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1974 Top Ten List

1. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
3. California Split (Robert Altman)
4. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
5. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
7. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
8. Black Christmas (Bob Clark)
9. Pastoral Hide and Seek (Shûji Terayama)
10. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)

Other 1974 Films I Enjoyed

• Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
• Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
• We All Loved Each Other So Much (Ettore Scola)
• Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
• Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
• Dark Star (John Carpenter)