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Mood:
- CaptivatingCleverContemplativeRoughWittyTenseBittersweet
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Plot:
- Actor's LifeArtist's LifeShowbizArtists and ShowbizLove and RomanceMind and SoulPoliticsRise and Fall more...
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- IndependentDocumentaryDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century70s
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- Critically Acclaimed
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- Film in Film
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- SeriousRealistic
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A Decade Under the Influence, 2003
English
USA
Profile of A Decade Under the Influence
The mood of A Decade Under the Influence is captivating, bittersweet, and tense. The plot centers around the life of an artist, showbiz, and artists and showbiz. It is an independent, documentary, and drama movie. Stylistically, A Decade Under the Influence is a film in a film. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It happens in the 20th century. A Decade Under the Influence is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of A Decade Under the Influence
Examining the 1970s, the decade that has come to be seen as North American cinema's most revolutionary and experimental, this reverent documentary directed by Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme interviews a handful of the key players and survivors of that fertile time. Beginning with EASY RIDER (1969) and other offshoots of producer/director Roger Corman's virtual training ground for young directors at b-movie studio American International Pictures, DECADE traces the trajectory of filmmakers such as Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, William Friedkin, and Paul Schrader. With clips from TAXI DRIVER, SHAMPOO, MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER, THE GODFATHER, and many more, the film conveys the richness of talent that the 1970s film world possessed. But the birth of the blockbuster (namely JAWS and STAR WARS) raised the studios' expectations for financial performance in the industry, virtually killing the chances of riskier productions--a development which gave birth to the thriving independent scene we know today. While even the filmmakers go out of their way to point out that their film is by no means all-inclusive, A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE is flashy and informative, a trip well worth taking for both the novice cinema-goer and film scholar alike.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 January 2003 |
| Runtime: | 138 min |
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Users Reviews
- 14.April.2009
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- by: PlainviewShake
- PlainviewShake rated this movie
4/10Disappointing
