1974

1. Céline and Julie Go Boating- Jacques Rivette
2. Chinatown- Roman Polanski
3. A Woman Under the Influence- John Cassavetes
4. Phantom of the Paradise- Brian De Palma
5. Young Frankenstein- Mel Brooks
6. California Split- Robert Altman
7. The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner- Werner Herzog
8. The Conversation- Francis Ford Coppola
9. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia- Sam Peckinpah
10. Thieves Like Us- Robert Altman
11. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre- Tobe Hooper
12. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
13. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three- Joseph Sargent
14. Juggernaut- Richard Lester
15. Dersu Uzala- Akira Kurosawa
16. Cockfighter- Monte Hellman
17. Lenny- Bob Fosse
18. Every Man For Himself and God Against All- Werner Herzog
19. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer- Thom Andersen
20. Blazing Saddles- Mel Brooks
21. Lancelot du Lac- Robert Bresson
22. The Phantom of Liberty- Luis Buñuel

Notable shorts: Fuji (Robert Breer)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins), The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester), Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle), The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula), The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg)

Need to see: Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders), Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini), La Banc de la Desolation (Claude Chabrol), Eureka (Ernie Gehr), The Front Page (Billy Wilder), A Film About a Woman Who… (Yvonne Rainer), General Idi Amin Dada (Barbet Schroeder), Going Places (Bertrand Blier), Gone in 60 Seconds (H.B. Halicki), Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis), Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese), Je, Tu, Il, Elle (Chantal Akerman), Macon County Line (Richard Compton), Mes Petites Amoureuses (Jean Eustache), Mr. Majestyk (Richard Fleischer), Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (William Klein), Nada (Claude Chabrol), The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani), Parade (Jacques Tati), Une Partie du Plaisir (Claude Chabrol), Stavisky… (Alain Resnais), The Tamarind Seed (Blake Edwards), The Traveller (Abbas Kiarostami), We All Loved Each Other So Much (Ettore Scola), Wife to Be Sacrificed (Masaru Konuma), You Were Judged and Found Wanting (Lino Brocka)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Godfather, Part II (Francis Coppola)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Lacombe, Lucien
Cannes, Grand Prix: The Conversation
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Ted Kotcheff)