My Top Film Festival movies for 1978 (in list order)
Official Selections at Cannes, Berlin and Toronto.
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- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsBrad DavisIrene MiracleBo HopkinsBilly Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.6. The tortured life in a foreign prison... (Cannes/Toronto)
- DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsGena RowlandsJohn CassavetesBen GazzaraA renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.7. Rowlands is legendary in her performance of an actress at odds with life and as an artist... (Berlin)
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsLuigi OrnaghiFrancesca MoriggiOmar BrignoliPeasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.9. Olmi's small epic... (Cannes)
- DirectorHal AshbyStarsJane FondaJon VoightBruce DernIn 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.10. It was a movie for its time, but still relevant today and maybe for all time... (Cannes)
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiKazuko YoshiyukiTakahiro TamuraA married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.15. A wild passion according to the wild Nagisa... (Cannes)
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsBrooke ShieldsKeith CarradineSusan SarandonA preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.24. Malle pushes the boundaries but for all the interesting reasons.. (Cannes)
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsTommy LewisFreddy ReynoldsAngela Punch McGregorAfter suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.26. A dark period in Aussie history... (Cannes/Toronto)
- DirectorPaul MazurskyStarsJill ClayburghAlan BatesMichael MurphyA wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.27. Mazursky can deliver a decent drama with the right cast... (Cannes)
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsDirk BogardeAndréa FerréolKlaus LöwitschIn early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep despair?28. Fassbinder has a messy way of telling an intriguing story, but Dirk steals the show... (Cannes)
- DirectorEsben StormStarsRichard MoirJudy MorrisChris HaywoodTony's out of jail. His mates think he's got the proceeds from the robbery and want it. Tony just wants to find Anna. He deals with one problem at a time. This is a road movie and a trip. A great piece of work from writer/director Esben Storm. A very unusual film to come out of Australia. Great performances from a strong cast. Top music; John Martyn, Allan Stivell, AC/DC, Rose Tattoo34. Worth tracking down... (Toronto)
- DirectorRichard BennerStarsCraig RussellHollis McLarenRichert EasleyA story about a female impersonator who rooms with a pregnant schizophrenic.49. The drag performances were the highlights, showcasing Craig's unique performances... (Berlin)
- DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsAlan BatesSusannah YorkJohn HurtA traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.Only Skolimowski could have pulled this off... (Cannes)
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsMargit MakayIrén PsotaCarla RomanelliThe theme of the delightful Hungarian fantasy film "A Very Moral Night," made in 1977 and now playing at the Public Theater, could well be innocence, even if the action does take place in a bordello. It is a good bordello, so sweet and wholesome that it seems a place of pure beauty and Eden-like charm.Not as Moral today, but still a curious piece... (Cannes)
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertStéphane AudranJean CarmetIn an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.Chabrol's overwrought lacklustre piece... (Cannes)
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannDavid CarradineGert FröbeBerlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.Even master filmmakers can make a mess... (Berlin)
- DirectorBoaz DavidsonStarsYftach KatzurAnat AtzmonJonathan SagallThree friends live their lives in 1950s Israel, each looking for someone to love.A lame attempt at American Graffiti, Israel style... (Berlin)