There were more notable films released in 1975 than there have been in the last decade…

 

 JEFFREY ST CLAIR >

+ There were more notable films released in 1975 than there have been in the last decade…

Galileo, Report to the Commissioner, Shampoo, The Stepford Wives, Jacques Brel Was Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Mahler, Mirror, Funny Lady, Great Waldo Pepper, Prisoner of 2nd Ave, Rancho Deluxe, Tommy, The Yakuza, Rosebud, The Passenger, Monty Python and Holy Grail, Seven Beauties, Day of the Locusts, The Wild Party, The Man in the Glass Booth, The Fortune, Wind and the Lion, The Hiding Place, Love and Death, Nashville, Night Moves, Jaws, The Drowning Pool, Dersu Uzala, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Rocky Horror Picture Show, 92 in the Shade, Swept Away, Dog Day Afternoon, Three Days of the Condor, Conduct Unbecoming, Hard Times, Litzomania, Lies My Father Told Me, Crazy Mama, Sunshine Boys, The Human Factor, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Romantic Woman, Barry Lyndon, The Man Who Would Be King, Killer Elite, Story of Adele H., Aaron Loves Angela, Peeper, The Wrong Move, Stardust, Let’s Do It Again, Shivers, Hearts of the West, Black Moon.

In other words, films by Robert Altman, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovski, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Gordon Parks, Mike Nichols, Joseph Losey, Ken Russell, Peter Weir, Jonathan Demme, Milos Forman, Sydney Lumet, Lina Wertmüller, Sam Peckinpah, Sydney Poitier, Francois Truffaut, David Cronenberg, Louis Malle, Sydney Pollack, Walter Hill, Jan Kadar, Michael Apted, Edward Dymtryk, Wim Wenders, Peter Hyams, Gene Wilder, John Huston, Robert Wise, Robert Aldrich, Stanley Donen and even the novelist Tom McGuane…1975 was a good year to be 16, I guess, though I’m not sure I thought so at the time.