Lifetime Movies: 1975

Nominees:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, Barry Lyndon, Jaws, Salo 120 Days of Sodom

This was an easy one for me, but looking ahead at the coming decade I have no idea how this all shakes out. Is it best film, cause Barry Lyndon was done by a master at the height of his cinematic craft (Kubrick redesigned NASA lenses for christ sake and shot scenes all in candle light ONLY)...then you have the great performance to go on by Pacino in Dog Day, and not to mention the ensemble that is the Counter-Culture classic Cuckoo's Nest, then for kicks you have Salo, a look at consumerism, fascism, sexism, gluttony...basically its Se7en for the Art House and Hitler Crowd. That takes us to the winner and hands down one of my top ten films of All Time, heck my daughter at age 4 was watching this and claiming it her all time favorite...and that film is JAWS.

Jaws: started the summer blockbuster, melds real history with wit, scares, and balls out film-making by that crazy guy himself Spielberg ( and for the record I distilled him at 54% ONLY). Jaws is an American treasure, its quotable, eerie, and acted brilliantly, whats not to like. Jaws 1975 is my winner, here is some other tidbits on the others

One Flew Over: the hospital is the American institutionalization of the American spirit, Nurse Ratchet is Eisenhower, the patients all are there voluntary, McMurphy is the anti-hero American male and the Chief is the American spirit...the end

Salo: so hated by Italian people, that after its release they killed the director

Dog Day Afternoon: Pacino is Gay?...what?

Barry Lyndon: probably #2 on my list here for 1975..all the music really does match with the movement of the action buy the actors..also the little boy Lyndon who shoots Barry at the end plays the RED CLOAK at the orgy scene of Eyes Wide Shut

Jaws is awesome...see ya for next year: BOOM!