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Film Movement
1967–1980
New Hollywood
North American Cinema
After the studio system collapsed, the directors took over. Coppola, Scorsese, Altman, Bogdanovich — a brief window of auteur cinema inside the American commercial system, ended by Jaws and Star Wars.
The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, or American New Wave, was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence. They influenced the types of film produced, their production and marketing, and the way major studios approached filmmaking. In New Hollywood films, the film director, rather than the studio, took on a key authorial role.
Key Directors
No. 04 · USA · New York
The great poet of American guilt. His men are always falling — from grace, from power, from themselves. His camera moves like jazz, his editing cuts like a knife through everything sacred.
France
It is difficult to get a handle on Roman Polanski. His eclectic body of work ranges from pinnacle achievements in European art cinema to camp goofiness; from blockbuster Hollywood thrillers to literary period pieces; from historical prestige pictures to modern-day stage adaptatio
No. 02 · USA · New York
The cold perfectionist who made films about the terror of being human. Every frame a painting. Every scene a thesis. His films don't age; they calcify into monuments of controlled dread.
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