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Top Ten Lists 1970-1979

-- 1970s --

-- 1979 --

#1:  Apocalypse Now (dir: Francis Ford Coppola) #2:  Kramer Vs. Kramer (dir: Robert Benton) #3:  The China Syndrome (dir: James Bridges) #4:  All That Jazz (dir: Bob Fosse) #5:  The Marraige of Maria Braun (dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder) #6:  Nosferatu, the Vampyre (dir: Werner Herzog) #7:  Manhattan (dir: Woody Allen) #8:  Being There (dir: Hal Ashby) #9:  Best Boy (dir: Ira Wohl) #10:  Mad Max (dir: George Miller)

-- 1978 --

#1:  The Deer Hunter (dir: Michael Cimino) #2:  Days of Heaven (dir: Terrence Malick) #3:  Midnight Express (dir: Alan Parker) #4:  Autumn Sonata (dir: Ingmar Bergman) #5:  Interiors (dir: Woody Allen) #6:  Halloween (dir: John Carpenter) #7:  Coming Home (dir: Hal Ashby) #8:  Eraserhead (dir: David Lynch) #9:  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (dir: Philip Kaufman) #10:  The Fury (dir: Brian DePalma)

-- 1977 --

#1:  Aguirre: The Wrath of God (dir: Werner Herzog) #2:  Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir: Steven Spielberg) #3:  1900 (dir: Bernardo Bertolucci) #4:  Julia (dir: Fred Zinnemann) #5:  Annie Hall (dir: Woody Allen) #6:  3 Women (dir: Robert Altman) #7:  The Late Show (dir: Robert Benton) #8:  Harlan County, USA (dir: Barbara Kopple) #9:  Suspiria (dir: Dario Argento) #10:  Star Wars (dir: George Lucas)

-- 1976 --

#1:  Taxi Driver (dir: Martin Scorsese) #2:  Network (dir: Sidney Lumet) #3:  Small Change (dir: François Truffaut) #4:  All the President's Men (dir: Alan J. Pakula) #5:  Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (dir: Lina Wertmuller) #6:  Rocky (dir: John G. Avildsen) #7:  The Man Who Would be King (dir: John Huston) #8:  The Last Tycoon (dir: Elia Kazan) #9:  Murder by Death (dir: Robert Moore) #10:  The Magic Flute (dir: Ingmar Bergman)

-- 1975 --

#1:  One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (dir: Milos Forman) #2:  Dog Day Afternoon (dir: Sidney Lumet) #3:  Nashville (dir: Robert Altman) #4:  Picnic at Hanging Rock (dir: Peter Weir) #5:  Jaws (dir: Steven Speilberg) #6:  The Day of the Locust (dir: John Schlesinger) #7:  Love and Death (dir: Woody Allen) #8:  Barry Lyndon (dir: Stanley Kubrick) #9:  Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (dir: Martin Scorsese) #10:  Monty Python and the Holy Grail (dir: Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)

-- 1974 --

#1:  The Godfather, Part II (dir: Francis Ford Coppola) #2:  The Conversation (dir: Francis Ford Coppola) #3:  Chinatown (dir: Roman Polanski) #4:  Lenny (dir: Bob Fosse) #5:  Mean Streets (dir: Martin Scorsese) #6:  Scenes from a Marraige (dir: Ingmar Bergman) #7:  Murder on the Orient Express (dir: Sidney Lumet) #8:  Young Frankenstein (dir: Mel Brooks) #9:  Amarcord (dir: Frederico Fellini) #10:  Sugarland Express (dir: Steven Spielberg)

-- 1973 --

#1:  The Exorcist (dir: William Fiedkin) #2:  Cries and Whisers (dir: Ingmar Bergman) #3:  The Sting (dir: George Roy Hill) #4:  Badlands (dir: Terrence Malick) #5:  Day for Night (dir: François Truffaut) #6:  Last Tango in Paris (dir: Bernardo Bertolucci) #7:  Sleeper (dir: Woody Allen) #8:  The Day of the Jackal (dir: Fred Zinnemann) #9:  The Emigrants (dir: Jan Troell) #10:  Paper Moon (dir: Peter Bogdanovich)

-- 1972 --

#1:  The Godfather (dir: Francis Ford Coppola) #2:  Deliverance (dir: John Boorman) #3:  The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (dir: Luis Buñuel) #4:  Play It Again, Sam (dir: Herbert Ross) #5:  Frenzy (dir: Alfred Hitchcock) #6:  The Anderson Tapes (dir: Sidney Lumet) #7:  Sleuth (dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) #8:  Dirty Harry (dir: Don Siegel) #9:  Sounder (dir: Martin Ritt) #10:  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (dir: Woody Allen)

-- 1971 --

#1:  A Clockwork Orange (dir: Stanley Kubrick) #2:  The French Connection (dir: William Friedkin) #3:  Tristana (dir: Luis Buñuel) #4:  Klute (dir: Alan J. Pakula) #5:  The Hospital (dir: Arthur Hiller) #6:  The Last Picture Show (dir: Peter Bogdanovich) #7:  Macbeth (dir: Roman Polanski) #8:  Death in Venice (dir: Luchino Visconti) #9:  Carnal Knowledge (dir: Mike Nichols) #10:  McCabe and Mrs. Miller (dir: Robert Altman)

-- 1970 --

#1:  Patton (dir: Franklin Schaffner) #2:  Woodstock (dir: Michael Wadleigh) #3:  Five Easy Pieces (dir: Bob Rafelson) #4:  M*A*S*H (dir: Robert Altman) #5:  Little Big Man (dir: Arthur Penn) #6:  Hi, Mom! (dir: Brian DePalma) #7:  Diary of a Mad Housewife (dir: Frank Perry) #8:  Love Story (dir: Arthur Hiller) #9:  Airport (dir: George Seaton) #10:  Ryan's Daughter (dir: David Lean)

Analysis by:
David Perry
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