A Decade Under the Influence
by Richard LaGravenese, Ted Demme
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Actor: Francis Ford Coppola, John G. Avildsen, Robert Altman, Steven Soderbergh, William FriedkinDirector: Richard LaGravenese, Ted Demme
Producer: Alison Palmer Bourke
Producer: Caroline Kaplan
Producer: Gini Reticker
Producer: Jerry Kupfer
Producer: John Miller-Monzon
Producer: Jonathan Sehring
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Video Group
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Movie Review: A Must For Film Afficionados
Summary: 4 Stars
This three-hour in-depth documentary by the late Ted Demme (brother to director Jonathan Demme) covers the groundbreaking approach to filmmaking by the "newer breed" of directors who began to make their mark in the mid-'60's into the '70's. It shows a group of directors who were from a different genearation and, after graduating film school, took a new approach to filmmaking. They cast off the technique of "old-school" directors and experimented with pioneering views. It shows the transformation of tackling storylines with a new "truth", taking films from a type of "audience escapism" and placing a grittier realism into them to match what actually goes on in life. Dozens of films are explored, including MASH, Easy Rider, Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, The Godfather. Vintage clips are generously interspersed thoughout the documentary. This film shows now-famous directors and their thoughts on incorporating the '60's take on Vietnam, Women's Lib, Civil Rights into their films...more specifically, shows a group of directors who exemplify the rebellion of the time by bucking the system and standing up to "the establishment". Lots of interesting interviews and clips here!!
Summary of A Decade Under the Influence
The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion. As political activism, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, and the music revolution contributed to social unrest across America, American cinema witnessed the emergence of a new generation of filHow did Hollywood make so many great, challenging, offbeat films in the 1970s? A Decade Under the Influence lists the reasons--or rather, lets the people who did the filmmaking list the reasons. The decade-shaping interviewees include Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Francis Coppola, et al. The film's argument has actually been conventional wisdom for at least 10 years, but it's well-supported by an abundance of clips, which should inspire even hardcore film buffs to seek out rarities such as Thunderbolt and Lightfoot or The King of Marvin Gardens. One might observe that the scarcity of women directors or black filmmakers suggests that the decade was not entirely golden, and the memories may be burnished a bit by nostalgia. But there's no question that the big studios were far more adventurous back then, and this briskly moving survey gives a lively Film 101 lecture in exactly why. --Robert Horton
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