1971 poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1971 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 1971 lists will be Monday, Dec 2nd at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Seen and had feelings for:

Addio Zio Tom - Jacopetti, Prosperi
Arde Baby Arde - Bolanos
In The Shadow Of Death - Piesis
McCabe And Mrs. Miller - Altman
Out One - Rivette
La Sangre Enemiga - R. Gonzalez
Straw Dogs - Peckinpah
THX 1138 - Lucas
Uncle Vanya - Konchalovsky
Wake In Fright - Kotcheff
The Wolves - Gosha
You And Me - Shepitko

Like last month, I'll post my watchlist in a more useful place.

[pabs]

1. The Emigrants (Troell)

Murmur of the Heart Le souffle au cœur (Malle)
Walkabout (Roeg)
Death in Venice (Visconti)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman)
The Devils (Russell)
The Beguiled (Siegel)
Wake In Fright (Kotcheff)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)


Watched for this poll:

Whity √
Bang Bang √
McCabe and Mrs. Miller √


Didn't get to see :

Beware of a Holy Whore
Du côté d'Orouët
Minnie And Moskowitz

[Umbugbene]

Hmm, not as strong a year as many of the years around it.

1. Whity (Fassbinder)
2. Fata Morgana (Herzog)
3. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
4. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Bresson)
5. What Did You Do in the War, Thanassis? (Katsouridis)
6. Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder)
7. Death in Venice (Visconti)
8. The Go-Between (Losey)
9. Cuadecuc, vampir (Portabella)

[ofrene]

thus far...

Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress
Two English Girls
A Touch of Zen
Du côté d’Orouët
Woman of Fire
The French Connection
Minnie and Moskowitz
Harold and Maude
Duck, You Sucker
The Devils
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Macbeth
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Love
Daughters of Darkness

[nrh]

du cote d'orouet - jacques rozier
out 1 - jacques rivette & suzanne schiffman
a touch of zen - king hu
quick billy - bailie
valentin de las sierras - bailie
nostalgia - hollis frampton
a new leaf - elaine may
la region centrale - michael snow
ashad ka ek din - mani kaul
door ka rahi - kishore kumar
shantanta! court chalu aahe - satyadev dubey
anand - hrishikesh mukherjee
ten days wonder - claude chabrol
reshma aur shera - sunil dutt
two lane blacktop - monte hellman
the last run - richard fleischer
a girl is a gun - luc moullet
bay of blood - mario bava
beware of a holy whore - rainer werner fassbinder
glen & randa - jim mcbride

[thoxans]

A New Leaf (Elaine May)

bedknobs and broomsticks (robert stevenson)
daughters of darkness (harry kumel)
duck, you sucker (sergio leone)
emitai (ousmane sembene)
fools' parade (andrew v. mclaglen)
four nights of a dreamer (robert bresson)
lal pathar (sushil majumdar)
mccabe & mrs. miller (robert altman)
mon oncle antoine (claude jutra)
murmur of the heart (louis malle)
the new one-armed swordsman (chang cheh)
socrates (roberto rossellini)
spend it all (les blank)
a touch of zen (king hu)
two-lane blacktop (monte hellman)
vanishing point (richard c. sarafian)
a well spent life (les blank / skip gerson)

[rischka]

a touch of zen (hu)
appointment in bray (delvaux)
the boyfriend (russell)
the devils (russell)
the wolves (gosha)
blanche (borowczyk)
two lane blacktop (hellman)
wake in fright (kotcheff)
daughters of darkness (kumel)
four nights of a dreamer (bresson)
a necklace for my beloved (abuladze)
shura (matsumoto)
throw away your books, rally in the streets (terayama)
narita: second fortress (ogawa)
don't deliver us from evil (seria)
cuadecuc, vampir (portabella)
the velvet vampire (rothman)
hundertwasser's regentag (schamoni)
healthy people for fun (aćimović-godina)
quick billy (bailie)


possible watchlist

la maison des bois
the third part of the night
the telephone book
szinbad
evdokia
emperor tomato ketchup
la region central
plastic jesus
the policeman
silence
the working class goes to paradise
young and healthy as a rose
she killed in ecstasy
my wife and the dog
la salamandre
mon oncle antoine

[Silga]

Provisional list:

Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian)

The French Connection (William Friedkin)
Lawman (Michael Winner)
Duel (Steven Spielberg)
Murder by the Book (Steven Spielberg)
The Anderson Tapes (Sidney Lumet)
Bananas (Woody Allen)
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (Woody Allen)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)

[greennui]

1. Du côté d’Orouët (Jacques Rozier)

Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
Crash! (Harley Cokeliss)
Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Family Life (Ken Loach)
Don’t Deliver Us from Evil (Joel Seria)
Requiem for a Vampire (Jean Rollin)
The Velvet Vampire (Stephanie Rothman)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kumel)
She Killed in Ecstasy (Jesus Franco)
The Music Lovers (Ken Russell)
The Boy Friend (Ken Russell)
La Région Centrale (Michael Snow)
Football As Never Before (Hellmuth Costard)
Barn Rushes (Larry Gottheim)
A New Leaf (Elaine May)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Zulawski)
The Devils (Ken Russell)
Bleak Moments (Mike Leigh)

[liquidnature]

1. Du côté d'Orouët (Rozier)

Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman)
Duel (Spielberg)
10 Rillington Place (Fleischer)
Szindbád (Huszárik)
Giù la testa / Duck, You Sucker (Leone)
Dirty Harry (Siegel)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman)
Secha pri Kerzhentse / The Battle of Kerzhenets (Ivanov-Vano, Norshteyn)
The French Connection (Friedkin)
Punishment Park (Watkins)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Stuart)

Seems like not many have seen Szindbad or 10 Rillington Place, recommend both of those highly.

May watch for the poll:
THX-1138

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Recommended:
- (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton)
- A Bay of Blood (Mario Bava)
- maybe Death Walks on High Heels (Luciano Ercoli), don't really remember this one specifically but Ercoli's gialli visuals can't be beat
- maybe Trafic (Jacques Tati), don't like its scenes featuring non-consensual filming of strangers, but otherwise one of the most interesting Tati's for me.

Only seen 23 movies from 1971 at present, but I'll try to change that this month

[Curtis, baby]

1. TWO-LANE BLACKTOP!

Four Nights of a Dreamer
Death in Venice
The Panic in Needle Park
Dirty Harry
A Touch of Zen
Taking Off
The French Connection
The Last Picture Show
Duck, You Sucker
Wake in Fright
Klute
Shaft
Mon Oncle Antoine
Summer in the City
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
"The Song of Moscow"

[Roscoe]

So far --

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
KLUTE
THE DEVILS
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY
WALKABOUT
CLOWNS (Fellini)


Seen a lot more, but these are the ones I'd stick my neck out for as being the best. I'll look a bit closer. Do I have room for THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES? THX 1138?

[rischka]

i will finally watch a rozier film

[sally]

i've mystified myself with what fassbinder i've seen or not, so i'm ignoring him. here's what i got, to be hacked down. (someone else please vote for the apple war....greennui?)

also.....does anyone (kanafani) have my wife and the dog???? my number one can't find...

1971, no order yet
Out 1 - rivette, schiffman
Two-lane blacktop - hellman
Cuadecuc, Vampir - portabella
A necklace for my beloved - abuladze
Blanche - borowczyk
The apple war - danielsson
nostalgia - frampton
The white bird marked with black - ilyenko
Sinbad - huszarik
The long farewell - muratova
The third part of the night - Żuławski
Four nights of a dreamer - Bresson
A girl is a gun - moullet
WR: Mysteries of the organism - makavejev
Two English girls - Truffaut
Fuck off! Images of Finland - donner
Healthy people for fun - Aćimović-Godina
The decameron - pasolini
Fata Morgana - herzog
Taking off - forman
The policeman - kishon
Jabberwocky - Švankmajer
The Battle of Kerzhenets - ivanov-vano, norshteyn
In the shadow of death - piesis
Love - makk

[rischka]

i have my wife and the dog w/subs by kanafani

will do a thing with the thing. thx for reminding me about this

https://youtu.be/C-Jga-bb48M

[sally]

yay for the thing! and fun!

[greennui]

(someone else please vote for the apple war....greennui?)

I forgot about that one, wouldn't say it's a fav but def worthy of a vote.


My watchlist:

A Bay of Blood
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
Appointment in Bray
Blanche
The Blood on Satan’s Claw
The Boy Friend
The Decameron
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
Joe Hill
La Maison des bois
Land of Silence and Darkness
The Night Visitor
Out 1
The Salamander
Simon, King of the Witches
Woman of Fire

[DT.]

1. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)

Appointment in Bray (André Delvaux)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel)
Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)
Demons (Toshio Matsumoto)
The Devils (Ken Russell)
Du côté d'Orouët (Jacques Rozier)
The Light at the Edge of the World (Kevin Billington)
Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
The Music Lovers (Ken Russell)
A New Leaf (Elaine May)
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
The Wolves (Hideo Gosha)

Want to watch:

The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)
Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk)
The Clowns (Federico Fellini)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)

[arkheia]

A New Leaf (Elaine May)

Out 1: Noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette)
La région centrale (Michael Snow)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
India-Nepal (Jorge Honik)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie)
Appointment in Bray (André Delvaux)
Antigone (Vittorio Cottafavi)
Pink Narcissus (James Bidgood)
Socrates (Roberto Rossellini)
Such Good Friends (Otto Preminger)

[flip]

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Elio Petri)

Lawman (Michael Winner)
Desire Called Anada (Jan Kadar/Elmar Klos)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger)
The Devils (Ken Russell)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
Klute (Alan Pakula)
The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)
McCabe and Mrs Miller (Robert Altman)
Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)
The French Connection (William Friedkin)
See No Evil (Richard Fleischer) - aka Blind Terror
A New Leaf (Elaine May)
The Hospital (Arthur Hiller)
The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda)
10 Rillington Place (Richard Fleischer)
Confessions Among Actresses (Yoshishige Yoshida)
Shri Krishna Leela (Homi Wadia)

[karl]

A year without a masterpiece that towers above all others, but with much excellence. As usual in such years where I can easily come up with 20 to start, I'll nix ones I like that'll have plenty of votes without mine (the two Aussies, McCabe and Mcbeth, New Leaf, Four Seasons, Orgasmic Mysteries) to make room for a few obscurities I'm fond of.

For now, ladies first:

You and Me (Shepitko)
Long Farewells (Muratova)
Trial on the Road (German) - ack! 1986 on IMDb!
Szindbád
If I Had a Gun (Uher) (pretty sure I watched this and voted for it for the 1972 poll - oh well, tis 71 now)
Four Nights of a Dreamer
The White Bird Marked with Black (Ilyenko)
Uncle Vanya (Konchalovsky)
Byelorussian Station (Smirnov)
A Necklace for My Beloved (Abuladze)
Love (Makk)
The Day Passed (Babayev)
The Wolves (Gosho)
The Emigrants (Troell)
The Men (Carle)
Inn of Evil (Kobayashi)
Family Life (Zanussi)
Ants' Nest (Fábri)
Sikkim (Ray)
Little Hedgehogs Have No Quills (Petrov)
The Polygamous Wazzou (Ganda)

[brian d]

in rough order:

out 1 (rivette)
my wife and the dog (marzouk)
appointment in bray (delvaux)
one day before the rainy season (kaul)
sinbad (huszárik)
how tasty was my little frenchman (pereira dos santos)
the light at the edge of the world (billington)
daughters of darkness (kümel)
cuadecuc vampir (portabella)
punishment park (watkins)
olesya (ivchenko/kulchitskaya)
two-laned blacktop (hellman)
the decameron (pasolini)
mira (rademakers)
radúz and mahalena (weigl)
adrift/desire is called anada (kádar)
emitai (sembène)
a touch of zen (hu)
w.r. mysteries of the organism (makavejev)
the polygamous wazzou (ganda)

other good stuff:
the third part of the night (zuławski)
the emigrants (troell)
the velvet vampire (rothman)
short night of glass dolls (lado)
the wolves (gosho)
hannie caulder (kennedy)
if i had a gun (uher)
silence (shinoda)
confessions among actresses (yoshida)
evdokia (damianos)
blanche (borowczyk)
walkabout (roeg)
du côté d'orouët (rozier)
the beguiled (siegel)
nausicaa (varda)
malpertuis (kümel)


to see:
sikkim (ray)*
the new one-armed swordsman (cheh)*
inn of evil (kobayashi)
the glass ceiling (de la iglesia)*
girl slaves of morgana le fay (gantillon)*
the lady hermit (ho)*

[pabs]

I highly recommend The Emigrants (Troell), especially to those who like the work of Nicolas Roeg. It's quite an odd movie, really. My choice for best film of 1971. The editing sometimes creates a dreamy space where you realise you're inside Kristina's troubled mind. It's beautifully done.

"The Emigrants" is a famous set of Swedish novels by Villem Moberg that chronicles the lives of a family which itself was part of a huge wave of desperately poor Swedish settlers who came to America in the 1850s and 60s, and who ended up establishing the frontier farming communities of the mid-west, mostly in the states of Minnesota and Missouri.

[sally]

i'd like to see the emigrants, but it's got a posh criterion release so feel bad about getting it from 'other sources'. not that i have a blu ray player, and not that i could watch anything other than europe region restrictions anyway, so i guess i won't watch it. if only it was fucking legally streaming somewhere, what is this magical technology?

on the other hand i've put the policeman in the thing. my 2nd fave israeli film after late marriage. of the few films from israel that i've seen

[mesnalty]

It was streaming on the Criterion Channel until... October 31. Bad timing!

[greennui]

I'm not a fan of Troell (bland director of bloated films) but I do like The Emigrants, been a few years since I last saw it though. The sequel is skippable imo.

[sally]

criterion channel is US only? can't get it. even if it was there.

[kanafani]

This is an incredible year.

Absolute Favorites
Out 1 (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
Du côté d'Orouët (Jacques Rozier, 1971)
Cuadecuc, Vampir (Pere Portabella, 1971)
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
La Région Centrale (Michael Snow, 1971)

Also Excellent
Appointment in Bray (André Delvaux, 1971)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971)
The House in the Woods (Maurice Pialat, 1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
Odette Robert (Jean eustache, 1971)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, 1971)
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage, 1971)
Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, 1971)

More Good Shit
Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes, 1971)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev, 1971)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
Company Limited (Satyajit Ray, 1971)
Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London (Chris Marker, 1971)
You Speak of Paris: Maspero. Words Have Meaning (Chris Marker, 1971)
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1971)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel, 1971)
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971)
The Ceremony (Nagisa Ōshima, 1971)
Land of Milk and Honey (Pierre Étaix, 1971)
Pictures from Life's Other Side (Jim McBride, 1971)
Blue Streak (Mark Rappaport, 1971)
My Wife and the Dog (Said Marzouk, 1971)
Bleak Moments (Mike Leigh, 1971)
The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971)