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It took Siri seven times to give me a good answer to the question "Pick a number between 1 and 100" today - she kept choosing numbers that we've
already done for this series. But she eventually landed on a goodie - pick number seven was "76" and so today we're going to focus in on
The Movies of 1976.
I had a pretty easy time snatching out five films from this year for my top five (these are some of my all-time faves right here) but there are a whole heckuva lot of runners-up (I could make a top ten list of just horror movies from 1976) and there a whole heckuva lot of movies I've never seen but should see. That is all to say that this was a fine time for movies, y'all. How fine? Let's see!
My 5 Favorite Movies of 1976
(dir. Brian De Palma)
-- released on November 16th 1976 --
(dir. Roman Polanski)
-- released on May 26th 1976 --
(dir. RW Fassbinder)
-- released on November 16th 1976 --
(dir. Michael Anderson)
-- released on June 23rd 1976 --
(dir. Martin Scorsese)
-- released on February 8th 1976 --
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Runners-up:
Rocky (dir. John G. Avildsen),
Marathon Man (dir. John Schlesinger),
All the President's Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula),
The Man Who Fell to Earth (dir. Nicholas Roeg),
The Omen (dir. Richard Donner),
Burnt Offerings (dir. Dan Curtis)...
...
Alice Sweet Alice (dir. Alfred Sole),
Murder By Death (dir. Robert Moore),
Assault on Precinct 13 (dir. John Carpenter),
Network (dir. Sidney Lumet),
Family Plot (dir. Alfred Hitchcock),
God Told Me To (dir. Larry Cohen),
The Food of the Gods (dir. Bert I. Gordon)...
...
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (dir. Nicolas Gessner),
Obsession (dir. Brian De Palma),
Heart of Glass (dir. Werner Herzog),
The House of the Laughing Windows (dir. Pupi Avati),
Lipstick (dir. Lamont Johnson),
Sybil (dir. Daniel Petrie),
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (dir. Charlies B. Pierce),
Sebastiane (dir. Derek Jarman)
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What are your favorite movies of 1976? .
