Which Director had the best run in the 70s?

Best run in terms of anything

Robert Altman: Nashville, MASH, Images, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 3 Women, The Long Goodbye, Buffalo Bill, Thieves Like Us, California Split, Brewster McCloud, A Wedding, Quintet, and A Perfect Couple.

Hal Ashby: Shampoo, Being There, Coming Home, The Landlord, Bound for Glory, The Last Detail, and Harold and Maude.

Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Boxcar Bertha, New York, New York, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, American Boy, Italianamerican, and The Last Waltz.

Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather 1 & 2, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now.

Steven Spielberg: Duel, Jaws, 1941, Sugarland Express, and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Merchant of Four Seasons, Despair, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and His Friends, Satan's Brew, In a Year of 13 Moons, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Germany in Autumn, Chinese Roulette, Shadow of Angels, I Only Want You to Love Me, Martha, Effi Briest, World on a Wire, Rio das Mortes, Mathias Kneissl, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, The American Soldier, and Gods of the Plague.

Sydney Pollack: Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were, The Yakuza, The Electric Horseman, and Bobby Deerfield.

Bob Fosse: Cabaret, Lenny, and All That Jazz.

George Lucas: THX 1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars.

Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Interiors, Bananas, Love and Death, and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).

John Huston: Fat City, Wise Blood, The Man Who Would Be King, Independence, The Mackintosh Man, and The Kremlin Letter.

George Roy Hill: The Sting, A Little Romance, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, and Slaughterhouse-Five.

Milos Forman: Hair, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taking Off, and Visions of Eight.

Sidney Lumet: Serpico, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, The Wiz, Equus, Murder on the Orient Express, The Offence, Lovin Molly, The Anderson Tapes, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, Child's Play, and King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis.

Roman Polanski: Chinatown, Macbeth, Tess, What?, and The Tenant.

Clint Eastwood: The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, The Gauntlet, The Eiger Sanction, Breezy, and Play Misty for Me.

Ridley Scott: Alien and The Duellists.

Brian De Palma: Carrie, Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, The Fury, Home Movies, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Hi Mom!, and Dionysus in '69.

Ingmar Bergman: The Touch, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Magic Flute, Face to Face, The Serpent's Egg, and Autumn Sonota.

William Friedkin: The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, The Brink's Job, and The Boys in the Band.

François Truffaut: The Wild Child, Day for Night, The Green Room, Small Change, The Man Who Loved Women, A Gorgeous Kid Like Me, Bed and Board, and Two English Girls.

Michael Cimino: The Deer Hunter and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

Stanley Kubrick: Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange.

Peter Bogdanovich: The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, Nickelodeon, Daisy Miller, Saint Jack, and At Long Last Love.

Arthur Penn: Night Moves, Little Big Man, Visions of Eight, and The Missouri Breaks.

Bob Rafelson: Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens, and Stay Hungry.

Monte Hellman: Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, and China 9, Liberty 37.

Paul Mazursky: An Unmarried Woman, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, and Alex in Wonderland.

Alan J. Pakula: Klute, All the President's Men, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, The Parallax View, Comes a Horseman, and Starting Over.

Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker, Mirror, and Solaris.

Peter Yates: Breaking Away, The Deep, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Hot Rock, For Pete's Sake, Murphy's War, and Mother, Jugs & Speed.

Akira Kurosawa: Dodes'ka-den and Dersu Uzala.

Terrence Malick: Badlands and Days of Heaven.

Mike Hodges: Get Carter, Pulp, and The Terminal Man.

Nicolas Roeg: Performance, Don't Look Now, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Glastonbury Fayre.

Federico Fellini: Roma, The Clowns, Amarcord, Il Casanova di Federico Fellini, and Orchestra Rehearsal.

John Cassavetes: Opening Night, Husbands, Minnie and Moskowitz, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and A Woman Under the Influence.

Robert Bresson: Four Nights of a Dreamer, Lancelot of the Lake, and The Devil Probably.

Robert Benton: Bad Company, The Late Show, and Kramer vs. Kramer.

Bertrand Blier: Going Places, Calmos, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, and The Devil.

Werner Herzog: Even Dwarfs Started Small, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fata Morgana, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Woyzeck, and Nosferatu the Vampire.

Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Dario Argento: Suspiria, The Cat o' Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Deep Red, and The Five Days.

Arturo Ripstein: Tiempo de morir, The Castle of Purity, Foxtrot, The Holy Office, La Viuda Negra, The Place Without Limits, and La tía Alejandra.

Sam Peckinpah: The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Straw Dogs, Cross of Iron, and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.

Ken Russell: The Music Lovers, The Devils, The Boyfriend, Savage Messiah, Mahler, Tommy, Lisztomania, Valentino.

Jean Rollin: La Vampire Nue, The Grapes of Death, Fascination, Lips of Blood, The Iron Rose, Le Frisson des Vampires, Requiem pour un Vampire, Les Démoniaques, Lèvres de Sang, and Les Raisins de la Mort.

Michelangelo Antonioni: The Passenger, Zabriskie Point, and Chung Kuo, Cina.

David Cronenberg: Shivers, Crimes of the Future, Rabid, Fast Company, and The Brood.

Pier Paolo Pasolini: Arabian Nights, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales.

Elia Kazan: The Visitors and The Last Tycoon.

Robert Mulligan: Same Time, Next Year, The Other, Summer of '42, The Pursuit of Happiness, Blood Brothers, and The Nickel Ride.

Elaine May: A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, and Mikey and Nicky.

Paul Schrader: Blue Collar and Hardcore.

Wim Wenders: Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, Summer in the City, The Scarlet Letter, The Wrong Move, and The American Friend.

Jacques Rivette: Out 1, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Duelle, and Noroît.

Bahram Beizai: Safar, The Ballad of Tara,Stranger and the Fog, Downpour, and Kalaq.

Peter Watkins: Edvard Munch, Punishment Park, The Trap, Evening Land, and The Seventies People.

Mark Rappaport: Casual Relations, The Scenic Route, Impostors, Local Color, and Mozart in Love.

Hollis Frampton: Nostalgia, Zorns Lemma, Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate, Drum, For Georgia O'Keeffe, Less, Banner, INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT, Noctiluca, Pas de Trois, Summer Solstice, Winter Solstice, Straits of Magellan, SOLARIUMAGELANI, Noctiluca, Autumnal Equinox, Yellow Springs, Tiger Balm, Remote Control, Special Effects, Public Domain, Poetic Justice, Ordinary Matter, Hapax Legomena, Given: . . ., Appartus Sum, Travelling Matter, Critical Mass, and Clouds of Magellan.

Lino Brocka: Insiang, Nail of Brightness, Weighed But Found Wanting, Manila in the Claws of Light, and Jaguar.

Ousmane Sembene: Emitaï, Xala, and Ceddo.

Martin Ritt: Sounder, The Great White Hope, Conrack, Norma Rae, Pete 'n' Tillie, The Front, and Casey's Shadow.

Kinji Fukasaku: Tora! Tora! Tora!, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Shogun's Samurai, Message from Space, Bloodstained Clan Honor, Sympathy for the Underdog, Street Mobster, Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War, Under the Flag of the Rising Sun, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss, Violent Panic: The Big Crash, Cross the Rubicon!, Cops vs. Thugs, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head, Yakuza Graveyard, Doberman Cop, Hokuriku Proxy War, and The Fall of Ako Castle

Fernando Di Leo: Caliber 9, The Italian Connection, Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, Il Boss, Loaded Guns, Shoot First, Die Later, Kidnap Syndicate, Nick the Sting, Bloody Friday, Young, Violent, Dangerous, Mister Scarface, and Mister Scarface.

Elio Petri: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Todo modo, Property Is No Longer a Theft, and Good News.

Robert Aldrich: The Longest Yard, The Frisco Kid, Hustle, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Too Late the Hero, Emperor of the North Pole, The Choirboys, The Grissom Gang, and Ulzana's Raid.

Luis Buñuel: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Tristana, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire.

Youssef Chahine: The Choice, Salwa the Little Girl who Talks to Cows, The Sparrow, Alexandria …Why?, Forward We Go, and The Return of the Prodigal Son.

Bill Douglas: The Bill Douglas Trilogy

Lina Wertmüller: Swept Away, The Seduction of Mimi, Seven Beauties, Love and Anarchy, All Screwed Up, A Night Full of Rain, and Blood Feud.

Michael Ritchie: Smile, The Candidate, The Bad News Bears, Semi-Tough, Prime Cut, and An Almost Perfect Affair.

Jean-Luc Godard: Wind from the East, Vladimir et Rosa, How's It Going?, Number Two, Here and Elsewhere, Tout Va Bien, and Struggle in Italy.

Djibril Diop Mambéty: Badou Boy and Touki Bouki.

Louis Malle: Murmur of the Heart, Lacombe, Lucien, Black Moon, and Pretty Baby.

Peter Weir: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Cars That Ate Paris, and The Last Wave.

Alain Resnais: Stavisky and Providence.

Eric Rohmer: Claire's Knee, Love in the Afternoon, Perceval le Gallois, and The Marquise of O.

Theo Angelopoulos: Reconstitution, The Travelling Players, Days of '36, and The Hunters.

Alfred Hitchcock: Frenzy and Family Plot.

Chantal Akerman: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, L'enfant aimé ou Je joue à être une femme mariée, La Chambre 1 & 2, Le 15/8, Les Rendez-vous d'Anna, Hanging Out Yonkers, and Je Tu Il Elle.

Bernardo Bertolucci: 1900, Last Tango in Paris, The Conformist, La salute è malata, La Luna, and The Spider's Stratagem.

Jean Eustache: The Mother and the Whore and My Little Loves.

Luchino Visconti: Death in Venice, Ludwig, Conversation Piece, and The Innocent.

Jacques Demy: A Slightly Pregnant Man, Donkey Skin, Lady Oscar, and The Pied Piper.

Bob Fosse, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Alan J. Pakula, George Lucas, and Sam Peckinpah are my picks.

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