Top Ten of 1975: World Premieres
| 1. | Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Dir. Chantal Akerman A+ |
| 4. | Nashville Dir. Robert Altman. With Ronee Blakley, Henry Gibson, Keith Carradine A+ |
| 3. | The Travelling Players Dir. Theo Angelopoulos. With Stratos Pahis, Aliki Georgouli A+ |
| 4. | Dog Day Afternoon Dir. Sidney Lumet. With Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning A+ |
| 5. | Fox and His Friends Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Rainer Werner Fassbinder A |
| 6. | Chronicle of the Smoldering Years Dir. Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. With Yorgo Voyagis A |
| 7. | Jaws Dir. Steven Spielberg. With Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gray A– |
| 8. | The Stepford Wives Dir. Bryan Forbes. With Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson A– |
| 9. | The Passenger Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni. With Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider B+ |
| 10. | Seven Beauties Dir. Lina Wertmüller. With Giancarlo Giannini, Shirley Stoler, Piero Di Iorio B+ |
Reviews from 1975
★ = Full-Length Review / © = Capsule-Length Review / ★ = Blog Review (New Window)
© Chronicle of the Smoldering Years Dir. Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. With Yorgo Voyagis A
★ Fox and His Friends Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel A
★ The Travelling Players Dir. Theo Angelopoulos. With Stratos Pahis, Aliki Georgouli A
More Grades from 1975
Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade
Cousin cousine Dir. Jean Charles Tacchella. With Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux B–
Hedda Dir. Trevor Nunn. With Glenda Jackson, Peter Eyre, Patrick Stewart, Jennie Linden B–
Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough Dir. Guy Green. With Deborah Raffin, Kirk Douglas D+
Report to the Commissioner Dir. Milton Katselas. With Michael Moriarity, Yaphet Kotto C
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Dir. Jim Sharman. With Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon C+
Shampoo Dir. Hal Ashby. With Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Jack Warden B+
The Story of Adèle H. Dir. François Truffaut. With Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson B+
Tommy Dir. Ken Russell. With Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Robert Powell C
Also from 1975
The memories are fading, but they're somewhere in my brain
Fantastic
The Magic Flute Dir. Ingmar Bergman. With Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård
Fetching
Barry Lyndon Dir. Stanley Kubrick. With Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Leon Vitali
F for Fake Dir. Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving
Love Among the Ruins TV Movie. Dir. George Cukor. With Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Dirs. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones. With John Cleese
Shivers, aka They Came from Within Dir. David Cronenberg. With Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry
Fair
Cooley High Dir. Michael Schultz. With Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris
Grey Gardens Dirs. Peter & Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin. Documentary
Hester Street Dir. Joan Micklin Silver. With Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard
Love and Death Dir. Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Zvee Scooler, Jessica Harper
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Dir. Miloš Forman. With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher
Picnic at Hanging Rock Dir. Peter Weir. With Rachel Roberts, Anne Lambert, Dominic Guard
Feh
Rooster Cogburn Dir. Stuart Millar. With John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Strother Martin
Flotsam
Farewell, My Lovely Dir. Dick Richards. With Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling
Still to Come from 1975
Gourmet Prospects:
Black Moon Dir. Louis Malle. With Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro
Deewaar Dir. Yash Chopra. With Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Nirupa Roy
Dersu Uzala Dir. Akira Kurosawa. With Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko
India Song Dir. Marguerite Duras. With Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Dirs. Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe Von Trotta. With Angela Winkler
The Man Who Would Be King Dir. John Huston. With Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
Moses and Aaron Dirs. Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet. With Günter Reich, Louis Devos, Eva Csapo
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven
Night Moves Dir. Arthur Penn. With Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin
Sholay Dir. Ramesh Sippy. With Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan
Further Research:
Adoption Dir. Márta Mészáros. With Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh, Péter Fried, László Szabó, Flóra Kádár
At Long Last Love Dir. Peter Bogdanovich. With Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn
Bite the Bullet Dir. Richard Brooks. With Gene Hackman, Candice Bergin, James Coburn, Ben Johnson
Cat and Mouse Dir. Claude Lelouch. With Michèle Morgan, Serge Reggiani, Philippe Léotard
Chupke Chupke Dir. Hrishikesh Mukherjee. With Dharmenda, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan
Conduct Unbecoming Dir. Michael Anderson. With Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard
Crazy Mama Dir. Jonathan Demme. With Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Jim Backus
The Day of the Locust Dir. John Schlesinger. With Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, William Atherton
Death Race 2000 Dir. Paul Bartel. With David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth
Deep Red Dir. Dario Argento. With David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril
Dirty Hands Dir. Claude Chabrol. With Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, François Maistre, Paolo Giusti
The Drowning Pool Dir. Stuart Rosenberg. With Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa
The Eiger Sanction Dir. Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee
Escape to Witch Mountain Dir. John Hough. With Eddie Albert, Ray Miland, Donald Pleasance, Kim Richards
Flic Story Dir. Jacques Deray. With Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori
The Fortune Dir. Mike Nichols. With Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing, Ian Wolfe
The French Connection II Dir. John Frankenheimer. With Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson
Friday Foster Dir. Arthur Marks. With Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Eartha Kitt
Friend Dir. Yilmaz Güney. With Kerim Afsar, Azra Balkan, Civan Canova, Melike Demirag
Funny Lady Dir. Herbert Ross. With Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Ben Vereen
Galileo Dir. Joseph Losey. With Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Clive Revill
Give 'Em Hell, Harry! Dir. Steve Binder. With James Whitmore
The Great Waldo Pepper Dir. George Roy Hill. With Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin
The Happy Hooker Dir. Nicholas Sgarro. With Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lovelady Powell
Hard Times Dir. Walter Hill. With Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin
Hearts of the West Dir. Howard Zieff. With Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasance
The Hiding Place Dir. James F. Collier. With Julie Harris, Jeanette Clift, Arthur O'Connell, Robert Rietty
Himalay Se Ooncha Dir. B.S. Thapa. With Sunil Dutt, Mallika Sarabhai, Ranjeet, Rakesh Pandey
The Hindenburg Dir. Robert Wise. With George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Gig Young
Hustle Dir. Robert Aldrich. With Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield
Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS Dir. Don Edmonds. With Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo, Maria Marx
In Celebration Dir. Lindsay Anderson. With Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Day, Bill Owen
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Dir. Denis Héroux. With Jacques Brel
Jacob the Liar Dir. Frank Beyer. With Vlastimil Brodsky, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen
Julie Dir. K.S. Sethumadhavan. With Lakshmi, Vikram, Nadira, Utpal Dutt, Achala Sachdev, Rita Bhaduri
Katherine Dir. Jeremy Kagan. With Henry Winkler, Sissy Spacek, Art Carney, Julie Kavner
Keetje Tippel Dir. Paul Verhoeven. With Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Andrea Domburg
The Killer Elite Dir. Sam Peckinpah. With James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins
Let Joy Reign Supreme Dir. Bertrand Tavernier. With Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Christine Pascal
Let's Do It Again Dir. Sidney Poitier. With Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos
Lisztomania Dir. Ken Russell. With Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr
Lucky Lady Dir. Stanley Donen. With Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, Geoffrey Lewis
Mahogany Dir. Berry Gordy. With Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins, Beah Richards
The Maids Dir. Christopher Miles. With Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant, Mark Burns
Maîtresse Dir. Barbet Schroeder. With Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer, Nathalie Keryan
The Man in the Glass Booth Dir. Arthur Hiller. With Maximilian Schell, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler
Mandingo Dir. Richard Fleischer. With James Mason, Susan George, Richard Ward, Perry King
Il Messia Dir. Roberto Rossellini. With Pier Maria Rossi, Mita Ungaro, Carlos de Carvalho
Moment to Moment Dir. Robert Downey, Sr. With Leonard Buschel, Elise Downey, Michael Sullivan
The Nazarene Cross and the Wolf Dir. Leonardo Favio. With Juan José Camero, Marina Magali
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle Dir. Leonid Bykov. With Leonid Bykov, Sergei Bodgornyj
The Other Side of the Mountain Dir. Larry Peerce. With Marilyn Hassett, Beau Bridges, Belinda Montgomery
Out of Season Dir. Alan Bridges. With Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson, Susan George, Edward Evans
Overlord Dir. Stuart Cooper. With Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam
Pastorali Dir. Otar Iosseliani. With Nana Iosseliani, Tamar Gabarashvili, Mikhail Naneishvili
Pleasure Party Dir. Claude Chabrol. With Danièle Gégauff, Paul Gégauff, Clémence Gégauff
The Prisoner of Second Avenue Dir. Melvin Frank. With Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks
The Promised Land Dir. Andrzej Wajda. With Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn
Race with the Devil Dir. Jack Starrett. With Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker
Rafoo Chakkar Dir. Narendra Bedi. With Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Rajendra Nath, Faryal, Arsani
The Return of the Pink Panther Dir. Blake Edwards. With Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer
Rollerball Dir. Norman Jewison. With James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn
The Romantic Englishwoman Dir. Joseph Losey. With Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger
Le Sauvage Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau. With Catherine Deneuve, Yves Montand, Luigi Vannucchi
Section spéciale Dir. Costa-Gavras. With Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani
Smile Dir. Michael Ritchie. With Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Geoffrey Lewis
The Story of O Dir. Just Jaeckin. With Corinne Cléry, Udo Kier, Anthony Steel, Jean Gaven
The Sunshine Boys Dir. Herbert Ross. With Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
Supervixens Dir. Russ Meyer. With Shari Eubank, Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, Charles Pitts
That Most Important Thing: Love Dir. Andrzej Zulawski. With Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi
They Fought for Their Country Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk. With Vasili Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Three Days of the Condor Dir. Sydney Pollack. With Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees Dir. Masahiro Shinoda. With Tomisaburô Wakayama, Shima Iwashita
The Wild Party Dir. James Ivory. With James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King, Tiffany Bolling
The Wind and the Lion Dir. John Milius. With Sean Connery, Candice Bergin, Brian Keith, John Huston
Wrong Movement Dir. Wim Wenders. With Rüdiger Vogler, Hans Christian Blech, Hanna Schygulla
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