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Midnight Express at 40
The high point of cinema so far has been the American films made between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. Roughly speaking, these dates constitute the New Hollywood period when failing studios turned to young, maverick directors influenced by the anarchistic re-making of genre cinema by European directors like Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. [...]
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Tagged Alan Parker, Bonnie and Clyde, cinema, Easy Rider, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Midnight Express, New Hollywood, Oliver Stone, Raging Bull
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Prison. Drugs. Terror.
Getting started on the blog this week I was inspired by that Snowden trailer I just posted as well as an article I found while adding pages to my Flipboard magazine. Before Oliver Stone became one of the most important directors of his generation he was one of the most important screenwriters of his generation [...]
