![]() ![]() The kind of film the passing of which Biskind laments is one that New Hollywood writers and directors had modified from European cinema of the 1950s, characterised by a relatively aimless protagonist, or one who could not fully understand the motivations behind his or her actions, or the actions of others. He thirteen years between Bonnie and Clyde in 1967 and Heaven’s Gate in 1980 marked the last time it was really exciting to make movies in Hollywood, the last time people could be consistently proud of the pictures they made, the last time the community as a whole encouraged good work, the last time there was an audience that could sustain it. ![]()
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