A few weeks ago we looked at the best albums of 1969 – now it’s time to take a look at that year’s best films. It was a year when the line between exploitation pic and blockbuster were blurrier than ever and when the close of a tumultuous decade was cause for reflection around the [...]
Watching Michael Clayton last week gave me a hankering for some of the films that clearly influenced director/screenwriter Tony Gilroy from the 1970s. There’s Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Network, one of my all-time faves, but I must have seen that 120 times and can easily replay it in my head at will. Then there [...]
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