1969

1. Once Upon a Time in the West- Sergio Leone
2. Army of Shadows- Jean-Pierre Melville
3. My Night at Maud's- Eric Rohmer
4. The Wild Bunch- Sam Peckinpah
5. Medium Cool- Haskell Wexler
6. Andrei Rublev- Andrei Tarkovsky
7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service- Peter R. Hunt
8. Model Shop- Jacques Demy
9. Hi, Mom!- Brian De Palma
10. The Milky Way- Luis Buñuel
11. La Femme Infidèle- Claude Chabrol
12. Le Boucher- Claude Chabrol
13. Salesman- David and Albert Maysles
14. Mississippi Mermaid- Francois Truffaut
15. The Plot Against Harry- Michael Roemer
16. Take the Money and Run- Woody Allen
17. The Passion of Anna- Ingmar Bergman
18. The Wild Child- Francois Truffaut
19. Midnight Cowboy- John Schlesinger
20. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?- Sydney Pollack
21. Katzelmacher- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ripe for re-appraisal: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky), The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui), Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson), Putney Swope (Robert Downey)

Need to see: Alice's Restaurant (Arthur Penn), Antonio Das Mortes (Glauber Rocha), The Arrangement (Elia Kazan), The Bed-Sitting Room (Richard Lester), The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins (Les Blank), Boy (Nagisa Oshima), Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo), Cherry, Harry and Raquel! (Russ Meyer), The Damned (Luchino Visconti), Fuego (Armando Bo), Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard), The Gladiators (Peter Watkins), Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (Koji Wakamatsu), The Green Wall (Armando Robles Godoy), The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle), Ice (Robert Kramer), Kes (Ken Loach), Love Is Colder Than Death (R.W. Fassbinder), Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker), The Night of Counting the Years (Shadi Abdel-Salam), Stereo (David Cronenberg), Still (Ernie Gehr), Suspect (Mike Hodges), This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol), Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (Ken Jacobs), A Touch of Zen (King Hu), True Grit (Henry Hathaway), Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel), The Wedding Party (Brian De Palma)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Midnight Cowboy
Cannes, Grand Prix: if… (Lindsay Anderson)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Early Works (Želimir Žilnik)