Tuesday, June 20, 2017

5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1971

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They call the 1970s the "Golden Age of Hollywood" and I guess Siri has been feeling like a Golden Girl lately because this is the third out of the past four editions of our Siri Game that the voice inside my telephone has given me a digit in the 70s when I've asked her for a digit between 1 & 100. Today she gave me "71" and so today we'll be hitting up The Movies of 1971. And speaking of the "Golden Age of Hollywood" there really truly were some astonishing movies that came out in 1971. (Including a certain movie that's got a remake coming out this very weekend!) My personal picks are a little off-center because I am a little off-center, but the runners-up really do represent a pretty astonishing bunch of movies themselves.

My 5 Favorite Movies of 1971

(dir. Ken Russell)
-- released on July 16th 1971 --

(dir. Mel Stuart)
-- released on June 30th 1971 --

(dir. Stanley Kubrick)
-- released on December 19th 1971 --

(dir. Robert Feust)
-- released on May 18th 1971 --

(dir. Hal Ashby)
-- released on December 20th 1971 --

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Runners-up: The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin), McCabe and Mrs. Miller (dir. Robert Altman), The Last Picture Show (dir. Peter Bogdanovich), The Beguiled (dir. Donald Siegel), Play Misty For Me (dir. Clint Eastwood), Duel (dir. Steven Spielberg), Straw Dogs (dir. Sam Peckinpah), Bananas (dir. Woody Allen)...

... The Omega Man (dir. Boris Sagal), THX 1138 (dir. George Lucas), Let's Scare Jessica to Death (dir. John Hancock), A Bay of Blood (dir. Bava), The Andromeda Strain (dir. Wise), Beware of a Holy Whore (dir. Fassbinder), Whity (dir. Fassbinder), Wake in Fright (dir. Ted Kotcheff), The Boy Friend (dir. Ken Russell)

Never seen: Carnal Knowledge (dir. Mike Nichols), Vanishing Point (dir. Richard C. Sarafian), Sunday Bloody Sunday (dir. John Schlesinger), Death in Venice (dir. Luchino Visconti), What's the Matter With Helen? (dir. Curtis Harrington), Trafic (dir. Jacques Tati), Willard (dir. Daniel Mann)

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What are your favorite movies of 1971?
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When?

7 comments:

  1. Mick12:23 PM

    I believe you might like "Death in Venice". It's an outstanding book and the movie was a very good adaption, IMO!

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  2. Jason Adams12:25 PM

    Mick -- it was playing here in NYC this past weekend and I totally intended to go see it but my schedule got messed up so I couldn't go. Still I very much intend to see it ASAP! I loved the book when I read it in college and I'm a big Visconti fan in general, so I think it's up my alley too :)

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  3. Pierce2:54 PM

    Andromeda Strain
    Bedknob and Broomstick
    The Beguiled
    The Boyfriend
    Carnal Knowledge
    Countess Dracula
    The Emigrants
    Fiddler on the Roof
    The French Connection
    Harold and Maude
    The Hospital
    Klute
    Last picture Show
    McCabe and Mrs. Miller
    Panic in Needle Park
    Shaft
    Such Good Friends
    Summer of '42
    Sunday, Bloody, Sunday
    THX 1138
    Tales of Beatrix Potter
    They Might Be Giants
    The Trojan Women
    Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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  4. Manolis8:02 PM

    1. Death In Venice
    2. The Conformist
    3. A Clockwork orange
    4. The Last Picture Show
    5. Sunday, Bloody Sunday
    6. Harold and Maude
    7. The Garden of Finzi Continis
    8. The Trojan Women
    9. Fiddler on the Roof
    10. Carnal knowledge

    missing out: Macbeth, The go between, McCabe and Mrs. Miller

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  5. joel659139:13 PM

    Willy Wonka!!! The only version worth talking about. Wilder is perfection.

    Tops:

    Willie Wonka
    The Andromeda Strain
    Plaza Suite
    Skin Game
    Mary, Queen of Scots

    Play Misty for Me
    The Hospital
    Klute
    Fiddler on the Roof
    The French Connection
    What's the Matter with Helen?
    Sometimes a Great Notion

    You've never seen What's the Matter with Helen!? Turn in your card!

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  6. Anonymous8:04 AM

    I'm surprised by all the Death in Venice love here. I found it laughably bad

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  7. paljoey2123:58 PM

    my favorite movie year

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