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Aug 25, 2013 - 9:41 PM
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Richard-W
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore -- Martin Scorcese
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia -- Sam Peckinpah
Chinatown -- Roman Polanski
Conrack -- Martin Ritt
The Front Page -- Billy Wilder
The Godfather, Part 2 -- Francis Ford Coppola
Law and Disorder -- Ivan Passer
McQ -- John Sturges, listed for John Wayne's deeply felt, minimalist performance.
The Parallax View -- Alan J. Pakula
Sugarland Express -- Steven Spielberg
The Terminal Man -- Mike Hodges
Thieves Like Us -- Robert Altman
The White Dawn -- Philip Kauffman
Zardoz -- John Boorman
There were so many worthwhile films in 1974. The list goes on and on: 11 Harrowhouse, Frankenheimer's 99 and 44/100% Dead, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Borsalino and Co., Buster and Billie, Busting, Harold Pinter's Butley, Don Siegel's The Black Windmill, Robert Altman's California Split, Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller, Death Wish, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Gianfranco Mingozzi's Flavia the Heretic, Foxy Brown, Karel Reisz's The Gambler, Peter Hunt's Gold, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac, Bob Fosse's miserable Lenny, Macon County Line, Sidney Lumet's Murder On the Orient Express, Richard Fleischer's The Spikes Gang, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Blake Edwards' The Tamarind Seed, Bertrand Blier's Going Places, Cassavete's A Woman Under the Influence, Young Frankenstein and at least two dozen others. An incredibly good year for cinema.
Richard
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1. The Conversation (Coppola)
1. The Godfather Part II (Coppola)
3. Chinatown (Polanski)
4. The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
5. Lacombe, Lucien (Malle)
6. Stardust (Apted)
7. Vincent, Francois, Paul et les autres (Sautet)
8. The Nickel Ride (Mulligan)
9. Mahler (Russell)
10. Butley (Pinter)
10. The Parallax View (Pakula)
California Split (Altman)
Thieves Like Us (Altman)
The Yakuza (Pollack)
Murder on the Orient Express (Lumet)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Sargent)
also good: Zardoz, Phantom of the Paradise, Lenny, The Man with the Golden Gun, Lost in the Stars, Ali:Fear Eats the Soul, The Odessa File, The Towering Inferno, Blazing Saddles & Young Frankenstein.
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As an 10-year-old, I wasn't old enough to see any of these except "Golden Voyage."
And I didn't even see that. 
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Number One
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
2. The Conversation
3. The Gambler
4. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
5. The Parallax View
Notes
Television-wise, I will add Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
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