The second and final chapter in the story of the ‘New Hollywood’, as told from the Sight and Sound and Monthly Film Bulletin archives. With classic features, incisive reviews and revealing interviews with Steven Spielberg, Claudia Weill, Bob Rafelson, John Carpenter and Robert Altman.
Country Life by Geoff Andrew Call of the Cuckoo by Beverly Walker Staying Vulnerable by John Russell Taylor The Man in the Cryogenic Freezer by Tom Milne and Richard Combs
Plus reviews of:Nashville, The Wind and The Lion, Hester Street, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, All the President’s Men, The Bad News Bears, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Missouri Breaks, Taxi Driver, Stay Hungry, Car Wash, God Told Me To, Assault on Precinct 13, Mikey and Nicky
Part 2: Changing Fashions, Changing Horses, 1977-78
The Solitary Pleasures of Star Wars by Jonathan Rosenbaum An Interview with Steven Spielberg by Richard Combs Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind by Garrett Stewart It Was a Quiet Revolution by Beatrice Loayza A Bullet in the Head: Vietnam Remembered by John Pym
Plus reviews of:The Late Show, Annie Hall, 3 Women, Welcome to LA, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, An Unmarried Woman, The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover, Fingers, Girlfriends, Blue Collar, The Deer Hunter, Days of Heaven, Goin’ South and Old Boyfriends
Part 3: Success, Excess, and the Beginning of the End, 1979-80
This Is The End by Michael Dempsey An Errand Boy’s Journey by John Pym Some Notes on Method Actors by Hal Hinson Hell Up in the Bronx by Richard Combs Robert Altman: Backgammon & Spinach by Tom Milne and Richard Combs Hollywood’s Crashing Epics by Alan Stanbrook ‘What’s the Name of this Movie?’ by James Ivory Heaven and Hell by Tom Charity
Plus reviews of:Apocalypse Now, Head Over Heels, 1941, Over the Edge, Return of the Secaucus Seven, American Gigolo, The Long Riders, Raging Bull, Melvin and Howard, Out of the Blue, Gloria, Popeye and Heaven’s Gate
