1971

1. Walkabout- Nicolas Roeg
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller- Robert Altman
3. Two English Girls- François Truffaut
4. Out 1- Jacques Rivette
5. The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes- Stan Brakhage [short]
6. Macbeth- Roman Polanski
7. The French Connection- William Friedkin
8. The Last Picture Show- Peter Bogdanovich
9. Four Nights of a Dreamer- Robert Bresson
10. A New Leaf- Elaine May
11. Carnal Knowledge- Mike Nichols
12. Punishment Park- Peter Watkins
13. Two-Lane Blacktop- Monte Hellman
14. Duck, You Sucker- Sergio Leone
15. Get Carter- Mike Hodges
16. Little Murders- Alan Arkin
17. The Andromeda Strain- Robert Wise
18. Minnie and Moskowitz- John Cassavetes
19. WR: Mysteries of the Orga(ni)sm- Dusan Makavejev
20. Murmur of the Heart- Louis Malle
21. The Beguiled- Don Siegel
22. Taking Off- Milos Forman
23. Klute- Alan J. Pakula
24. The Sorrow and the Pity- Marcel Ophüls
25. Dirty Harry- Don Siegel
26. Sunday Bloody Sunday- John Schlesinger
27. Bananas- Woody Allen

Other notable shorts: Living (Frans Zwartjes)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti), Duel (Steven Spielberg), Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood)

Need to see: And Now for Something Completely Different (Ian McNaughton), Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini), Bleak Moments (Mike Leigh), The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Carriage Trade (Warren Sonbert), Cat o’Nine Tales (Dario Argento), The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima), Clowns (Federico Fellini), Critical Mass (Hollis Frampton), Drive, He Said (Jack Nicholson), Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog), Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog), Glen and Randa (Jim McBride), The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda), The Hospital (Arthur Hiller), Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo), Just Before Nightfall (Claude Chabrol), Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog), The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper), Love (Karoly Makk), Mon Oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra), Nicholas and Alexandra (Franklin J. Schaffner), Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton), Numero Zero (Jean Eustache), Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg), Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), La Region Centrale (Michael Snow), S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (Paul Sharits), A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom), Twitch of the Death Nerve (Mario Bava), Vanishing Point (Richard C. Serafian)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The French Connection
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Cannes, Grand Prix: The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica)