10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1970-х по версии Vadim Rizov:

1970.
1. GIMME SHELTER (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
2. LE CERCLE ROUGE (Jean-Pierre Melville)
3. LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
4. VENGEANCE! (Chang Cheh)
5. THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (Dario Argento)
6. LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
7. MASH (Robert Altman)
8. FIVE EASY PIECES (Bob Rafelson)
9. OTHON (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet)
10. TRISTANA (Luis Buñuel)

Also: KES (Ken Loach ), THE BABY MAKER (James Bridges), BED AND BOARD (François Truffaut), WANDA (Barbara Loden), HI, MOM! (Brian De Palma), LOVING (Irvin Kershner), THE STUDENT NURSES (Stephanie Rothman), ZABRISKIE POINT (Michelangelo Antonioni), AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE (Emile de Antonio), DEADLOCK (Roland Klick), CLAIRE'S KNEE (Eric Rohmer), TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (Don Siegel), PATTON (Franklin J. Schaffner), HOSPITAL (Frederick Wiseman), DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski), REENACTMENT (Lucian Pintilie), THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Billy Wilder), BEING GYPSY (Peter Nestler), COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (Joseph Sargent), AIRPORT (George Seaton), ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (James William Guercio)

1971.
1. BANG BANG (Andrea Tonacci)
2. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (William Friedkin)
3. THE BEGUILED (Don Siegel)
4. LONG GOODBYES (Kira Muratova)
5. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
6. BLAISE PASCAL (Roberto Rossellini, TV)
7. TAKING OFF (Milos Forman)
8. A NEW LEAF (Elaine May)
9. WAKE IN FRIGHT (Ted Kotcheff)
10. FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson)

Also: TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut), SOCRATES (Roberto Rossellini, TV), LA RÉGION CENTRALE (Michael Snow), TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Monte Hellman), 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (Richard Fleischer), LA MAISON DES BOIS (Maurice Pialat, TV), DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel), SUCH GOOD FRIENDS (Otto Preminger), THE VELVET VAMPIRE (Stephanie Rothman), BORN TO WIN (Ivan Passer), TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE (Mario Bava), MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ (John Cassavetes), DEATH IN VENICE (Luchino Visconti), AGNUS DEI (Miklos Jancsó), JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol), MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman), THE CEREMONY (Nagisa Oshima), THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (Jerry Schatzberg), LIVED ONCE A SONG-THRUSH (Otar Iosseliani), BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE (Rainer Warner Fassbinder), A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick), THE DECAMERON (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

1972.
1. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May)
3. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel)
4. FRENZY (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. FAT CITY (John Huston)
6. THE CANDIDATE (Michael Ritchie)
7. THE OUTSIDE MAN (Jacques Deray)
8. COUSIN JULES (Dominique Benicheti)
9. DOWNPOUR (Bahram Beizai)
10. EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, TV)

Also: TOP OF THE HEAP (Christopher St. John), LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Eric Rohmer), THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin), DEAR MOTHER, I'M ALL RIGHT (Christian Ziewer), THE GETAWAY (Sam Peckinpah), WHAT'S UP, DOC? (Peter Bogdanovich), CHUNG KUO CINE (Michelangelo Antonioni), UNHOLY ROLLERS (Vernon Zimmerman), THE INNER SCAR (Philippe Garrel), BLOODY FRIDAY (Rolf Olsen), EIGHT DEADLY

1973.
1. BADLANDS (Terrence Malick)
2. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
3. THE HOMECOMING (Peter Hall)
4. PAPER MOON (Peter Bogdanovich)
5. THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman)
6. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut
7. CHARLEY VARRICK (Don Siegel)
8. TOUKI BOUKI (Djibril Diop Mambety)
9. THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (Fred Zinnemann)
10. THROUGH AND THROUGH (Grzegorz Królikiewicz)

Also: THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (Peter Yates), DU COTE D'OROUET (Jacques Rozier), ISRAEL, WHY? (Claude Lanzmann), WESTWORLD (Michael Crichton), FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN (Paul Morrissey), SERPICO (Sidney Lumet), AMERICAN GRAFFITI (George Lucas), BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY (John D. Hancock), MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese), THE LAST DETAIL (Hal Ashby), LA LIGNE D'OMBRE (Georges Franju, TV), GANJA & HESS (Bill Gunn)

1974.
1. THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Joseph Sargent)
2. CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski)
3. CALIFORNIA SPLIT (Robert Altman)
4. THE GODFATHER, PART II (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (Steven Spielberg)
6. THE TRAVELER (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma)
8. FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. THIEVES LIKE US (Robert Altman)
10. CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)

Also: THE CLOCKMAKER (Bertrand Tavernier), CARTESIUS (Roberto Rossellini, TV), THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat), MADE IN GERMANY AND USA (Rudolf Thome), THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE (Guy Debord), ‘RAMEAU’S NEPHEW’ BY DIDEROT (THANX TO DENNIS YOUNG) BY WILMA SCHOEN (Michael Snow), A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (John Cassavetes), ZARDOZ (John Boorman), THE PELICAN (Gérard Blain), SUPERMARKET (Roland Klick), ARABIAN NIGHTS (Pier Paolo Pasolini), MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Sidney Lumet), MY LITTLE LOVES (Jean Eustache), STAVISKY (Alain Resnais)

1975.
1. GREY GARDENS (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer)
2. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (John Huston)
3. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
4. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. WELFARE (Frederick Wiseman)
6. SMILE (Michael Ritchie)
7. THE MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky)
8. BENILDE OR THE VIRGIN MOTHER (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick)
10. HARD TIMES (Walter Hill)

Also: MANDINGO (Richard Fleischer), THE STORY OF ADELE H. (François Truffaut), INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras), MANILA IN THE CLAWS OF LIGHT (Lino Brocka), THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHERINA BLUM (Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta), DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Sidney Lumet), JAWS (Steven Spielberg), MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam), NIGHT MOVES (Arthur Penn), SHAMPOO (Hal Ashby)

1976.
1. THE WEDDING SUIT (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. MATINEE (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo)
3. THE BAD NEWS BEARS (Michael Ritchie)
4. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DE COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
5. A CHILD IN THE CROWD (Gérard Blain)
6. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (Alan J. Pakula)
7. NOT A PRETTY PICTURE (Martha Coolidge)
8. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
9. CARRIE (Brian De Palma)
10. OBSESSION (Brian De Palma)

Also: CAR WASH (Michael Schultz), ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (Nicolas Roeg)

1977.
1. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg)
2. NEWS FROM HOME (Chantal Akerman)
3. ABIGAIL'S PARTY (TV) (Mike Leigh)
4. STAR WARS (George Lucas)
5. LOCAL COLOR (Mark Rappaport)
6. 11 x 14 (James Benning)
7. ROLLING THUNDER (John Flynn)
8. CANAL ZONE (Frederick Wiseman)
9. SEMI-TOUGH (Michael Ritchie)
10. THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson)

Also: ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE (James Benning), CAMOUFLAGE (Krysztof Zanussi), NEW YORK, NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese), RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX (Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen), THE RUBBER GUN (Allan Moyle), ARMAGEDDON (Alain Jessua), LE CAMION (Marguerite Duras), BETWEEN THE LINES (Joan Micklin Silver), ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen), THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel), SOLDIER OF ORANGE (Paul Verhoeven), SEPTEMBER 30, 1955 (James Bridges)

1978.
1. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-Leung)
2. HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter)
3. THE FURY (Brian De Palma)
4. BLUE COLLAR (Paul Schrader)
5. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George Romero)
6. THE DRIVER (Walter Hill)
7. AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (Paul Mazursky)
8. GIRLFRIENDS (Claudia Weill)
9. SNAKE IN THE EAGLE’S SHADOW (Yuen Woo-ping)
10. GRADUATE FIRST (Maurice Pialat)

Also: STRAIGHT TIME (Ulu Grosbard), THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut), GRAND OPERA: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE (James Benning), I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND (Robert Zemeckis), COMING HOME (Hal Ashby)

1979.
1. ALIEN (Ridley Scott)
2. SAINT JACK (Peter Bogdanovich)
3. ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (Allan Arkush)
4. ALL THAT JAZZ (Bob Fosse)
5. THE CHINA SYNDROME (James Bridges)
6. REAL LIFE (Albert Brooks)
7. OVER THE EDGE (Jonathan Kaplan)
8. THE WOMAN WITH RED HAIR (Tatsumi Kumashiro)
9. QUADROPHENIA (Franc Roddam)
10. SOFT FICTION (Chick Strand)

Also: THE JERK (Carl Reiner), THE BROOD (David Cronenberg), THE WARRIORS (Walter Hill), SCUM (Alan Clarke), DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung), BEING THERE (Hal Ashby), 1941 (Steven Spielberg), MANHATTAN (Woody Allen), ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (Don Siegel), CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER (Joan Micklin Silver), THE BLACK HOLE (Gary Nelson)

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)

10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1970-х по версии Andrew Sarris (Village Voice):

1970.
01. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
02. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
03. Tristana (Luis Bunuel)
04. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Vincente Minnelli)
05. Raven's End (Bo Widerberg)
06. Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
07. This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol)
08. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)
09. There Was a Crooked Man (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10. Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel)

1971.
01. The Taira Clan (Kenji Mizoguchi)
02. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
03. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
04. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
05. The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
06. The Touch (Ingmar Bergman)
07. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
08. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
09. Such Good Friends (Otto Preminger)
10. Derby (Robert Kaylor)

1972.
01. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
02. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
03. Travels with My Aunt (George Cukor)
04. Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi)
05. Two English Girls (Francois Truffaut)
06. The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey)
07. The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
08. Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich)
09. Duck, You Sucker (Sergio Leone)
10. The Carey Treatment (Blake Edwards)
11. Mon Oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra)
12. Avanti! (Billy Wilder)
13. Bad Company (Robert Benton)
14. Bartleby (Anthony Friedman)
15. Images (Robert Altman)
16. Superfly (Gordon Parks Jr.)

1973.
01. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
02. A King in New York (Charles Chaplin)
03. Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
04. The Mattei Affair (Francesco Rosi)
05. The Spider's Strategem (Bernardo Bertolucci)
06. Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
07. The Mackintosh Man (John Huston)
08. Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (Gilbert Cates)
09. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
10. Kid Blue (James Frawley)

1974.
01. Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol)
02. Juggernaut (Richard Lester)
03. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
04. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir)
05. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
06. Ali--Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
07. Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev)
08. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
09. The Front Page (Billy Wilder)
10. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)

1975.
01. La Rupture (Claude Chabrol)
02. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
03. Nashville (Robert Altman)
04. Shampoo (Hal Ashby)
05. The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester)
06. Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
07. French Connection II (John Frankenheimer)
08. The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman)
09. Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
10. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)

1976.
01. A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin)
02. La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
03. A Piece of Pleasure (Claude Chabrol)
04. The Marquise of O... (Eric Rohmer)
05. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
06. The Last Woman (Marco Ferreri)
07. Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
08. Robin and Marian (Richard Lester)
09. Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman)

1977.
01. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
02. Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
03. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
04. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
05. The Late Show (Robert Benton)
06. A Woman's Decision (Krzysztof Zanussi)
07. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Richard Brooks)
08. Outrageous! (Richard Benner)
09. Cria! (Carlos Saura)
10. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)

1978.
01. An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky)
02. Dossier 51 ()
03. California Suite (Herbert Ross)
04. Women ()
05. The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray)
06. Perceval (Eric Rohmer)
07. Violette (Claude Chabrol)
08. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
09. King, Queen, Knave (Jerzy Skolimowski)
10. The Medusa Touch (Jack Gold)

1979.
(note: #1-5 are in a tie for first; #6-12 are in a tie for second; lists are alphabetical)
01. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
02. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
03. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
04. "10" (Blake Edwards)
05. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)
06. Being There (Hal Ashby)
07. Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
08. Don Giovanni (Joseph Losey)
09. Newsfront (Phillip Noyce)
10. North Dallas Forty (Ted Kotcheff)
11. Orchestra Rehearsal (Federico Fellini)
12. The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)

10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1970-х по версии Ed Gonzalez (Slant Magazine):

1970:
1. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
2. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica)
3. Trash (Paul Morrissey)
4. Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer)
5. Performance (Nicolas Roeg)
6. Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray)
8. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. Zorn’s Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
10. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)

Honorable Mention: Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson), The Butcher (Claude Chabrol), El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky), The Watermelon Man (Melvin Van Peebles), Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman), The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento), Hatchet for a Honeymoon (Mario Bava), Five Dolls for an August Moon (Mario Bava), 7 Plus Seven (Michael Apted), and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer)

Blind Spots: Last Known Address (José Giovanni), The Go-Between (Joseph Losey), Fast Company (David Cronenberg), The Ear (Karel Kachyna), La Rupture (Claude Chabrol), Start the Revolution Without Me (Bud Yorkin), Cotton Comes to Harlem (Ossie Davis), The Spider’s Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci), The Confession (Costa-Gavras), Little Big Man (Arthur Penn), The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophüls), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah), Something For Everyone (Harold Prince), I Never Sang for My Father (Gilbert Cates)

1971:
1. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
3. Whity (Rainer Werner Fassbiner)
4. Macbeth (Roman Polanski)
5. Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo)
6. Pink Narcissus (James Bidgood)
7. La Région Centrale (Michael Snow)
8. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
9. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
10. The Cat o’ Nine Tails (Dario Argento)

Honorable Mention: Boys in the Sand (Wakefield Poole), Wanda (Barbara Loden), Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog), Bay of Blood (Mario Bava), Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog), Two EnglishGirls (François Truffaut), Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman), Vampyros Lesbos (Jesús Franco), The Devils (Ken Russell), The Beguiled (Don Siegel)

Blind Spots: Basic Training (Frederick Wiseman), Taking Off (Milos Forman), The Touch (Ingmar Bergman), Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood), The Clowns (Federico Fellini), Bleak Moments (Mike Leigh), Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson), Family Life (Ken Loach), Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle), Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Elio Petri), WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)

1972:
1. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
3. Cries & Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
4. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
5. Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. Heat (Paul Morrissey)
7. Bone (Larry Cohen)
8. Sounder (Martin Ritt)
9. Images (Robert Altman)
10. The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)

Honorable Mention: The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci), The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Avanti! (Billy Wilder), Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer), Fat City (John Huston), The Score (Radley Metzger), Last House on the Left (Wes Craven), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas), Pink Flamingos (John Waters)

Blind Spots: Savage Messiah (Ken Russell), The Candidate (Michael Ritchie), Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie), Travels with My Aunt (George Cukor), J.W. Coop (Cliff Robertson), Across 110th Street (Barry Shear), Superfly (Gordon Parks Jr.), The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey), The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson), Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich), The Carey Treatment (Blake Edwards), Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Ito), Ciao Manhattan (John Palmer and David Weisman), Bad Company (Robert Benton), Sword of Vengeance I (Kenji Misumi), Tales from the Crypt (Freddie Francis), Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), We Will Not Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)

1973:
1. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
2. The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice)
3. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
4. Sisters (Brian De Palma)
5. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
6. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
7. Black Caesar (Larry Cohen)
8. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
9. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
10. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)

Honorable Mention: The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Season of the Witch (George A. Romero), Lisa and the Devil (Mario Bava), The Last Detail (Hal Ashby), Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman), Sleeper (Woody Allen), The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy), Heavy Traffic (Ralph Bakshi), Amarcord (Federico Fellini), Flesh for Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey)

Blind Spots: Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray), Wattstax (Mel Stuart), Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg), Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (Gilbert Cates), The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (Wojciech Has), Battles Without Honor & Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku), Kid Blue (James Frawley), The Iceman Cometh (John Frankenheimer), Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven), Dillinger (John Milius), Allonsanfan (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller), O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson), State of Siege (Costa-Gravas), The Mackintosh Man (John Huston), The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann), Coffy (Jack Hill), Detroit 9000 (Arthur Marks), The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Ivan Dixon), The Mack (Michael Campus), Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse), Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol), Scarlet Letter (Wim Wenders), Emperor of the North Pole (Robert Aldrich), Blood Brothers (Cheh Chang), Snow of Blood (Toshiya Fujita), The Homecoming (Peter Hall), Blume in Love (Paul Mazursky)

1974:
1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
3. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
5. Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
7. The Traveler (Abbas Kiarostami, 1974)
8. Deathdream (Bob Clark)
9. Hearts and Minds (Peter David)
10. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)

Honorable Mention: Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman), Place de la République (Louis Malle), The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola), Black Christmas (Bob Clark), Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey), Female Trouble (John Waters), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog), Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Mes Petites Amoureuses (Jean Eustache), Rabid Dogs (Mario Bava)

Blind Spots: The Deluge (Jerzy Hoffman), Orderers (Michel Brault), Jacob the Liar (Frank Beyer), We All Loved Each Other So Much (Ettore Scola), Stavisky… (Alain Resnais), Three Wishes for Cinderella (Václav Vorlícek), Electra, My Love (Miklós Jancsó), Sweet Movie (Dusan Makavejev), Ankur (Shyam Benegal), The Nada Gang (Claude Chabrol), The Fierce One (Tolomush Okeyev), Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese), Going Places (Bertrand Blier), Scent of a Woman (Dino Risi), Pastoral: To Die In the Country, The Traveller (Abbas Kiarostami), That’s Entertainment! (Jack Haley Jr.), The Tamarind Seed (Blake Edwards), Nightmare Circus (Alan Rudolph), Penthesilea (Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen), Juggernaut (Richard Lester), Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti)

1975:
1. Nashville (Robert Altman)
2. Deep Red (Dario Argento)
3. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
5. Welfare (Frederick Wiseman)
6. Xala (Ousmane Sembène)
7. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8. Thundercrack! (Curt McDowell)
9. Promised Land (Andrzej Wajda)
10. The Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger)

Honorable Mention: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta), Shivers (David Cronenberg), Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick), Tommy (Ken Russell), Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa), Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller), Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Muffie Meyer)

Blind Spots: Hustle (Robert Aldrich), Crazy Mama (Jonathan Demme), French Connection II (John Frankenheimer), Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard), The Killer Elite (Sam Peckinpah), Keetje Tippel (Paul Verhoeven), Wrong Move (Wim Wenders), The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston), Une Partie de Plaisir (Claude Chabrol), Innocents with Dirty Hands (Claude Chabrol), The Old Gun (Robert Enrico), Fear Over the City (Henri Verneuil), Smile (Michael Ritchie), Mandingo (Richard Fleischer), Switchblade Sisters (Jack Hill), Rollerball (Norman Jewison)

1976:
1. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
2. The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
3. Mickey and Nicky (Elaine May)
4. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
5. Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman)
6. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
7. Monsieur Klein (Joseph Losey)
8. Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
10. Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)

Honorable Mention: Meat (Frederick Wiseman), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes), Obsession (Brian De Palma), God Told Me To (Larry Cohen), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog), Small Change (François Truffaut), Salo (Pier Paolo Pasolini), In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima), Insiang (Lino Brocka), and Alice, Sweet Alice (Alfred Sole)

Blind Spots: The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer), I Only Want You To Love Me (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Message (Moustapha Akkad), Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Bruno Barreto), The Front (Martin Ritt), Missouri Breaks (Arthur Penn), The Context (Francesco Rosi), Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Ettore Scola), Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker), A Matter of Time (Vincente Minnelli), The Middleman (Satyajit Ray), Personel (Krzysztof Kieślowski), Stay Hungry (Bob Rafelson), Barocco (André Téchiné), Hollywood Boulevard (Allan Arkush and Joe Dante), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Herbert Ross), The Last Woman (Marco Ferreri), Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman), The Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg), Robin and Marian (Richard Lester)

1977:
1. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
2. Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
3. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
4. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
5. The Stationmaster’s Wife (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah)
7. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
8. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
9. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
10. Providence (Alain Resnais)

Honorable Mention: Opening Night (John Cassavetes), Stroszek (Werner Herzog), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), Desperate Living (John Waters), Rabid (David Cronenberg), Word Is Out (Lots of People), My American Friend (Wim Wenders), Scum (Alan Clarke), Citizen’s Band (Jonathan Demme), Sorcerer (William Friedkin)

Blind Spots: The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Larry Cohen), The Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik), Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda), Alambrista! (Robert M. Young), The Duellists (Ridley Scott), A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker), The Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg), Short Eyes (Robert M. Young), Outrageous! (Richard Benner), News from Home (Chantal Akerman), Twlight’s Last Gleaming (Robert Aldrich), The Choirboys (Robert Aldrich), New York, New York (Martin Scorsese), The Late Show (Robert Benton)

1978:
1. In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
3. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
4. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
5. Halloween (John Carpenter)
6. The Driver (Walter Hill)
7. Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8. A Place Without Limits (Arturo Ripstein)
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
10. The Eyes of Laura Mars (Irvin Kirshner)

Honorable Mention: The Green Room (François Truffaut), Piranha (Joe Dante), Backyard (Ross McElwee), Fingers (James Toback), Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman), Get Out Your Hankerchiefs (Bertrand Blier), You Are Not Alone (Ernst Johansen and Lasse Nielsen), Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima), Superman (Richard Donner), Alexandria, Why? (Youssef Chahine)

Blind Spots: California Suite (Herbert Ross), The Medusa Touch (Jack Gold), Meetings with Anna (Chantal Akerman), American Hot Wax (Floyd Mutrux), Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), Le Dossier 51 (Michel Deville), The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Margarethe von Trotta), The Buddy Holly Story (Steve Rash), Go Tell the Spartans (Ted Post), Newsfront (Phillip Noyce), Five Deadly Venoms (Cheh Chang), Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph), Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard), Scared Straight! (Arnold Shapiro), Who’ll Stop the Rain? (Karel Reisz), Our Hitler (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg), The Herd (Zeki Ökten and Yilmaz Güney), Knife in the Head (Reinhard Hauff), The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke)

1979:
1. Siberiade (Andrei Konchalovsky)
2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
3. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. Vengeance Is Mine (Shôhei Imamura)
6. Wise Blood (John Huston)
7. When a Stranger Calls (Fred Walton)
8. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
9. The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara)
10. The Warriors (Walter Hill)

Honorable Mention: The Perfect Couple (Robert Altman), The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard), Scum (Alan Clarke), The Brood (David Cronenberg), Arrebato (Iván Zulueta), Woyzeck (Werner Herzog), Being There (Hal Ashby), Real Life (Albert Brooks), Perceval (Eric Rohmer), The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff)

Blind Spots: The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Sympathy for a Sinner (George Kuchar), Christ Stopped at Eboli (Francesco Rosi), The In-Laws (Arthur Hiller), ’Breaker’ Morant (Bruce Beresford), Bloody Kiss (Stephen Frears), Without Anesthesia (Andrzej Wajda), Best Boy (Ira Wohl), My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong), Head Over Heels (Joan Micklin Silver), Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues), The Europeans (James Ivory), The Jerk (Carl Reiner), Doomed Love (Manoel de Oliveira), Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer), Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam), Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich), Cold Cuts (Bertrand Blier), Angi Vera (Pál Gábor)