I tend to cringe whenever I hear a film described as "a '70s-style movie." What could be more annoying, after all, than reducing the most famously adventurous and idiosyncratic period of American filmmaking during the past 50 years to a genre, a mode, a "style," a brand? Then again, it's not as if we don't all know what the phrase means. The most potent films of the 1970s shared a number of characteristics -- they were tough, complex, violent, and truthful; they looked, without flinching, at the corruption of America -- and the directors who made them had names that...
- 4/28/2010
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
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