All Quiet on the Western Front
Essentials by Decade: The 1960s
The 1960s saw the career sunset of a number of Hollywood Golden Age directors, while a younger generation of international filmmakers were hitting their strides, infusing the medium with new vitality, style, and iconoclastic wit. Technological advances yielded increasingly ambitious epics. By the end of the '60s, Hollywood studios embraced change and made way for independent productions. See our Essential films of the 1960s, including:Classic Essentials
Essentials by Decade: The 1940s
Shadows fell over the movies in the 1940s, and in those shadows, ironically, the movies bloomed. Foremost, there was World War II, and the many films--good, bad, sometimes great--made about combat and wartime intrigue, and life going on on the homefront. Even comedies and romances were often obliged to factor the war into their plots or mood. Then, with increasing insistence as the decade wore on, there was the rise of film noir--not so much a genre as a tone, a worldview, a stylistic richness that could seem at the same time jagged and voluptuous, poisonous and fragrant. Nobody planned it; they wouldn't even have a name for it till decades later. But film noir became a vision of American life and the American Dream, and a reflection of doubts and anxieties as servicemen returned postwar to homes that were the same and yet not the same. See our Essential films of the 1940s, including:New and Recent Releases
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