1970s

1979

1. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola)

2. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky)

3. MANHATTAN (Woody Allen)
4. ALIEN (Ridley Scott)

5. REAL LIFE (Albert Brooks)

6. BEING THERE (Hal Ashby)

1978

1. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick)

2. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)

3. AN UNMARRIED WOMAN (Paul Mazursky)

4. HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter)

5. THE FURY (Brian De Palma)

1977

1. STROSZEK (Werner Herzog)

2. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND [1998 director's cut] (Steven Spielberg)

3. KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett)

4. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)

5. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)

6. STAR WARS (George Lucas)

1976

1. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
2. THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (Clint Eastwood)

3. THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE [director's cut] (John Cassavettes)

4. THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (Nicolas Roeg)

5. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter)

6. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (Alan J. Pakula)

1975

1. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick)

2. JEANNE DIELMAN, 1080 QUAI DU COMMERCE (Chantal Akerman)

3. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)

4. JAWS (Steven Spielberg)

5. NUMÉRO DEUX (Jean-Luc Godard)

6. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Jim Sharman)

1974

1. THE GODFATHER PART II (Francis Ford Coppola)

2. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)

3. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

4. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma)

5. CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski)

6. A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (John Cassavettes)
7. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (Mel Brooks)

8. THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola)
9. BLAZING SADDLES (Mel Brooks)

10. HERE AND ELSEWHERE (Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville)

11. THE ENIGMA OF KASPER HAUSER (Werner Herzog)
12. THE PARALLAX VIEW (Alan J. Pakula)

1973

1. PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID [preview version] (Sam Peckinpah)

2. BADLANDS (Terrence Malick)

3. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles)

4. SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE [TV version] (Ingmar Bergman)
5. SISTERS (Brian De Palma)

1972

1. AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD (Werner Herzog)

2. CRIES AND WHISPHERS (Ingmar Bergman)

3. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola)

4. LAST TANGO IN PARIS (Bernardo Bertolucci)

5. TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)

6. LETTER TO JANE (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)

1971

1. MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman)

2. WALKABOUT (Nicolas Roeg)

3. TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Monte Hellman)

4. STRAW DOGS (Sam Peckinpah)

5. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (William Friedkin)

6. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (Peter Bogdanovich)

1970

1. THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci)
2. HI, MOM! (Brian De Palma)
3. WOODSTOCK (Michael Wadleigh)
4. FIVE EASY PIECES (Bob Rafelson)
5. M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)