My Favorite Films of 1979

"I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies."

Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography by Derek Vanlint
Editing by Terry Rawlings and Peter Weatherley

"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Written by Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius
Music by Francis Ford Coppola and Carmine Coppola
Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro
Editing by Lisa Fruchtman, Gerald B. Greenberg and Walter Murch

"He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy! Now, piss off!"

Directed by Terry Jones
Written by Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Michael Palin
Music by Geoffrey Burgon
Cinematography by Peter Biziou
Editing by Julian Doyle

"It's not often you see a guy that green have the blues that bad."

Directed by James Frawley
Written by Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns
Music by Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams
Cinematography by Isidore Mankofsky
Editing by Christopher Greenbury

"You play a good game, boy, but the game is finished. Now you die."

Directed by Don Coscarelli
Written by Don Coscarelli
Music by Fred Myrow and Malcolm Seagrave
Cinematography by Don Coscarelli
Editing by Don Coscarelli

"I woke up this morning, kept thinking about Billy and I was thinking about him waking up in his room with his little clouds all around that I painted and I thought I should have painted clouds downtown because then he would think that he was waking up at home. I came here to take my son home. And I realized he already is home."

Directed by Robert Benton
Written by Robert Benton
Music by
Cinematography by Néstor Almendros
Editing by Gerald B. Greenberg

"I was wonderin' if, uh, you wouldn't mind marryin' me very much."

Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Written by Sylvester Stallone
Music by Bill Conti
Cinematography by Bill Butler
Editing by Stanford C. Allen

"They're her children. More exactly, they're the children of her rage."

Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by David Cronenberg
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Mark Irwin
Editing by Alan Collins

"Lupin! Don't you dare die before I get to arrest you!"

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Written by Hayao Miyazaki and Haruya Yamazaki
Music by Yûji Ôno
Cinematography by Hirokata Takahashi
Editing by Masatoshi Tsurubuchi

"Navin, I'd love you if you were the color of a baboon's ass."

Directed by Carl Reiner
Written by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb and Michael Elias
Music by Jack Elliott
Cinematography by Victor J. Kemper
Editing by Bud Molin and Ron Spang

"The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go."

Directed by George Miller
Written by George Miller, James McCausland and Byron Kennedy
Music by Brian May
Cinematography by David Eggby
Editing by Cliff Hayes and Tony Paterson