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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)

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In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes about politics, sex, drugs, and gender issues, while the advancement of the Vietnam War found many citizens questioning the actions and wisdom of their government for the first time. As American attitudes continued to evolve, so did the American film industry; as costly big-budget blockbusters nearly brought the major studios to the brink of collapse, smaller and more

Jan 1, 1998

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It's as if we're watching the equivalent of a VH1 special edited for an in-flight movie.

June 5, 2003 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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Unlike many documentaries about movies, it's neither underfunded nor perfunctory, but thoughtful and bracing.

May 30, 2003 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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Leaves us to wonder whether ever again will so many creative free spirits move into the mainstream in such numbers and with such success.

May 29, 2003 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
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It's gratifying and exhilarating enough -- the movie's a foolproof greatest-hits clips package. But Christie is its major coup.

May 23, 2003 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
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Here's a fireball documentary about the 1970s, when filmmakers were stoked by sex, drugs, rock and, oh, yeah, social conscience.

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Rolling Stone
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Should be required viewing not only for all film students but also for everyone working on an executive level in the current studio system.

May 5, 2003 Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | Comment
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This is a must-see documentary for any film lover.

June 2, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
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Demme and LaGravenese are just as happy to let the directors bask in their past glories and reminisce about those crazy days.

May 27, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

It's illuminating and nostalgic and for anyone who lined up for American movies in that bygone golden age.

August 7, 2003 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | Comment
Christian Science Monitor

...less of a serious, insightful documentary and more of a nostalgic love letter.

June 19, 2003 Full Review | Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

The past is so bright here, co-directors Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme must have worn shades.

June 6, 2003 Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | Comment
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

Succeeds as both a primer for newcomers and as eye candy for established film fans.

May 30, 2003 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Fitfully interesting in its own right, but more useful as a device to point you toward checking out the original source material.

May 30, 2003 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | Comment
Los Angeles Daily News

What's missing is anything resembling a point of view ... or the slightest sense of critical discrimination.

May 29, 2003 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly

A breezy but incomplete valentine to the most fertile period in American film

May 25, 2003 Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | Comment
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Excellent documentary.

February 11, 2010
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Tim Salmons

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a fantastic doc about the young filmmakers who stormed hollywood in the seventies, producing a huge number of startlingly original films. directors like altman, hal ashby, scorsese and coppola along with so many others changed the way we watch movies forever in a decade when for once art ruled over commerce; a happy

November 2, 2007
rubystevens
Stella Dallas

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