You can post a list of anywhere between 5 and 20 films (or more, but only 20 will be counted) from the year we're covering. The deciding factor in terms of release dates is the RYM list and the top 10 of each year will go on to the final top 100 round. The deadline is February 26th.

The points scheme is as follows:
1. 50 points
2. 40
3. 35
4. 30
5. 25
6. 20
7. 18
8. 16
9. 14
10. 12
11. 10
10. 9
...
20. 1
However, these are the maximum amounts of points. If you want to put certain films on your list but don't want to give them too many points, you can choose to give these less points than in this scheme (but never more) to decrease the impact on the overall results. If you don't specifically state that you want to give (some of) your films fewer points, I will assume the standard scheme.

Here are some lists to remind you of the great (and awful) films released in 1971, from a variety of sources:
IMDb
RYM
Films101
RottenTomatoes

01. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
02. Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
03. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
04. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
05. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah) 22
06. Giù la Testa (Sergio Leone) 18
07. The French Connection (William Friedkin) 16
08. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich) 14
09. Duel (Steven Spielberg) 11
10. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel) 8

1. Two-Lane Blacktop / Monte Hellman / U.S.
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller / Robert Altman / U.S.
3. The Hired Hand / Peter Fonda / U.S.
4. Fata Morgana / Werner Herzog / West Germany
5. Merchant of the Four Seasons / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / West Germany
6. A Fistful of Dynamite / Sergio Leone / Italy
7. The Last Picture Show / Peter Bogdanovich / U.S.
8. The French Connection / William Friedkin / U.S.
9. Macbeth / Roman Polanski / U.K.
10. The Panic in Needle Park / Jerry Schatzberg / U.S.
11. Straw Dogs / Sam Peckinpah / U.S.
12. A Clockwork Orange / Stanley Kubrick / U.K.
13. Duel / Steven Spielberg / U.S.
14. Bananas / Woody Allen / U.S.
15. Punishment Park / Peter Watkins / U.K.
16. THX 1138 / George Lucas / U.S.
17. Walkabout / Nicolas Roeg / U.K.
18. Harold and Maude / Hal Ashby / U.S.
19. Vanishing Point / Richard Sarafian / U.S.
20. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song / Melvin Van Peebles / U.S.

1.Death In Venice
2.A Clockwork Orange
3.The Last Picture Show
4.The French Connection
5.Harold and Maude
6.Klute
7.McCabe and Mrs Miller
8.Straw Dogs
9.THX 1138
10.Dirty Harry
11.And Now for Something Completely Different
12.Duel
13.The Beguiled
14.Play Misty For Me
15.Willy Wonka
16.Carnal Knowledge
17.Macbeth
18.Summer of '42
19.Johnny Got His Gun
20.The Omega Man

1. Harold and Maude
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. The Last Picture Show
4. Utvandrarna [The Emigrants]
5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Yeah, I'm going to need recs for this year. So far all I have is McCabe and Mrs Miller, Clockwork Orange, and Now For Something Completely Different.

Minnie and Moskowitz I definitely need to see, maybe Death In Venice, French Connection, Harold and Maude? Any more obvious recommendations?

1 . A Clockwork Orange
2 . The Last Picture Show
3 . Johnny Got His Gun
4 . Straw Dogs
5 . Walkabout
6 . Dirty Harry
7 . The Panic in Needle Park
8 . Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
9 . Duel
10 . THX 1138
11 . Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
12 . Shaft
13 . Get Carter
14 . Morte a Venezia [Death in Venice]
15 . Vanishing Point
16 . The Devils
17 . The French Connection
18 . Night After Night After Night [He Kills Night After Night After Night]
19 . Diamonds Are Forever
20 . The Last Movie

If French Connection will make to the final I really need to rewatch it. I just remember the car chase scenes.

1. A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick
2. Duel – Steven Spielberg
3. Straw Dogs – Sam Pechimpah
4. The Beguiled – Don Siegel
5. Bananas – Woody Allen
6. Giu la testa (A Fistful of Dynamite / Duck, You Sucker!) – Sergio Leone
7. Trafic – Jacques Tati
8. Les deux anglaises et le continent (Two English Girls) – François Truffaut
9. La décade prodigieuse (Ten Day’s Wonder) – Claude Chabrol
10. Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo.
11. Klute – Alan J. Pakula
12. The Omega Man – Boris Sagal

The three first films deserve the first place. Magnificient.

1. A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
2. Trafic - Jacques Tati
3. Harold and Maude - Hal Ashby

4. Giù la Testa - Sergio Leone
5. The French Connection - William Friedkin
6. Max et les ferrailleurs - Claude Sautet
7. Les deux anglaises et le continent - François Truffaut
8. La folie des grandeurs - Gérard Oury

1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Max et les ferrailleurs [Max and the Junkmen] (Claude Sautet)
3. 10 Rillington Place (Richard Fleischer)
4. Family Life (Ken Loach)
5. The Beguiled (Don Siegel)
6. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
7. Morte a Venezia [Death in Venice] (Luchino Visconti)
8. The Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg)
9. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
10. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger)
12. L'alliance [The Wedding Ring] (Christian de Chalonge)
13. Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols)
14. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
15. Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
16. Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo)
17. Juste avant la nuit [Just Before Nightfall] (Claude Chabrol)
18. The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise)
19. The Devils (Ken Russell)
20. Trafic (Jacques Tati)