1974, since when did william p. moran of detroit michigan become preeminent in the field?

-thieves like us (d. robert altman)

*california split (d. robert altman) with elliot gould and george segal

-8 1/2 x 11 (d. james benning)

-daisy miller (d. peter bogdanovich)

-the text of light (d. stan brakhage)

-dark star (d. john carpenter)

*a women under the influence (d. john cassavetes)

*thunderbolt and lightfoot (d. michael cimino) with clint eastwood, jeff bridges and gary busey

*the conversation (d. francis ford coppola) with john cazale, gene hackman, allen garfield and robert duvall, cinematography by bill butler

*the godfather part II (d. francis ford coppola) with john cazale, harry dean stanton (as fbi agent) and lee strasberg, cinematography by gordon willis

*eureka (d. ernie gehr)

*cockfighter (d. monte hellman) with warren oates and harry dean stanton, cinematography by néstor almendros

-points of view: clock tower (d. nancy holt)

-busting (d. peter hyams) with elliot gould, allen garfield

-the white dawn (d. philip kaufman) with warren oates

-lovin' molly (d. sidney lumet)

*murder on the orient express (d. sidney lumet) cinematography by geoffrey unsworth

*harry and tonto (d. paul mazursky) with art carney and his cat, cinematography by michael c. butler

*the parallax view (d. alan j. pakula) cinematography by gordon willis

-bring me the head of alfredo garcia (d. sam peckinpah) with warren oates

*chinatown (d. roman polanski) cinematography by john a. alonzo

*the taking of pelham one two three (d. joseph sargent) with walter matthau, robert shaw, martin balsam and hector elizondo, cinematography by enrique bravo and owen roizman

*italianamerican (d. martin scorsese) documentary on his parents

*alice doesn't live here anymore (d. martin scorsese) with harvey keitel

-the black windmill (d. don siegel)

-'rameau's nephew' by diderot (thanx to dennis young) by wilma schoen (d. michael snow)

*the sugarland express (d. steven spielberg) cinematography by vilmos zsigmond

-road movie (d. joseph strick)

*edvard munch (d. peter watkins) canadian

-f is for fake (d. orson welles)

- the front page (d. billy wilder) with jack lemmon, walter matthau and allen garfield

-death wish (d. michael winner)

harry and tonto (d. paul mazursky)

harry dean stanton

the godfather part II (d. francis ford coppola)

(on a side note, so many great films from the year of my birth, making me feel in good company)