1970's

FILMS OF THE YEAR: THE 1970's

“Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.” - Martin Scorsese

1979

  1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
  2. Vengeance is Mine (Shôhei Imamura)
  3. Alien (Ridley Scott)
  4. Stalker (Andrey Tarkovskiy)
  5. The China Syndrome (James Bridges)
  6. Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
  7. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
  8. Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel)
  9. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
  10. Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
Honourary Mentions:
Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)

1978

  1. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
  2. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
  3. Halloween (John Carpenter)
  4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
  5. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
  6. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
  7. Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard)
  8. The Driver (Walter Hill) 
  9. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)
  10. National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis)
Honourary Mentions:
Midnight Express (Alan Parker)
The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke)
Big Wednesday (John Milius)

1977

  1. Star Wars (George Lucas)
  2. The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
  3. Sorcerer (William Friedkin)
  4. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
  5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
  6. Rolling Thunder (John Flynn)
  7. Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah)
  8. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
  9. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
  10. Saturday Night Fever (John Badham)
Honourary Mentions:
Rabid (David Cronenberg)
Slap Shot (George Roy Hill)

1976

  1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
  2. Network (Sidney Lumet)
  3. Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May) 
  4. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
  5. Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
  6. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
  7. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
  8. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  9. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
  10. The Last Hard Men (Andrew V. McLaglen)
Honourary Mentions:
The Shootist (Don Siegel)
The Omen (Richard Donner)
 Communion (Alfred Sole)
Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)

1975

  1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
  2. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
  3. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
  4. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
  5. Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
  6. Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack)
  7. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
  8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones)
  9. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman)
  10. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
Honourary Mentions:
Farewell, My Lovely (Dick Richards)
Shivers (David Cronenberg)
Deep Red (Dario Argento)

1974

  1. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
  2. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
  3. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
  4. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
  5. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
  6. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
  7. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
  8. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
  9. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
  10. The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula)
Honourary Mentions:
Lenny (Bob Fosse)
Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
The Gambler (Karel Reisz)

1973

  1. World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
  3. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
  4. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
  5. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
  6. The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann)
  7. Day for Night (François Truffaut)
  8. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
  9. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)
  10. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
Honourary Mentions:
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
American Graffiti (George Lucas)
The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
F For Fake (Orson Welles)
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
The Sting (George Roy Hill)

1972

  1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
  2. Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
  3. Solaris (Andrey Tarkovskiy)
  4. Deliverance (John Boorman)
  5. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kenji Misumi)
  6. Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  7. Un flic (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  8. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci) 
  9. Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack)
  10. Fat City (John Huston)
Honourary Mentions:
Milano calibro 9 (Fernando Di Leo)
The Candidate (Michael Ritchie)
Sitting Target (Douglas Hickox)
Roma (Federico Fellini) 

1971

  1. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
  2. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
  3. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
  4. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
  5. Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
  6. Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols)
  7. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
  8. Duel (Steven Spielberg)
  9. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
  10. Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian)
Honourary Mentions:
Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
Play Misty For Me (Clint Eastwood)

1970

  1. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  2. The Red Circle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  3. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri)
  4. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
  5. Goin' Down the Road (Donald Shebib) 
  6. Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
  7. Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
  8. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
  9. Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin)
  10. MASH (Robert Altman)
Honourary Mentions: 
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder)
Many Wars Ago (Francesco Rosi)
Little Big Man (Arthur Penn)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento)
The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle)
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