1972

1. Last Tango in Paris- Bernardo Bertolucci
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie- Luis Buñuel
3. Cries and Whispers- Ingmar Bergman
4. Solaris- Andrei Tarkovsky
5. The Godfather- Francis Ford Coppola
6. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
7. Fat City- John Huston
8. Female Convict "Scorpion": Jailhouse 41- Shunya Ito
9. Aguirre: the Wrath of God- Werner Herzog
10. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance- Kenji Misumi
11. The Ruling Class- Peter Medak
12. Frenzy- Alfred Hitchcock
13. The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid- Philip Kaufman
14. Chloe in the Afternoon- Eric Rohmer
15. Sleuth- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
16. Deliverance- John Boorman

Ripe for re-appraisal: Deathdream (Bob Clark), The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May), High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood), We Will Not Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)

Need to see: Across 110th Street (Barry Shear), Avanti! (Billy Wilder), Bad Company (Robert Benton), The Candidate (Michael Ritchie), La Cicatrice Interieure (Philippe Garrel), Fellini’s Roma, Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville), The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah), The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Wim Wenders), Heat (Paul Morrissey), Hickey and Boggs (Robert Culp), Images (Robert Altman), Jail Bait (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah), King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafaelson), Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart on the River Styx/Baby Cart to Hades/In Peril (all Kenji Misumi), Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette), Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi), Pink Flamingos (John Waters), Play It As It Lays (Frank Perry), Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie), The Professor (Valerio Zurlini), Pulp (Mike Hodges), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas), Raw Meat (Gary Sherman), Rocker (Klaus Lemke), Savage Messiah (Ken Russell), Score (Radley Metzger), Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin), Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich), What? (Roman Polanski)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Godfather
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Elio Petri) and The Mattei Affair (Francesco Rosi)
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini)