YEAR'S BEST

Bread and Chocolate. The flavor is bittersweet, but there is much nourishing comedy in this poignant story of an Italian immigrant seeking his fortune in chilly Switzerland. A caustic criticism of two national temperaments.

Cat and Mouse. A Gallic mystery in which the detective falls in love with the main suspect. Director Claude Lelouch demonstrates his customary flair for textures (of meals, French countryside, character) in one of the year's few adult entertainments.

Days of Heaven. An apocalyptic parable about loneliness and injustice in Texas on the eve of World War I, beautifully done by Terrence Malick.

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs. French Director Bertrand Blier (Going Places) pushes sexual fantasy well past the breaking point to create a lyrical, affecting vision of an assortment of relationships, marital and otherwise.

Heaven Can Wait. In this remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Warren Beatty and true love triumph even over death.

Movie Movie. The best parody yet of those old movie styles.

National Lampoon's Animal House. A hilarious hit-or-mess farce that unabashedly proclaims the primacy of sex and gluttony in campus life.

Summer Paradise. As four generations of a Swedish family gather for a holiday, Director Gunnel Lindblom probes the forces that threaten the family as an institution.

The Deer Hunter. The first film that tries to describe all the contradictions of American involvement in Viet Nam.

Watership Down. A return to the classic visual values in animated moviemaking produces the year's best family film, always compelling and often funny.

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