Details | Many film scholars argue that the 1970s were the greatest decade of film, focusing on the mavericks of “New Hollywood” such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg. But Washington City Paper film critic Noah Gittell argues that this handful of filmmakers represents an incomplete snapshot of the era and looks beyond them to find a decade of dazzling variety that included Hal Ashby, Elaine May, David Lynch, Werner Herzog, and Gordon Parks. |
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