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The History of British Cinema: 1971 |
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Two years after its completion, a heavily-edited version of Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg’s Performance is released by Warner Bros. James Fox stars as a gangster on the run who hides out at reclusive pop star Mick Jagger’s mansion. [ADD] |
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Alfred Hitchcock returns to work in Britain for the first time in 20 years to shoot his latest film, Frenzy. [ADD] |
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John Schlesinger’s Sunday, Bloody Sunday is released. Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson are both in love with flighty Murray Head in a film which becomes infamous for its homosexual kiss between the two male leads. [ADD] |
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Ken Russell’s The Devils, inspired by the apparent possession of nuns in Loudun in 1634, is released. The Ministry of Cultural Affairs order that a sign is displayed in cinemas warning of the cruelty and sadism contained in the film. [ADD] |
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13 film critics write to the Times, complaining about the BBFC’s decision to pass Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs while refusing a certificate to Andy Warhol’s Trash. [ADD] |
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Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, a bleak vision of a future Britain based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, is released. Malcolm McDowell stars as Alex, leader of a gang of Droogs who is brutally rehabilitated after beating a woman to death with a huge phallic ornament. The film is passed without cuts by the BBFC, sparking a furious debate. [ADD] |
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Dolby noise reduction is used for the first time on a feature film: Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. [ADD] |
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– The National Film School is established at Beaconsfield Studios. Colin Young is the first head. [ADD] |
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Other Key British Films of 1971 |
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10 Rillington Place (Richard Fleischer) [ADD] |
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Bleak Moments (Mike Leigh) [ADD] |
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The Boyfriend (Ken Russell) [ADD] |
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Get Carter (Mike Hodges) [ADD] |
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Gumshoe (Stephen Frears) [ADD] |
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On the Buses (Harry Booth) [ADD] |
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Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah) [ADD] |
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger) [ADD] |
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Tales of Beatrix Potter (Reginald Mills) [ADD] |
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The Tragedy of Macbeth (Roman Polanski) [ADD] |
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