In December, 1963, Life published a special issue on âThe Movies.â The United States, the magazine asserted, had fallen behind the rest of the world. Hollywood was too timid, too worried about the national âimage.â Meanwhile, Swedish, Japanese, Italian, and French filmmakers were making movies that people talked about. âWhile the whole film world has been buzzing with new excitement,â the magazine concluded, âHollywood has felt like Charlie Chaplin standing outside the millionaireâs doorâwistful and forsaken.â Exactly four years later, which, in feature-film production time, is virtually overnight, Time, the sister publication of Life, ran a cover story on âThe New Cinema.â âThe most important fact about the screen in 1967,â it announced, âis that Hollywood has at long last become part of what the French film journal