Hollywood can never be trusted to tell the truth about itself (e.g., Sunset Blvd., Private Parts). In all the discussions about post-studio system Hollywood no one, not a one, mentions the most important director, Stanley Kubrick. He distanced himself, wisely, from the neurotic rat race of Scorsese, Altman, Peckinpah, Coppola, Rafael, Schrader, ad nauseam. He made THE definitive films: cold war satire (Strangelove), outer space (2001), future dystopia (Clockwork), period (Barry Lyndon) & Gothic horror (Shining). He moved far away to England w/ his family, a long, sane distance from the anxious, greedy, salivating pigs.
I've seen the vast majority of the films mentioned here and can attest that only a small minority was worth the time. A Decade Under the Influence is the babble of the nervous, superficial clique, always worried about being popular, about money. None, not a one of them, were "artists" as they claim. They all pandered and chased the almighty buck. Hal Ashby, for example, was NOT an important filmmaker. Roger Corman was nothing compared to Val Lewton, the real king of the B movie.
PS. Roman Polanski is also conspicuously absent.
I've seen the vast majority of the films mentioned here and can attest that only a small minority was worth the time. A Decade Under the Influence is the babble of the nervous, superficial clique, always worried about being popular, about money. None, not a one of them, were "artists" as they claim. They all pandered and chased the almighty buck. Hal Ashby, for example, was NOT an important filmmaker. Roger Corman was nothing compared to Val Lewton, the real king of the B movie.
PS. Roman Polanski is also conspicuously absent.