1970 Top Ten List
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio de Sica)
King Lear (Grigoriy Kozintsev)
Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
Start the Revolution Without Me (Bud Yorkin)
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)
Performance (Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg)
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)