1973

1. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
2. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
4. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
5. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
6. Sleeper (Woody Allen)
7. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
8. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)
9. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
10. The Sting (George Roy Hill)
11. Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg)

Almost There: Battles without Honor and Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku), The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann), Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates), Lady Snowblood (Fujita Toshiya), O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson), Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich), Serpico (Sidney Lumet), Sisters (Brian De Palma), The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice), Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven).

Have Yet to See: The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky), The Last Detail (Hal Ashby), The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache).