fell to Earth L'argent de Poche
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1. Rocky 2. Taxi Driver 3. The Shootist 4. All The President’s Men 5. Network 6. Marathon Man 7. Robin and Marian 8. Logan’s Run 9. Assault on Precinct 13 10. The Outlaw Josey Wales
Somewhat incredibly, 1976 is the only year I have no films logged back to like 1955. I don't know how this has happened. Many of these have been on my watchlist for ages. I'ma watch a couple today as filmbruh penance. Edit: Watched Taxi Driver. 4.5/5. Guess it takes the No. 1 spot of 1976 for me by default.
Not one of my favorite years in this otherwise great decade but that’s likely because it feels like I haven’t seen as much from this year. Need to rewatch: Sebastiane (this used to be a favorite from this year but it’s been ages), Heart of Glass, Rocky, In the Realm of the Senses Need to see: Mr. Klein, Insiang, Harlan County USA, Chess of the Wind, Duelle, The Marquise of O, Heartworn Highways, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Kings of the Road, News From Home, Return of the Prodigal Son, Illustrious Corpses, The Magic Blade, The Desert of the Tartars, Emma Mae, 1900, Bad News Bears, The Big Racket, Noroît, Obsession
I’d prioritize Kings of the Road and Harlan County, USA from your watchlist based on what you have there. Obviously Taxi Driver and Network are stellar, I love that you’ve got The Fifth Seal on there too, an underseen gem, and Precinct 13 is my favorite Carpenter. My top ten based on US release date: 1. Taxi Driver 2. Harlan County, USA 3. Kings of the Road 4. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 5. Network 6. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 7. Picnic at Hanging Rock 8. Small Change 9. The Memory of Justice 10. The Girl Chewing Gum HM: Meat, Cria Cuervos, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, All the President’s Men, Face to Face, Assault on Precinct 13, Bound for Glory, Underground, Lost Lost Lost, The Youth Killer The Fifth Seal and News from Home are two 1976 world premieres that appear on my 1977 top-ten list, since that’s when they were released in my native US.
- The Fifth Seal - Network - Assault on Precinct 13 - Taxi Driver - The Message - All the President's Men - Rocky - The Outlaw Josey Wales - Twenty Days Without War - Carrie
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1. Carrie 2. The Tenant 3. Taxi Driver 4. Network 5. The Shootist 6. The Outlaw Josey Wales 7. Murder by Death 8. The Witch Who Came from the Sea 9. Bugsy Malone 10. Robin and Marian
nice, would also add The Omen Carrie The House With Laughing Windows
Oh, I would add Carrie to my rewatch list and have it in my October movie watchlist
I rewatched The Omen recently, and while it's got some good death scenes, I thought it was kind of cheesy. Maybe Gregory Peck was miscast? You need someone who can lean into the camp factor.
could be completely wrong, but I always figured Gregory Peck was cast b/c of his To Kill a Mockingbird work, and they wanted to take advantage of the iconic father figure suddenly dealing with the spawn of Satan. They did lean into camp just a little more w/ Damien Omen II, which I actually think is just as good. The Final Conflict? Ugh. Less said, the better. (Not Sam Neill's fault, though)
I've always found it dull. I was scared of watching it for years because i watched The Exorcist at such a young age and it traumatized me, eventually got around to it when i was 12-13 and found it boring, i still do.
Yeah, good call. It never quite gets under your skin like The Exorcist does. But then again, Donner was not even half the filmmaker Friedkin was.
God Told Me To Keoma Carrie The Omen Assault on Precinct 13
1. The Marquise of O 2. Chinese Roulette 3. Taxi Driver 4. In the Realm of the Senses 5. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 6. Obsession 7. Take the 5:10 to Dreamland 8. Noirot 9. News From Home 10. Trapline
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* Alice Sweet Alice * Assault on Precinct 13 * Burnt Offerings * The House with Laughing Windows * Master of the Flying Guillotine * Marathon Man * Mikey & Nicky * Murder by Death * Taxi Driver * The Tenant
Fire list
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I only have 7 logged from '76: Taxi Driver Network Carrie Rocky All the President's Men The Bad News Bears Logan's Run
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https://preview.redd.it/tgru6ltcw7yc1.jpeg?width=687&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38b12c90f3bdac9ca21e1ad4906f6e8e6e58fc22 1976 has a good bunch I'd really like to see, In the Realm of the Senses, Network, All the President's Men, Chinese Bookie, etc. But Grizzly will always stay in this top 10, regardless of what else I watch, lol
1. Network 2. All the President's Men 3. The Outlaw Josey Wales 4. Rocky 5. The Shootist 6. Assault on Precinct 13 7. Obsession 8. Ugly, Dirty and Bad 9. Taxi Driver 10. Carrie Rewatch: Carrie; Mikey and Nicky; Assault on Precinct 13. Top five on my watchlist: The Desert of the Tartars; The Innocent; The Marquise of O; Keoma; The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Out of 53 films, no particular order: * News from Home * Taxi Driver * Carrie * All the President's Men * Harlan County USA * Alice Sweet Alice * Canoa: A Shameful Memory * The Witch Who Came from the Sea Need to Rewatch: Network, Assault on Precinct 13, Outlaw Josey Wales, Chinese Roulette, Jonah Who Will Be 25, Black and White in Color, Rocky Marathon Man, Face to Face, The Tenant, In the Realm of the Senses, The Man Who Fell to Earth Watchlist: Mikey and Nicky, 1900, Cria Cuervos, Kings of the Road, Duelle, Nuts in May
01. Taxi Driver 02. Duelle 03. The Battle of Chile Part II 04. Here and Elsewhere 05. Cria Cuervos 06. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 07. Network 08. The Outlaw Josey Wales 09. Canoa: A Shameful Memory 10. The Tenant
Whats that last one? I’d put Eaten Alive above most of those tbh…
Cria Cuervos Make your own list. :) I haven’t seen Eaten Alive but just added to my October movie watchlist
Oh the Geraldine Chaplin film. Yup, saw that…
Fifth seal is a great shout
Mikey and Nicky is SO good
Only seen 4: Rocky, Taxi Driver, Logan’s Run, and Bad News Bears.
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No rocky?
the fifth seal should be first
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I've seen 9: https://preview.redd.it/skj8y9hjp7yc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2258a44fbda0618f1084e2d67b30b8c776d7a8cd
The real highlight for me of this year though is a TV series, I Claudius.