Throwback Muriels: 1973

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

1973

Picture:
Last Tango in Paris
The Long Goodbye
O Lucky Man!
Mean Streets
Don’t Look Now
The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant
Andrei Rublev
The Holy Mountain
Papillon
The Crazies

Director:
Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris
Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye
Lindsay Anderson, O Lucky Man!
Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets
Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now

Male Lead:
Marlon Brando, Last Tango in Paris
Elliott Gould, The Long Goodbye
Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Now
Robert Mitchum, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Robert Ryan, The Iceman Cometh

Female Lead:
Margit Carstensen, The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant
Maria Schneider, Last Tango in Paris
Tatum O’Neal, Paper Moon
Ellen Burstyn, The Exorcist
Julie Christie, Don’t Look Now

Male Supporting:
Sterling Hayden, The Long Goodbye
Robert DeNiro, Mean Streets
Jason Miller, The Exorcist
Joe Don Baker, Charley Varrick
Peter Boyle, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Female Supporting:
Madeline Kahn, Paper Moon
Irm Herrmann, The Merchant of the Four Seasons
Hanna Schygulla, The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant
Delphine Seyrig, The Day of the Jackal
Valentina Cortese, Day for Night

Screenplay:
The Long Goodbye
Mean Streets
Last Tango in Paris
The Day of the Jackal
Don’t Look Now

Ensemble:
The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant
The Long Goodbye
Mean Streets
American Graffiti
The Crazies

Cinematography:
Electra Glide in Blue (Hall)
The Long Goodbye (Zsigmond)
Last Tango in Paris (Storaro)
Andrei Rublev (Yusov)
Don’t Look Now (Richmond)

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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.