by Allan Fish
Into the first of the new decade…the last great one for American film, but the beginning of Europe’s decline…
Best Picture The Conformist, Italy (10 votes)
Best Director Bernardo Bertolucci, The Conformist (8 votes)
Best Actor Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces (9 votes)
Best Actress Catherine Deneuve, Tristana & Barbara Loden, Wanda (4 votes each, TIE)
Best Supp Actor Yves Montand, Le Cercle Rouge (5 votes)
Best Supp Actress Dominique Sanda, The Conformist (7 votes)
Best Cinematography Vittorio Storaro, The Conformist (7 votes)
Best Score Georges Delerue, The Conformist (4 votes)
Best Short Interviews with My Lai Veterans, US, Joseph Strick (3 votes)
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so…
1971
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Best Picture/Director
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The Abominable Dr Phibes (UK…Robert Fuest)
Adrift (Czechoslovakia…Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos)
The Adversary (India…Satyajit Ray)
Agnus Dei (Hungary…Miklós Jancsó)
The Anderson Tapes (US…Sidney Lumet)
Ant Hill (Hungary…Zoltán Fabri)
Bad Girl Mako (Japan…Koreyoshi Kurahara)
Bananas (US…Woody Allen)
The Battle of Kerzhenets (USSR…Yuri Norstein, Ivan Ivanov-Vano)
A Bay of Blood (Italy…Mario Bava)
The Beguiled (US…Don Siegel)
Behind the Green Door (US…The Mitchell Brothers)
The Black Belly of the Tarantula (Italy…Paolo Cavara)
Blanche (France…Walerian Borowczyk)
Bless the Beasts and Children (US…Stanley Kramer)
Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (UK…Seth Holt, Michael Carreras)
The Boy Friend (UK…Ken Russell)
Carnal Knowledge (US…Mike Nichols)
Casanova (UK…Mark Cullingham, John Glenister)
The Ceremony (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)
A Clockwork Orange (UK…Stanley Kubrick)
The Clowns (Italy…Federico Fellini)
Company Limited (India…Satyajit Ray)
Confessions Among Actresses (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)
Cuadecuc Vampir (Spain…Pere Portabella)
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (UK…Peter Medak)
Death in Venice (US/Italy…Luchino Visconti)
The Decameron (Italy…Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Desperate Characters (US…Frank D.Gilroy)
Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent (France…François Truffaut)
The Devils (UK…Ken Russell)
Dirty Harry (US…Don Siegel)
Duel (US…Steven Spielberg)
During the Summer (Italy…Ermanno Olmi)
Edna the Inebriate Woman (UK…Ted Kotcheff)
Elizabeth R (UK…various)
The Emigrants (Sweden/US…Jan Troell)
Exposed (Sweden…Gustav Wiklund)
Family Life (UK…Ken Loach)
Fata Morgana (West Germany…Werner Herzog)
Fiddler on the Roof (US…Norman Jewison)
A Fistful of Dynamite (Italy…Sergio Leone)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (France…Robert Bresson)
The French Connection (US…William Friedkin)
Le Frissons de Vampires (France…Jean Rollin)
Fritz the Cat (US…Ralph Bakshi)
Get Carter (UK…Mike Hodges)
Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay (France…Bruno Gantillon)
Glen and Randa (US…Jim McBride)
The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty Kick (West Germany…Wim Wenders)
Growing Up Female (US…Jim Klein, Julia Reichert)
Harold and Maude (US…Hal Ashby)
The Hired Hand (US…Peter Fonda)
The Hospital (US…Arthur Hiller)
The House in the Woods (France…Maurice Pialat)
How Tasty Was My Litle Frenchman? (Brazil…Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
Is There Sex After Death? (US…Alan Abel, Jeanne Abel)
Johnny Got His Gun (US…Dalton Trumbo)
Klute (US…Alan J.Pakula)
Kotch (US…Jack Lemmon)
The Lady Hermit (Hong Kong…Ho Meng Hua)
The Last Movie (US…Dennis Hopper)
The Last Picture Show (US…Peter Bogdanovich)
Little Murders (US…Alan Arkin)
Living (Netherlands…Frans Swartjes)
Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Italy…Lucio Fulci)
Long Farewells (USSR…Kira G.Muratova)
Lost Lovers (Japan…Soichiro Tahara, Kunio Shimizu)
Love (Hungary…Karoly Makk)
The Love Garden (US…Mark Haggard)
Loving Memory (UK…Tony Scott)
Macbeth (UK…Roman Polanski)
McCabe and Mrs Miller (US…Robert Altman)
La Maison des Bois (France…Maurice Pialat)
Malpertuis (Belgium/France…Harry Kumel)
Mandara (Japan…Akio Jissoji)
Max et les Ferreilleurs (France…Claude Sautet)
The Mercenary (Italy…Sergio Corbucci)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Minamata: The Victims and Their World (Japan…Noriaka Tsuchimoto)
Minnie and Moskowicz (US…John Cassavetes)
Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mere, ma soeur et mon frère… (France 1971…René Allio)
Mon Oncle Antoine (Canada…Claude Jutra)
A New Leaf (US…Elaine May)
Next! (Italy…Sergio Martino)
Out 1 (France…Jacques Rivette)
Pakeezah (India…Kamai Amrohi)
Panic in Needle Park (US…Jerry Schatzberg)
Papa, les Petits Bateaux (France…Nelly Kaplan)
The Peasants of the Second Fortress (Japan…Shinsuke Ogawa)
Petit à Petit (France…Jean Rouch)
Pink Narcissus (US…James Bidgood)
Pirosmani (USSR…Georgy Shengelaya)
Play Misty For Me (US…Clint Eastwood)
Private Road (UK…Barney Platts-Mills)
Punishment Park (UK/US…Peter Watkins)
Red Psalm (Hungary…Miklós Jancsó)
La Région Centrale (Canada…Michael Snow)
Rendezvous à Bray (France/Belgium…André Delvaux)
Requiem pour un Vampire (France…Jean Rollin)
The Salamander (Switzerland…Alain Tanner)
Shaft (US…Gordon Parks)
Short Night of the Glass Dolls (Italy…Aldo Lado)
Shura (Japan…Toshio Matsumoto)
Silent Running (US…Douglas Trumbull)
Socrate (Italy…Roberto Rossellini)
Sometimes a Great Notion (US…Paul Newman)
Le Souffle au Coeur (France…Louis Malle)
Straw Dogs (UK…Sam Peckinpah)
The Sudden Fortune of the Poor People of Kombach (West Germany…Volker Schlondorff)
Summer of ’42 (US…Robert Mulligan)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (UK…John Schlesinger)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song (US…Melvin Van Peebles)
Szindbád (Hungary…Zoltán Huszárik)
THX-1138 (US…George Lucas)
Taking Off (US…Milos Forman)
The Telephone Book (US…Nelson Lynn)
Ten Rillington Place (UK…Richard Fleischer)
There Was a Crooked Man… (US…Joseph L.Mankiewicz)
The Third Part of the Night (Poland…Andrzej Zulawski)
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Italy…Giuseppe Patroni Grippi)
Two-Lane Blacktop (US…Monte Hellman)
Vanishing Point (US…Richard C.Serafian)
Viva la Muerte! (Spain…Fernando Arrabal)
WR: The Mysteries of the Organism (Yugoslavia…Dusan Makavejev)
Wake in Fright (Australia…Ted Kotcheff)
Walkabout (Australia…Nicolas Roeg)
Why? (Italy…Nanni Loy)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (US/UK…Mel Smith)
Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (US…Ulu Grosbard)
The Wolves (Japan…Hideo Gosha)
Woman of Fire (South Korea…Kim Ki-young)
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Italy…Elio Petri)
Young and Healthy as a Rose (Yugoslavia…Jovan Jovanovic)
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Best Actor
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Richard Attenborough Ten Rillington Place
Alan Bates A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Warren Beatty McCabe & Mrs Miller
Dirk Bogarde Death in Venice
Michael Caine Get Carter
Bud Cort Harold and Maude
Clint Eastwood The Beguiled
Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry
Jon Finch Macbeth
Peter Finch Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Frank Finlay Casanova TV
Gene Hackman The French Connection
Dustin Hoffman Straw Dogs
Zoltan Latinovits Szindbád
Malcolm McDowell A Clockwork Orange
Walter Matthau Kotch
Oliver Reed The Devils
George C.Scott The Hospital
Alberto Sordi Why?
Donald Sutherland Klute
Topol Fiddler on the Roof
Max Von Sydow The Emigrants
Dennis Weaver Duel TV
Gene Wilder Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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Best Actress
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Jenny Agutter Walkabout
Bibi Andersson The Touch
Francesca Annis Macbeth
Julie Christie McCabe and Mrs Miller
Lili Darvas Love
Milena Dravic WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Jane Fonda Klute
Ruth Gordon Harold and Maude
Susan Hampshire Malpertuis
Patricia Hayes Edna the Inebriate Woman TV
Glenda Jackson Elizabeth R TV
Glenda Jackson Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Zohra Lampert Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
Shirley MacLaine Desperate Characters
Léa Massari Le Souffle au Coeur
Mariko Okada Confessions Among Actresses
Vanessa Redgrave The Devils
Vanessa Redgrave Mary, Queen of Scots
Debbie Reynolds What’s the Matter With Helen?
Janet Suzman Nicholas and Alexandra
Liv Ullmann The Emigrants
Jessica Walter Play Misty for Me
Kitty Winn Panic in Needle Park
Shelley Winters What’s the Matter With Helen?
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Best Supp Actor
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Tom Baker Nicholas and Alexandra
Michael Bates A Clockwork Orange
Peter Bowles A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Jeff Bridges The Last Picture Show
Leonard Frey Fiddler on the Roof
Art Garfunkel Carnal Knowledge
John Hurt Ten Rillington Place
Richard Jaeckel Sometimes a Great Notion
Ben Johnson The Last Picture Show
Jean-Pierre Léaud Out 1
Cleavon Little Vanishing Point
Warren Oates Two-Lane Blacktop
Fernando Rey The French Connection
Andy Robinson Dirty Harry
Roy Scheider The French Connection
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Best Supp Actress
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Ann-Margret Carnal Knowledge
Ineko Arima Confessions Among Actresses
Juliet Berto Out 1
Candice Bergen Carnal Knowledge
Ellen Burstyn The Last Picture Show
Grace Cave Family Life
Felicia Farr Kotch
Judy Geeson Ten Rillington Place
Susan George Straw Dogs
Barbara Harris Who is Harry Kellerman…and Why is he Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Joan Hickson A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Cloris Leachman The Last Picture Show
Silvana Mangano Death in Venice
Kika Markham Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent
Vivian Pickles Harold and Maude
Lee Remick Sometimes a Great Notion
Mari Torocsik Love
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Best Cinematography
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John Alcott A Clockwork Orange
Nestor Almendros Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent
Ricardo Aronovich Le Souffle au Coeur
Ghislain Cloquet Rendezvous à Bray
John Coquillon Straw Dogs
Pasqualino de Santis Death in Venice
Yozo Inagaki Mandara
Janos Kende Red Psalm
Kazuo Miyagawa Silence
Oswald Morris Fiddler on the Roof
Toichiro Narushima The Ceremony
Renan Polles Requiem pour un Vampire
Giuseppe Rotunno Carnal Knowledge
Nicolas Roeg Walkabout
Ozen Roizman The French Connection
Sándor Sára Szindbád
Vittorio Storaro ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Robert L.Surtees The Last Picture Show
Robert L. Surtees Summer of ’42
Vilmos Szigmond McCabe & Mrs Miller
Gil Taylor Macbeth
Jan Troell The Emigrants
David Watkin The Devils
Gordon Willis Klute
Frederick A.Young Nicholas and Alexandra
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Best Score
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John Barry Walkabout
Roy Budd Get Carter
Leonard Cohen McCabe & Mrs Miller
Georges Delerue Les Deux Anglises et le Continent
Georges Delerue Malpertuis
Jerry Fielding Straw Dogs
Isaac Hayes Shaft
Michel Legrand Summer of ’42
Peter Maxwell Davies The Devils
Ennio Morricone The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Ennio Morricone Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
Erik Nordgren The Emigrants
Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry
Toru Takemitsu The Ceremony
Toru Takemitsu Silence
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Best Short
The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (US…Stan Brakhage)
The Cat in the Hat (US…Hawley Pratt)
A Christmas Carol (UK…Richard Williams)
Evolution (US…Michael Mills)
Freedom River (US…Sam Weiss)
Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (US…Hollis Frampton) (Part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here)
Hot Dogs for Gaugain (US…Martin Brest)
Last Year in Vietnam (US…Oliver Stone)
The Selfish Giant (Canada…Peter Sander) (Part 2 here, part 3 here)
1971 is a joke. A joke, because there is more great films than perhaps any other year, as I will note in my sprawling scroll after the ballot is cast.
Best Picture: The Last Picture Show
Best Director: Peter Bogdonovich (The Last Picture Show)
Best Actor: Topol (Fiddler on the Roof)
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Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) TIE
Best Actress: Lili Darvas (Love)
Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)
Best Supporting Actress: Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show)
Best Cinematography: Vilos Zsigmond (McCabe and Mrs. Miller)
Best Score: Georges Delarue (Les Deux Anglises et le Continent)
Best Short: A Christmas Carol
The number of “great” films this year is simply staggering: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, THE EMIGRANTS, BLANCHE, THE DEVILS, LOVE, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, MC CABE AND MRS. MILLER, MACBETH, THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS, CONFESSIONS AMONG ACTRESSES, WALKABOUT, LE SOUFFLE AU COEUR, STRAW DOGS, SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, WAKE IN FRIGHT, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, LES DEUX ANGLAISES ET LE CONTINENT, THE CEREMONY, THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, BLESS THE BEASTS AND CHILDREN, THE DECAMERON, HAROLD AND MAUDE, LITTLE MURDERS, A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, THE GOLDKEEPER FEAR AT THE PENALTY KICK, THE HOSPITAL, KLUTE, PANIC AT NEEDLE PARK, THE ADVERSARY. BANANAS is a great early Woody Allen, and 10 RILLINGTON PLACE is well-made but quite disturbing, with a brilliant turn by Attenborough in the lead.
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is my own #1 film of the 1970′s.
Wow, you went back in and added GENE WILDER instead of McDowell! Good for you, Sam!
And how could anyone argue against THE LAST PICTURE SHOW? So brilliant. Just watched it again today, and it holds up perfectly.
Thanks Dean!!! Well, I somehow erred when I had put together my vote for the year. I love McDowall’s work in CLOCKWORK, but alas I do not agree with Joel that he selection is a no-brainer. Topol carried the weight of FIDDLER on his shoulders with a vivid, passionate often electrifying performance with theatrical flair, and Wilder was eccentric and devilishly funny. I made my case for him last year during the musical countdown, where I explain how deeply I love the film and Wilder’s performance:
http://wondersinthedark.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-no-58/
THE LAST PICTURE is my #1 film of the 1970′s and one of my all-time favorites. I have a long memory of what it meant to me back in those unforgettable days, and it has left a deeply emotional, lasting impression. Hence I am inclined to agree with what you say here.
Oops, again, shorts aren’t up yet. Can’t get into WordPress where I am now but they should go up before tomorrow. Apologies. One of these weekends I’ll get it right…
Feature: Out 1
followed by:
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. The Ceremony
5. The Last Picture Show
Short: (nostalgia)
Director: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman, Out 1
Actor: Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange (no brainer, imo)
Actress: Jane Fonda, Klute
Supp. Actor: Warren Oates, Two Lane Blacktop
Supp. Actress: Juliet Berto, Out 1 (are she and Leaud really supports though?)
Cinematography: David Myers, THX-1138
Score: Isaac Hayes, Shaft
Will return later for supplements.
Joel, don’t you feel it’s strange to have Cohen in competition for the score category, since the music was appropriated from his first album in 1967? Just doesn’t seem fair to me…I mean, I love the music, but it wasn’t written for the film; the film was conceived around it.
I am replacing it with the Hayes, which I’ve heard people note is one great song and filler…but what a great song! And yeah, the Cohen struck me as odd, especially given Allan’s usually such a stickler with song scores but I figured why look a gift horse, etc. The Shaft horse runs faster though…
The SHAFT soundtrack is great in its entirety. Go out and get it, sound unheard. You will not be sorry.
Ok, finally finishing off my ballot in a moment.
Along with a few revisions to the post above: as noted below, I somehow missed Shaft on the listings, and that deserves best score for the title song alone.
I also forgot that (nostalgia) came out in ’71, and that’s easily my favorite Hollis Frampton film, and a short that has quite an impact on me particularly in recent months. Wonders readers can see it here:
Nice to see it’s headed for a win this year.
Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia) is a masterpiece and my pick for the best film of 1971
It is unqualified greatness, this is for sure.
And the rest…
Screenplay: Nagisa Ôshima, Mamoru Sasaki, Takeshi Tamura, The Ceremony
Editing: Ivanka Vukasovic, WR: The Mysteries of the Organism
Ensemble: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms, Randy Quaid, The Last Picture Show
Scene: Lounging at the Korova Milk Bar, A Clockwork Orange
Line: “You’ve gotta ask yourself a question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”, Dirty Harry
Use of Music: A Clockwork Orange
Close calls: DIRECTOR – Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show), Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange), ACTRESS – Julie Christie (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), Lea Massari (Murmur of the Heart), SUPPORTING ACTOR – Jeff Bridges (The Last Picture Show), Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show), SUPPORTING ACRESS – Laurie Bird (Two Lane Blacktop), Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show), CINEMATOGRAPHY – A Clockwork Orange, Murmur of the Heart, Walkabout, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Klute, SCREENPLAY – The Last Picture Show, Two Lane Blacktop (deceptively simple), EDITING – McCabe & Mrs. Miller, THX 1138, Straw Dogs, Two Lane Blacktop, ENSEMBLE – The cast of Out 1, The cast of McCabe & Mrs. Miller, SCENE – Burning Rubber and Celluloid (the ending) (Two Lane Blacktop), USE OF MUSIC – McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Sorry I couldn’t give a nod anywhere to Two Lane Blacktop, such a great little film.
I need to see Carnal Knowledge again – the only thing that really sticks in my memory is the odd ending with Nicholson in some Eastern striptease joint declaring, “I am the God of Love” or something like that.
You’re definitely thinking of another movie, Joel (or, at least, you’re misremembering it, though there might be exotic music playing in the background, and he is being exaulted by none other than Rita Moreno). You really do need to see CARNAL KNOWLEDGE again. A fantastic film.
And a few more last-minute updates: just watched Two Lane Blacktop again this afternoon and wanted to give it some more shout-outs, adding it to the runners-up for Screenplay (as I noted, deceptively simple – the Criterion includes the full text as a booklet so I’ll be combing over it on page soon) and Bird for her charming turn as “the Girl.”
More importantly, wanting to give Two Lane Blacktop a real berth on my ballot proper, I replaced Leaud (wonderful, but he’s won before and Out 1 has enough awards from me) with Warren Oates’ hilariously pathetic and pathologically fabulating GTO.
“I’M NOT INTO THAT!!”
Why no “Synchromy” in the shorts list?
A near masterpiece of its own short genre.
I vote “A Clockwork Orange” for best film in 1971.
I vote Stanley Kubrick for best director (“A Clockwork Orange”) in 1971.
I vote Malcolm McDowell for best actor in “A Clockwork Orange” in 1971
I vote Vanessa Redgrave for best actress in “The Devils” in 1971
I vote Michael Bates for best supporting actor in “A Clockwork Orange” in 1971
I vote Louise Lasser for best supporting actress in “Bananas” in 1971
I vote “Walkabout” for best cinematography in 1971
I vote “The Devils” for best score in 1971
I vote “Synchromy” for best short in 1971
My Top 5 for the year:
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Devils
3. Duel
4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes
5. Synchromy
Picture: The Last Picture Show
Director: Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show
Actor: Peter Finch, Sunday Bloody Sunday
Actress: Jane Fonda, Klute
Sup. Actor: Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show
Sup. Actress: Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show
Cinematography: Vilmos Szigmond, McCabe and Mrs. Miller
A truly magnificent year for movies. I mean, just astounding–cult films, action films, intimate chamber dramas, costume epics, musicals, documentaries, comedies, science fiction, horror, romances, westerns, great television product, and the emergence of a potent black presence in film. I have a feeling I know which way this is going to go in the voting, but I’m sticking with my top choice, as it’s a brilliant harkening back to the emergence of the teen culture in 1950s Texas. It continually breaks your heart. But its closest competitor is also an examination of a vastly more perverted teen culture that’s justifiably adored by most everyone. As always, those titles in all caps (except for the winners) are films left off of Allan’s estimable list.
PICTURE: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (followed by, in descending order): A Clockwork Orange, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Fiddler on the Roof, Harold and Maude, Punishment Park, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Carnal Knowledge, The French Connection, The Beguiled, Macbeth, Two-Lane Blacktop, Dirty Harry, Walkabout, Elizabeth R, Klute, DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, MILLHOUSE, The Emigrants, Duel, Taking Off, The Devils,Vanishing Point, Shaft, Silent Running, Summer of ‘42, A New Leaf, Panic in Needle Park, LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS, THX-1138, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, Get Carter, Minnie and Moskowitz, Play Misty for Me, Bananas, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassssss Song, The Hired Hand, VALDEZ IS COMING, Johnny Got His Gun, Brian’s Song, Straw Dogs, Murmur of the Heart, THE POINT, THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT, AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, The Hospital, LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH, CHRISTIAN THE LION, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Sometimes a Great Notion, Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, Kotch, MONTE WALSH, RED SKY AT MORNING, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, 10 Rillington Place, The Boy Friend, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, A Fistful of Dynamite, Death in Venice, DERBY, PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW, WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH HELEN?, WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH
DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (2nd: Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show, followed by: Robert Altman, McCabe and Mrs. Miller; Peter Watkins, Punishment Park; Norman Jewison, Fiddler on the Roof; John Schlesinger, Sunday Bloody Sunday)
ACTOR: Malcolm McDowell, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (2nd: Peter Finch, Sunday Bloody Sunday, followed by: Gene Hackman, The French Connection; Topol, Fiddler on the Roof; Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry)
ACTRESS: Ruth Gordon, HAROLD AND MAUDE (2nd: Jane Fonda, Klute, followed by: Glenda Jackson, Sunday Bloody Sunday; Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller; Kitty Winn, Panic in Needle Park; Jessica Walter, Play Misty for Me)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ben Johnson, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (2nd: Warren Oates, Two-Lane Blacktop, followed by: Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show; Cleavon Little, Vanishing Point; Tom Baker, Nicholas and Alexandra; Andy Robinson, Dirty Harry)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Ann-Margret, CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (2nd: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show, followed by: Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show; Vivien Pickles, Harold and Maude; Barbara Harris, Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?; Candice Bergen, Carnal Knowledge)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Surtees, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (2nd: Vilmos Zsigmond, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, followed by: Oswald Morris, Fiddler on the Roof, Giuseppe Rotunno, Carnal Knowledge; Gordon Willis, Klute; Nicolas Roeg, Walkabout)
SCORE: Isaac Hayes, SHAFT (2nd: Michel Legrand, Summer of ‘42, followed by: MICHEL LEGRAND, BRIAN‘S SONG; Lalo Schifrin, Dirty Harry; Jerry Fielding, Straw Dogs; John Barry, Walkabout) (I would list Leonard Cohen here for MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER, but most of the music was appropriated from his 1967 album “Songs of Leonard Cohen,” so that renders it ineligible for “Original Score,” IMO)
SHORT: HAPAX LEGOMENA I: NOSTALGIA (Hollis Frampton) (followed by The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage), Evolution (Michael Mills), The Cat in the Hat (Hawley Pratt), A Christmas Carol (Richard Williams), Hot Dogs for Gaugain (Martin Brest)
FURTHER:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Colin Higgins, HAROLD AND MAUDE (2nd: Penelope Gilliatt, Sunday Bloody Sunday, followed by: Peter Watkins, Punishment Park; Jules Feiffer, Carnal Knowledge; Rudy Wurlitzer and Will Corry, Two-Lane Blacktop; Andy and Dave Lewis, Klute)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (2nd: Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange, followed by Robert Altman and Brian McCay, McCabe and Mrs. Miller; Joseph Stein, Fiddler on the Roof; Ernest Tidyman, The French Connection; Albert Maltz and Irene Camp, The Beguiled)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Peter Bogdanovich), followed by Millhouse (Emile De Antonio); Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog); Christian The Lion (Bill Travers); Derby (Robert Kaylor); The Murder of Fred Hampton (Howard Alk)
ART DIRECTION: MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER, followed by Fiddler on the Roof, The Boy Friend, The Last Picture Show, A Clockwork Orange, Nicholas and Alexandra
COSTUME DESIGN: THE BOY FRIEND, followed by Nicholas and Alexandra, Mary Queen of Scots, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Macbeth, Death in Venice
FILM EDITING: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, followed by: The French Connection, Punishment Park, Fiddler on the Roof, Dirty Harry, Duel
SOUND: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, followed by Fiddler on the Roof, A Clockwork Orange, THX-1138, The Last Picture Show, Duel
SCORING OF A MUSICAL: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (2nd: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
ORIGINAL SONG: “Theme from Shaft” from SHAFT (music and lyrics by Isaac Hayes) (2nd: “Don‘t Be Shy” from Harold and Maude (music and lyrics by Cat Stevens), followed by: “If You Wanna Sing Out, Sing Out” from Harold and Maude (music and lyrics by Cat Stevens); “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (music by Leslie Bricusse, lyrics by Anthony Newley); “Me and My Arrow” from The Point (music and lyrics by Harry Nilsson)
SPECIAL EFFECTS: SILENT RUNNING (2nd: When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth)
MAKEUP: MACBETH (2nd: The Boy Friend)
ANIMATED FEATURE: THE POINT (Fred Wolf)
Best Picture: A Clockwork Orange
Top Five: 1. A Clockwork Orange 2. McCabe And Mrs Miller 3. Klute 4. Macbeth 5. The Last Picture Show
Five Almosts: The Devils, Carnal Knowledge, Walkabout, Straw Dogs, and Blanche.
Most Overrated: The French Connection and Dirty Harry.
Gotta agree with SCHMULEE on this one. This is one of the toughest years to pick every category in…
save three…
So..
PICTURE: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Top 5. 1. A Clockwork Orange 2. Straw Dogs 3. The Last Picture Show 4. Carnal Knowledge 5. Death In Venice
NO BRAINER on this one. Kubrick comes into the 70′s hot off the cinematic game-changer that was 2001 and just geos with his own momentum. Shocking, repulsive, socially important… Yet, achingly funny and perverse at the same time, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE was the most daring film of a year LOADED with daring films. Once seen, it’s never forgotten and I defy anyone to listen to the song “SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN” and think of Gene Kelly anymore….
DIRECTOR: Stanley KUBRICK (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE)
Runner Up: Peter Bogdonavitch (The Last PIcture Show)
C’mon, this isn’t even funny to think anyone else stood a chance. We’re talking about THE greatest American director post 1960 to the present. The funny thing is, this is Stanley getting playful. What’s amazing is that Stanley getting playful means Stanley getting nasty as well and no other director this year was able to balance their cynicism with the diamond like precision that Kubrick brings to one of his trickiest triumphs. I’ll bet Stanley laughed all the way to his death over kicking the shit out of every other film this year by just having a blast.
Oh, and Bogdonavitch wasn’t that bad either.
LEAD ACTOR: Malcolm MCDOWELL (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE)
Runner Up: (tie) Jack Nicholson (Carnal Knowledge), Peter Finch (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
The shame of this whole race is that poor Finch will only ever scratch the surface without a win by me. Arguably his best turn as the sexually frustrated gay physician in SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY, Finch delivers a very real portrait of angst ridden hope and even bests his own turn in the up-coming NETWORK as his finest. I guess he’ll have to live with being an also ran as the iconic McDowell trumps even the ferociously frightened Jack Nicholson in CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (probably one of my three favorite Nicholson performances, along with ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST and the sorrily neglected THE PLEDGE). But, we all know its McDowell, looking out at us from under that bowler hat, with that frightening curl of a grin, as he raises that glass of drug-threaded milk, that forever etches himself into our memories. One of the greatest turns of likeable evil ever committed to film and one of the most memorable screen characterizations in cinema history.
I hate to do this to Finch and, my man, Jaaaaaaaack… But, McDowell landslid this one for me…
LEAD ACTRESS: Glenda JACKSON (ELIZABETH R.)
Runner Up: Julie Christie (McCabe and Mrs. Miller)
No competition in my mind. Once you see Jackson strut her stuff in this tremendous TV movie you know you’ve seen one of the quintessential talents of the era hit her zenith. This category is actually funny to me looking at all these other actresses try to keep company with Jackson.
SUPP. ACTOR: Ben JOHNSON (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW)
Runner Up: Art Garfunkle (Carnal Knowledge)
Finally, we get to one of my favorite movies of the decade. Sorry it didn’t make the top slots (but Kubrick so easily dominates, RIGHTFULLY), but the consolation is that THE LAST PICTURE SHOW was inundated with some of the very best performances of the year by EVERY performer in the cast. However, BEST of all is Johnson, who knows the days of his world are number by the onslaught of a progression he neither understands or admires. One of the great “big boy” performances in modern cinema. Boy, Oscar really got this one right.
SUPP. ACTRESS: Ann MARGARET (CARNAL KNOWLEDGE)
Runner Up: Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show)
I was all set to put Burstyn in the winner circle to correct the flaw in the Academies thinking when they handed it over to Cloris Leachman for the same film. Burstyn was, by the far the best of the supporting performances in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.
UNTIL…
I happened to scan over the listing and saw that CARNAL KNOWLEDGE was released in 1971 (I kept thinking 1972 for some reason). Not only one of my favorite films of all time (top 50 material in a heart beat), but features the only really good performance that Margaret ever committed to screen. Her turn as the attention starved, aging sex kitten, pining for committment at a time when swinging was the thing, is an emotion powder keg that matches Nicholsons ferocious womanizing. The bedroom argument sequence, where Margaret exposes that she’s sleeping 18 hours a day to forget, is a conversation masterpiece by two actors at the top of their game. Any woman that can go toe to toe with Jaaaaaack, and survive, gets my full attention.
Ann Margaret STOLE Carnal Knowledge.
PHOTO: Robert L. SURTEES (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW)
Runner Up: Oswald Morris (Fiddler On The Roof)
MUSIC: Isaac HAYES (SHAFT)
Runner Up: Michel Legrand (Summer Of ’42)
BTW….
I forgot the big HURRAY for JACK NICHOLSON taking it for BEST ACTOR for FIVE EASY PIECES!!!!!!!!
WHAT A GREAT CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!
TERRIFIC JOB GUYS!!!!!!!
Best Picture: The Last Picture Show
Best Director: Peter Bogdonovich
Best Actor: Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
Best Actress: Jane Fonda (Klute)
Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)
Best Supporting Actress: Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show)
Cinematography: Robert Surtees (The Last Picture Show)
Score: Don Ellis (The French Connection)
Short: Evolution
The toughest categories are Cinematography and Actor. I refused to allow a tie in the main six categories, but if I could have allowed myself one it would have been for Best Actor 1971 as I feel so hard not giving it to McDowell. And no I didn’t give it to Hackman either.
Pic: Harold and Maude (US…Hal Ashby)
Director: The Last Picture Show (US…Peter Bogdanovich)
Actor: Malcolm McDowell A Clockwork Orange
Actress: Ruth Gordon Harold and Maude
Supp Actor: Ben Johnson The Last Picture Show
Supp Actress: Cloris Leachman The Last Picture Show
All on my bleeding oddy knocky for 1971, droogies. Won’t be singing the praises of Mr. Kubrick’s sinny until their fuzzy warbles drop off like plop, plop, even though there are some real horrorshow minootas what with all the red, red krovvy flowing and those nagoy ptitsas creeching their pretty little gulllivers off, and all for little Alex, Your Humble Narrator of this very, very, very sad and tragic story of myself and all of my wayward ways, O my brothers.
Best Film: ‘Love’ RU: ‘Two English Girls’
Best Director: Karoly Makk (‘Love’) RU: Truffaut (‘Two English Girls’)
Best Actor: Oliver Reed (‘The Devils’) RU: Malcolm McDowell (‘A Clockwork Orange’)
Best Actress: Lili Darvas (‘Love’) RU: Glenda Jackson (‘Sunday, Bloody Sunday’)
Best S. Actor: Warren Oates (‘Two-Lane Blacktop’) RU: Ben Johnson (‘The Last Picture Show’)
Best S. Actress: Mari Torocsik (‘Love’) RU: Ellen Burstyn (‘The Last Picture Show’)
Best Photography: a sentimental vote for Robert Surtees (‘The Last Picture Show’) who died in 2012. RU: Vilmos Zsigmond (‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’)
Make that fuzzy yarbles, ya know.
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Thank fuck, someone who actually gave Best Actor to the correct choice.
Pic- McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Dir- Robert Altman
Actor- Topol – Fiddler on the Roof
Actress- Jane Fonda – Klute
Supp. Actor- Warren Oates – Two-Lane Blacktop
Supp. Actress- Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show
Score- Leonard Cohen – McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Cinematography- John Alcott- A Clockwork Orange
Correction: Bruce Surtees, who lensed a lot of Clint Eastwood films, and the son of Robert, died in 2012. Big gaffe,sorry.
OUT 1 sadly remains at the top of my list of Holy Grail films. With that in mind, my top five for 1971:
McCabe & Mrs. Miller – Robert Altman
The Last Picture Show – Peter Bogdanovich
Two-Lane Blacktop – Monte Hellman
Two English Girls – Francois Truffaut
A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick
Best Picture: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Best Director: Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)
Best Actor: Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange)
Best Actress: Julie Christie (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)
Best supporting actor: Warren Oates (Two-Lane Blacktop)
Best supporting actress: Ann-Margret (Carnal Knowledge)
Best Cinematography: Nestor Almendros (Two English Girls)
Best Score: Georges Delerue (Two English Girls)
This is a year of transgression, so permit me to transgress.
Best Picture: Addio Zio Tom/Goodbye Uncle Tom
The trend-setter for a decade of Italian provocation and a film that fits right in with a lot of stuff on the short list.
Best Director(s): Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi, Addio Zio Tom
Best Actor: Reed, The Devils
Best Actress: Redgrave, The Devils
Supporting Actor: Oates, Two Lane Blacktop
Supporting Actress: Leachman, Last Picture Show
Cinematography: Szigmond, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Score: Riz Ortolani, Addio Zio Tom. Dismiss or condemn the film, but leaving the score off the short list is unconscionable. Here’s your best song, by the way.
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And a second.
A good year, but totally dominated by its best film. (Though that’s partly because I’ve only seen the later, shorter, version of Out 1.)
PICTURE: McCabe and Mrs. Miller
DIRECTOR: Robert Altman
LEAD ACTOR: Warren Beatty
LEAD ACTRESS: Julie Christie
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Warren Oates
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
SHORT: Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia, Hollis Frampton
SCORE: Leonard Cohen, McCabe
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vilmos Szigmond, McCabe
Plus bonus picks:
Script: A New Leaf, Elaine May
Documentary: Land of Silence and Darkness, Herzog
No Supporting actress choice?
Best Picture: The Last Movie
Dennis Hopper’s follow up to his influential debut Easy Rider, was viewed as one of the most biggest disappointments of the decade. However today, I have no problem calling it the most original an experimental film from the New Hollywood movement. I think it’s a shame this masterpiece hasn’t got the re-evaluation it deserves:(http://theconfidentialreport.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/dennis-hoppers-the-last-movie/)
Best Director: Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
Kubrick’s controversial masterpiece is one a wonderfully crafted film. One of the director’s best. Runner Up: Walerian Borowczyk, Nagisa Oshima.
Best Actor: Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange)
Can you believe he wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar!? Runner Up: Clint Eastwood, Dennis Hoffman
Best Actress: Bulle Ogier (The Salamander)
A great performance from an underrated actress in obscure masterpiece directed by a forgotten master. Runner Up: Milena Dravic, Marilyn Chambers
Best Short: Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia)
The best film of 1971. In a year that featured some of the greatest avant garde films ever (Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale, Bruce Baillie’s Quick Billy, Frans Zwartjes’s Living), Frampton’s masterpiece about art and memory takes the cake. One of the ten best film of the decade in my eyes.
Best Score: Lalo Schifrin (Dirty Harry)
I don’t think theres really a memorable score among the films listed, but I have a soft spot for Lalo Schifrin’s gritty, jazzy, 70s scores. Runner Up: Jerry Fielding.
Best Cinematography: Tatsuo Suzuki (Shura)
One of the most memorable things about Toshio Matsumoto’s crazy samurai film is the beautiful black and white cinematography. Runner Up: Nicolas Roeg, John Alcott.
Best of the year:
Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia) – dir. Hollis Frampton (US)
The Last Movie – dir. Dennis Hopper (US)
A Clockwork Orange – dir. Stanley Kubrick (US/UK)
The Salamander/La Salamandre – dir. Alain Tanner (Switzerland)
Living – dir. Frans Zwartjes (Netherlands)
Quick Billy – dir. Bruce Baillie (US)
The Ceremony/Gishiki – dir. Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
Straw Dogs – dir. Sam Peckinpah (US/UK)
The Third Part of the Night – dir. Andrzej Zulawski (Poland)
Blanche – dir. Walerian Borowczyk (France)
La Région Centrale – dir. Michael Snow (Canada)
Pandemonium/Shura – dir. Toshio Matsumoto (Japan)
Why do I feel like some people who vote are just trying to out-obscure everyone? I mean, THE LAST MOVIE and a Giocopetti film for Best Pic in a year like this? I dunno. I don’t buy it.
The Last Movie is, in my opinion, a masterpiece. Not for everyone but for me, the best feature film that year. I would assume Samuel Wilson chose Goodbye Uncle Tom for the same reason. To each their own.
Dunno, I can already see the writing on the wall and aside from a few random years (like next year) will probably coincide with the big winners only rarely. For whatever reason, my drummer detaches himself from the pack and marches off in his direction around the early seventies. By the zeroes he’s like in another country or something, haha…
Yes, there’s personal opinion, and that is fine. But where does historical influence come into play here, especially since we are doing this so long after the fact? Opinion is not the end all be all…IMPORTANCE should be a factor that overrides how neat you think one thing or another is.
While I don’t believe importance or influence should impact one’s personal preference, I do believe even just because a film may be obscure, doesn’t mean it hasn’t made an historical impact.
Ha! Zio Tom is important. Not something everyone can watch comfortably, but that’s true for a lot of ’71 movies. Not something many (even myself) will agree with but a work of colossal audacity and artistry and something that I expect will make Django Unchained (however much I look forward to it) look childish.
Just saw Picture Show over the weekend, by the way, and it’s a fine film.
And who decdies what’s important, merely what you have heard of or been arsed to seek out? Greatness is what it is, and if few people have seen it, that’s a condemnation of either that person’s complacency and other mitigating factors, not the fault of the film. If the greatest film of a given year was seen by everyone, it’s still the greatest film of the year. If it was seen only by a handful, it’s likewise still the greatest of the year.
I respect that opinion. But I don’t agree with it. However, I will leave it at that.
I don’t feel super comfortable voting in these any more–there’s just too many I haven’t seen–but I would urge anyone who hasn’t to check out Toshio Matsumoto’s Shura. Saw it for the first time this year and it (accidentally?) gets far closer to the horrific grandeur of Shakespeare than Kurosawa ever did (and I love Throne of Blood!). Certainly one of the great ones.
Yup, plus one from me, Shura’s one of those little masterpieces I have been pressing for some time.
It’s a big loss for this thread not having you voting Peter, but I certainly do see where you are coming from.
BEST PICTURE; WALKABOUT
BEST DIRECTOR; SAM PECKINPAH for STRAW DOGS
BEST ACTOR; DIRK BOGARDE for DEATH IN VENICE
BEST ACTRESS; JANE FONDA for KLUTE
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR; BEN JOHNSON for THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS; GRACE CAVE for FAMILY LIFE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY; NICHOLAS ROEG for WALKABOUT
BEST SCORE; JOHN BARRY for WALKABOUT
BEST SHORT; A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
Best Picture: The Last Picture Show
Best Director: Peter Bogdonovich (The Last Picture Show)
Best Actor: Peter Finch (Sunday Bloody Sunday)
Best Actress: Julie Christie (McCabe and Mrs. Miller)
Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)
Best Supporting Actress: Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show)
Best Short: Nostalgia (Frampton) just watched it now.
Best Cinematography: Robert Surtees (The Last Picture Show)
Best Score: John Barry (Walkabout)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller, A Clockwork Orange, Straw Dogs, The Devils, Picnic at Hanging Rock, are all great films.
I hope I’m not too late in casting my vote. So, without further ado, here are my choices for 1971:-
Best Picture: The Last Picture Show
Best Director: Mrinal Sen (Interview)
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman (Straw Dogs) & Ranjit Mullick (Interview)
Best Actress: Ruth Gordon (Harold & Maude)
Best Supporting Actor: Amitabh Bachchan (Anand)
Best Supporting Actress: Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show)
Best Cinematography: Robert L. Surtees (The Last Picture Show)
Best Score: Salil Choudhury (Anand)
Top 10:
1. The Last Picture Show
2. Interview (dir. Mrinal Sen)
3. Straw Dogs
4. Harold & Maude
5. Dirty Harry
6. Seemabaddha (Company Limited)
7. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
8. Anand (dir. Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
9. The French Connection
10. Clockwork Orange
Hackman’s Oscar winning performance is quite underrated in my opinion/ The script doesnt really give him anything to felsh out dramatically. but the guy is such a genius actor he manages to bring out so much depth in Popeye. Hopefully he fares better with his Conversation performance in 74.
Yes, he’d be a far stronger contender in ’74 for his performance in The Conversation – his best in my opinion. But, unfortunately for him, 2 other films released that year – Godfather II & Chinatown.
Even then I think he has the better performance than Nicholson and Pacino. He had the bigger challenge in the sense that his character was the ‘blandest’ one yet he makes him far more compelling through body movement and facial expressions and creates a fully 3 dimensional character. Nicholson and Pacino had great roles on paper, fully formed individuals with flashy dialogue and big dramatic scenes wheras Hackman had to flesh his Harry Caul out with far less. It must have seemed impossible to play such a character on paper.
Despite the many fine films of the year, I feel “The Devils” is a staggering piece of art, one that emotionally drains me every time I see it. A film that shows many blasphemous images, but in itself is not blasphemous, and later becomes one of the most touching meditations on redemption ever put on film. And while “Big Jake” is a personal favorite, and I can see many people rolling their eyes, Boone’s performance has stuck with me ever since the first time I saw it in the theater in 1971.
Best Picture: The Devils
Best Director: Ken Russell
Best Actor: Oliver Reed, The Devils
Best Actress: Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Boone, Big Jake (no, really. One of the most memorable bad guys ever)
Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show
Best Cinematography: David Watkin, The Devils
Best Score: Elmer Bernstein, Big Jake
THE DEVILS is a supreme masterpiece, and I can’t blame you at all for bestowing all the love here Kevin!!!!
Best Picture: A Clockwork Orange
Best Director: Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
Best Actor: Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
Best Actress: Vanessa Redgrave (The Devils)
Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)
Best Supporting Actress: Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show)
Best Cinematography: John Alcott (A Clockwork Orange)
Best Score: Georges Delarue (Les Deux Anglises et le Continent)
Yo this is mad cool! I need to vote on this. I wholeheartedly agree with THE CONFORMIST for 1971, but just discovered the site through Sam Juliano’s link
Best Pic: The Last Picture Show
Best Dir: Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange
Best Actor: Peter Finch Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Best Actress: Liv Ullmann, The Emigrants
Best Supp Actor: Fernando Rey, The French Connection
Best Supp Actress: Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show
Best Cinematography: Pasqualino de Santis, Death in Venice
Best Short: N/A
Props! I’m sure it’s a lot of work to put all this together
Bryce—
I can’t thank you enough for stopping by and casting a vote!!! This voting appears every week on Sunday and runs through Saturday, at which point Allan announces the winner from the previous year and then posts the new year!!
Great ballot too!!! You are a real sport my friend, and an expert movie lover!!!