A Decade Under the Influence

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Product Description ------------------- -A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE will air as part of a three-part television series on IFC August 20, 21, and 22, 2003.- Featuring interviews with a cast of film greats, including Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper, Ellen Burstyn, William Friedkin, Jon Voight, and Julie Christie.- Television broadcast will be supported by a national advertising campaign, Media presence during the month of August to include: Full Page Color Ads in Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, NY Times Magazine, Time Out New York, US Weekly, Newsday, Weekly Variety; 15 & 30 second radio spots; Outdoor national marketing campaign.- A standout at Sundance, A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE had a limited theatrical run in 2003 playing to great critical accl in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston. .com ---- How did Hollywood make so many great, challenging, offbeat films in the 1970s? A Decade Under the Influence lists the reasons--or rather, lets the people who did the filmmaking list the reasons. The decade-shaping interviewees include Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Francis Cla, et al. The film's argument has actually been conventional wisdom for at least 10 years, but it's well-supported by an abundance of clips, which should inspire even hardcore film buffs to seek out rarities such as Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/0792845838/${0} ) or The King of Marvin Gardens ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004REAG/${0} ). One might observe that the city of women directors or black filmmakers suggests that the decade was not entirely golden, and the memories may be burnished a bit by nostalgia. But there's no question that the big studios were far more adventurous back then, and this briskly moving survey gives a lively Film 101 lecture in exactly why. --Robert Horton