The New Hollywood

1967 – Dir. Mike Nichols

Resources:

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources!

• "The Graduate: Intimations of a Revolution" by Frank Rich for Criterion

• "When ‘The Graduate’ Opened 50 Years Ago, It Changed Hollywood (and America) Forever" by Alec Scott for Smithsonian

• The Graduate: Symbolism in Film by David A. Punch

1967 – Dir. Stuart Rosenberg

Resources:

• "Cinema ’67 Revisited: Cool Hand Luke" by Mark Harris for Film Comment

• "The Gospel According to Luke" by Roger Ebert

• Roger Ebert's review

1967 – Norman Jewison

Resources:

• "In the Heat of the Night: The Double Bind" by K. Austin Collins for Criterion Collection

1968 – Dir. Stanley Kubrick

Resources:

• filmsite.org Background and Review

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources!

• "'2001: A Space Odyssey'": What it Means and How it was Made" - New Yorker

• Roger Ebert's essay - from The Great Movies

• "Watch: 15-Minute Video Analysis Of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’" - IndieWire and Vimeo

• Video: "Stanley Kubrick on the meaning of the ending of 2001 in a rare 1980 interview" - Eyes on Cinema via YouTube

• Video: "2001: A Space Odyssey - Ending Explained" - The Take via YouTube

1973– Dir. Peter Bogdanovich

Resources:

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources!

• "Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘Paper Moon’" by Adam Lichtenstein for Cinemontage

1974 – Dir. Roman Polanski

Resources:

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources!

• James Verniere's essay - from The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films

• Roger Ebert's essay - from The Great Movies

1974 – Dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Resources:

• filmsite.org Background and Review

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources!

• Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" review

1975 – Dir. Steven Spielberg

Resources:

• Cinephilia & Beyond- A treasure trove of resources!

• “'Jaws Became a Living Nightmare': Steven Spielberg’s Ultimate Tell-All Interview" by Anthony Breznican for Vanity Fair

• "The Real-Life Drama That Almost Prevented Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' From Being Made" by Lloyd Farley for Collider

• "Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’" by Mark Kermode for The Guardian

• "‘Jaws’ Is the Perfect Blockbuster, Saying Nothing yet Signifying Everything" by Adam Nayman for The Ringer

1975– Dir. Miloš Forman

Resources:

• Cinephilia & Beyond- A treasure trove of resources!

• Roger Ebert's essay - from The Great Movies

1976 – Dir. John G. Avildsen

Resources:

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources!

1976 – Dir. Martin Scorsese

Resources:

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources!

1977 – Dir. Woody Allen

Resources:

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources!

• Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" review

• AMC Filmsite

• 15 Things You Might Not Know... (Mental Floss)

1977– Dir. George Lucas

1979– Dir. Ridley Scott

Resources:

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources!

• "Alien: How Ridley Scott’s masterpiece has stayed relevant for 40 years" - Independent

• "Alien at 40: in space no one can hear your plea for workers’ rights" - BFI

• “Woman: The Other Alien in Alien: Why are academics so obsessed with Ridley Scott’s movie and its sequels?" - Slate

1979 – Dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Resources:

• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

• Cinephilia & Beyond - A treasure trove of resources:

  • "Once Upon a Time… In the Philippines: Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ Is a Three-Time Prime Cut of Film-Making Largesse"

  • "Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ must be the key lecture in anyone’s filmmaking education"