A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 7
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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
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Richard LaGravenese
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Ted Demme
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Alexander Payne
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Neil LaBute
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Scott Frank
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Steven Soderbergh
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Michael De Luca
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Mark Riley
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Jim V. Hart
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Robert Mark Kamen
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Steven Schiff
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Paul Thomas Anderson
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All Critics (34) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (7) | DVD (11)
It's as if we're watching the equivalent of a VH1 special edited for an in-flight movie.
Unlike many documentaries about movies, it's neither underfunded nor perfunctory, but thoughtful and bracing.
Leaves us to wonder whether ever again will so many creative free spirits move into the mainstream in such numbers and with such success.
It's gratifying and exhilarating enough -- the movie's a foolproof greatest-hits clips package. But Christie is its major coup.
Here's a fireball documentary about the 1970s, when filmmakers were stoked by sex, drugs, rock and, oh, yeah, social conscience.
Should be required viewing not only for all film students but also for everyone working on an executive level in the current studio system.
This is a must-see documentary for any film lover.
Demme and LaGravenese are just as happy to let the directors bask in their past glories and reminisce about those crazy days.
It's illuminating and nostalgic and for anyone who lined up for American movies in that bygone golden age.
...less of a serious, insightful documentary and more of a nostalgic love letter.
The past is so bright here, co-directors Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme must have worn shades.
Succeeds as both a primer for newcomers and as eye candy for established film fans.
Fitfully interesting in its own right, but more useful as a device to point you toward checking out the original source material.
What's missing is anything resembling a point of view ... or the slightest sense of critical discrimination.
A breezy but incomplete valentine to the most fertile period in American film
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