Sunday, February 3, 2008

1970's

1970:
1. The Conformist (Bertolucci)
2. MASH (Altman)
3. El Topo (Jodorowsky)
4. Claire's Knee (Rohmer)
5. Patton (Schaffner)
6. Catch-22 (Nichols)
7. Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
8. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer)
9. Le Cercle rouge (Melville)
10. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog)

Near misses:
Le Boucher (Chabrol)
Gimme Shelter (Maysles/Maysles/Zwerin)
Little Big Man (Penn)
Woodstock (Wadleigh)
The Grandmother (Lynch)


1971:
1. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman)
3. The French Connection (Friedkin)
4. Punishment Park (Watkins)
5. Straw Dogs (Peckinpah)
6. Walkabout (Roeg)
7. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
8. Harold and Maude (Ashby)
9t. Fata Morgana (Herzog)
9t. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Stuart)

Almost:
Dirty Harry (Siegel)


1972:
1. The Godfather (Coppola)
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog)
3. Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
4. Solaris (Tarkovsky)
5. Cabaret (Fosse)
6. Deliverance (Boorman)
7. Roma (Fellini)
8. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Fassbinder)
9. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel)
9. Play it Again, Sam (Ross)

Not quite:
Frenzy (Hitchcock)


1973:
1. Badlands (Malick)
2. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky)
3. The Long Goodbye (Altman)
4. The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
5. Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman)
6. Amarcord (Fellini)
7. The Exorcist (Friedkin)
8. O Lucky Man! (Anderson)
9. Mean Streets (Scorsese)
10. High Plains Drifter (Eastwood)

Not quite:
Don't Look Now (Roeg)
The Last Detail (Ashby)
The Sting (Hill)
The Wicker Man (Hardy)


1974:
1. The Conversation (Coppola)
2. Chinatown (Polanski)
3. The Godfather Part II (Coppola)
4. F for Fake (Welles)
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)
6. Young Frankenstein (Brooks)
7. A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
8. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
9. The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (Herzog)
10. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)

Near misses:
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
California Split (Altman)
Blazing Saddles (Brooks)
Female Trouble (Waters)


1975:
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman)
2. Monty Python & The Holy Grail (Jones/Gilliam)
3. Jaws (Spielberg)
4. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
5. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet)
6. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir)
7. Nashville (Altman)
8. Love & Death (Allen)
9. The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
10. Deep Red (Argento)

Not quite:
The Passenger (Antonioni)


1976:
1. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
2. Network (Lumet)
3. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes)
4t. All the President's Men (Pakula)
4t. Carrie (De Palma)
6. The Tenant (Polanski)
7. Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter)
8. Rocky (Avildson)
9. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood)
10t. Mikey and Nicky (May)
10t. Small Change (Truffaut)

Not quite:
The Bad News Bears (Ritchie)
A Real Young Girl (Breillat)


1977:
1. Annie Hall (Allen)
2. Eraserhead (Lynch)
3. Star Wars (Lucas)
4. Stroszek (Herzog)
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg)
6. Suspiria (Argento)
7. Killer of Sheep (Burnett)
8t. That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel)
8t. 3 Women (Altman)
10. Martin (Romero)

Just missed:
The Ascent (Shepitko)


1978:
1. Halloween (Carpenter)
2. Dawn of the Dead (Romero)
3. Days of Heaven (Malick)
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman)
5t. In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
5t. Autumn Sonata (Bergman)
7. The Deer Hunter (Cimino)
8. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu)
9. The Last Waltz (Scorsese)
10t. Watership Down (Rosen)
10t. Animal House (Landis)

Almost there:
Interiors (Allen)
A Wedding (Altman)
Midnight Express (Parker)


1979:
1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
2. Manhattan (Allen)
3. Alien (Scott)
4. Life of Brian (Jones)
5. All That Jazz (Fosse)
6. Stalker (Tarkovsky)
7. Being There (Ashby)
8. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
9. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Herzog)
10. Vengeance is Mine (Imamura)

Near misses:
The Castle of Cagliostro (Miyazaki)
The Warriors (Hill)
Woyzeck (Herzog)

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