1971: 100 Films from Cinema's Greatest Year - Paperback

by Robert Sellers (Author)

1971 was a landmark year for cinema.

Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Dario Argento, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Nicolas Roeg, and Steven Spielberg -- among many others -- were behind the camera, while an extraordinary array of stars filled the screen: Warren Beatty, Marlon Brando, Michael Caine, Julie Christie, Sean Connery, Faye Dunaway, Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda, Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Vanessa Redgrave all featured in films released that year.

The remarkable artistic flowering of New Hollywood was just beginning. The old guard was fading, the new guard rising. With cinema attendance in decline by the late 1960s and studios struggling to gauge box-office success, executives granted unprecedented freedom to a new generation of filmmakers -- and the results changed cinema forever.

Drawing on interviews with cast and crew, bestselling author Robert Sellers explores this pivotal year in film history -- a moment when Hollywood and British cinema alike stood at the thrilling crossroads of revolution and reinvention.

Author Biography

Robert Sellers was born in Leeds in 1965. After graduating from drama school, he dreamed of a career on stage and screen. Alas, aside from a few walk-on roles, the world has been spared his acting -- perhaps for the best. Instead, he turned to film journalism, reasoning that if he couldn't appear in the movies he loved, he might as well write about them.

Since the early 1990s, he has written numerous biographies and books on film, television, and popular culture, including the bestselling Hellraisers (Preface, 2009). His book The Battle for Bond was the subject of controversial litigation and was, for a time, banned in Britain.