Awesome Movie Year

This bonus episode for our season on the awesome movie year of 2014 features Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Written and directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke and Lorelei Linklater, Boyhood was filmed over the course of 12 years.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Manohla Dargis in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/11/movies/movie-review-linklaters-boyhood-is-a-model-of-cinematic-realism.html), Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle (https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Boyhood-review-boundaries-of-cinema-pushed-5628295.php), and Marjorie Baumgarten in The Austin Chronicle (https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2014-07-18/boyhood/).
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You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/
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All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com
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In this epilogue to our season on the awesome movie year of 1971, we talk about alternate movies we considered including in all of our different categories this season, and read suggestions from some listeners about their favorite 1971 movies.
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If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.
You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/
Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls.
All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com
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The finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features our audience choice pick, Harry Kümel’s Daughters of Darkness. Directed and co-written by Harry Kümel and starring Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, John Karlen and Andrea Rau, Daughters of Darkness prevailed over six other horny lady vampire movies in our audience choice poll.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/daughters-of-darkness-1972), Howard Thompson in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/29/archives/film-artistic-vampires.html), and Variety.
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If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.
You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/
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All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at

The fifteenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features our future cult classic pick, Tom Laughlin’s Billy Jack. Directed and co-written by Tom Laughlin and starring Laughlin, Delores Taylor, David Roya, Clark Howat and Julie Webb, Billy Jack was at one point the highest-grossing independent film of all time.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/billy-jack-1971), Howard Thompson in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/29/archives/a-misguided-billy-jack.html), and Stuart Byron in The Village Voice.
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If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.
You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/
Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls.
All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at

The fourteenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features our producer David Rosen’s personal pick, Ted V. Mikels’ The Corpse Grinders. Directed by Ted V. Mikels from a screenplay by Arch Hall and Joseph Cranston and starring Sean Kenney, Monika Kelly, Sanford Mitchell, J. Byron Foster and Warren Ball, The Corpse Grinders built a cult following that led to two sequels decades later.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Variety (https://variety.com/1970/film/reviews/the-corpse-grinders-1200422401/), Scott Cain in The Atlanta Journal, and Andrew Reschke in the Syracuse Herald-Journal.
Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear
You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/
You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/, on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/
If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts.
You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod, on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/
Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls.
All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com
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