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1972 Top Ten List

1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Love in the Afternoon (Éric Rohmer)
4. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
6. Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
7. Fat City (John Huston)
8. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. Across 110th Street (Barry Shear)
10. The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)

Other 1972 Films I Enjoyed

• Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
• The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell)
• What’s Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich)
• Avanti! (Billy Wilder)
• Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
• We Won’t Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)
• Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich)