The Deer Hunter
Directed by Michael Cimino
1978
Cimino spends a whole first act on a steel town and a wedding, so that when the war arrives it lands on people you already know by name.
★ 8.0
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Showing 6 films from 1978
The Last Waltz
Directed by Martin Scorsese
1978
A rock concert storyboarded like a feature and shot on 35mm by seven camera crews: The Band's 1976 farewell is the concert film everything else gets measured against.
★ 6.8
Animal House
Directed by John Landis
1978
Made for three million and returned more than a hundred: every campus comedy since is a footnote to it, and John Belushi carries whole scenes with almost no dialogue.
★ 6.2
Superman
Directed by Richard Donner
1978
Warner promised audiences they would believe a man could fly, and they did: Christopher Reeve plays both halves so completely that a pair of glasses becomes a plausible disguise.
★ 6.1
Grease
Directed by Randal Kleiser
1978
It was the highest-grossing musical ever made for more than twenty years: John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are both obviously too old for high school, and it has never mattered.
★ 4.0
Gates of Heaven
Directed by Errol Morris
1978
Herzog promised to eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever finished it, then did: two California pet cemeteries, and the people talking about their animals reveal everything about themselves.
★ 2.9