Dave Kehr's top 10 lists (chicago release dates)
1974
1. The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (Renoir)
2. Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
3. The Tamarind Seed (Edwards)
4. Wedding in Blood (Chabrol)
5. The Three Musketeers (Lester)
6. Chinatown (Polanski)
7. The Phantom of Liberty (Bunuel)
8. Lacombe, Lucien (Malle)
9. The Godfather: Part II (Coppola)
10. Juggernaut (Lester)
1975
1. Lancelot du Lac (Bresson)
2. The Middle of the World (Tanner)
3. A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
4. The Passenger (Antonioni)
5. La Rupture (Chabrol)
6. Love Among the Ruins (Cukor)
7. Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder)
8. The Romantic Englishwoman (Losey)
9. Hard Times (Hill)
10. Supervixens (Meyer)
1976
1. Family Plot (Hitchcock)
2. The Age of Medici + Blaise Pascal (Rossellini)
3. Robin and Marian (Lester)
4. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Tanner)
5. The Man Who Would Be King (Huston)
6. The Shootist (Siegel)
7. Just Before Nightfall (Chabrol)
8. Mother Kuster's Trip to Heaven (Fassbinder)
9. French Provincial (Techine)
10. Allegro non troppo (Bozzeto)
1977
1. F for Fake (Welles)
2. The Memory of Justice (Ophuls)
3. The Marquise of O (Rohmer)
4. A Piece of Pleasure (Chabrol)
5. Numero Deux (Godard)
6. Moses und Aron (Straub + Huillet)
7. Islands in the Stream (Schaffner)
8. The Gauntlet (Eastwood)
9. Padre, Padrone (Taviani Bros)
10. The Rescuers (Reitherman + Stevens + Lounsbery)
1978
1. Days of Heaven (Malick)
2. That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel)
3. The American Friend (Wenders)
4. Meetings With Anna (Akerman)
5. The Messiah (Rossellini)
6. The Driver (Hill)
7. Halloween (Carpenter)
8. Big Wednesday (Milius)
9. Blue Collar (Schrader)
10. Filming Othello (Welles)
1979
1. 10 (Edwards)
2. THe Left-handed Woman (Handke)
3. Dawn of the Dead (Romero)
4. Perceval (Rohmer)
5. The Warriors (Hill)
6. La Luna (Bertolucci)
7. Escape From Alcatraz (Siegel)
8. In a Year of 13 Moons (Fassbinder)
9. Fedora (Wilder)
10. Angi, Vera (Gabor)
1980
1. The Devil, Probably (Bresson)
2. The Human Factor (Preminger)
3. The Constant Factor (Zanussi)
4. The Big Red One (Fuller)
5. Used Cars (Zemeckis)
6. Quadrophenia (Roddam)
7. The Black Stallion (Ballard)
8. Gloria (Cassavetes)
9. Mad Max (Miller)
10. The Long Riders (Hill)
1981
1. Melvin and Howard (Demme)
2. Loulou (Pialat)
3. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Schepisi)
4. Here and Elsewhere (Godard)
5. Slow Motion (Godard)
6. Confidence (Szabo)
7. From the Clouds to the Resistance (Straub + Huillet)
8. Modern Romance (Brooks)
9. Atlantic City (Malle)
10. Reds (Beatty)
1982
1. The Aviator's Wife (Rohmer)
2. Barbarose (Schepisi)
3. Coup de torchon (Tavernier)
4. Eijanaika (Imamura)
5. Mes petites amoureuses (Eustache)
6. Moonlighting (Skolimowski)
7. Le pont du nord (Rivette)
8. Smash Palace (Donaldson)
9. Too Early, Too Late (Straub + Huillet)
10. Victor/Victoria (Edwards)
1983
1. Francisca (de Oliveira)
2. A Room in Town (Demy)
3. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
4. Ana (Reis + Cordero)
5. The Golden Eighties (Akerman)
6. The State of Things (Wenders)
7. Exposed (Toback)
8. Risky Business (Brickman)
9. Sudden Impact (Eastwood)
10. Fanny & Alexander (Bergman)
1984
1. L'argent (Bresson)
2. Love Streams (Cassavetes)
3. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
4. Passion (Godard)
5. A Sunday in the Country (Tavernier)
6. Three Crowns of a Sailor (Ruiz)
7. A nos amours (Pialat)
8. In the White City (Tanner)
9. Boy Meets Girl (Carax)
10. My Brother's Wedding (Burnett)
1985
1. Ran (Kurosawa)
2. Lost in America (Brooks)
3. Mikey and Nicky (May)
4. After Hours (Scorsese)
5. Les Enfants (Duras)
6. Day of the Dead (Romero)
7. Pale Rider (Eastwood)
8. City of Pirates (Ruiz)
9. Maria's Lovers (Konchalovsky)
10. The Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Jin)
1986
1. Shoah (Lanzmann)
2. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
3. Something Wild (Demme)
4. Vagabond (Varda)
5. The Fly (Cronenberg)
6. Trouble in Mind (Rudolph)
7. Himatsuri (Yanagimachi)
8. Heartbreak Ridge (Eastwood)
9. Peggy Sue Got Married (Coppola)
10. Blue Velvet (Lynch)