1970s: Films
TOP 50 FILMS OF THE 1970s
1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) 2. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
3. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nic Roeg)
4. The Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
6. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
7. Nashville (Robert Altman)
8. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
10. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
11. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
12. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
13. Network (Sidney Lumet)
14. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
15. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
16. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
17. Walkabout (Nic Roeg)
18. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
19. Don’t Look Now (Nic Roeg)
20. Annie Hall (Woody Hall)
21. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
22. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
23. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
24. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
25. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
26. Performance (Nic Roeg)
27. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
28. Rocky (John G. Avildsen
29. Being There (Hal Ashby)
30. Alien (Ridley Scott)
31. Gimme Shelter (Maysles Brothers)
32. MASH (Robert Altman)
33. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
34. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
35. Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
36. Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
37. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
38. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
39. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
40. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
41. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
42. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
43. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
44. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
45. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
46. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
47. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
48. Equus (Sidney Lumet)
49. Star Wars (George Lucas)
50. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
GOLDEN CAT AWARD (BEST DIRECTOR OF THE DECADE): Francis Ford Coppola + Nic Roeg (Tie)
BEST ACTOR OF THE DECADE: Robert De Niro + Jack Nicholson (Tie)
Posted by G. William Locke
