Nick's Flick Picks: The Movies of 1979

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#003399" vlink="#003399" topmargin="25" leftmargin="50"> <TABLE> <TR bgcolor="#000000"><TD><img src=strip79banner.jpg width=100%> </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Top Films of 1979: World Premieres</b></b></Font><br>  <a href=persac79.html>My 1979 Oscar Ballot</a></Font><br> <Font Size=-1><br></Font> <Table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>1. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Apocalypse Now</Font></b></Font> Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. With Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>2. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The China Syndrome</Font></b></Font> Dir. James Bridges. With Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>3. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Manhattan</Font></b></Font> Dir. Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Micheal Murphy <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>4. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">All That Jazz</Font></b></Font> Dir. Bob Fosse. With Roy Scheider, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>5. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=favfilmsbrood.html target="_top" style="text-decoration:none">The Brood</a></b></Font> Dir. David Cronenberg. With Art Hindle, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>6. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">Alien</Font></b></Font> Dir. Ridley Scott. With Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Tom Skerritt <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>7. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><a href=tindrum.html style="text-decoration:none">The Tin Drum</a></b></Font> Dir. Volker Schl&#246ndorff. With David Bennett, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> <TR><TD width=4% align=right><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1>8. </Font></TD><TD width=96% align=left><Font Face=Garamond Size=+1><b><Font Color="#003399">The Muppet Movie</Font></b></Font> Dir. James Frawley. With the voices of Jim Henson and Frank Oz <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font></TD></TR> </Table> <hr> <br> <Font Color="#0090FF" Size=+2><b>Reviews from 1979</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1> <Font Color="#009900">★</Font> <b>= Full-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font> <b> = Capsule-Length Review</b> / <Font Color="#FF6600">★</Font> <b>&nbsp= Blog Review</b> (New Window) </Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond><Font Size=-1 Color="#0090FF">&#169</Font>   <b><a href=favfilmsbrood.html target="_top" style="text-decoration:none">The Brood</a></b></Font> Dir. David Cronenberg. With Art Hindle, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B+</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>More Grades from 1979</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Size=-1><b>Unreviewed titles I have seen recently enough to grade</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Agatha</b></Font> Dir. Michael Apted. With Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Chapter Two</b></Font> Dir. Robert Moore. With James Caan, Marsha Mason, Joseph Bologna <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Great Santini</b></Font> Dir. Lewis John Carlino. With Robert Duvall, Michael O'Keefe <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>D+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <a href=kramervs.html style="text-decoration:none"><b>Kramer vs. Kramer</b></a></Font> Dir. Robert Benton. With Dustin Hoffman, Justin Henry, Meryl Streep <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Rose</b></Font> Dir. Mark Rydell. With Bette Midler, Frederic Forrest, Alan Bates <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Starting Over</b></Font> Dir. Alan J. Pakula. With Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergin <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C+</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Tempest</b></Font> Dir. Derek Jarman. With Heathcote Williams, Karl Johnson, Toyah Willcox <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Wise Blood</b></Font> Dir. John Huston. With Brad Dourif, Amy Wright, Dan Shor, Harry Dean Stanton <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>B</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Yanks</b></Font> Dir. John Schlesinger. With Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave <Font Color="#FF0000"><b>C</b></Font><br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>Also from 1979</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> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Fetching</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>The Seduction of Joe Tynan</b></Font> Dir. Jerry Schatzberg. With Alan Alda, Meryl Streep<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Stalker</b></Font> Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. With Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn<br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Feh</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>Norma Rae</b></Font> Dir. Martin Ritt. With Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle<br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond>Flotsam</Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399">      <b>"10"</b></Font> Dir. Blake Edwards. With Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Bo Derek, Sam Jones<br> <hr> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#0090FF" Size=+1><b>Still to Come from 1979</b></Font><br> <Font Size=-3> <br></Font> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Ten Most Enticing Prospects:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Black Stallion</b></Font> Dir. Carroll Ballard. With Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Breaking Away</b></Font> Dir. Peter Yates. With Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>The Marriage of Maria Braun</b></Font> Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Hanna Schygulla<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>My Brilliant Career</b></Font> Dir. Gillian Armstrong. With Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Nosferatu the Vampyre</b></Font> Dir. Werner Herzog. With Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Siberiade</b></Font> Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky. With Natalya Andreychenko, Sergey Shakurov<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Tess</b></Font> Dir. Roman Polanski. With Nastassja Kinski, Leigh Lawson, Peter Firth, John Collin<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Thriller</b></Font> Dir. Sally Potter. With Colette Laffont, Rose English, Tony Gacon, Vincent Meehan<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Vengeance Is Mine</b></Font> Dir. Shohei Imamura. With Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Mitusko Baisho<br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>Woyzeck</b></Font> Dir. Werner Herzog. With Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann<br> <br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#003399"><b>Further Research:</b></Font><br> <Font Face=Garamond Color="#660066">      <b>1941</b></Font> Dir. Steven Spielberg. 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