10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1970-х по версии Dave Kehr (Chicago Reader):

1974.
01. Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir)
02. Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
03. The Tamarind Seed (Blake Edwards)
04. Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol)
05. The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester)
06. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
07. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
08. Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle)
09. The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. Juggernaut (Richard Lester)

1975.
01. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
02. The Middle of the World (Alain Tanner)
03. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
04. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
05. La Rupture (Claude Chabrol)
06. Love Among the Ruins (George Cukor)
07. Fist-Right of Freedom (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
08. The Romantic Englishwoman (Joseph Losey)
09. Hard Times (Walter Hill)
10. Supervixens (Russ Meyer)

1976.
01. Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock)
02. The Age of Medici and Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini)
03. Robin and Marian (Richard Lester)
04. Jonah---Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
05. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
06. The Shootist (Don Siegel)
07. Just Before Nightfall (Claude Chabrol)
08. Mother Kuster's Trip to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
09. French Provincial (Andre Techine)
10. Allegro Non Troppo (Bruno Bozzetto)

1977.
01. F for Fake (Orson Welles)
02. The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophuls)
03. The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer)
04. A Piece of Pleasure (Claude Chabrol)
05. Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard)
06. Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub/Daniele Huillet)
07. Islands in the Stream (Franklin Schaffner)
08. The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood)
09. Padre, Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
10. The Rescuers (Wolfgang Reitherman/John Lounsbery/Art Stevens)

1978.
01. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
02. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
03. The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
04. Meetings with Anna (Chantal Akerman)
05. The Messiah (Roberto Rossellini)
06. The Driver (Walter Hill)
07. Halloween (John Carpenter)
08. Big Wednesday (John Milius)
09. Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
10. Filming Othello (Orson Welles)

1979.
01. 10 (Blake Edwards)
02. The Left Handed Woman (Peter Handke)
03. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
04. Perceval (Eric Rohmer)
05. The Warriors (Walter Hill)
06. Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
07. Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel)
08. In a Year With Thirteen Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
09. Fedora (Billy Wilder)
10. Angi, Vera (Pal Gabor)