1973

1. The Mother and the Whore- Jean Eustache
2. The Spirit of the Beehive- Victor Erice
3. The Long Goodbye- Robert Altman
4. O Lucky Man!- Lindsay Anderson
5. Mean Streets- Martin Scorsese
6. Scenes From a Marriage [TV version]- Ingmar Bergman
7. Don't Look Now- Nicolas Roeg
8. Papillon- Franklin J. Schaffner
9. The Crazies- George A. Romero
10. The Day of the Jackal- Fred Zinnemann
11. Electra Glide in Blue- James William Guercio
12. Charley Varrick- Don Siegel
13. Paper Moon- Peter Bogdanovich
14. Badlands- Terrence Malick
15. Sisters- Brian De Palma
16. Sex and Fury- Norifumi Suzuki
17. Day for Night- Francois Truffaut
18. Sleeper- Woody Allen
19. Amarcord- Federico Fellini
20. Enter the Dragon- Robert Clouse
21. The Last Detail- Hal Ashby

Ripe for re-appraisal: Lady Snowblood (Toshiyo Fujita), Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox), The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester)

Need to see: Allonsanfan (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku), Blume in Love (Paul Mazursky), Breezy (Clint Eastwood), The Clockmaker (Bertrand Tavernier), Coffy (Jack Hill), Day of the Dolphin (Mike Nichols), Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (Sam Fuller), The Devil’s Cleavage (George Kuchar), Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray), Emperor of the North (Robert Aldrich), La Grande Bouffe (Marco Ferreri), Hard Labour (Mike Leigh), The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell), The Last American Hero (Lamont Johnson), Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall), Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (Kenji Misumi), Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmuller), Ludwig (Luchino Visconti), Maitresse (Barbet Schroeder), Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Multiple Sidosis (Sid Laverents), Payday (Daryl Duke), Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer), A Touch of Class (Melvin Frank), Touki Bouki (Djiril Diop Mambety), Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven), The Wanderers (Kon Ichikawa), Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Sting (George Roy Hill)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Day for Night
Cannes, Grand Prix: (tie) The Hireling (Alan Bridges) and Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Distant Thunder