The New Hollywood and Independent Filmmaking

Like what I said in my previous blog post here. Hollywood lost its reign in the 1960's though some movies were successful like The Sound of Music and Dr. Zhivago. Most of the studios in Hollywood begun to go down, we have seen it in the documentary that the studios were literally been taken down.

Some producers produced movies that are still taboo at that time and somehow it worked but did not last.  (Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, and Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H) At that time, film school graduates started to create a noise in the movie industry like George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma. They did not undergo the traditional studio system but they studied film in Film Schools at New York University, the University of Southern California, and the University of California at Los Angeles. 

the "movie brats"

The so called "movie brats" made films that were influenced by the classical Hollywood style and some European filmmakers. They also incorporated their stories in their films like, American Graffiti was not only a teenage musical but also Lucas's reflection on growing up in California in the 1960s. Martin Scorsese drew on his youth in New York's Little Italy for his crime drama Mean Streets (1973;12.49). Coppola

imbued both Godfather films with a vivacious and melancholy sense of the intense bonds within the Italian American family. Paul Schrader poured his own obsessions with violence and sexuality into his scripts for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and the films he directed, such as Hard Core (1919).The seamless storytelling was still present at their movies. 

Some foreign directors were also known at that era, as well as some American-African and Asian-American directors. There were also women directors that penetrated the movie industry.  

Allison Anders, female director

There was no specific movement at the 1970's up to now, there are directors who stayed doing the medium-cost films and some directors went to studios for high-cost films.

- KC