Smithsonian Associates

The ’70s Movies a Real Cinephile Should See Compiled by Noah Gittell

Listed by director ALAN J. PAKULA MARTIN SCORSESE Klute Who’s That Knocking at My Door? The Parallax View Mean Streets All the President’s Men Taxi Driver HAL ASHBY The Last Waltz Harold and Maude FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA Being There New York, New York Coming Home The Conversation The Landlord The Godfather, Part II The Last Detail Apocalypse Now SIDNEY LUMET STEVEN SPIELBERG The Anderson Tapes Jaws Dog Day Afternoon Close Encounters of the Third Kind Network GEORGE LUCAS ROBERT ALTMAN Star Wars M*A*S*H BARBARA LODEN Nashville The Long Goodbye Wanda ELAINE MAY McCabe and Mrs. Miller WILLIAM FRIEDKIN A New Leaf Mikey and Nicky The Exorcist PETER BOGDANOVICH JIM SHARMAN The Last Picture Show The Rocky Horror Picture Show MICHAEL RITCHIE SYDNEY POLLACK The Candidate Jeremiah Johnson GORDON PARKS MILOS FORMAN Shaft One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest MELVIN VAN PEEBLES BOB RAFELSON Sweetback’s Sweet Badass Song Five Easy Pieces JACK HILL MICHAEL CIMINO Foxy Brown The Deer Hunter SERGIO LEONE LUIS BUNUEL The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie INGMAR BERGMAN PAUL SCHRADER Cries and Whispers Blue Collar Autumn Sonata BOB FOSSE RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER Cabaret The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant All That Jazz Ali: Fear Eats the Soul MEL BROOKS DAVID LYNCH Young Frankenstein The Elephant Man Blazing Saddles Eraserhead HERBERT ROSS WILLIAM FRIEDKIN The Goodbye Girl The French Connection TERRY JONES AND TERRY GILLIAM ALBERT AND DAVID MAYSLES Monty Python and the Holy Grail Grey Gardens TERRY JONES BARBARA KOPPLE Monty Python and the Life of Brian Harlan County, U.S.A. JAMES WILLIAM GUERCIO JOHN CARPENTER Electra Glide in Blue Dark Star JOAN MICKLIN SILVER Halloween Hester Street RIDLEY SCOTT JOHN CASSAVETES Alien A Woman Under the Influence ROMAN POLANSKI The Killing of a Chinese Bookie Chinatown Husbands