The CS! AFI Top 100 Movies: The 1970's

Network

Serpico

MASH

Phantom of the Paradise

Straw Dogs

Everything else tied at two or one.

That's a top seven.  We good?

Alrighty then.

Final tally:

Network 5
Phantom of the Paradise 4
Woman Under the Influence 4
Cries and Whispers 4
Carrie 3
Serpico 3
Stalker 3

Everything else 2 or 1.

Network, Phantom of the Paradise, Woman Under The Influence, Cries and Whispers, Carrie, Serpico and Stalker make it on this round.

PG Cooper, SnoBorderZero, anybody else...you know the drill. 

I'll put up Deliverance, And Justice For All and Three Days of the Condor.

Leaving my nominations as The Conformist, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Walkabout

My case for these movies:

The Conformist- A major template for the paranoid political thrillers we'd see through the rest of the decade and an important transitional film for Bernardo Bertolucci.  It's one of the best shot films of its type which launched Vittorio Storaro as one of the great DPs of all time and the film was also an acknowledged influence on Coppola as he made his big movies of the decade.

Walkabout- With all due respect to Don't Look Now this is definitely the better Nicholas Roeg movie of the decade.  Despite being directed by a Brit it's considered a key movie of the Australian New Wave.  The film's take on "civilization versus nature" is deeply layered and has held up quite well over time as has its multifaceted view of interactions between white people and indigenous populations. 

The Marriage of Maria Braun- I get that this is a little less famous than some of the other nominated films' but it's Rainer Werner Fassbinder's best and most accessible movie from where I sit, it tells a fascinating story about life in post-war West Germany and is a perfect example of the New German Cinema movement.