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The 1970s were a crazy time for cinema: I would recommend anyone who wanted to do a deep dive into the era read Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls to get a true sense of this transitional, tumultuous time for Hollywood and motion pictures at large.
Television had dominated the 1950s and 1960s, and the combination of shrinking audiences and expensive box-office bombs like Cleopatra were causing studios to verge on near-bankruptcy. Enter the New Hollywood: Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Robert Altman (to name a few) all emerged in this time and for a decade exercised unprecedented levels of autonomy and creative control, resulting in ten years of cinematic experimenting which resulted in some of the greatest films of all time.
Vote here on your favorites from this truly unique period for the artform.