Every month, Establishing Shot brings you a selection of films from our group of regular bloggers. Even though these films aren’t currently being screened at the IU Cinema, this series reflects the varied programming that can be found at the Cinema and demonstrates the eclectic tastes of the bloggers. Each contributor has picked one film that they… Read more »
Tag: New Hollywood
How Dementia 13 (1963) Anticipated The Conversation (1974)
One of my favorite things to do as a cinema enthusiast is to watch how a director grows over time. I love seeing a director take situations they had mentioned or tentatively explored in earlier films and expand upon them in their later work. If you look closely, you can see them learning and taking… Read more »
Two-Lane Blacktop and 1970s Masculinity
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971) opens on a street race. Engines roar prominently on the soundtrack, and we get a montage of tarmac, cars, and a few close-ups of The Driver (James Taylor) that will become one of our main characters. No one speaks. When The Driver finally does speak – after the opening credits… Read more »
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Lovable Rebels of the 1960s
Guest post by Rachel McCabe. When originally released in 1969, Roger Ebert claimed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid “must have looked like a natural on paper, but, alas, the completed film is slow and disappointing.” Paul Newman, the film’s star, had achieved critical success playing the rebel in Cool Hand Luke just two years… Read more »
Some of Them Promised They’d Never Fall in Love: Peter Bogdanovich’s They All Laughed (1981)
Guest post by Jack Miller. “I wanted to make a personal picture, but not a personal picture like an indie prod. I wanted to hide it, like the old filmmakers in the studio system did. Hide it behind a genre. The genre was private detectives.” — Bogdanovich “It gives me an ocean of mixed-up emotion —… Read more »