1960s Reviews

The old Hollywood was dying and the young turks knew it. The 1960s tore up the rulebook: the French New Wave rewrote what editing could do, Italian directors replaced studio gloss with sun-baked realism, and a new American generation started smuggling European sensibilities into mainstream cinema. Bond became a phenomenon, westerns went revisionist, and by the decade's end, the Production Code was dead in the water. The studio system's golden age was over. What came next had no rulebook at all.