Films: 1973

Our 20 Favorite Films of 1973

1. Badlands (Terrence Malick)2. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)3. Don’t Look Now (Nic Roeg)4. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)5. Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)6. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)7. Serpico (Sidney Lumet)8. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)9. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)10. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)11. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)

12. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)

13. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)

14. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)

15. The Sting (George Roy Hill)

17. The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack)

17. Sleeper (Woody Allen)

18. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)

19. American Griffiti (George Lucas)

20. A Touch of Class (Melvin Frank)

Best Director: Terrence Malick for Badlands

Best Actor: Al Pacino for Serpico

Best Screenplay: Terrence Malick for Badlands

Posted by G. William Locke