Featuring a host of unpublished interviews, this is the first book to explore the greatest year in Hollywood's history - 1971
1971 was a landmark year for cinema.
Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Dario Argento, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Nicolas Roeg, and Steven Spielberg — among many others — were behind the camera, while an extraordinary array of stars filled the screen: Warren Beatty, Marlon Brando, Michael Caine, Julie Christie, Sean Connery, Faye Dunaway, Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda, Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Vanessa Redgrave all featured in films released that year.
The remarkable artistic flowering of New Hollywood was just beginning. The old guard was fading, the new guard rising. With cinema attendance in decline by the late 1960s and studios struggling to gauge box-office success, executives granted unprecedented freedom to a new generation of filmmakers — and the results changed cinema forever.
Drawing on interviews with cast and crew, bestselling author Robert Sellers explores this pivotal year in film history — a moment when Hollywood and British cinema alike stood at the thrilling crossroads of revolution and reinvention.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
100 Films
1 Performance
2 Murphys War
3 The Music Lovers
4 The Last Valley
5 10 Rillington Place
6 Little Murders
7 The House That Dripped Blood
8 Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia)
9 The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)
10 When Eight Bells Toll/Puppet on a Chain
11 Get Carter
12 THX 1138
13 Lawman
14 Dads Army
15 Vanishing Point
16 The Andromeda Strain
17 The Beguiled
18 Just Before Nightfall (Juste Avant La Nuit)
19 Taking Off
20 Melody
21 Trafic
22 Summer of 42
23 Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song
24 Bananas
25 Murmur of the Heart (Le Souffle au coeur)
26 Billy Jack
27 WR: Mysteries of the Organism
28 Blue Water, White Death
29 The Abominable Dr. Phibes
30 Escape from the Planet of the Apes
31 Big Jake
32 Daughters of Darkness
33 Carry On Henry
34 The Ceremony (Gishiki)
35 The Anderson Tapes
36 Willard
37 Klute
38 Wild Rovers
39 Le Mans
40 McCabe and Mrs Miller
41 Shaft
42 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
43 Drive, He Said
44 Carnal Knowledge
45 Walkabout
46 Sunday Bloody Sunday
47 Two-Lane Blacktop
48 The Panic in Needle Park
49 Blood on Satans Claw
50 Godzilla vs. Hedorah
51 The Devils
52 Johnny Got His Gun
53 The Hired Hand
54 Villain
55 The Omega Man
56 The Decameron
57 Lets Scare Jessica to Death
58 The Touch
59 Beware of a Holy Whore (Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte)
60 The Big Doll House
61 A Bay of Blood
62 Out 1
63 The Go-Between
64 Company Limited
65 Monty Pythons And Now for Something Completely Different
66 The Last Movie
67 Kotch
68 The Last Picture Show
69 Blanche
70 The French Connection
71 Wake in Fright
72 Punishment Park
73 Twins of Evil
74 Hands of the Ripper
75 Play Misty for Me
76 The Big Boss (Táng Shn Dà Xing)
77 A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker!)
78 Fiddler on the Roof
79 Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
80 Blood from the Mummys Tomb
81 200 Motels
82 Bedknobs and Broomsticks
83 Mon Oncle Antoine (My Uncle Antoine)
84 Duel
85 Two English Girls (Les Deux Anglaises et le continent)
86 A Touch of Zen (Xia Nu)
87 Straw Dogs
88 Man in the Wilderness
89 Nicholas and Alexandra
90 Bleak Moments
91 Family Life
92 Gumshoe
93 The Hospital
94 Macbeth
95 Four Flies on Grey Velvet
96 A Clockwork Orange
97 Harold and Maude
98 Mary, Queen of Scots
99 Dirty Harry
100 Diamonds Are Forever
The Good, the Bad and the Weird: The Best of the Rest
Notes
Select Bibliography
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ROBERT SELLERS was born in Leeds in 1965. Following graduation from drama school, he dreamt of a career on stage and screen. Alas, despite a few walk-on roles, the world has been spared his acting, which is perhaps all for the best. Instead, he turned to film journalism - why not write about the medium he loves if he couldn't appear in it. Since the early 90s, he has written numerous biographies, books on film and TV and popular culture including the bestselling Hellraisers (Preface, 2009).
