The Garden of the Finzi-Continis(Vittorio de Sica)
Claire's Knee(Eric Rohmer)
Start the Revolution Without Me(Bud Yorkin)
Performance(Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg)
Cotton Comes to Harlem(Ossie Davis)
Catch-22(Mike Nichols)
Diary of a Mad Housewife(Frank Perry)
Additional 1970 Films By Rating
The Landlord(Hal Ashby)
Five Easy Pieces(Bob Rafelson)
Joe(John G. Avildsen)
Original Cast Album: Company(D.A. Pennebaker)
Two Mules for Sister Sara(Don Siegel)
Airport(George Seaton)
Zorns Lemma(Hollis Frampton)
Patton(Franklin J. Schaffner)
A Swedish Love Story(Roy Andersson)
Le Cercle Rouge(Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Ear(Karel Kachyňa)
Bed and Board(François Truffaut)
Woodstock(Michael Wadleigh)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls(Russ Meyer)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion(Elio Petri)
Multiple Maniacs(John Waters)
Wanda(Barbara Loden)
The Confession(Costa-Gavras)
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage(Dario Argento)
Donkey Skin(Jacques Demy)
Gimme Shelter(David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin)
Zabriskie Point(Michelangelo Antonioni)
7 Plus Seven(Michael Apted)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?(Michael Fengler & Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes(Billy Wilder)
Fruit of Paradise(Vera Chytilová)
Rio Lobo(Howard Hawks)
Kelly's Heroes(Brian G. Hutton)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue(Sam Peckinpah)
MASH(Robert Altman)
The Decameron(Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Ryan's Daughter(David Lean)
Husbands(John Cassavetes)
Little Big Man(Arthur Penn)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes(Ted Post)
Baal(Volker Schlöndorff)
The Hart of London(Jack Chambers)
Dodes'ka-den(Akira Kurosawa)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders(Jaromil Jires)
Crimes of the Future(David Cronenberg)
Equinox(Jack Woods)
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year
it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been
commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists
won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral. (Lists from prior to about 1988 are
especially suspect, as I compiled them long ago from memories that were
in many cases already pretty dusty.)
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):The Beginning (Panfilov);
Brewster McCloud (Altman); Entertaining Mr Sloane (Hickox);
Hi, Mom! (De Palma); Hospital (Wiseman); House of Dark
Shadows (Curtis); Leo the Last (Boorman); The Niklashausen
Journey (Fassbinder); The Phantom Tollbooth (Jones & Levitow);
Rumour (Hodges); The Spider's Stratagem (Bertolucci);
Taste the Blood of Dracula (Sasdy); Trash (Morrissey);
The Wild Child (Truffaut)
As yet unseen:El Topo (Jodorowsky);
I Never Sang for My Father (Cates); La Rupture (Chabrol);
Loving (Kershner); Tristana (Buñuel)
I occasionally write reviews of older movies, but it happens too infrequently to file them by year.