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)