My Favorite Films of 1971

"All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie."

Directed by William Friedkin
Written by Ernest Tidyman
Music by Don Ellis
Cinematography by Owen Roizman
Editing by Gerald B. Greenberg

"The suspense is terrible... I hope it'll last."

Directed by Mel Stuart
Written by Roald Dahl
Music by
Cinematography by Arthur Ibbetson
Editing by David Saxon

"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."

Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Written by Stanley Kubrick
Music by
Cinematography by John Alcott
Editing by Bill Butler

"You can't beat me on the grade. You can't beat me on the grade!"

Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Richard Matheson
Music by Billy Goldenberg
Cinematography by Jack A. Marta
Editing by Frank Morriss

"You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow."

Directed by Mike Hodges
Written by Mike Hodges
Music by Roy Budd
Cinematography by Wolfgang Suschitzky
Editing by John Trumper

"I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?"

Directed by Don Siegel
Written by Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, Dean Riesner and Terrence Malick
Music by Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography by Bruce Surtees
Editing by Carl Pingitore

"What have you done, Emil?"

Directed by Olle Hellbom
Written by Astrid Lindgren
Music by Allan Edwall, Elna Nilsson-Rydman and Georg Riedel
Cinematography by Kalle Bergholm
Editing by Jan Persson

"Alright, where the fuck is my shoehorn? This place is a mess! There's not any food in the house, half the time you look like you fell out of bed! You spend more time in bed than any other human being past the age of 6 months than I ever heard of!"

Directed by Mike Nichols
Written by Jules Feiffer
Music by
Cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno
Editing by Sam O'Steen

"Just keep away. Go on. It's not your fight."

Directed by Wei Lo
Written by Wei Lo
Music by Fu-Ling Wang
Cinematography by Ching-Chu Chen
Editing by Ming Sung

"If at first you don't succeed Mr. Kidd...?"
"Try, try again, Mr. Wint."

Directed by Guy Hamilton
Written by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz
Music by John Barry
Cinematography by Ted Moore
Editing by Bert Bates and John W. Holmes