My Favorite Films of 1977

"You wouldn't mind marrying me, would you Henry?"
"Well... No."

Directed by David Lynch
Written by David Lynch
Music by David Lynch
Cinematography by Herbert Cardwell and Frederick Elmes
Editing by David Lynch

"Bad luck isn't brought by broken mirrors, but by broken minds."

Directed by Dario Argento
Written by Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi
Music by Dario Argento and Goblin
Cinematography by Luciano Tovoli
Editing by Franco Fraticelli

"Listen Pancho, I've been clocking you every second you've been in this town. If you wanna pick your nose in this truck, you better clear it with me first, otherwise I'm taking you and this nitro right into a ditch!"

Directed by William Friedkin
Written by Walon Green
Music by Tangerine Dream
Cinematography by Dick Bush and John M. Stephens
Editing by Robert K. Lambert and Bud S. Smith

"I guess you've noticed something a little strange with Dad. It's okay, though. I'm still Dad."

Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Steven Spielberg
Music by John Williams
Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond
Editing by Michael Kahn

"Franco is pretty smart, but Franco's a child, and when it comes to the day of the contest, I am his father. He comes to me for advices. So it's not that hard for me to give him the wrong advices."

Directed by George Butler and Robert Fiore
Written by George Butler and Charles Gaines
Music by Michael Small
Cinematography by Robert Fiore
Editing by Geof Bartz and Lawrence Silk

"I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable."

Directed by Woody Allen
Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Music by
Cinematography by Gordon Willis
Editing by Wendy Greene Bricmont and Ralph Rosenblum

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

Directed by George Lucas
Written by George Lucas
Music by John Williams
Cinematography by Gilbert Taylor
Editing by Richard Chew, Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and George Lucas

"The fans are standing up to them! The security guards are standing up to them! The peanut vendors are standing up to them! And by golly, if I could get down there, I'd be standing up to them!"

Directed by George Roy Hill
Written by Nancy Dowd
Music by Victor J. Kemper
Cinematography by Dede Allen
Editing by Jane Feinberg and Mike Fenton

"Please bless Rufus, and Teddy... And all the kids at the orphanage: Jennifer, Bobby, Mary, Julie. And please let someone find my bottle. There's a message in it. Because running away isn't working. Amen."

Directed by John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman and Art Stevens
Written by Larry Clemmons, Ken Anderson, Frank Thomas, Vance Gerry, David Michener, Ted Berman, Fred Lucky, Burny Mattinson and Dick Sebast
Music by Artie Butler
Cinematography by
Editing by James Koford and James Melton

"If you've only got one single little brother, you want to protect him from all that is evil. Don't you understand that?"

Directed by Olle Hellbom
Written by Astrid Lindgren
Music by Lasse Dahlberg and Björn Isfält
Cinematography by Rune Ericson
Editing by Jan Persson