best film:  The Godfather is the best film of 1972 and is universally canonized for a very good reason. It is one of the best 5 narratives in the history of cinema and that narrative,

best film:  Kubrick’s a clockwork orange is far and away the greatest cinematic achievement of 1971 which gives Kubrick back to back films with the best films of the year (2001 in 1968). This rarely

best film:  the conformist is a visual showcase of set pieces, lighting, and overall mise-en-scene from architectural landscapes to costume design. It has noir roots and is Bertolucci’s best film. Although I’ve had it there

best film:  the wild bunch stands above the other films in 1969. The narrative alone is enough to make it a top 5 of the year film but the aesthetic choices Peckinpah makes, particularly in

best film:  Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the handful of films that can legitimately lay claim to being called the greatest film of all-time. The visual achievement here has no peer

best film:  The Graduate is the sole 1967 film in my all-time top 100. It’s a sizeable film stylistically with some of the editing sequences (the montage of the Hoffman/Bancroft affair set to simon and

best film:  Persona is Bergman’s most radical film and a breakthrough visually for the great auteur. I have it as his top film. It may be Sven Nykvist’s best work and the complex narrative, which

best film:  pierrot le fou is clearly godard’s most innovative work to date. It’s self-conscious, self-mocking and a brilliant deconstruction of the medium. It’s more than that though because, unlike later godard, it’s wildly visually