Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1975

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip75banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><strong>Top Ten of 1975: World Premieres</strong></b></Font><br> <Font Size=-2>&nbsp<br></Font> <Table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles</Font></b></Font> Dir. Chantal Akerman <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A+</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Nashville</Font></b></Font> Dir. Robert Altman. With Ronee Blakley, Henry Gibson, Keith Carradine <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A+</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=travplay.html style="text-decoration:none"><Font Color="#003399">The Travelling Players</Font></b></Font></a> Dir. Theo Angelopoulos. With Stratos Pahis, Aliki Georgouli <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A+</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Dog Day Afternoon</Font></b></Font> Dir. Sidney Lumet. With Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A+</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=foxfrien.html style="text-decoration:none"><Font Color="#003399">Fox and His Friends</Font></b></Font></a> Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Rainer Werner Fassbinder <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>6.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=favfilmssmoldering.html style="text-decoration:none"><Font Color="#003399">Chronicle of the Smoldering Years</Font></b></Font></a> Dir. Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. With Yorgo Voyagis <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>7.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Jaws</Font></b></Font> Dir. Steven Spielberg. With Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gray <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>8.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Stepford Wives</Font></b></Font> Dir. Bryan Forbes. With Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A&#150</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>9.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Passenger</Font></b></Font> Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni. With Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>10.&nbsp</Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Seven Beauties</Font></b></Font> Dir. Lina Wertm&#252ller. With Giancarlo Giannini, Shirley Stoler, Piero Di Iorio <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> </Table> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1975</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">&#9733</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">&#9733</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=favfilmssmoldering.html target="_new" style="text-decoration:none">Chronicle of the Smoldering Years</a></b></Font> Dir. Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. With Yorgo Voyagis <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=foxfrien.html target="_top" style="text-decoration:none">Fox and His Friends</a></b></Font> Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#009900">&#9733</Font>&nbsp &nbsp<b><a href=travplay.html target="_top" style="text-decoration:none">The Travelling Players</a></b></Font> Dir. Theo Angelopoulos. With Stratos Pahis, Aliki Georgouli <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1975</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Cousin cousine</b></Font> Dir. Jean Charles Tacchella. With Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Hedda</b></Font> Dir. Trevor Nunn. With Glenda Jackson, Peter Eyre, Patrick Stewart, Jennie Linden <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B&#150</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough</b></Font> Dir. Guy Green. With Deborah Raffin, Kirk Douglas <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Report to the Commissioner</b></Font> Dir. Milton Katselas. With Michael Moriarity, Yaphet Kotto <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Rocky Horror Picture Show</b></Font> Dir. Jim Sharman. With Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Shampoo</b></Font> Dir. Hal Ashby. With Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Jack Warden <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Story of Ad&#232le H.</b></Font> Dir. Fran&#231ois Truffaut. With Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Tommy</b></Font> Dir. Ken Russell. With Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Robert Powell <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <br> <Font Color="#0099CC" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Also from 1975</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fantastic</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Magic Flute</b></Font> Dir. Ingmar Bergman. With Josef K&#246stlinger, Irma Urrila, H&#229kan Hageg&#229rd<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fetching</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Barry Lyndon</b></Font> Dir. Stanley Kubrick. With Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Leon Vitali<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>F for Fake</b></Font> Dir. Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Love Among the Ruins</b></Font> TV Movie. Dir. George Cukor. With Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</b></Font> Dirs. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones. With John Cleese<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Shivers, aka They Came from Within</b></Font> Dir. David Cronenberg. With Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fair</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Grey Gardens</b></Font> Dirs. Peter & Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin. Documentary<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Hester Street</b></Font> Dir. Joan Micklin Silver. With Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Love and Death</b></Font> Dir. Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Zvee Scooler, Jessica Harper<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest</b></Font> Dir. Milo&#154 Forman. With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Picnic at Hanging Rock</b></Font> Dir. Peter Weir. With Rachel Roberts, Anne Lambert, Dominic Guard<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Feh</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Rooster Cogburn</b></Font> Dir. Stuart Millar. With John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Strother Martin<br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Flotsam</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>Farewell, My Lovely</b></Font> Dir. Dick Richards. With Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling<br> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Face=Garamond Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1975</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3>&nbsp<br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Gourmet Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>2 or 3 Things I Know About Her</b></Font> Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. With Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp <b>The Comedians</b></Font> Dir. Peter Glenville. 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