Yearly Consensus 1971 (Deadline Oct. 20th)

[Thirdmango]

Submit your five favorite films and five favorite performances from this year and in a week someone will give you a top ten in both categories. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

10.5 pts will be required to make either list.

There will be no restrictions on short films.

There will be no distinction made between male and female performances.
There will be no distinction made between lead and supporting performances.
Voice acting can be considered a performance.

Changed From Spinal's way: If you want to make any changes, edit your old post. I won't be counting them as they come in so it's easier for me and/or others for you to only have one post with your official submissions.

You may begin now.

[Melville]

1. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Fata Morgana
4. The Third Part of the Night
5. Two Lane Blacktop

Could throw in The Devils or Mon Oncle Antoine instead. Walkabout and Punishment Park are also pretty great.

1. Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
2. Oliver Reed, The Devils
3. Warren Oates, Two Lane Blacktop
4. Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
5. Ruth Gordon, Harold and Maude

[B-side]

Amazing year.

1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
3. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
4. A New Leaf (Elaine May)
5. Drive, He Said (Jack Nicholson)

1. Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
2. Dustin Hoffman - Straw Dogs
3. Elaine May - A New Leaf
4. Susan George - Straw Dogs
5. Tuesday Weld - A Safe Place

[Robby P]

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
The Last Picture Show
Harold and Maude

[Spinal]

1. Walkabout
2. Punishment Park
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Johnny Got His Gun
5. The Cat in the Hat

1. Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
2. Gene Hackman - The French Connection
3. Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
4. Dustin Hoffman - Straw Dogs
5. Jenny Agutter - Walkabout

[elixir]

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
3. Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
4. Une aventure de Billy le Kid (Luc Moullet)
5. The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage)

1. Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. Warren Beatty, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
3. Gena Rowlands, Minnie and Moskowitz
4. Jean-Pierre Léaud, Une aventure de Billy le Kid
5. Gene Hackman, The French Connection

[baby doll]

Films:
1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
3. Taking Off (Miloš Forman)
4. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
5. A New Leaf (Elaine May)

Runners-up: Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols), (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton), Trafic (Jacques Tati), W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)

Performances:
1. Buck Henry, Taking Off
2. Walter Matthau, A New Leaf
3. Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
4. Jack Nicholson, Carnal Knowledge
5. Milena Dravić, W.R. Mysteries of the Organism

1971 movies I haven't seen but want to:

The Death of Maria Malibrun (Werner Schroeter)
Les Deux anglaises et le continent (François Truffaut)
Juste avant la nuit (Claude Chabrol)
Little Murders (Alan Arkin)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette)
Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (Robert Bresson)
La Région centrale (Michael Snow)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
Le Souffle au coeur (Louis Malle)

More an illustrated thesis than a movie with much formal or stylistic interest despite a rather good performance by Malcom McDowell: A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)

[Pop Trash]

More an illustrated thesis than a movie with much formal or stylistic interest despite a rather good performance by Malcom McDowell: A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)

Dude.

[baby doll]

Dude.

The structure of the film is pretty schematic: Alex brutalizes a series of people over a period of about forty-eight hours, goes to prison, gets out, and is brutalized by mostly the same people over a period of twenty-four hours. The whole thing is dead on arrival.

[Pop Trash]

The structure of the film is pretty schematic: Alex brutalizes a series of people over a period of about forty-eight hours, goes to prison, gets out, and is brutalized by mostly the same people over a period of twenty-four hours. The whole thing is dead on arrival.

I don't even feel this post is worth responding to, but style and form is much more than a structure, which was there as a foundation when the script (or book even? I haven't read it so not sure if the screenplay structure adheres to it) was written up. I mean, shit, the droog costumes alone have become iconic.

[baby doll]

I don't even feel this post is worth responding to, but style and form is much more than a structure, which was there as a foundation when the script (or book even? I haven't read it so not sure if the screenplay structure adheres to it) was written up. I mean, shit, the droog costumes alone have become iconic.

I'll grant that it's not a bad looking film (no Kubrick movie is a complete waste of time), and McDowell's charisma goes along way towards making it watchable, but long stretches of the thing are so bloody dull with minor characters explaining the movie's point ("You've robbed him of his humanity!") again and again.

[Pop Trash]

1. The Last Picture Show
2. Two Lane Blacktop
3. Harold and Maude
4. Murmur of the Heart
5. A Clockwork Orange

6. The French Connection
7. Dirty Harry
8. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
9. Duel
10. Johnny Got His Gun

Perfs:
1. Malcolm McDowell, ACO
2. Ruth Gordon, Harold and Maude
3. Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka
4. Gene Hackman, The French Connection
5. Bud Court, HaM

Needs a rewatch: Straw Dogs and Walkabout.

Great year.

[Irish]

The structure of the film is pretty schematic: Alex brutalizes a series of people over a period of about forty-eight hours, goes to prison, gets out, and is brutalized by mostly the same people over a period of twenty-four hours. The whole thing is dead on arrival.

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. (Oh, shit, did I say that out loud?)

I found this a really interesting take. The only thing I can add is --

I've always viewed Clockwork as a pure horror film. My buddies and I rented it when we were kids, around 13 or so, and that was when we were digging through semi obscure stuff like Scanners and X-Tro and Driller Killer. We didn't have any idea who Kubrick was, what his filmography was, and wouldn't have cared if we did. It was just something to watch that was rumored to be hardcore and nasty. So I can't get away from viewing it in that context. Especially since I'm pretty sure watching something so grotesque and violent fucked each of us in the head for awhile.

The other thing that's interesting to me is that the movie was released in the same few years as a couple of other brutal pictures: Last House on the Left, Deliverance, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Most people probably don't think about those movies in terms of their formal qualities, or their themes, or anything else outside their pure shock value and emotional toll.

I think Clockwork fits in there nicely. It's an art house exploitation, and it's only art house at all because Kubrick was Kubrick, an obsessive craftsman incapable of producing anything unrefined. But the movie's soul is pure exploitation with a tacked on social message (similar, again, to those other movies).

[Gamblor]

1. The Devils (Ken Russell)
2. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
3. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
5. The French Connection (William Friedkin)

1. Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
2. Donald Pleasance - Wake in Fright
3. Michael Caine - Get Carter
4. Gene Hackman - The French Connection
5. Vanessa Redgrave - The Devils

[ContinentalOp]

1. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Walkabout
4. Two English Girls
5. Straw Dogs

1. Malcolm McDowell- A Clockwork Orange
2. Gene Wilder- Willy Wonka
3. Dustin Hoffman- Straw Dogs
4. Clint Eastwood- Dirty Harry
5. Jean-Pierre Leaud- Two English Girls

[Boner M]

Oh wow, this is quite a year, esp. for the avant-garde.

1. The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes (Brakhage)
2. Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman)
3. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
4. Wake in Fright (Koetcheff)
5. Valentin de las Sierras (Baillie)

6-20[

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6. Minnie & Moskowitz (Cassavetes)
7. A New Leaf (May)
8. (nostalgia) (Frampton)
9. Duel (Spielberg)
10. The Beguiled (Siegel)
11. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog)
12. Bleak Moments (Leigh)
13. Just Before Nightfall (Chabrol)
14. The Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog)
15. Two English Girls (Truffaut)
16. Punishment Park (Watkins)
17. Family Life (Loach)
18. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
19. Dirty Harry (Siegel)
20. Walkabout (Roeg)

]

Perfz:

1. Warren Oates, Two-Lane Blacktop
2. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Two English Girls
3. Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller
4. Anne Raitt, Bleak Moments
5. Gena Rowlands, Minnie & Moskowitz

HM: La Région centrale (seen half of it)

Need to see: Four Nights of a Dreamer, Harold & Maude, Critical Mass, The Third Part of the Night, Out 1, Get Carter

Been too long: The French Connection, The Devils

Not a big fan: Straw Dogs, A Clockwork Orange

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Straw Dogs
2. Bananas
3. Nicholas and Alexandra
4. Mon oncle Antoine
5. The Panic in Needle Park

1. Dustin Hoffman, Straw Dogs
2. Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
3. Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
4. Susan George, Straw Dogs
5. Seymour Cassel, Minnie and Moskowitz

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. Two English Girls
2. The Last Picture Show
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. THX 1138
5. Mon Oncle Antoine

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1. Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange)
2. Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
3. Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)
4. Jean-Pierre Leaud (Two English Girls)
5. George C. Scott (The Hospital)

[Raiders]

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. Four Nights of a Dreamer
3. Fata Morgana
4. The Last Picture Show
5. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

Performances:
1. Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. Warren Oates, Two-Lane Blacktop
3. Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils
4. Dustin Hoffman, Straw Dogs
5. Vincent Price, The Abominable Dr. Phibes

[Russ]

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Last Picture Show
3. The French Connection
4. Szindbád
5. Emperor Tomato Ketchup

1. Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
2. Oliver Reed, The Devils
3. Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
4. Gene Hackman, The French Connection
5. Vincent Price, The Abominable Dr. Phibes

[B-side]

I could've easily thrown in (nostalgia) and Valentin de las Sierras.

[Derek]

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima)
3. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
4. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
5. WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)

HMs: [

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6. Trafic (Jacques Tati)
7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
8. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
9. Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
10. Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
11. Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
12. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
13. Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
14. Trial on the Road (Alexei German)
15. The French Connection (William Friedkin)

]

Perfs:

1. Kenzô Kawarasaki - The Ceremony
2. Warren Beatty - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
3. Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
4. Julie Christie - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
5. Gena Rowlands - Minnie & Moskowitz

[Derek]

5. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

Penis sculpting FTW!

[Boner M]

The Phantom Carriage (Sjöström, 1921) ****

Good man. Did you watch the Criterion, w/ the KTL score? Amaze.

[B-side]

McCabe and Mrs. Miller, WR: Mysteries of the Organism...

Man, what a year.