1973

1. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
2. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
3. Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
5. Day For Night (Francois Truffaut)
6. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
7. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
8. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
9. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
10. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)

Honorable Mentions:
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman), Breezy (Clint Eastwood), O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson), Sisters (Brian De Palma), The Last Detail (Hal Ashby), The Legend of Hell House (John Hough), High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood), Sleeper (Woody Allen), The Sting (George Roy Hill), Dillinger (John Milius)