Throwback Muriels: 1969

Saturday, July 30, 2011

1969

Picture:
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Wild Bunch
Pierrot le Fou
Medium Cool
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Model Shop
Stolen Kisses
La Femme Infidele
Salesman
If…

Director:
Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West
Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch
Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou
Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool
Jacques Demy, Model Shop

Male Lead:
William Holden, The Wild Bunch
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Stolen Kisses
Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy
Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pierrot le Fou

Female Lead:
Stephane Audran, La Femme Infidele
Jane Fonda, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Claudia Cardinale, Once Upon a Time in the West
Anna Karina, Pierrot le Fou

Male Supporting:
Robert Ryan, The Wild Bunch
Henry Fonda, Once Upon a Time in the West
Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider
Charles Bronson, Once Upon a Time in the West
Elliott Gould, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Female Supporting:
Diana Rigg, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Anouk Aimee, Model Shop
Delphine Seyrig, Stolen Kisses
Claude Jade, Stolen Kisses
Verna Bloom, Medium Cool

Screenplay:
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Wild Bunch
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Stolen Kisses
La Femme Infidele

Ensemble:
If…
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The Wild Bunch
Once Upon a Time in the West
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Cinematography:
Easy Rider (Kovacs)
The Wild Bunch (Ballard)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hall)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Delli Colli)
Pierrot le Fou (Coutard)

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Administrative Stuff

In keeping with the spirit of the project I started this past winter, I’ve decided to continue formulating lists of retrospective nominees by year. Of course, as we move backwards in time I’d estimate that some years will be pretty lean. Therefore, I fear I will have to stop when I feel I can’t fill out a satisfactory ballot, although this probably won’t happen for a while yet.

As with the present-day Muriels, I based these old-school awards on the film’s NYC commercial release date. Since Mike D’Angelo’s eligibility lists don’t go back past 1998, I used the listed release dates in IMDb for this purpose. And much like the contemporary Muriels, if a movie remains unreleased in Gotham within five years of its international release date, it is ineligible for nominations. Sadly, that means I couldn’t throw any nominations at, say, Play Time, Satantango, the films of Yasujiro Ozu, or (sniff) Jeanne Dielman. So it goes.

Additionally, I reserve the right to allow ties here, especially in the case of movies featuring same-sex co-leads who are equally awesome. Several Bergman films spring to mind here, but there will no doubt be other occurrences as well.

Finally, I’ve decided to limit these lists to a “big nine” (picture, director, 4 acting categories, screenplay, ensemble, and cinematography). Much as I would have loved to include Best Cinematic Moment- probably my favorite Muriels category- here as well, I have a feeling that I’d forget some embarrassingly obvious choices and would prefer to save myself the bother.

As before, I’ll post one of these here per day as long as I’m able. I’ll try to remember to update these as needed, but I make no promises.

By the way, here’s a link to the 1995-2009 throwback Muriels I posted this winter. In time, I’ll probably move them over here, but until then this’ll have to do.