Category:1974, Top Films

1970 -- 1971 -- 1972 -- 1973

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>> Film Studies (1970s) <<

1975 -- 1976 -- 1977 -- 1978

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1. (4) [[Young Frankenstein
2. (10) [[Blazing Saddles
3. (12) [[Alice in the Cities
4. (16) [[Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
5. (33) [[We All Loved Each Other So Much

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Notable Mention

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1. (1) [[The Godfather Part II> (Coppola) <Best Picture & Director>
2. (2) [[Chinatown> (Polanski)
3. (3) [[The Conversation>
4. (5) [[A Woman Under the Influence>
5. (7) [[Ali: Fear Eats the Soul>
6. (8) [[Scenes from a Marriage>
7. (23) [[Lenny (Fosse)

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Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

-- #1. <The Godfather Part II> -- #2. <Chinatown> -- #3. <The Conversation> -- #4. Young Frankenstein -- #5. <A Woman Under the Influence> -- #6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre -- #7. <Ali: Fear Eats the Soul> -- #8. <Scenes from a Marriage> -- #9. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser -- #10. Blazing Saddles

-- #11. The Phantom of Liberty -- #12. Alice in the Cities -- #13. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia -- #14. Celine and Julie Go Boating -- #15. The Night Porter -- #16. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore -- #17. Sweet Movie -- #18. Female Trouble -- #19. The Man Who Sleeps -- #20. Phantom of the Paradise

-- #21. Arabian Nights -- #23. Lenny -- #27. Lacombe Lucien -- #32. Murder on the Orient Express -- #33. We All Loved Each Other So Much -- #35. The Parallax View -- #36. My Little Loves -- #38. Conversation Piece -- #48. Effi Briest

Flickchart, Best Films

-- @1. <The Godfather Part II> -- @2. <Chinatown> -- @3. <The Conversation> -- @4. Young Frankenstein -- @5. Blazing Saddles -- @6. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three -- @7. <A Woman Under the Influence> -- @8. <Ali: Fear Eats the Soul> -- @9. Black Christmas -- @10. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

-- @11. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre -- @12. Phantom of the Paradise -- @13. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore -- @14. The Parallax View -- @15. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser -- @16. Murder on the Orient Express -- @17. Lenny -- @18. The Phantom of Liberty -- @19. Thunderbolt -- @20. The Longest Yard

-- @25. Alice in the Cities

CriticsTop10, Best Films

-- =1. <Chinatown> -- =2. <The Godfather, Part II> -- =3. Amarcord -- =4. <The Conversation> -- =5. Harry and Tonto -- =6. Scenes From a Marriage -- =7. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore -- =8. That's Entertainment -- =9. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz -- =10. Young Frankenstein

-- =11. Lacombe, Lucien -- =12. The Three Musketeers -- =13. Badlands -- =14. Lenny -- =15. Murder on the Orient Express -- =16. <A Woman Under the Influence> -- =17. The Towering Inferno -- =18. Thieves Like Us -- =19. California Split -- =20. Juggernaut

-- =21. Hearts and Minds -- =22. The Mother and the Whore -- =23. Blazing Saddles -- =24. The Phantom of Liberty -- =25. The Front Page -- =26. The Sugarland Express -- =27. Love and Anarchy -- =28. The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 -- =29. The Gambler -- =30. Claudine

-- =31. Le Petit Theater de Jean Renoir -- =32. The Longest Yard -- =33. Wedding in Blood -- =34. The Parallax View -- =35. The Tamarind Seed -- =36. Butley -- =37. Stavisky

Oscar, Best Films

-- The Godfather Part II -- Chinatown -- The Conversation -- Lenny -- The Towering Inferno -- A Woman Under the Influence -- Amarcord (Italy, 1973)

Golden Globe, Best Films

-- Chinatown -- The Longest Yard -- Scenes from a Marriage (Sweden)

National Board of Review

-- The Conversation -- Murder on the Orient Express -- Chinatown -- The Last Detail -- Harry and Tonto -- A Woman Under the Influence -- Thieves Like Us -- Lenny -- Daisy Miller -- The Three Musketeers

Top Grossing Films

-- The Towering Inferno -- Blazing Saddles -- Young Frankenstein -- Earthquake -- The Trial of Billy Jack -- The Godfather Part II -- Airport 1975 -- The Longest Yard -- The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams -- Murder on the Orient Express

NYT, Best Films

-- The Clockmaker of St. Paul -- Lacombe, Lucien -- Blazing Saddles -- The Sugarland Express -- The Conversation -- Chinatown -- The Parallax View -- Effi Briest -- Harry and Tonto -- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three -- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore -- The Godfather Part II -- Young Frankenstein -- Swept Away

TSPDT, Best Films

-- The Godfather Part II -- A Woman Under the Influence -- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul -- The Conversation -- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- Celine and Julie Go Boating -- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser -- Alice in the Cities -- Young Frankenstein -- The Phantom of Liberty -- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia -- Lancelot du Lac -- Edvard Munch [TV] -- We All Loved Each Other So Much -- My Little Loves -- Arabian Nights -- Female Trouble

Top10ner, Best Films

-- Young Frankenstein -- Blazing Saddles -- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul -- The Conversation -- Celine and Julie Go Boating -- Chinatown -- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three -- The Phantom of Liberty -- Scenes from a Marriage -- A Woman Under the Influence -- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser -- The Godfather Part II

Film101, Best Films

-- Young Frankenstein -- Blazing Saddles -- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore -- The Sugarland Express -- Chinatown -- The Godfather Part II -- The Conversation -- Celine and Julie Go Boating -- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser -- Lacombe Lucien -- A Woman Under the Influence -- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul -- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre -- The Parallax View -- The Phantom of Liberty -- The Clockmaker -- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia -- Swept Away

ChildActors, Best Films

-- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

-- Abbasso tutti, viva noi / Three Cheers for Us (Italy) -- All the Kind Strangers / Evil in the Swamp -- La Bellissima Estate (Italy) -- Charlie Ve'hetzi / Charlie and a Half (Israel) -- A Cry in the Wilderness -- Dorogoy malchik / The Dear Boy (URSS) -- Fimpen (Sweden) -- Great Expectations (UK/USA) -- Home and Away (UK) -- Izpiti po nikoe vreme / Exams at Any Odd Time (Bulgaria) -- The Little Prince -- Mahler (UK) -- Mixed Company -- Montreal Main (Canada) -- Moskva-Kassiopeya / Moscow-Cassiopeia (URSS) -- Mossafer The Traveler (Iran) -- Ni slova o futbole (URSS) -- Oom Ferdinand en de toverdrank (Netherlands) -- Peopletoys / Devil Times Five -- Pssst! Hammerman's After You! -- The Savage Is Loose -- Seven Alone -- Silence -- Skipper & Co. (Denmark) -- Swallows and Amazons (UK) -- Valkiny Parusa (URSS) -- Världens bästa Karlsson / Karlsson on the Roof (Sweden) -- Il venditore di palloncini / The Last Circus Show (Italy) -- Le violon de Gaston / Gaston's Recital (Canada) -- Les violons du bal (France) -- Visit to a Chief's Son -- Where the Red Fern Grows

Best International Films

{France} -- Lacombe, Lucien

{Italy} -- We All Loved Each Other So Much -- Scent of a Woman -- Il portiere di notte -- Pane e cioccolato

{Japan} -- The Castle of Sand -- Pastoral: To Die in the Country

{Russia} -- Mirror

Film Limbo

-- Lenny (??)