1970

1. Woodstock- Michael Wadleigh
2. Gimme Shelter- David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin
3. Le Cercle Rouge- Jean-Pierre Melville
4. Five Easy Pieces- Bob Rafaelson
5. The Conformist- Bernardo Bertolucci
6. Performance- Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
7. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls- Russ Meyer
8. Catch-22- Mike Nichols
9. Necrology- Standish Lawder [short]
10. Donkey Skin- Jacques Demy
11. Claire’s Knee- Eric Rohmer
12. Loving- Irvin Kershner
13. The Ballad of Cable Hogue- Sam Peckinpah
14. Wanda- Barbara Loden
15. El Topo- Alejandro Jodorowsky
16. Little Big Man- Arthur Penn
17. Original Cast Album: Company- D.A. Pennebaker
18. Tristana- Luis Buñuel
19. Patton- Franklin J. Schaffner
20. Let It Be- Michael Lindsay-Hogg
21. MASH- Robert Altman
22. Bed and Board- Francois Truffaut

Other notable shorts: Production Stills (Morgan Fisher), Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman), Husbands (John Cassavetes)

Need to see: Airport (George Seaton), Bleu Shut (Robert Nelson), Cotton Comes to Harlem (Ossie Davis), Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray), Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski), Diary of a Mad Housewife (Frank Perry), The Ear (Karel Kachyna), Equinox (Jack Woods and Dennis Muren), The Go-Between (Joseph Losey), Gods of the Plague (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The Grandmother (David Lynch), The Hart of London (Jack Chambers), The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle), Hospital (Frederick Wiseman), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri), The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Nagisa Oshima), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder), Rio Lobo (Howard Hawks), La Rupture (Claude Chabrol), Santiago! (Lina Brocka), Scenes From Under Childhood (Stan Brakhage), The Spider’s Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci), Start the Revolution Without Me (Bud Yorkin), A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson), Trash (Paul Morrissey), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires), Where’s Poppa? (Carl Reiner), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Patton
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
Cannes, Grand Prix: MASH