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Post by robertaxel on Nov 18, 2015 10:02:06 GMT -5
A recent article on the AV Club made me realize how groundbreaking a year 1967 was for filmmakers ; a precursor to the 'New Hollywood' of the 70s. Among the releases of that year:
In Cold Blood
The Graduate
Point Blank
Bonnie and Clyde
The Incident
Hombre
Cool Hand Luke
The Dirty Dozen
Two for The Road
Belle Du Jour
among others...
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Post by erik on Nov 18, 2015 10:26:34 GMT -5
Yes indeed, that was a spectacular year for film (and let's not forget IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT either).
I think a lot of things factored into this, including the political and social turbulence that was going on throughout the world as a whole, and in America in particular. Another thing to remember is that the old Hollywood studio system was practically gone by this time, and the executives who had run them virtually since the beginning of the business had either died off or retired, putting younger guys in high positions of power that got to green-light more exciting, insightful, and innovative filmmaking.
I certainly don't think that, even five years earlier, it would have been possible for Arthur Penn to have made BONNIE AND CLYDE the way it actually turned out; no studio would allow it. As it was, even Jack Warner, who still ran Warner Brothers at the time that film was made, hated that film. And a lot of critics hated it too, because it glamorized the two real-life Depression-era bank robbers (who, not to put too fine a point on it, looked nothing like Warren Beatty or Faye Dunaway), and also...well, who could possibly forget all the incredible violence in it? But as frequently happens, there's no such thing as bad press in Hollywood, because that film won two Oscars, made an obscene amount of money at the box office, and became a touchstone film of that era.
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