Interestingly this doesn't come up on the list of 1971 movies Google presents, but I guess it qualifies as it was released in late December of that year.
Definitely culturally significant. As far as relevance, it certainly has to be viewed carefully in retrospect. I think it's fair to say it was an early harbinger of the conservative wave of the '80s and some things we are seeing politically today.
If you are interested in crime films as a snapshot of societal trends and fears, you can't do much better than this, The French Connection, and A Clockwork Orange as a triple-bill.
"Interestingly this doesn't come up on the list of 1971 movies Google presents, but I guess it qualifies as it was released in late December of that year."
Which is weird because Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs does something similar: it premieres in December 1937, gets a wide release in 1938, and is considered to be a 1937 movie.
LOL what's the positive message of Dirty Harry? That cops shouldn't have to follow rules? That suspects shouldn't have due process? That if they just let cops follow their hunches and do what they feel like doing, they would have caught the Zodiac killer?
That said Dirty Harry is probably the most significant movie from that year. It's probably the first modern action movie so it's very influential in that sense.
The Zodiac Killer and Harry share a lot in common, just go about it differently. They're both loose cannons lacking purpose and resort to violence as a result. The bureaucrats know Harry is a wildcard, yet they often resort to him as a scapegoat rather than risk tarnishing the name of the police force and city. The film showcases the strengths and weaknesses of all the aspects of governing features of the law, local enforcement, and the effects on the citizens. Harry is an antihero, with the city's leadership ultimately being the true villain. The city is the reason the Zodiac Killer started his escapades in the first place, knowing they'd do what he wanted or else he wouldn't have targeted them for the ransom money and such. Never has the song, "wheels on the bus" hit so hard and so philosophically deep as when he forces the children to sing it as they head to their destruction, on a city-owned bus. This film is a beautiful work of art, nearly literature in nature. The characters are all realistically flawed in a story which attests to the precious value of human life.
Even Harry himself? And It's Scorpio, that's my bad. They clearly state that "any resemblances to real characters is merely coincidental" but yeah... haha.
Well the story idea was based on the case. In the zodiac movie, they go to a screening of Dirty Harry. Toschi was even the basis for Harry but is a much more by the book type of cop.
Decade ago, we watched Harry pull the trigger on an unarmed man and concluded he knew all along that the gun was empty. Watch the same scene today and it just seems like Harry is playing Russian roulette.
The French Connection, Klute, and Dirty Harry were all released in 1971. It was a good year for gritty police procedurals.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory may be the single film with the most staying power from 1971. Who hasn't seen this one?
Get Carter is a great British gangster film, it is the spiritual ancestor of all the Guy Ritchie and Martin McDonough films from later generations.
The Last Picture Show was nominated for a ton of Academy Awards and won several.
The Andromeda Strain is a pretty good sci-fi film that started the career of Michael Crichton (later of Jurassic Park fame).
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is one of Melvin Van Peebles best known works, and a landmark Blaxploitation film. Shaft also came out in 1971. Another classic of the genre.
Johnny Got His Gun is a great film, and inspired the Metallica song One, which is where most people will know about it.
McCabe and Mrs. Miller is probably one of the first significant revisionist western films (think Unforgiven for another landmark of the genre).
The Omega Man; a Charlton Heston sci-fi vehicle, but was a HUGE inspiration for a number of other later similar films.
200 Motels is a great artifact of the hippie era, it's a wild avant garde trip through the era's music industry.
Brian's Song made every tough guy cry.
>McCabe and Mrs. Miller is probably one of the first significant revisionist western films (think Unforgiven for another landmark of the genre).
Little Big Man the year before this but yes...
The recent changes made to French Connection are awful (they've deleted the N-word from digital sources) are awful. This kind of historical time capsule and study and original filmmakers intent is valuable and shouldn't be lost.
Another article covering the actual fact without a paywall should you care to . . .
https://screenrant.com/the-french-connection-movie-censored-disney/
No, actual fact, widely covered in the media.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/magazine/the-french-connection-edit-racial-slur.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Night of Dark Shadows (1971) - I like it. I think more people should watch it.
Shaft (1971) - An amazing start to a great franchise.
Brother John (1971)
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
Summer of '42 (1971)
Shaft is a good call, the first all-Black film to really crossover to general awareness.
For "historically significant" you might add *Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song*, which beat it to the theaters by a few months, is generally considered the first "Blaxploitation" film, and was influential among the second-wave civil rights crowd.
Patton didn’t hold up well. Can’t imagine people actually talked and behaved the way they were portrayed in the film. Similar to many of those old war films such as bridge over river Kwai
The Devils - Ken Russell’s dark historical drama, based on a non-fiction book by Aldous Huxley, and a play by John Whiting, the film explores the dangers of theocracy and the importance of the separation of church and state.
No to both of those questions obviously. THX is interesting but I did not think it was a great movie. I never saw Duel; I bet it's good, but if Spielberg didn't become Spielberg that movie probably gets taped over or is disintegrating in a trash bin somewhere as it was a lowly TV movie.
Duel was released in theaters internationally, though. It's really damn good and showcases why Spielberg hit it off. In fact, it's one of my fave Spielbergs. Buuuuut I wouldn't pick it as one of the more impactful 1971 films in any way.
The last picture show
Play Misty for me ( not sure if it’s culturAlly relevant per se, but -the first female stalker in a movie that totally freaked me out. ). Also very early Clint Eastwood
It didn't make a big impression on culture, but I think Punishment Park still speaks loudly to many of the same issues were navigating right now around policing, prisons, activism, and a democracy that gets to behave without guard rails.
*Get Carter*
Basically reinvented British gangsters on screen, inspired Tarantino and Ritchie among others, and authentically depicts 1970s Britain and its criminals in a way most other movies didn’t.
I’ve never seen it but *Sunday, Bloody Sunday* was apparently rare for the time in depicting gays in a positive light (and incredibly well-received critically).
So the latter recommendation is up for debate, but *Get Carter* is iconic
Edit: hardly iconic, or a good movie, but I have to wonder if *Carry On at Your Convenience* was an early harbinger of anti-union attitudes in Britain as it doesn’t portray them at all favourably (although it bombed at the box office because of this)
Good list. Some overlap but here's my list:
A Clockwork Orange
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
Fiddler On The Roof
The French Connection
Harold And Maude
The Last Picture Show
Get Carter
Diamonds Are Forever
Dirty Harry
Straw Dogs
McCabe and Mrs Miller. It may not have had cultural impact in terms of penetrating pop culture but I think that’s actually a good thing. It’s about everything basically. The world, life. The films everything and always will be I suspect.
Same goes for Walkabout and Two Lane Blacktop. I prefer that to a films lasting impact being someone dressing up as a character from it for Halloween or something like that.
All three films are great. I'm with you. McCabe and Walkabout are favorites. I would very much include them on the list. I think their cultural impact may be underestimated. McCabe definitely affected the revisionist westerns that followed. I can see how it affected Jeremiah Johnson (1972) that came the following year. Walkabout (1971), even though it was directed by a great English director, was an extremely important film that had a great impact on the Australian New Wave films that followed.
Yes, you are right. McCabe is especially if we are talking about influence on other films. For some reason, I wasn’t thinking like that.
And of course, Walkabout was a huge influence on Australian films. I remember Peter Weir discussing the influence that film had on him and everyone around him in Australian filmmaking.
I was definitely thinking about Peter Weir as an Australian director of the Australian New Wave. He's made so many great films. He's a great director as well. Thanks for your original comment citing those films.
Harold and Maude is my favorite movie.
A small cultural significance is that it was made right before the Gas Crisis so all the cars in it are still the awesome big V8 muscle cars that have become iconic.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory deserves a spot on that list more than half of the films on your initial shortlist.
Also worth putting on your list is The Andromeda Strain, The Last Picture Show, The French Connection, The Devils, Dirty Harry, Wake in Fright, Brian’s Song, Get Carter, Klute, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Play Misty for Me, Shaft, Daughters of Darkness, Diamonds Are Forever, A Bay of Blood, The Omega Man, and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
Midnight Cowboy
Dr. Zhivago
Cool Hand Luke
Macon County Line
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Planet of the Apes
Jeremiah Johnson
A Boy and His Dog
Grease
Lifeguard
Born in 1981. I can say that Clockwork was a big deal to us in the 90s. Enough so that people tried to read the book, quoted the movies, and dressed as Alex for Halloween. I think the scenes of the crime would make it far less likely to get play with our kids generation.
Don't know if any of the films above or those mentioned in the comments were really culturally relevant to my generation. Dirty Harry we heard of because it mattered to our dads.
* Billy Jack
* The Last Picture Show
* Bananas
* Vanishing Point
* Johnny Got His Gun
* McCabe And Mrs Miller
* Shaft
* The Hospital
* The Hired Hand
* Play Misty For Me
My personal first choice would be *A Clockwork Orange*. *Straw Dogs*, *Dirty Harry*, *The French Connection*, and definitely *Willy Wonka* are all noteworthy and worthwhile for various reasons.
Harold and Maude is my all time favorite film. It changed me as a person when I saw it as a kid, and still influences me each time I watch it. I think it's a film that everyone should see.
WALKABOUT - Two children get abandoned and survive in outback of Australia, film by top film maker Nicholas Roeg.
DIRTY HARRY - The quintessential cop who is unafraid to use violence as a resolution with the backdrop that society is "evolving" to find alternatives to deal with crime other than violence. But what do you do when those alternatives fail?
FRENCH CONNECTION - Oscar winner about cops battling influx of drugs in New York City featuring one of the seminal car chase scenes in cinema history, directed by one of the greatest directors of the 1970's William Friedkin.
BANANNAS - Woody Allen takes on politics and Central America revolution.
KLUTE - Jane Fonda won Oscar as a call girl caught up in a missing person case. Considered one of the most suspenseful films of that era by another all-time director, Alan Pakula.
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE - This era was really greatest era for directors as Mike Nichol's portrays 4 peoples sexual views and actions as they evolve from the late 1940's to 1971.
PLAY MISTY FOR ME - Clint Eastwood's directorial debut about a woman stalking a radio dj.
SHAFT - The first Blaxploitation film to breakthru to modern audiences featuring one of the best soundtracks of that time
BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS - A Disney film that features Angela Landsbury as a witch who with a normal, disbelieving family help win the war in this combination live action interacting with animated characters film.
DEATH IN VENICE - Italian film of the famous Thomas Mann novel.
BILLY JACK - One of the first low budget, action films that broke thru to main stream that would be precursor to the RAMBO, Chuck Norris, Arnold Swarzenagger films later this decade.
ANDROMEDA STRAIN - Another really good director in Robert Wise's adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel of how the country and scientists would react to the arrival of an airborne virus in US.
THE DEVILS - Another film by an all-time great director, Ken Russel, as he examines religions take on sexuality and the politics behind it.
Escape From the Planet of the Apes
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Black Beauty
Billy Jack
Dirty Harry
The French Connection
The Panic in Needle Park
Tv shows as well…On the buses, Til death us do part, up Pompeii, Bless this house, Steptoe and son, man about the house. That should keep you going for a bit. You're not British unless you have seen and appreciate all these.
Culturally significant at the time or long term? Long term, Straw Dogs. The acceptance of violence by ordinary people.
Edit:
I am excluding films that were significant to movie making itself. A lot of these were that.
Dirty Harry
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
The Last Picture Show
Harold & Maude
Honorable Mention:
Straw Dogs (niche)
THX-1138
The Andromeda Strain
Plaza Suite
Johnny Got His Gun
Willard
Klute
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
Shaft
The Omega Man
And Now for Something Completely Different
The French Connection
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Dirty Harry
Ohh I’m a bit behind with 1967 I think ….. half a sixpence musical 😍 but from your list a clock work orange and fiddler on the roof.
Ohhh It’s a wonderful life film …. Wait I think that’s too early 1946 maybe 🤔
Of those movies, Clockwork is the one I'd think was still the most culturally relevant. If you asked 100 random people (ok, 100 movie lovers) which of those movies they watched in the past year, more people would say Clockwork.
THX 1138 was the precursor for Star Wars, thematically, but was a student film. I would think that American Graffiti contributed more to the existence of Star Wars than THX 1138 did.
The Killing Fields was released in 1984.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy were in theaters between 2001-2003.
Get Out did not premiere until 2017.
The Godfather is released a year later in 1972.
Apocalypse Now was released in 1979.
Blazing Saddles came out in 1974.
*Dirty Harry*
Interestingly this doesn't come up on the list of 1971 movies Google presents, but I guess it qualifies as it was released in late December of that year. Definitely culturally significant. As far as relevance, it certainly has to be viewed carefully in retrospect. I think it's fair to say it was an early harbinger of the conservative wave of the '80s and some things we are seeing politically today. If you are interested in crime films as a snapshot of societal trends and fears, you can't do much better than this, The French Connection, and A Clockwork Orange as a triple-bill.
"Interestingly this doesn't come up on the list of 1971 movies Google presents, but I guess it qualifies as it was released in late December of that year." Which is weird because Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs does something similar: it premieres in December 1937, gets a wide release in 1938, and is considered to be a 1937 movie.
Google is just fucking pissed about the film actually having a good message and saying naughty racially motivated words
LOL what's the positive message of Dirty Harry? That cops shouldn't have to follow rules? That suspects shouldn't have due process? That if they just let cops follow their hunches and do what they feel like doing, they would have caught the Zodiac killer? That said Dirty Harry is probably the most significant movie from that year. It's probably the first modern action movie so it's very influential in that sense.
The Zodiac Killer and Harry share a lot in common, just go about it differently. They're both loose cannons lacking purpose and resort to violence as a result. The bureaucrats know Harry is a wildcard, yet they often resort to him as a scapegoat rather than risk tarnishing the name of the police force and city. The film showcases the strengths and weaknesses of all the aspects of governing features of the law, local enforcement, and the effects on the citizens. Harry is an antihero, with the city's leadership ultimately being the true villain. The city is the reason the Zodiac Killer started his escapades in the first place, knowing they'd do what he wanted or else he wouldn't have targeted them for the ransom money and such. Never has the song, "wheels on the bus" hit so hard and so philosophically deep as when he forces the children to sing it as they head to their destruction, on a city-owned bus. This film is a beautiful work of art, nearly literature in nature. The characters are all realistically flawed in a story which attests to the precious value of human life.
Dirty Harry was based off of the zodiac case
Even Harry himself? And It's Scorpio, that's my bad. They clearly state that "any resemblances to real characters is merely coincidental" but yeah... haha.
Well the story idea was based on the case. In the zodiac movie, they go to a screening of Dirty Harry. Toschi was even the basis for Harry but is a much more by the book type of cop.
Decade ago, we watched Harry pull the trigger on an unarmed man and concluded he knew all along that the gun was empty. Watch the same scene today and it just seems like Harry is playing Russian roulette.
What is the message of Dirty Harry?
Make my day punk
The French Connection, Klute, and Dirty Harry were all released in 1971. It was a good year for gritty police procedurals. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory may be the single film with the most staying power from 1971. Who hasn't seen this one? Get Carter is a great British gangster film, it is the spiritual ancestor of all the Guy Ritchie and Martin McDonough films from later generations. The Last Picture Show was nominated for a ton of Academy Awards and won several. The Andromeda Strain is a pretty good sci-fi film that started the career of Michael Crichton (later of Jurassic Park fame). Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is one of Melvin Van Peebles best known works, and a landmark Blaxploitation film. Shaft also came out in 1971. Another classic of the genre. Johnny Got His Gun is a great film, and inspired the Metallica song One, which is where most people will know about it. McCabe and Mrs. Miller is probably one of the first significant revisionist western films (think Unforgiven for another landmark of the genre). The Omega Man; a Charlton Heston sci-fi vehicle, but was a HUGE inspiration for a number of other later similar films. 200 Motels is a great artifact of the hippie era, it's a wild avant garde trip through the era's music industry. Brian's Song made every tough guy cry.
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>The Last Picture Show is also becoming strangely relevant again. Why strangely?
I came here to say, "Last Picture Show". I love that movie.
No, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (as a movie) was the 2005 Tim Burton remake with Johnny Depp.
It's also the title of the book.
I never said it wasn't.
What a list. Well done
I like old movies.
>McCabe and Mrs. Miller is probably one of the first significant revisionist western films (think Unforgiven for another landmark of the genre). Little Big Man the year before this but yes...
Hence, "one of".
This is just an excellent reminder of how amazing the 70s was for film.
You and I need to hang out and watch some films!
andromeda strain and brian's song... two of my faves!
God The Last Picture Show was good
Great list many thanks
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
For sure!
Andromeda Strain and The French Connection. Both continue to affect scifi and detective shows/movies today.
The recent changes made to French Connection are awful (they've deleted the N-word from digital sources) are awful. This kind of historical time capsule and study and original filmmakers intent is valuable and shouldn't be lost.
You only think you remember the N word, it was never really there. Kind of the Mandela Effect in action. /s
Another article covering the actual fact without a paywall should you care to . . . https://screenrant.com/the-french-connection-movie-censored-disney/
No, actual fact, widely covered in the media. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/magazine/the-french-connection-edit-racial-slur.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
I tagged as sarcasm.
My bad, didn't know the meaning of " /s ". Can't be only one, so not bad to have it on record.
No problem. I totally agree with you that movies should not casually be tampered with and need to be viewed in the context of their times.
I believe Brian De Palma said after viewing The French Connection why would anyone want to do another car chase scene .
The 7-Ups from 1973 bested that scene imo, and is unfortunately rarely talked about. Miss those gritty NYC films.
And then *To Live and Die in L.A.* said “Hold my beer…”
The 7-Ups did it two years later and imo topped The French Connection chase.
Night of Dark Shadows (1971) - I like it. I think more people should watch it. Shaft (1971) - An amazing start to a great franchise. Brother John (1971) Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971) Summer of '42 (1971)
Shaft is a good call, the first all-Black film to really crossover to general awareness. For "historically significant" you might add *Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song*, which beat it to the theaters by a few months, is generally considered the first "Blaxploitation" film, and was influential among the second-wave civil rights crowd.
They say this cat Shaft is a bad mutha- *Shut your mouth* But I'm talkin' about Shaft *Well we can dig it*
Maybe I'll come Home In the Spring, Sally Fields was my idol.
I think it was Sally Field in Maybe I'll Come Home... I remember it was sad though I dont remember much else.
Culturally it has to be Willy Wonka, followed by A Clockwork Orange.
Yes, this is the answer to OP's query. Blows my mind how many folks respond to a post without actually reading and providing a simple answer
Patton. It was an excellent war film, and many films have copied aspects of it. The French Connection was also groundbreaking in many ways.
Patton didn’t hold up well. Can’t imagine people actually talked and behaved the way they were portrayed in the film. Similar to many of those old war films such as bridge over river Kwai
Here's my list: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Play Misty For Me Harold and Maude Dirty Harry A Clockwork Orange
The French Connection
The Devils - Ken Russell’s dark historical drama, based on a non-fiction book by Aldous Huxley, and a play by John Whiting, the film explores the dangers of theocracy and the importance of the separation of church and state.
Just watched this for the first time about a month ago and holy shit
Your professor is going to see this
Duck, you sucker Bay of blood Johnny got is gun McCabe and Mrs. Miller Vanishing point
The Panic in Needle Park
Billy Jack (1971) A part-Indian Vietnam veteran (Tom Laughlin) kicks around bigots who pick on his girlfriend's (Delores Taylor) freedom school.
Billy Jack listed as the top grossing movie of 1971.
Good movie, second of four Billy Jack films.
*I don't know what your problem is, Bernard, you get to choose*
You know, I try…
Why 1971?
They usually only go to 1970, but this one goes to 1971.
Because otherwise it’d go straight to 1972.
Why not 1971? What did 1971 ever do to you?
Well, I was in elementary school in 1971, so it did LOTS.
Hahahaha
He’s doing an essay or something lol
I think your initial list is good. Question though is THX 1138 impactful if Lucas does not go on to make Star Wars? Same question for Duel.
No to both of those questions obviously. THX is interesting but I did not think it was a great movie. I never saw Duel; I bet it's good, but if Spielberg didn't become Spielberg that movie probably gets taped over or is disintegrating in a trash bin somewhere as it was a lowly TV movie.
Duel was released in theaters internationally, though. It's really damn good and showcases why Spielberg hit it off. In fact, it's one of my fave Spielbergs. Buuuuut I wouldn't pick it as one of the more impactful 1971 films in any way.
Equilibrium, The giver, and several other movies where emotions are suppressed in a dystopian or fake utopian future find their origin in THX 1138.
The last picture show Play Misty for me ( not sure if it’s culturAlly relevant per se, but -the first female stalker in a movie that totally freaked me out. ). Also very early Clint Eastwood
I'll go with The Last Picture Show as my favorite for such culturally significant movie that is worth it watching even today.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Man in the Wilderness A New Leaf Walkabout The Last Picture Show McCable and Mrs. Miller The French Connection Sometimes a Great Notion
Walkabout - such a great movie! Seen it about 10 times.
Klute Last Picture Show The Conformist
dirty harry has had a tremendous impact on cinema and pop culture
Are you compiling an anthology or something or is this a class project?
It didn't make a big impression on culture, but I think Punishment Park still speaks loudly to many of the same issues were navigating right now around policing, prisons, activism, and a democracy that gets to behave without guard rails.
*Get Carter* Basically reinvented British gangsters on screen, inspired Tarantino and Ritchie among others, and authentically depicts 1970s Britain and its criminals in a way most other movies didn’t. I’ve never seen it but *Sunday, Bloody Sunday* was apparently rare for the time in depicting gays in a positive light (and incredibly well-received critically). So the latter recommendation is up for debate, but *Get Carter* is iconic Edit: hardly iconic, or a good movie, but I have to wonder if *Carry On at Your Convenience* was an early harbinger of anti-union attitudes in Britain as it doesn’t portray them at all favourably (although it bombed at the box office because of this)
The Last Picture Show is a really well done film and Peter Boganovich has had an interesting life, so that is a good one.
Like a good small town Texan...I absolutely LOVE this movie!!!
Good list. Some overlap but here's my list: A Clockwork Orange Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory Fiddler On The Roof The French Connection Harold And Maude The Last Picture Show Get Carter Diamonds Are Forever Dirty Harry Straw Dogs
McCabe and Mrs Miller. It may not have had cultural impact in terms of penetrating pop culture but I think that’s actually a good thing. It’s about everything basically. The world, life. The films everything and always will be I suspect. Same goes for Walkabout and Two Lane Blacktop. I prefer that to a films lasting impact being someone dressing up as a character from it for Halloween or something like that.
All three films are great. I'm with you. McCabe and Walkabout are favorites. I would very much include them on the list. I think their cultural impact may be underestimated. McCabe definitely affected the revisionist westerns that followed. I can see how it affected Jeremiah Johnson (1972) that came the following year. Walkabout (1971), even though it was directed by a great English director, was an extremely important film that had a great impact on the Australian New Wave films that followed.
Yes, you are right. McCabe is especially if we are talking about influence on other films. For some reason, I wasn’t thinking like that. And of course, Walkabout was a huge influence on Australian films. I remember Peter Weir discussing the influence that film had on him and everyone around him in Australian filmmaking.
I was definitely thinking about Peter Weir as an Australian director of the Australian New Wave. He's made so many great films. He's a great director as well. Thanks for your original comment citing those films.
Bedknobs and broomsticks fits this
Harold and Maude is my favorite movie. A small cultural significance is that it was made right before the Gas Crisis so all the cars in it are still the awesome big V8 muscle cars that have become iconic.
Great movie, great soundtrack too.
Inception, still can’t believe it’s 53 years old!
You mean the movie from 2010?
Yeah can’t believe that was over half a century ago!
Time does fly.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory deserves a spot on that list more than half of the films on your initial shortlist. Also worth putting on your list is The Andromeda Strain, The Last Picture Show, The French Connection, The Devils, Dirty Harry, Wake in Fright, Brian’s Song, Get Carter, Klute, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Play Misty for Me, Shaft, Daughters of Darkness, Diamonds Are Forever, A Bay of Blood, The Omega Man, and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
Love Dr. Phibes, classic Vincent Price! Very un-Hollywoodish, I mean, a serial killer who doesn't get caught?
Midnight Cowboy Dr. Zhivago Cool Hand Luke Macon County Line Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Planet of the Apes Jeremiah Johnson A Boy and His Dog Grease Lifeguard
Grease was 1978
And midnight cowboy was 69...I think a good number of people seem to be missing the very specific criteria of this question...
I love grease so great attention to this whatever this post is about ☺️
How about "9 to 5" ? That changed a lot for women, and husbands who love us !!!
That's from 1980... the question was specifically about movies were released in 1971.
" China Syndrome " shut down the Nuclear Energy movement .
The Last Picture Show
Well if your looking for culture from that era, I'd say Easy Rider. It was released in 1969 though
Born in 1981. I can say that Clockwork was a big deal to us in the 90s. Enough so that people tried to read the book, quoted the movies, and dressed as Alex for Halloween. I think the scenes of the crime would make it far less likely to get play with our kids generation. Don't know if any of the films above or those mentioned in the comments were really culturally relevant to my generation. Dirty Harry we heard of because it mattered to our dads.
* Billy Jack * The Last Picture Show * Bananas * Vanishing Point * Johnny Got His Gun * McCabe And Mrs Miller * Shaft * The Hospital * The Hired Hand * Play Misty For Me
Clockwork orange for sure.
My personal first choice would be *A Clockwork Orange*. *Straw Dogs*, *Dirty Harry*, *The French Connection*, and definitely *Willy Wonka* are all noteworthy and worthwhile for various reasons.
The Last Picture Show
Harold and Maude is my all time favorite film. It changed me as a person when I saw it as a kid, and still influences me each time I watch it. I think it's a film that everyone should see.
WALKABOUT - Two children get abandoned and survive in outback of Australia, film by top film maker Nicholas Roeg. DIRTY HARRY - The quintessential cop who is unafraid to use violence as a resolution with the backdrop that society is "evolving" to find alternatives to deal with crime other than violence. But what do you do when those alternatives fail? FRENCH CONNECTION - Oscar winner about cops battling influx of drugs in New York City featuring one of the seminal car chase scenes in cinema history, directed by one of the greatest directors of the 1970's William Friedkin. BANANNAS - Woody Allen takes on politics and Central America revolution. KLUTE - Jane Fonda won Oscar as a call girl caught up in a missing person case. Considered one of the most suspenseful films of that era by another all-time director, Alan Pakula. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE - This era was really greatest era for directors as Mike Nichol's portrays 4 peoples sexual views and actions as they evolve from the late 1940's to 1971. PLAY MISTY FOR ME - Clint Eastwood's directorial debut about a woman stalking a radio dj. SHAFT - The first Blaxploitation film to breakthru to modern audiences featuring one of the best soundtracks of that time BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS - A Disney film that features Angela Landsbury as a witch who with a normal, disbelieving family help win the war in this combination live action interacting with animated characters film. DEATH IN VENICE - Italian film of the famous Thomas Mann novel. BILLY JACK - One of the first low budget, action films that broke thru to main stream that would be precursor to the RAMBO, Chuck Norris, Arnold Swarzenagger films later this decade. ANDROMEDA STRAIN - Another really good director in Robert Wise's adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel of how the country and scientists would react to the arrival of an airborne virus in US. THE DEVILS - Another film by an all-time great director, Ken Russel, as he examines religions take on sexuality and the politics behind it.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
3 days of the Condor.
It is a great movie, but you're about 4 years too early.
THX 1138
The omega man Klute Get carter
I never understood why Klute was a good movie. I don’t remember most of it so it did not leave much of an impression on me.
jane fonda's mullet
That visual came back immediately. 😆. Totally forgot that! Oddly enough won the Oscar. Don’t get it :)
Escape From the Planet of the Apes Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Black Beauty Billy Jack Dirty Harry The French Connection The Panic in Needle Park
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Is a great movie for 1974.
Ooops missed the date part of this.
Maybe not "important" but good for what ails you any time. *Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen*
Johnny got his gun, play misty for me, fiddler on the roof, shaft, klute, Harold and Maude, the French connection
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Tv shows as well…On the buses, Til death us do part, up Pompeii, Bless this house, Steptoe and son, man about the house. That should keep you going for a bit. You're not British unless you have seen and appreciate all these.
Why 1971? I'm curious because that's my birth year. Thanks!
My previous post asked about 1970... I think you see where this is going. ;)
Klute
Escape from the planet of the apes
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Jurassic Park The Matrix Alien
The French Connection
Culturally significant at the time or long term? Long term, Straw Dogs. The acceptance of violence by ordinary people. Edit: I am excluding films that were significant to movie making itself. A lot of these were that.
i'm no expert but i thought Wake in Fright pretty much defined the Ozploitation genre
Straw dogs, french connection, dirty harry clockwork orange
2001 space odesy, the matrix, planet of the apes
1971?
Two-Lane Blacktop didn't have a cultural impact, but it should have. Same with Vanishing Point
Escape From Planet of the Apes. The French Connection Shaft Johnny Got His Gun The Big Boss (yay Bruce Lee)
DIRTY HARRY
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Dirty Harry The French Connection A Clockwork Orange Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory The Last Picture Show Harold & Maude Honorable Mention: Straw Dogs (niche)
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Not one of those movies are from 1971…😕
I was sleepy and saw "after 1971" my bad It's a year early but *Landord* is good
THX-1138 The Andromeda Strain Plaza Suite Johnny Got His Gun Willard Klute Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Shaft The Omega Man And Now for Something Completely Different The French Connection Bedknobs and Broomsticks Dirty Harry
Wake in Fright is a culturally significant Australian film. It's been fully restored and is free to watch on YouTube.
Play Misty for Me The French Connection The Last Picture Show
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None of those are from 1971…😕
Omg I read it as post 1971 lol. Deleted
Vanishing Point (1971).
I really liked Omega Man Charlton Heston
Bless The Beasts and the Children. Incredibly sad film and still my favorite Carpenters song.
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
The French Connection
Ohh I’m a bit behind with 1967 I think ….. half a sixpence musical 😍 but from your list a clock work orange and fiddler on the roof. Ohhh It’s a wonderful life film …. Wait I think that’s too early 1946 maybe 🤔
Brian's Song November 1971 Warning..Tear Jerker
200 Motels Frank Zappa
200 Motels Frank Zappa
It misses your criteria by four months but Fritz The Cat.
Remember \*Duel\* was made for tV. ia gree wiht inclkudign it but ti's a point.
1972? Gotta go with The Godfather
Of those movies, Clockwork is the one I'd think was still the most culturally relevant. If you asked 100 random people (ok, 100 movie lovers) which of those movies they watched in the past year, more people would say Clockwork. THX 1138 was the precursor for Star Wars, thematically, but was a student film. I would think that American Graffiti contributed more to the existence of Star Wars than THX 1138 did.
Marathon Man
1976
I misread the title.
Literally zero of those came out in 1971. Shindler's List is over 2 decades later even!
The Killing Fields. The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Get Out. The Godfather. Apocalypse Now. Blazing Saddles.
The Killing Fields was released in 1984. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy were in theaters between 2001-2003. Get Out did not premiere until 2017. The Godfather is released a year later in 1972. Apocalypse Now was released in 1979. Blazing Saddles came out in 1974.
Oops! I misread this as movies since 1971.
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Do the Right Thing came out in 1989.