We are now moving on to the 1960's with the one exception of The Girl Can't Help It, a rock and roll movie from 1956, which Mr. Turner like REALLY wants us to watch.
Independent films and studios flourished in the 1960's especially due to a growing interest in the artistic foreign films that were becoming available in the US. France especially but a lot of Europe had, with the likes of Godard, Buñuel, Bergman, Fellini, Antonioni, and others, a very well developed market for arty movies from small studios.
The term "new hollywood" came to describe American directors such as Martin Scorcese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Stephen Spielberg who gleaned much in film school from the great foreign directors in the 1960's. This "movement" as we guess you can call it really kind of started with Easy Rider and some other movies in 1969 and flourished in the 70's.
We will look at the sixties back to front, starting with Easy Rider.
1 comment:
Wow pretty great blog...but not as great as opening night, woulda also been great if you showed up *cough cough*.
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