1979

1. Monty Python's Life of Brian- Terry Jones
2. Apocalypse Now- Francis Ford Coppola
3. Alien- Ridley Scott
4. Stalker- Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Being There- Hal Ashby
6. Nosferatu the Vampyre- Werner Herzog
7. Manhattan- Woody Allen
8. Breaking Away- Peter Yates
9. The Brood- David Cronenberg
10. All That Jazz- Bob Fosse
11. The Marriage of Maria Braun- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
12. Camera Buff- Krzystzof Kieslowski
13. The Warriors- Walter Hill
14. Vengeance Is Mine- Shohei Imamura
15. Real Life- Albert Brooks
16. Woyzeck- Werner Herzog
17. Mad Max- George Miller
18. The In-Laws- Arthur Hiller
19. Tess- Roman Polanski
20. Time After Time- Nicholas Meyer
21. Best Boy- Ira Wohl
22. The Jerk- Carl Reiner
23. The Black Stallion- Carroll Ballard
24. My Brilliant Career- Gillian Armstrong

Ripe for re-appraisal: Graduate First (Maurice Pialat), North Dallas Forty (Ted Kotcheff), The Onion Field (Harold Becker), Rock’n’Roll High School (Allan Arkush)

Need to see: Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (Russ Meyer), Bloody Kids (Stephen Frears), Buffet Froid (Bertrand Blier), Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues), The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki), Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver), Demon Lover Diary (Joel DeMott), Doomed Love (Manoel de Oliveira), Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara), Drugstore Romance (Paul Vecchiali), Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel), Fast Company (David Cronenberg), The Herd (Zeki Okten), Home Movies (Brian De Palma), The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raul Ruiz), Love on the Run (Francois Truffaut), La Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci), Norma Rae (Martin Ritt), On the Marriage Broker Joke As Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? (Owen Land), Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan), Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich), Scum (Alan Clarke), That Sinking Feeling (Bill Forsyth), The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Trouble at Night (Catherine Breillat), The Virgin of Pessac (Jean Eustache), The Wanderers (Philip Kaufman), Winter Kills (William Reichert)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Manhattan
César Awards, Best Film: Tess
Cannes, Palme d’Or: (tie) Apocalypse Now and The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff)
Berlin, Golden Bear: David (Peter Lilienthal)
Toronto, Audience Award: Best Boy

1978

1. Gates of Heaven- Errol Morris
2. Dawn of the Dead- George A. Romero
3. Days of Heaven- Terrence Malick
4. 36th Chamber of Shaolin- Lau Kar-Leung
5. The Deer Hunter- Michael Cimino
6. Don- Chandra Barot
7. The Fury- Brian De Palma
8. Straight Time- Ulu Grosbard
9. The Tree of Wooden Clogs- Ermanno Olmi
10. Invasion of the Body Snatchers- Philip Kaufman
11. Violette- Claude Chabrol
12. Superman- Richard Donner
13. A Wedding- Robert Altman
14. Filming Othello- Orson Welles
15. The Last Waltz- Martin Scorsese
16. Halloween- John Carpenter

Ripe for re-appraisal: Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), Coming Home (Hal Ashby), Fingers (James Toback), Piranha (Joe Dante)
 

Need to see: Alexandria… Why? (Youssef Chahine), American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese), Big Wednesday (John Milius), Ceddo (Ousmane Sembene), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Fred Schepisi), China 9 Liberty 37 (Monte Hellman), Le Dossier 51 (Michel Deville), The Driver (Walter Hill), Drugstore Romance (Paul Vecchiali), Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima), Five Deadly Venoms (Chang Cheh), Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier), The Green Room (François Truffaut), In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Koko: A Talking Gorilla (Barbet Schroeder), Our Hitler: A Film From Germany (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg), Perceval le Gallois (Eric Rohmer), Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph), Renaldo and Clara (Bob Dylan), Rendezvous d’Anna (Chantal Akerman), Snake in Eagle’s Shadow (Yuen Woo-ping), Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway), Watership Down (Martin Rosen), When the Crow Turns White, When the Heron Turns Black (Celso Ad. Castillo), Who’ll Stop the Rain (Karel Reisz)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: The Deer Hunter
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
César Awards, Best Film: Other People's Money (Christian de Chalonge)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Berlin, Golden Bear: (tie) Trout (Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez), Ascensor (Tomas Munoz), and The Words of Max (Emilio Martinez Lazaro)
Toronto, Audience Award: Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)

1977

1. Annie Hall- Woody Allen
2. Eraserhead- David Lynch
3. Stroszek- Werner Herzog
4. Killer of Sheep- Charles Burnett
5. The Devil, Probably- Robert Bresson
6. Martin- George A. Romero
7. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas- Jim Henson
8. 3 Women- Robert Altman
9. Sorcerer- William Friedkin
10. La Soufriere- Werner Herzog [short]
11. Cross of Iron- Sam Peckinpah
12. Amar Akbar Anthony- Manmohan Desai
13. Harlan County USA- Barbara Kopple
14. Close Encounters of the Third Kind- Steven Spielberg
15. Rabid- David Cronenberg
16. Opening Night- John Cassavetes
17. That Obscure Object of Desire- Luis Buñuel
18. Star Wars- George Lucas
19. Smokey and the Bandit- Hal Needham
20. Suspiria- Dario Argento
21. The American Friend- Wim Wenders
22. The Perfumed Nightmare- Kidlat Tahimik
23. The Late Show- Robert Benton
24. Peppermint Soda- Diane Kurys

Ripe for re-appraisal: The Duellists (Ridley Scott), House (Nobujiro Obayashi), Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis), Powers of Ten (Charles and Ray Eames), The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert)

Need to see: 11x14 (James Benning), ABBA: The Movie (Lasse Hallstrom), Abigail’s Party (Mike Leigh), Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver), Blood Relatives (Claude Chabrol), Bolweiser (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Boys (Nils Malmros), Burlesk Queen (Celso Ad. Castillo), The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray), Desperate Living (John Waters), God Told Me To (Larry Cohen), The Goodbye Girl (Herbert Ross), A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker), Iodo (Kim Ki-young), The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta), Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jon Jost), The Last Wave (Peter Weir), Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda), News From Home (Chantal Akerman), One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning), Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Larry Cohen), Providence (Alain Resnais), Un Sale Histoire (Jean Eustache), Untitled [1977] (Ernie Gehr), Soldier of Orange (Paul Verhoeven), The Turning Point (Herbert Ross), Twilight’s Last Gleaming (Robert Aldrich), Valse Triste (Bruce Conner)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Annie Hall
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Annie Hall
César Awards, Best Film: Providence
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Padre Padrone
Berlin, Golden Bear: The Ascent

1976

1. Taxi Driver- Martin Scorsese
2. Assault on Precinct 13- John Carpenter
3. The Man Who Fell to Earth- Nicolas Roeg
4. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie- John Cassavetes
5. Mikey and Nicky- Elaine May
6. In the Realm of the Senses- Nagisa Oshima
7. Obsession- Brian De Palma
8. Up!- Russ Meyer
9. The Tenant- Roman Polanski
10. Cria Cuervos- Carlos Saura
11. 1900- Bernardo Bertolucci
12. The Outlaw Josey Wales- Clint Eastwood
13. Carrie- Brian De Palma
14. The Front- Martin Ritt
15. Marathon Man- John Schlesinger
16. Small Change- Francois Truffaut
17. Seven Beauties- Lina Wertmüller
18. All the President’s Men- Alan J. Pakula

Notable shorts: Gravity (Michael Nankin and David Wechter), Projection Instructions (Morgan Fisher)

Ripe for re-appraisal: Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker), Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman), The Shootist (Don Siegel)

Need to see: The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko), The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie), The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (John Badham), Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby), Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (Robert Altman), Casanova (Federico Fellini), Ceddo (Ousmane Sembene), Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Coup de Grace (Volker Schlondorff), Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini), The Devil’s Playground (Fred Schepisi), Duelle (Jacques Rivette), Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock), God Told Me To (Larry Cohen), Ici et Ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard), Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi), The Innocent (Luchino Visconti), Insiang (Lino Brocka), I Only Want You to Love Me (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders), The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer), The Middleman (Satyajit Ray), Monsieur Klein (Joseph Losey), Noroit (Jacques Rivette), A Slave of Love (Nikita Mikhalkov), The Scar (Krzystzof Kieslowski), Stay Hungry (Bob Rafaelson), Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Conner), Three Years Without God (Mario O’Hara), Welcome to L.A. (Alan Rudolph)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
César Awards, Best Film: M. Klein
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Taxi Driver
Berlin, Golden Bear: Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson

1975

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles- Chantal Akerman
2. Nashville- Robert Altman
3. Barry Lyndon- Stanley Kubrick
4. Jaws- Steven Spielberg
5. The Holy Mountain- Alejandro Jodorowsky
6. The Passenger- Michelangelo Antonioni
7. F for Fake- Orson Welles
8. Night Moves- Arthur Penn
9. Grey Gardens- Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer
10. The Mirror- Andrei Tarkovsky
11. The Friends of Eddie Coyle- Peter Yates
12. Dog Day Afternoon- Sidney Lumet
13. Monty Python and the Holy Grail- Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam
14. Overlord- Stuart Cooper
15. The Story of Adèle H.- Francois Truffaut
16. Shampoo- Hal Ashby
17. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom- Pier Paolo Pasolini
18. The Man Who Would Be King- John Huston
19. Love and Death- Woody Allen
20. The Magic Flute- Ingmar Bergman

Ripe for re-appraisal: Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel), The Fortune (Mike Nichols)

Need to see: At Long Last Love (Peter Bogdanovich), Black Moon (Louis Malle), Dirty Hands (Claude Chabrol), Fällan (Peter Watkins), Female Trouble (John Waters), Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), The French Connection II (John Frankenheimer), Giliap (Roy Andersson), Graveyard of Honor (Kinji Fukasaku), Hard Times (Walter Hill), Hester Street (Joan Micklin Silver), I Am a Cat (Kon Ichikawa), India Song (Marguerite Duras), Keetje Tippel (Paul Verhoeven), The Killer Elite (Sam Peckinpah), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Margaretha Von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff), Love Among the Ruins (George Cukor), Moses und Aron (Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard), Promise of the Flesh (Kim Ki-young), Race With the Devil (Jack Starrett), The Return of the Chinese Boxer (Wang Yu), The Seventies People (Peter Watkins), The Traveling Players (Theo Angelopoulos), Welfare (Frederick Wiseman), Wide Angle Saxon (Owen Land), Xala (Ousmane Sembene)

Academy Awards (USA), Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
BAFTA Film Awards, Best Film: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
César Awards, Best Film: The Old Gun (Robert Enrico)
Cannes, Palme d’Or: Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Mohammad Lakhdar-Hamina)
Berlin, Golden Bear: Adoption (Marta Meszaros)

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)

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

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)

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)

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