Roger Ebert's favourite films of the 1970s

From 1967 until his passing in 2013, film critic Roger Ebert always published "top 10" lists for every year. Those lists have always served as a non-award, an achievement that movies would get without any official presentations or statuettes, but were coveted awards anyway.

It's funny to see many films in the lists are from 1 or 2 years before. I suppose he made lists made on the movies he had watched on that year, even if they were a little delayed.

I'm publishing this post with all the movies he voted for in the decade this blog is dedicated to, in order to remind myself that all of them deserve at least one honest viewing. I don't guarantee I'll write about all of them, but it's a good roadmap to understand that decade in film history.

1970

1. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
2. M*A*S*H (1970)
3. The Revolutionary (1970)
4. Patton (1970)
5. Woodstock (1970)
6. My Night At Maud's (1969)
7. Adalen 31 (1969)
8. The Passion of Anna (1969)
9. The Wild Child (1970)
10. Satyricon (1969)

1971

1. The Last Picture Show (1971)
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
3. Claire's Knee (1970)
4. The French Connection (1971)
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
6. Taking Off (1971)
7. Carnal Knowledge (1971)
8. Tristana (1970)
9. Goin' Down the Road (1970)
10. Bed and Board (1970)

1972

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. Chloe In the Afternoon (1972)
3. Le Boucher (1970)
4. Murmur of the Heart (1971)
5. The Green Wall (1970)
6. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
7. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
8. Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
9. Sounder (1972)
10. The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (1972)

1973

1. Cries and Whispers (1972)
2. Last Tango In Paris (1972)
3. The Emigrants (1971)
3. The New Land (1972)
4. Blume In Love (1973)
5. The Iceman Cometh (1973)
6. The Exorcist (1973)
7. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
8. American Graffiti (1973)
9. Roma (1972)
10. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)

1974

1. Scenes From a Marriage (1973)
2. Chinatown (1974)
3. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
4. Amarcord (1973)
5. The Last Detail (1973)
6. The Mirages (1974)
7. Day For Night (1973)
8. Mean Streets (1973)
9. Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
10. The Conversation (1974)

1975

1. Nashville (1975)
2. Night Moves (1975)
3. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
4. Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
5. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
6. A Brief Vacation (1973)
7. And Now My Love (1974)
8. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
9. In Celebration (1975)
10. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

1976

1. Small Change (1976)
2. Taxi Driver (1976)
3. The Magic Flute (1975)
4. The Clockmaker (1974)
5. Network (1976)
6. Swept Away (1974)
7. Rocky (1976)
8. All the President's Men (1976)
9. Silent Movie (1976)
10. The Shootist (1976)

1977

1. 3 Women (1977)
2. Providence (1977)
3. The Late Show (1977)
4. A Woman's Decision (1975)
5. Jail Bait (1973)
6. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
7. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
8. Annie Hall (1977)
9. Sorcerer (1977)
10. Star Wars (1977)

1978

1. An Unmarried Woman (1978)
2. Days of Heaven (1978)
3. Heart of Glass (1976)
4. Stroszek (1977)
5. Autumn Sonata (1978)
6. Interiors (1978)
7. Halloween (1978)
8. Animal House (1978)
9. Kings of the Road (1976)
10. Superman (1978)

1979

1. Apocalypse Now (1979)
2. Breaking Away (1979)
3. The Deer Hunter (1978)
4. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
5. Hair (1979)
6. Saint Jack (1979)
7. Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
8. The China Syndrome (1979)
9. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
10. 10 (1979)