10 Essential New Hollywood Directors
10 Essential New Hollywood Directors
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The New Hollywood movement’s foray into darker, edgier cinema was led by such filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, and Robert Altman.
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The so-called “New Hollywood” era began in the late 1960s when Hollywood’s traditional fare began to bomb at the box office. Lavish, big-budget musicals, which had previously been reliable blockbusters, no longer excited moviegoers in an increasingly disillusioned society.
Studios started taking risks on darker, edgier low-budget material from auteurs like Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman with bold, distinctive visions. The experimental tenets of the French, Italian, and Japanese movies these filmmakers were raised on made their way into the Hollywood consciousness and revitalized American cinema.
10 Mike Nichols
There’s a lot of debate about which movie truly established the New Hollywood movement. As with any film movement, it wasn’t defined by any one single movie; there are a handful of seminal movies. But every movement has its Breathless.
Some critics believe New Hollywood began with Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider in 1969, but Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde and Mike Nichols’ The Graduate – two quintessential New Hollywood classics – predate it by two years.
9 Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich got his start as a film journalist before being hired as an uncredited screenwriter on Roger Corman’s The Wild Angels. Bogdanovich made his directorial debut with Targets, a hard-hitting thriller about a war veteran going on a killing spree.
The director became truly revered with 1971’s The Last Picture Show, a deeply personal snapshot of youth. After that movie’s success, Bogdanovich helmed a string of widely celebrated gems like the screwball comedy What’s Up, Doc? and the father-daughter road movie Paper Moon.
8 Steven Spielberg
One of the most famous directors in the world, Steven Spielberg managed to marry classic Hollywood commercialism with edgy New Hollywood artistry.
His 1975 breakout hit Jaws is a character study of three guys on a boat framed as a monster movie about a giant shark. His 1977 follow-up Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a paranoid post-Watergate government conspiracy thriller framed as a sci-fi movie about alien visitors.
7 Don Siegel
Don Siegel is one of the greatest action directors of all time. With neo-noir actioners like Telefon and Charley Varrick, Siegel brought cynical edge and refreshing gritty realism to the genre.
He was most renowned for his frequent collaborations with Clint Eastwood, like the vigilante cop thriller Dirty Harry and the prison epic Escape from Alcatraz.
6 William Friedkin
William Friedkin’s most successful movies brought a ‘70s edge to well-worn genres. 1971’s The French Connection deconstructed the police noir with a morally ambiguous detective who increasingly bends the law in his narrow-minded pursuit of a heroin smuggler.
1973’s The Exorcist is widely considered to be the most terrifying horror movie ever made. At the time, it was a cultural phenomenon. Audiences had never seen demons depicted with such haunting realism.
5 John Cassavetes
One of the most influential filmmakers in the history of independent cinema, John Cassavetes used his income from acting jobs in movies like The Dirty Dozen and Rosemary’s Baby to finance his own experimental directorial projects.
Cassavetes is noted for his minimalist style and cinéma vérité aesthetic. As seen in movies like Faces and A Woman Under the Influence, Cassavetes’ filmmaking is carefully planned and executed but appears spontaneous and off-the-cuff.
4 George Lucas
It might not seem like the director of Star Wars, the pioneer of the modern blockbuster, had a place in the edgy, experimental world of New Hollywood. But before Star Wars was a cash cow, it was a weird little space movie that a plucky young filmmaker named George Lucas struggled to get made.
Before taking off into a galaxy far, far away, Lucas proved his mettle as a personal filmmaker in the mold of Bogdanovich with the classic 1973 coming-of-age ensemble comedy American Graffiti. Set in Modesto, California in the 1960s, the time and place Lucas grew up, American Graffiti offers a Best Picture-nominated snapshot of cruising culture (and youth in general).
3 Robert Altman
Robert Altman became a prominent New Hollywood figure by deconstructing classic Hollywood genres, tapping into the zeitgeist, and reflecting American life authentically. 1970’s M*A*S*H is a dark comedy whose Korean War setting acts as a proxy for the then-ongoing Vietnam War in a thinly veiled critique of contemporary politics.
1971’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller was one of the first true anti-westerns, breaking down the western genre’s mythmaking with a cowardly protagonist. 1973’s The Long Goodbye was one of the earliest neo-noirs, bringing the gray morals of classic film noirs into the even more complicated, even more divided society of the 1970s.
1975’s Nashville is widely believed to be Altman’s masterpiece. It’s a sprawling ensemble epic with a naturalistic tone, capturing the disparate lives of a handful of people around a city with almost documentary-like realism. The Nashville formula has since been replicated countless times to much lesser effect.
2 Francis Ford Coppola
Arguably no other filmmaker has directed four of the greatest movies ever made in a row. Throughout the ‘70s, Francis Ford Coppola continually floored audiences with the back-to-back triumphs of The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now.
Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone from the Godfather movies is the ultimate New Hollywood antihero; The Conversation is a riveting tale of post-Watergate paranoia; and Apocalypse Now is a gonzo, visually stunning, truly cinematic odyssey through the horrors of the Vietnam War.
1 Martin Scorsese
One of the only New Hollywood directors who still regularly take on daring, experimental film projects is Martin Scorsese. After a couple of artistically unfulfilling director-for-hire jobs, Scorsese launched his directorial career with 1973’s Mean Streets, an intimate portrait of life in Little Italy through the eyes of a low-level gangster dealing with Catholic guilt.
He followed this up with 1976’s Taxi Driver, a vigilante movie framed as a psychological thriller with Vietnam-era neo-noir elements, and 1980’s Raging Bull, a raw, intense, warts-and-all biopic of boxer Jake LaMotta.
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