-bananas (d. woody allen)
*mccabe & mrs. miller (d. robert altman) cinematography by vilmos zsigmond
*little murders (d. alan arkin) elliott gould photographs dog shizer, cinematography by the great gordon willis
*harold and maude (d. hal ashby) cinematography by john a. alonzo
*the last picture show (d. peter bogdanovich) with timothy bottoms, jeff bridges, cybill shepherd, ben johnson, randy quaid and ellen burstyn, cinematography by robert surtees
-directed by john ford (d. peter bogdanovich)
-the act of seeing with one's own eyes (d. stan brakhage)
*minnie and moskowitz (d. john cassavetes) with gena rowlands, seymour cassel, val avery, and timothy carey
*play misty for me (d. clint eastwood)
-the hired hand (d. peter fonda) cinematography by vilmos zsigmond
-about me: a musical set in new york city (d. robert frank)
*the french connection (d. william friedkin) cinematography by owen roizman
-nostalgia (d. hollis frampton)
*barn rushes (d. larry gottheim)
-isy boukir (d. nancy graves)
-who is harry kellerman and why is he saying those terrible things about me? (d. ulu grosbard)
*two-lane blacktop (d. monte hellman) with warren oates and harry dean stanton
-plaza suite (d. arthur hiller) with walter matthau
-swamp (d. nancy holt & robert smithson)
-fiddler on the roof (d. norman jewison)
-a clockwork orange (d. stanley kubrick) cinematography by john alcott, not really american
-kotch (d. jack lemmon) with walter matthau
-the anderson tapes (d. sidney lumet)
-a new leaf (d. elaine may) with walter matthau
-carnal knowledge (d. mike nichols)
-drive, he said (d. jack nicholson)
-klute (d. alan j. pakula) cinematography by gordon willis
*the tragedy of macbeth (d. roman polanski) not really american
*play it again sam (d. herbert ross) with woody allen, diane keaton and tony roberts
*vanishing point (d. richard c. sarafian) cinematography by john a. alonzo
-hand catching lead (d. richard serra)
-the beguiled (d. don siegel)
*dirty harry (d. don siegel)
*la région centrale (d. michael snow)
*duel (d. steven spielberg) with dennis weaver
-lawman (d. michael winner)