Great Years in Cinema History: 1975

By: Johnny DuBiel

I submit to you 1975 as a candidate for greatest year in cinematic history. Here are my rankings for the best of that year. This includes films that, according to The Auteurs, were released in 1975.
Not available on the site are the following: ‘The Man Who Would Be King’, ‘Lisztomania’, ‘Shampoo’, ‘Spermula’, ‘Yakuza’, ‘Cousin, Cousine’, ‘Hard Times’

• 01
  The Passenger
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 02
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 03
  Nashville
  Robert Altman
• 04
  Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  Chantal Akerman
• 05
  Jaws
  Steven Spielberg
• 06
  Dog Day Afternoon
  Sidney Lumet
• 07
  The Mirror
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 08
  Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 09
  Xala
  Ousmane Sembène
• 10
  Love and Death
  Woody Allen
• 11
  The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
  Volker Schlöndorff
• 12
  Smile
  Michael Ritchie
• 13
  The Magic Flute
  Ingmar Bergman
• 14
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  Terry Gilliam
• 15
  The Story of Adele H.
  François Truffaut
• 16
  Picnic at Hanging Rock
  Peter Weir
• 17
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  Miloš Forman
• 18
  Dersu Uzala
  Akira Kurosawa
• 19
  Night Moves
  Arthur Penn
• 20
  Three Days of the Condor
  Sydney Pollack