44th Academy Awards (1971) – Part II

(Part I.) Normally I open each film with an image of its release poster, but I've always kind of disliked A Clockwork Orange's, while its opening sequence is one of the most memorable and perfect I've ever seen, so I decided to go with that. Right now, Wendy Carlos' spooky Moog-infused rendition of Music for …

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44th Academy Awards (1971) – Part I

The French Connection, William Friedkin* A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick Fiddler on the Roof, Norman Jewison The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich Nicholas and Alexandra, Franklin J. Schaffner The trouble with writing this blog as a real-time chronicle of my journey through Best Picture history is that I am never quite sure what the Academy …

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