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A Decade Under the Influence

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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
Documentary
A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
2.7K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
55,862
26
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    • Directors
      • Ted Demme
      • Richard LaGravenese
    • Stars
      • Francis Ford Coppola
      • William Friedkin
      • Robert Altman
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    • Directors
      • Ted Demme
      • Richard LaGravenese
    • Stars
      • Francis Ford Coppola
      • William Friedkin
      • Robert Altman
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    • 23User reviews
    • 41Critic reviews
    • 67Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola
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    William Friedkin
    William Friedkin
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    Robert Altman
    Robert Altman
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    John G. Avildsen
    John G. Avildsen
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    Warren Beatty
    Warren Beatty
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    • (archive footage)
    Linda Blair
    Linda Blair
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    • (archive footage)
    Peter Bogdanovich
    Peter Bogdanovich
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    Peter Boyle
    Peter Boyle
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    Marshall Brickman
    Marshall Brickman
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    Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn
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    John Calley
    John Calley
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    Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter
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    • (archive footage)
    John Cassavetes
    John Cassavetes
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    • (archive footage)
    Julie Christie
    Julie Christie
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    Roger Corman
    Roger Corman
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    Bruce Dern
    Bruce Dern
    • Self
    Clint Eastwood
    Clint Eastwood
    • Self
    Louise Fletcher
    Louise Fletcher
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    • (archive footage)
    • Directors
      • Ted Demme
      • Richard LaGravenese
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    • Trivia
      Director Ted Demme's last film
    • Alternate versions
      Was edited into 3 parts for airing on IFC as three episodes. This is also how it appears on DVD.
    • Connections
      Features Breathless (1960)

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    8/10
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    I swore I would never allow myself to devolve into to the bogus authority figures of the sixties who told me things were better in the "good old days" – the current Australian Prime Minister is a sordid example of just such a mind set.

    But I switched over to "A Decade Under the Influence" because I found watching the much-heralded "Sneakers" documentary on the other channel such a dispiriting experience. I found the values expressed by the "Sneakers" interviewees too ugly to accept as reasonable. So materialistic! So devoid of any sense of outrage at a society that can countenance killing someone to steal his very ugly shoes! So lacking in any worthwhile purpose that they can report without distaste the exploitation an audience by haranguing them to hold those shoes above their heads to lock in a sponsorship deal for themselves with a company of cobblers was just too much to continue watching.

    "A Decade Under the Influence" depicted a completely different response to the fruit of stupidity, corruption and concupiscence in high (and low) places.

    I have noted the change in film-making that accompanied the exposure of America's disastrous foreign policy debacles in Vietnam and so many less reported places in my www.peterhenderson.com.au website. "A Decade Under the Influence" documents the precise moment at which that change took place.

    Before the seventies, the armed forces were depicted in American films as an invincible fighting force comprised of decent human beings who transmogrified into conquering heroes on the battlefield. After the seventies they are generally portrayed as a dispirited rabble misled by a bunch of bureaucrat clowns in the Pentagon Before the seventies, the FBI agent and the honest cop tended to be depicted as your friend and protector. After the seventies, the FBI agents were all incompetent and the best a cop could aspire to was to ignore their foolishness and his superior's corruption and uphold justice in his own idiosyncratic manner.

    Before the seventies, the archetypical American "little guy", the "average Joe", the Jimmy Stewart type would face down the problems encountered and thereby gain some insight into underlying wisdom of his elected leaders and justice of the "American Way". After the seventies, Kevin Costner usurps that role, but now he is the voice of one crying out in the wilderness for evil to be exposed, or accepting his lot and making out the best he can.

    And now those "old time religion" mindsets have been stripped of any honesty and righteousness and portrayed (with a certain amount of justification) as sanctimonious bigotry and self-serving hypocrisy.

    "A Decade Under the Influence" tells it like it was. "A Decade Under the Influence" tells it like it is now. It depicts the redemption of the American film industry from the hands of the artistically, morally and intellectually bankrupt studio moguls. It shows the storming of the Hollywood Bastille by the independent film makers who promised to get a disillusioned and tired audience back into the cinemas. The fact that their failures were numerous, and at times disastrous, merely underlines the greatness of their achievement. An achievement reflected in the adventurous and questioning attitudes of the big box office stars such as Clooney, Daman, Affleck etc and the directors and producers who provide the vehicles for their talent.
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    • Release date
      • January 19, 2003 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Una década bajo la influencia
    • Production companies
      • Constant Communication
      • Written in Stone
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $34,837
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,320
      • Apr 27, 2003
    • Gross worldwide
      • $34,837
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 18 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
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    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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