Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even during the past decade, when the creative impulse in film has seemed to be the province of European directors, Hollywood has turned out movies that at least in retrospect, have the qualities of classics. Hitchcock's Psycho inaugurated America's cinema of cruelty, with a demonic amalgam of bloodshed and violence that was not equaled until Bonnie and Clyde. Stanley Kubrick's Lolita treated the forbidden subject of nymphet-mania with cool humor; his Dr. Strangelove demonstrated that the biliousness of black comedy was as American as the H-bomb. John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian...
Open Checkbooks. In the wake of Bonnie and Clyde, there is an almost euphoric sense in Hollywood that more such movies can and will be made. The reason is that since mid-1966, the studios have opened doors and checkbooks to innovation-minded producers and directors with a largess unseen since Biograph moved from Manhattan to Los Angeles...
...Paramount is 37. Richard Zanuck, Fox production chief, is 34. David Picker, United Artists' vice president for production, is 36. Today the studios are frequently packagers, providing money and facilities for small, independent production teams-which naturally insist upon artistic control. These film makers are not necessarily American. Hollywood is bankrolling movies all over the globe, and the cast and crew of a film can sometimes read like the attendance list of a U.N. committee meeting...
Welcome to MGM. Because of Hollywood's international outlook, Britain's Joseph Janni, producer of Darling, now looks there rather than to England. "If I go to J. Arthur Rank with a film idea, they consider me a nuisance," he claims. "If I go to MGM, I am welcomed." France's Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman) has been signed to a multipicture contract at United Artists, as has Polanski at Paramount. The Iron Curtain countries are a continuing source of new talent, and Hollywood studios have dangled fat contracts before Czechoslovakia's Jan Radar...
...Hollywood is now so eager to experiment with young and untried directors and writers that some older, proven film makers are complaining about lack of work. Director Mark Rydell-one of a host of refugees from television -got the chance to do The Fox when a studio executive saw a segment of / Spy that impressed him. Francis Ford Coppola, 28, is a precocious graduate of the nudie industry who is now doing Finian's Rainbow j for Warner Bros. Another untried talIent is Faye Dunaway's fianceé, Jerry | Schatzberg, 40, a still photographer of women...