Top 10 Favorite Films: 1970-1979

In order of preference:

1970

1. Ryan’s Daughter (David Lean)
2. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
3. Little Big Man (Arthur Penn)
4. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri)
5. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
6. Tristana (Luis Bunuel)
7. The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle)
8. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder)
9. M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)
10. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)

1971

1. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
2. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
3. Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
4. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
5. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
6. THX 1138 (George Lucas)
7. The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise)
8. The Beguiled (Don Siegel)
9. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bodanovich)
10. Nicholas and Alexandra (Franklin J. Schaffner)

1972

1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
3. 1776! (Peter Hunt)
4. A Fistful of Dynamite (Sergio Leone)
5. Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
6. The Poseidon Adventure (Ronald Neame)
7. Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill)
8. The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah)
9. Deliverance (John Boorman)
10. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)

1973

1. Sisters (Brian De Palma)
2. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
3. O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson)
4. The Legend of Hell House (John Hough)
5. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)
6. The Sting (George Roy Hill)
7. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
8. The Way we Were (Sidney Pollack)
9. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
10. Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven)

1974

1. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Zardoz (John Boorman)
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tob Hooper)
4. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
5. Murder on the Orient Express (Sidney Lumet)
6. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
7. The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin, Irwin Allen)
8. The Man With the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton)
9. And Now My Love (Claude Lelouch)
10. The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)

1975

1. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman)
4. The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes)
5. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
6. Deep Red (Dario Argento)
7. Keetje Tippel (Paul Verhoeven)
8. Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller)
9. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
10. Tommy (Ken Russell)

1976

1. Obsession (Brian De Palma)
2. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula)
3. Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (Robert Altman)
4. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
5. Network (Sidney Lumet)
6. Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
7. Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)
8. The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
9. Fellini’s Casanova (Federico Fellini)
10. Carrie (Brian De Palma)

1977

1. Three Women (Robert Altman)
2. Star Wars (George Lucas)
3. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
4. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
5. Martin (George A. Romero)
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
7. Demon Seed (Donald Cammell)
8. Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
9. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Richard Brooks)
10. The Man Who Loved Women (Francois Truffaut)

1978

1. Halloween (John Carpenter)
2. Superman: The Movie (Richard Donner)
3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
4. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
5. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
6. Midnight Express (Alan Parker)
7. Coming Home (Hal Ashby)
8. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
9. Grease (Randal Kleiser)
10. Interiors (Woody Allen)

1979

1. The China Syndrome (James Bridges)
2. Norma Rae (Martin Ritt)
3. Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
4. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
6. Alien (Ridley Scott)
7. The Brood (David Cronenberg)
8. The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
9. Being There (Hal Ashby)
10. Manhattan (Woody Allen)