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3 hours ago, darkblue said:
"Critical reception" doesn't have to be present at all. They'll show anything they can get the rights to show as long as it isn't hardcore (penetration) porn - or softcore porn such as Playboy Channel movies, which are virtually worthless as movies to nearly everyone.
There's not a single movie on MovieCollector's list that TCM won't show if they can get it, which testifies to me that TCM is better now than it's ever been.
Several of those movies are little more than soft-core porn.
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1 hour ago, MovieCollectorOH said:
Here's some stuff from the 80s I don't think TCM has played. It was all on videocassette for rental back in the year 1983. I'm not hoping or expecting in any way that they show much, if any, of this. It is just stuff I picked from a longer list to showcase what is or once was out there, for anyone that might care. Or not.
Altered States (1980)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
American Nightmare (1983)
Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Author! Author! (1982)
Battletruck (1982)
Breaking Glass (1980)
The Border (1982)
Breakout (1975)
Body Heat (1981)
Bustin' Loose (1981)
Carbon Copy (1981)
Cat People (1982)
Class Reunion (1982)
Continental Divide (1981)
Creepshow (1982)
Dark Star (1974)
Doctor Detroit (1983)
The Entity (1982)
Evilspeak (1981)
Eye of the Needle (1981)
The Final Conflict (1981)
Firefox (1982)
Ghost Story (1981)
Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
Graduation Day (1981)
The Groove Tube (1974)
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
High Road to China (1983)
Homework (1982)
I, the Jury (1982)
Inside Moves (1980)
It Came from Hollywood (1982)
Jane Fonda's Workout (1982)
Jenny (1970)
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
Love at First Bite (1979)
Lovesick (1983)
Lenny Bruce Without Tears (1972)
Magic (1978)
Mausoleum (1983)
Meatballs (1979)
Megaforce (1982)
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
The Missionary (1982)
Moonraker (1979)
My Bodyguard (1980)
Neighbors (1981)
Nice Dreams (1981)
Night Shift (1982)
9 to 5 (1980)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Outland (1981)
Paradise (1982)
Partners (1982)
Paternity (1981)
Piranha (1978)
Private Lessons (1981)
The Prize Fighter (1979)
Querelle (1982)
Sharky's Machine (1981)
Six Pack (1982)
Six Weeks (1982)
Sphinx (1981)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Still Smokin (1983)
Stripes (1981)
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Taps (1981)
Tattoo (1981)
Tex (1982)
The Thing (1982)
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
The Toy (1982)
Tunnel Vision (1976)
Visiting Hours (1982)
Vice Squad (1982)
Young Doctors in Love (1982)
Xtro (1982)
Zapped! (1982)
Zombie (1979)Looking at this list, I would think The Thing is the one movie with enough critical reputation that TCM will eventually show it. Most of these movies had a major movie release, but critical reception ranged from unenthusiastic to awful. Altered States is one movie I suppose I'd see, even though I'm not wild about Ken Russell, and I loathe William Hurt. Paradise is basically The Blue Lagoon in the Sahara. It's not surprising TCM isn't showing the Bond movies. Some of these movies, Body Heat and An Officer and a Gentleman may be too racy for TCM's taste. I thought Tex was a Disney movie, which means that I may show up eventually. Inside Moves got an oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, so perhaps it may show up on oscar month. Perhaps in a couple of decades, there'll be enough curiosity about the period TCM will show it. I was mildly curious about Taps when it came out. Now I suppose it's "The Christmas movie starring oscar winner Timothy Hutton in a military academy that critics were unenthusiastic about." I suppose TCM programmers are going to wonder why show this and not rebroadcast Prince of the City or Possession again.
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6 hours ago, DougieB said:
There may be rights issues in play, but I've never seen a broadcast anywhere of Nasty Habits (1977). It's a highly amusing Watergate satire set in a convent, with Glenda Jackson as the secretive and somewhat paranoid abbess who resorts to bugging her office and ultimately the whole convent.
The movie certainly got a wide release. I've never seen it, but I remember it coming to my small-town (about 2500 people) theater when small towns still had move theaters. But critics didn't like it. Leonard Maltin dismisses it in his guide and this London Time Out review is fairly typical:
The appeal of this adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel The Abbess of Crewe rests precariously upon one slim idea: resetting Watergate in a nunnery. Once the initial idea has been planted - Glenda Jackson out to get elected abbess at all costs - the audience is made to look awfully hard for laughs. The 'political' gags, like Mercouri's Kissinger-type roving nun, are often abysmal (only Sandy Dennis' impersonation of John Dean deserves to escape criticism); and with increasing desperation, the humour depends on the nuns' monotonous displays of venal ways (smoking, swearing, boozing, even shacking up with the Jesuits down the road). It's all terribly predictable and tame.
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theyshootpictures.com top 1000 1965
Pierrot le fou Jean-Luc Godard, France #65
Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard, France #541
Loves of a Blonde Milos Forman, Czechoslovakia #541
Juliet of the Spirits Federico Fellini, Italy #866
Not Reconciled Jean-Marie Straub/Daniele Huillet, West Germany #882
Simon of the Desert Luis Bunuel, Mexico #892
Le Bonheur Agnes Varda, France #930
Subarnarekha Ritwik Ghatak, India #947
The Saragossa Manuscript Jowciech Hus, Poland #964
Red Beard Akira Kurosawa, Japan #985
Jonathan Rosenbaum top 1000 movies 1965
Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard, France
Brick and Mirror Ebrahim Golestan, Iran
The Enchanted Desna Julia Solntseva, Soviet Union
Masculine Feminine Jean-Luc Godard, France
Not Reconciled Jean-Marie Straub / Daniele Huillet, West GermanyNote dates are not exact
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8 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
The 1965 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Films …
The Shop on Main Street (1965) Jan Kadar, Emar Klos, Czechoslovakia ****
Blood on the Land (1965) Vasillis Georgiadis, Greece
The 1966 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film nominees included …
The Loves of a Blonde (1965) Milos Foreman, Czechoslovakia
Among films nominated by their country, but not chosen by the Academy for its final five were Pierrot le Fou (France) and Gertrud (Denmark).
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Instead of watching three movies last week, instead I watched four! All of which dealt with women under pressure. Something Wild (not the Jonathan Demme movie, but an independent movie made a quarter-century earlier) was perhaps the most disappointing. It starts off grimly with Carroll Baker being raped, and then having a miserable time afterwards. I thought there was something off in the way that everyone around her is unnecessarily unhelpful around her. And then there's the major plot twist involving Ralph Meeker. I can agree that Baker is suicidal and disoriented at this point, and there is such a thing as Stockholm syndrome. But there have been enough movies made after this with the same theme that such things appear like excuses for two underwhelming actors and an insufficiently well thought out script. Star 80 is much easier to judge. If it weren't for the copious nudity, and for Bob Fosse's prominent place in the movie canon, you'd think this was a cheesy exploitation made for TV movie. Indeed the relationship appears inexplicable, since Eric Roberts is such an insufferable pimp even at the best of times, and you'd think someone would make it clear to Dorothy Stratten, even if Mariel Hemingway portrays her as a complete nitwit.
Mrs. Parkington is another movie in one of the odder Hollywood couples, that of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. It's not clear to me why Hollywood thought American women were looking for a movie star as uninteresting as their own husbands. To be fair, Pidgeon actually has some personality in this movie, and the relationship has a little spice in it, even if the relationship is undercut by the fact that we see her descendants are all spoiled wastrels. Raw is an interesting French movie about a young woman and strict vegetarian who goes to veterinarian school where her older sister is already a student. She both encounters an elaborate hazing culture, one which bullies people about sex, and also encounters meat. The result is a movie where sexual desire and guilt are conflated with cannibalism. It is, as I said, interesting, and the performances are good, but one can't help but wonder if this is just a bit ludicrous.
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1. Pierrot le Fou Jean-Luc Godard, France
2. Le Bonheur Agnes Varda, France
3. Tokyo Olympiad Kon Ichikawa, Japan
4. Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard, France
5. The Brick and the Mirror Ebrahim Golestan, Iran
6. Yoyo Pierre Etaix, France
7. The Coward Satyajit Ray, India
8. The Saragossa Manuscript Wojciech Has, Poland
9. Not Reconciled Jean-Marie Straub/Danielle Huillet, West Germany
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I thought conservatives did win the day in Advise and Consent. The ex-Communist is defeated in his chance to become Secretary of State, and the sinister Liberal pacifist is humiliated and rebuked by everyone.
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Now it's 1968. Here's Best Original Screenplay:
Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Sergio Donati, Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West
Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers
David Sherwin, If...
Mel Brooks, The ProducersAnd here's Best Adapted Screenplay
Lee Mindof, Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn, Eric Segal, Yellow Submarine based on the songs of the Beatles.
Vernon Harris, Oliver! based on the musical of the same name book by Lionel Bart and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin
Jean-Marie Straub, Danielle Huillet, The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach based on the music and correspondence of Johann Sebastian Bach.Francois Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon, Stolen Kisses, sequel to the film The 400 Blows
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Now it's 1967. Here is Best Original Screenplay:
Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald, Playtime
Jean-Luc Godard, Weekend
Frederic Raphael, Two for the Road
Jacques Demy, The Young Girls of Rochefort
Jean-Pierre Melville, Le Samourai
And here is Best Adapted Screenplay:
Frantisek Pavlicek, Frantisek Vlacil, Marketa Lazarova, based on the novel of the same name by Vladislav Vancura
Robert Bresson, Mouchette, based on the novel of the same name by George Bernanos
Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Belle de Jour, based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel
Sergei Bondarchuk, Vasili Solovyov, War and Peace, based on the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy
Buck Henry, Calder Willingham, The Graduate, based on the novel by the same by Charles Webb
I have not seen Divorce American Style, The War is Over (original) or Ulysses (adapted). -
One might think watching Ernst Lubitsch's suave urbane comedies that nobody would be better for them than one of the greatest of all actors, the impeccably stylish and superbly comic Cary Grant. Truly it would be a match made in heaven. It was certainly not a match made in Hollywood, since they never worked together (even though Grant was considered for the lead in Ninotchka). This leads me to wonder what other great movie partnerships could have happened, but never did.
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theyshootpictures.com top 1000 1964
Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark #83
The Gospel According to Saint Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy #151
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy, France #172
Black God, White Devil Glauber Rocha, Brazil #232
Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy #303
I am Cuba Mikhali Kalatozov, Soviet Union #347
Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshagahara, Japan #359
Charulata Satyajit Ray, India #412
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors Sergei Parajanov, Soviet Union #507
Band of Outsiders Jean-Luc Godard, France #600
Kwaidan Masaki Kobayashi, Japan #959
Jonathan Rosenbaum's top 1000 movies
Band of Outsiders Jean-Luc Godard, France
Before the Revolution Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy
Black God, White Devil Glauber Rocha, Brazil
*Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark
I Am Cuba Mikhail Kalatozov, Soviet Union
The Married Woman Jean-Luc Godard, France
La peau douce Francois Truffaut, France
Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors Sergei Parajanov, Soviet Union-
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8 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
The 1964 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film nominees included …
Sallah (1964) Ephraim Kishon, Israel
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Jacques Demy, France
Woman of the Dunes (1964) Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan
The 1965 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film nominees included …
Dear John (164) Lars-Magnus Lindgren, Sweden
Kwaidan (1964) Madsaki Kobayashi, Japan
Marriage Italian Style (1964) Vittorio De Sica, Italy
Also nominated by their countries, but not by the Academy Black God, White Devil (Brazil) and Dry Summer (Turkey).
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Once again, I saw three movies this week. Girl Crazy was part of my quest to find ten great movies from 1943 (I only have seven, and the best one was made in 1942). It doesn't help that Mickey Rooney starts off playing a ladykiller who's distinctly shorter than most of the women he surrounds himself with. The movie is basically hi-jinks about a cow college, and the high point is a rodeo version of "I got Rhythm." The Princess and the Pirate is much more enjoyable, with Bob Hope at his best as the weaselly protagonist. It does show that, contra Christopher Hitchens, that he had genuine talent. Coco starts off with a somewhat predictable opening, and the overlying metaphor of the value of family is not very thoughtful in the end. On the other hand, the metaphor works better than Zootopia, another movie which it share good action sequences and considerable visual style. It's not as innovative or amusing as Inside Out, while Moana does more with a considerably more spartan set design.
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12 hours ago, mr6666 said:
Sun., 8-26 for SUTS: Anthony Quinn....
6:00 (ET)PM
High Wind in Jamaica, A ( 1965)
When a pirate attacks a ship, he finds seven children, survivors from that attack, stowed away on his own ship and he must figure out what to do with them.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Anthony Quinn , James Coburn , Dennis Price .
BW- 103 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
Time Out called it "pure cinema and pure entertainment, with comedy and tragedy ironically balanced in the combination of childhood dreams and adult dread."
article: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/78030/A-High-Wind-in-Jamaica/articles.html
I hope they show it again, since I'll be busy tomorrow, and not confident in my ability to record it properly.
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1. The Gospel According to Saint Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy
2. Charulata Satyajit Ray, India
3. Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark
4. Band of Outsiders Jean-Luc Godard, France
5. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors Sergei Parajanov, Soviet Union
6. I am Cuba Mikhali Kalatazov, Soviet Union
7. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy, France
8. Kwaidan Masaki Kobayashi, Japan
9. Black God, White Devil Glauber Rocha, Brazil
10. Hamlet Grigori Kozintsev, Soviet Union
11. Onibaba Kaneto Shindo, Japan
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theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies 1963
8 1/2 Federico Fellini, Italy #7
Contempt Jean-Luc Godard, France #40
The Leopard Luchino Visconti, Italy #78
El Verdugo Luis Garcia Berlagna, Spain/Italy #236
High and Low Akira Kurosawa, Japan #383
Barren Lives Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil #419
Muriel Alain Resnais, France/Italy #461
The Silence Ingmar Bergman, Sweden #520
Jonathan Rosenbaum top 1000 movies
About Something Else/Something Different Vera Chytilova, Czechoslovakia
Adieu Philippine Jacques Rozier, France
Contempt Jean-Luc Godard, France
8 1/2 Federico Fellini, Italy
The Leopard Luchino Visconti, Italy
Mediterranee Jean-Daniel Pollet, France
Muriel Alain Resnais, FranceNote dates are not exact
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15 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
The 1963 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Films …
8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini, Italy ****
Los Tarantos (1963) Francisco Rovira Beleta, Spain
The Red Lanterns (1963) Vasillis Georgiadis, Greece
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963) Noburo Nakamura, Japan
The 1964 Academy Award Best Foreign Language Films …
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) Vittorio De Sica, Italy ****
Raven’s End (1963) Bo Wilderberg, Sweden
Among the movies nominated by their countries, but not chosen by the Academy, were Le Feu Follet, The Silence and My Name is Ivan/Ivan Childhood's. Full list can be seen here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_submissions_to_the_36th_Academy_Awards_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film
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Again, I saw three movies this week. These three were more interesting than last week's. Besieged is about a love affair that blooms between an English pianist and an African refugee working as a maid in the pianist's home in Rome. David Thewlis himself is somewhat understated, except for a scene near the end where he juggles. The movie stands on fall on Thandie Newton's performance as the refugee whose husband has been imprisoned back in her country. As it happens, her performance is very good indeed. Sorry to Bother You achieves what Get Out only promised. Whereas the latter played on paranoia and fear and the plan itself did not entirely make sense, Sorry to Bother You shows more invention and a more coherent critical outlook. This doesn't mean there isn't a certain facile touch to the proceedings, but on the whole it works better. Finally, On a Beach at Night Alone is an interesting drama about a young actress trying to get over her affair with a married man. Kim Minhee, my second favorite actress from The Handmaiden, gives a subtle performance in a movie with long takes and almost stationary shots. The result is not as catharitic, or even as interesting, as one might expect such a drama to be. On the other hand, it works better than the last Hang Sangsoo movie I saw.
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1. The Leopard Luchino Visconti, Italy
2. Winter Light Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
3. The Organizer Mario Monicelli, Italy
4. Contempt Jean-Luc Godard, France
5. Vidas Secas Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil
6. High and Low Akira Kurosawa, Japan
7. The Silence Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
8. Muriel Alain Resnais, France
9. Bay of Angels Jacques Demy, France
10. Le Joli Mai Chris Marker, France
11. The Big City Satyajit Ray, India
12. Les Carabiniers Jean-Luc Godard, France
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Now it's 1966. Here is Best Adapted Screenplay:
Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons, based on his play of the same name
Alexander Kluge, Yesterday Girl, based on his story "Anita G."
Ernest Lehman, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, based on the play of the same name by Edward Albee
Janet Green, John McCormick, 7 Women, based on the short story "Chinese Finale" by Norah Lofts
Jiri Menzel, Closely Watched Trains, based on the novel of the same name by Bohumil HrabalAnd here is Best Original Screenplay:
Ingmar Bergman, Persona
Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar
Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Jean-Luc Godard, Masculin Feminin
Vera Chytilova, Ester Krumbachova, Pavel Juracek, Daisies
I have not seen A Man and a Woman, Khartoum, The Naked Prey (original) or The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming (adapted). Oddly enough Blowup got an original screenplay nomination despite it being inspired by a story by Julio Cortazar. Also Made in USA is based on a novel called The Juggler. But Godard didn't pay for the adaptation rights, which meant the movie was long unavailable in the United States.
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Now it's 1965. Here is Best Original Screenplay:
Marc Behm, Charles Wood, Help!
Natto Wada, Yoshio Shirasaka, Shintaro Tanikawa, Kon Ickikawa, Tokyo Olympiad
Agnes Varda, Le Bonheur
Roman Polanski, Gerard Brach, David Stone, Repulsion
Ebrahim Golestan, The Brick and the Mirror
Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou, based on the novel Obsession by Lionel White
Lukas Heller, The Flight of the Phoenix based on the novel of the same name by Elleston Trevor
Orson Welles, Chimes at Midnight, based on the history plays of William Shakespeare
Robert Bolt, Doctor Zhivago, based on the novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak
Jean-Marie Straub, Danielle Huillet, Not Reconciled, based on the novel Billards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Boll
I have not seen Casanova'70 (original). The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was nominated the previous year.
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theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies 1962
Jules et Jim Francois Truffaut, France #85
L'Eclisse Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy #108
Vivre sa Vie Jean-Luc Godard, France #126
The Exterminating Angel Luis Bunuel, Mexico #139
An Autumn Afternoon Yasujiro Ozu, Japan #283
Cleo From Five to Seven Agnes Varda, France #349
Ivan's Childhood Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union #370
Salvatore Giuliano Francesco Rosi, Italy #382
Winter Light Ingmar Bergman, Sweden #492
Harakari Masaki Koboyashi, Japan #692
Knife in the Water Roman Polanski, Poland #870
Mamma Rosa Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy #943
Jonathan Rosenbaum's top 1000 favorite movies:
An Actor's Revenge Kon Ichikawa, Japan
*Eclipse Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
The Exterminating Angel Luis Bunuel, Mexico
Le rendez-vous de minuit Roger Leenhardt, FranceAn asterisk (*) means the movie is one of Rosenbaum's top 100 movies. Note that dates are not exact.
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Now it's 1969. Here is Best Adapted Screenplay:
Jorge Semprum, Costa-Gavras, Z, based on the novel of the same name by Vassilis Vasillikos
Jean-Pierre Melville, Army of Shadows, based on the memoir of the same name by Joseph Kessel
Yuri Nagibin, Mikhali Kalatazov, Richard L. Adams, Ennio De Concini, The Red Tent based on the novel of the same name by Nagibin.
Sergei Parajanov, The Color of Pomegranates based on the poems of Sayat Nova
Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett, Kes, based on Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave
And here is Best Original Screenplay:
Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Rublev
Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, The Milky Way
Walon Grey, Roy N. Sickner, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch
Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti, The Damned
William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I have not seen Goodbye Columbus (adapted)