Throwback Muriels: 1970

Friday, July 29, 2011

1970

Picture:
Woodstock
Gimme Shelter
My Night at Maud’s
Au Hasard Balthasar
Five Easy Pieces
Mouchette
The Conformist
Performance
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Hi, Mom!

Director:
Michael Wadleigh, Woodstock
David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, Gimme Shelter
Eric Rohmer, My Night at Maud’s
Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar
Bob Rafaelson, Five Easy Pieces

Male Lead:
Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces
Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist
George C. Scott, Patton
Jean-Louis Trintignant, My Night at Maud’s
Jason Robards, The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Female Lead:
Francoise Fabian, My Night at Maud’s
Glenda Jackson, Women in Love
Nadine Nortier, Mouchette
Liv Ullmann, The Passion of Anna
Catherine Deneuve, Tristana

Male Supporting:
John Lazar, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Allen Garfield, Hi, Mom!
Chief Dan George, Little Big Man
Alan Bates, Women in Love
Oliver Reed, Women in Love

Female Supporting:
Dominique Sanda, The Conformist
Marie-Christine Barrault, My Night at Maud’s
Karen Black, Five Easy Pieces
Anna Wiazemsky, Au Hasard Balthasar
Eva Marie Saint, Loving

Screenplay:
My Night at Maud’s
Five Easy Pieces
The Conformist
Hi, Mom!
Loving

Ensemble:
Au Hasard Balthasar
Husbands
MASH
Five Easy Pieces
Catch-22

Cinematography:
Catch-22 (Watkin)
The Conformist (Storaro)
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Storaro)
Au Hasard Balthasar (Cloquet)
Performance (Roeg)

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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.