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Examining the 1970s, the decade that has come to be seen as North American cinema's most revolutionary and experimental, this reverent documentary directed by Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme interviews a handful of the key players and survivors of that fertile time. Beginning with EASY RIDER (1969) and other offshoots of producer/director Roger Corman's virtual training ground for young directors at b-movie studio American International Pictures, DECADE traces the trajectory of filmmakers such as Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, William Friedkin, and Paul Schrader. With clips from TAXI DRIVER, SHAMPOO, MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER, THE GODFATHER, and many more, the film conveys the richness of talent that the 1970s film world possessed. But the birth of the blockbuster (namely JAWS and STAR WARS) raised the studios' expectations for financial performance in the industry, virtually killing the chances of riskier productions--a development which gave birth to the thriving independent scene we know today. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Francis Ford Coppola
USA
Best movies:
C'est l'apocalypse (1979)
War Hunt (1962)
Palo Alto (2013)
William Friedkin
USA
Best movies:
Without Limits (1998)
Arbitrage (2012)
Julie Christie
Best movies:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Dadah Is Death (1988) (TV movie)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Ellen Burstyn
USA
Best movies:
Retour à Brooklyn (2000)
Interstellar (2014)
Same Time, Next Year (1978)
Jack Nicholson
USA
Best movies:
Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou (1975)
The Shining (1980)
The Departed (2006)
Steven Soderbergh
USA
Best movies:
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Waking Life (2001)
Contagion (2011)
Bruce Dern
USA
Best movies:
Django Unchained (2012)
Coming Home (1978)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Miloš Forman
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Silvery Wind (1954)
Keeping the Faith (2000)
Vintage Car (1956)
John G. Avildsen
USA
Best movies:
American Satan (2017)
Paul Schrader
USA
Best movies:
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
Pam Grier
USA
Best movies:
Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Sidney Lumet
USA
Best movies:
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Jerry Schatzberg
USA
Alexander Payne
USA
Best movies:
Paris, I Love You (2006)
Sydney Pollack
USA
Best movies:
Barbra: The Concert (1994) (concert)
Tootsie (1982)
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Dennis Hopper
USA
Best movies:
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
C'est l'apocalypse (1979)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Roger Corman
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) (series)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Roy Scheider
USA
Best movies:
Jaws (1975)
The Rainmaker (1997)
The French Connection (1971)
Peter Bogdanovich
USA
Best movies:
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Opening Night (1977)
Targets (1968)