The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Season 1, Episode 9: American Cinema of the 70s
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The maturing of American cinema of the late sixties and seventies: Buck Henry, writer of The Graduate, talks exclusively about movie satire of the time. Paul Schrader reveals his thoughts on his existential screenplay for Taxi Driver. Writer Robert Towne explores the dark ideas in Chinatown, and director Charles Burnett talks about the birth of Black American cinema.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Birth of the Cinema
Episode 2
The Hollywood Dream
Episode 3
The Golden Age of World Cinema
Episode 4
The Arrival of Sound
Episode 5
Post-War Cinema
Episode 6
Sex & Melodrama
Episode 7
European New Wave
Episode 8
New Directors, New Form
Episode 9
American Cinema of the 70s
Episode 10
Movies to Change the World
Episode 11
The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
Episode 12
Fight the Power: Protest in Film
Episode 13
New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
Episode 14
New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
Episode 15
Cinema Today and the Future