Cinema · 1971 Ranked
Best Films of 1971, Ranked by IQ Score
The single year New Hollywood reached its mid-period peak. Films of 1971, ranked.
1971 is the year New Hollywood reached its mid-period peak. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick), The French Connection (Friedkin, Best Picture), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman), The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich), all released within twelve months.
The structural argument for 1971-as-canonical-year: simultaneous auteur peak (Kubrick's most-controversial work, Altman's most-disciplined Western, Bogdanovich's career-defining Texas-coming-of-age), genre-redefining commercial work (Dirty Harry, The French Connection), and international art-cinema (Visconti's Death in Venice).
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