@IlyaFitzpatrick
This goes for music in the 1970's as well- one of the most creative decades of all time for music. The best channel for this is Andre Navarro ii
@RallyTheTally
Thank you for speaking what you believe despite all the people who are against you for being open minded to art. The art world needs you.
@adamfleischman8080
Absolutely incredible job. Was gonna fault you for not mentioning Nashville and then it arrived. Prolly the best film of this era.
@seangdovic6182
I’m only a few minutes in, but I just wanted to say that I really love this and your “essential films to study list” video which I watched in full. I personally like these positive educational videos more than the rants (although those can be fun too at times). I know you’ve expressed much frustration at the modern culture of “artists” in past videos. I think the best way to help change that is to educate people on what great art is, like you’re doing with this video and the film studies video. In your last video, you showed a lot of great art (Silent Hill 2 being one of my all time favorite pieces), but didn’t spend time educating the audience on why these pieces are superior. You framed the comparisons as though it was self evident which one was better. Which works for people who already agree with you, but I don’t think that approach is going to persuade anyone who sees no issue with modern entertainment. It can be satisfying to rant and tear stuff down, but that catharsis comes at the cost of alienating the people who stand to learn the most from great art. I love the new direction you’re taking the channel in and just wanted to offer my thoughts on it. Anyway, keep up the great work! I love learning more about art from your channel!
@TheHouseofTabula
Press CC to see a list of all the films shown.
@allenrubinstein3696
Excellent overview. About fifteen years ago, I decided to specialize much of my movie watching to this period of film history - specifically 1967-1975, or as I put it, Bonnie and Clyde through Jaws. It's been the richest media dive of my life and the deepest. Really, once you have determined not to stop digging for new treasure, you start to realize there's no bottom. I'm hundreds of movies deep and have several hundred still to go. I could list titles forever. You mention those who "had one great film in them" - many of them were ported from an active TV or stage background (even experimental shorts or the burgeoning counterculture theater scene in NYC), since Hollywood was so desperate just for basic product that wouldn't drive them out of business. Theaters had trouble keeping their screens full, leading to increased screenings of independent films, regional cinema, international co-productions, huge growth in 'B' or exploitation films, and blaxploitation (no survey of the period is complete without addressing the explosion of black cinema). Add all manner of international films from the Czech New Wave, Italy's amazing supply of leftist films, dubbed chop sockey flicks from Japan. On top of all that, some of the best directors of the studio golden age were turning out the final films of their careers. The full picture of the film scene from back then is awe inspiring. So, yeah, I know quite a bit about this topic. Forgive me for going on a bit. I could talk about the era endlessly. I'll submit three points for your consideration here, framed around beginning, middle and end. Amongst the 'precursor' films of the early-mid sixties, you're missing a big one, and guess who directed and starred? Arthur Penn and Warren Beatty. You must find and watch 1965's Mickey One. Beatty plays a hacky stand up comic who has been living hard, and some dangerous people are after him. Yet nobody will tell him why. Does he owe money? How much? He talks to people and they just stare at him. Danger lurks, but barely shows its face. It's pure Kafka with a side of Brecht, and Penn throws in every French New Wave technique that he's been dying to try. It's totally a warm up for B&C. Second, I'm surprised not to see any reference to Five Easy Pieces (unless I missed a clip). I wrote an article for a short-lived film magazine about how the late sixties transformed into the seventies, proposing that there were, in fact, two transitions to create New Hollywood. The 67-69 period bubbled with the color and brightness of that counterculture era in confections like Barbarella, Skidoo, Candy and so many others, while the more edgy experience of those times were left to drive-in suppliers like AIP and Roger Corman. They were more optimistic, more forward facing and more external. Then, in 1970, it was like someone flipped a switch or passed a local ordinance or something that swept away all of that. While 70-75 films still incorporated all the Euro influences and the genre rebuilding of stuff like Planet of the Apes and Rosemary's Baby, a kind of pure American aesthetic sprang near fully formed into being. The movies were more internally character driven, more cynical, more searching and wandering and lost. It became more about dusty roads and oil rigs. I think the template for where it was all going was Five Easy Pieces. It captured everything that was going on with the young generation and the frustrations and emptiness they felt when the promises of sixties revolutionary politics didn't come to fruition. Finally, I would add one thing to what just about everyone says about the fading of the magic, and it feels so right to relate this here just a week after the death of it's star. I'm talking about Night Moves 1975, directed by, again!, Arthur Penn. The movie is brilliant, cynical and hopeless to the core, and ends with poor Harry Moseby lost somewhere in the ocean, turning in uncontrolled circles, halfway between live and death. It bombed as badly as Bonnie and Clyde had succeeded. Audiences had just had enough of the depressing endings and being reminded that their youthful ideals came with an expiration date. Then, just one single week later, Jaws was released, which blew the lid off. Nobody talked about anything else the rest of the year, just like Bonnie and Clyde eight years earlier. The whole thing is so full circle and gives this bursting art movement so much coherence when thought of in those terms. I've written thousands of words on the subject, so I'm compacting a lot here. If you are interested in seeing more of my work, you can cruise the two Pinterest pages I made to visualize the whole study. Beyond the Godfather (my original title) - The Transgressive Age of Cinema 67-75 - https://www.pinterest.com/allenrubinstein/beyond-the-godfather-transgressive-cinema-67-75/ Beyond the Godfather - Art from the Transgressive Age of Cinema 67-75 - https://www.pinterest.com/allenrubinstein/art-from-the-transgressive-cinema-of-1967-1975/ The first is a rundown of all the films I consider part of the movement, plus actors, directors and a few other things. The second is every bloody image I could find on Pinterest that relates to these movies, obsessively organized by genre and theme. The Clockwork Orange thread will change your life. It's a whole lot of pins, so pace yourself if you care to peer inside. Hope you like it. Thanks for the vid and for reading my words.
@p_ttown1979
Such a compelling time period for cinema. It was filmmakers like Spielberg and Scorsese of this era that opened my eyes to a new world of film, and would eventually allow me to discover world cinema as well due to their influence on this era.
@my4trackmachine
Wonderfully thought out and explained. This video puts together a lot of cinematic history that I think gets lost today and delivers a critique and call to action with poise. Quite enspiring. Keep up the great work! This platform needs more enriching stuff like this.
@sartavin
Excellent video. I'll be using pieces of it as I teach the 1970's to my American History students in a couple weeks.
@phat7711
Showed to my group of 15 give or take members of close friends and family and all thoroughly enjoyed and now each and everyone one reach out to one another about last videos, n movies recommended etc. legend. 🤙🏼
@Anthony-hu3rj
Small correction. At 5:10 it says All That Jazz (1969). It was actually 1979.
@NikGothic
"Seconds" is GREAT. The most truly futuristic film ever to have existed by that point.
@dangreene3895
This video hit on the two movies I thought changed American Movies, Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, that is when as a young teen I became aware of another way of making movies, not big stars with a conventional ending, the heroes were antiheroes where things got turned upside down and all did not end well.
@JustaUser17247
Amazing Video, once again top notch. Glad to see you are back, missed your videos
@CristianGeelen
Another great one!
@phat7711
Incredible video all the way in Perth. 🤙🏼
@geephlips
As an American facing what seems like a real-life dystopia, your last words made me cry and gave me a sliver of hope. Thank you.
@montylatino1
Bravo, for an accurate and informative genuinely true work!
@flipindisticalpictures33
A Child is Waiting looks amazing, fresh. It should be rereleased with Cassavetes' cut...if at all possible?
@Atticus113