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Looking Back on Hollywood’s Second Golden Age Jake Blucker Hey Hollywooders! For this week’s HollyGOOD Tuesday we’re taking a look at the Second Golden Age of Hollywood. The 1920s and ‘60s are widely regarded as Hollywood’s Golden Age, but what many people may not know is that Hollywood had what was considered to be its Second Golden Age in the 1960s and ‘70s. This period of time is also known as New Hollywood, the Hollywood Renaissance, or American New Wave. New Hollywood brought about loosened restrictions on obscenity and controversial, non-family-friendly content in films. Hol...

Becket residents work through a 20-item warrant at their annual town meeting Saturday night. LARRY PARNASS — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE BECKET — In construction season, as many as 100 heavy-duty trucks can pass each day along Becket roads where Robert Benton likes to walk. That’s what happens when you live near two busy companies, Williams Stone and Tonlino & Sons Crushed Stone, on Algerie Road and neighboring streets. Benton rose during the annual town meeting Saturday to explain why he shaped a citizens petition on the night’s warrant after s...

Michael Barnes thinks the exchange should start with “The Trip to Bountiful.” Although he isn’t a fan of horror movies, he agrees that “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is among the most influential movies about the state. To salute Texas Independence Week in 2019, my former American-Statesman colleague Dave Thomas and I put out a list of the 53 best books about Texas.   It contained some beloved classics, such as John Graves’ “Goodbye to a River,” and some thrilling newcomers, like Attica Locke’s “Bluebird, Bluebird" and Monica Muñoz Martinez’s “The Injustice Never Leav...

These Are the 100 Best 90s Movies By Jason Kessler, Stacker News On 5/3/21 at 8:00 PM EDT The 1990s represent a magical decade in pop culture history. The O.J. Simpson trial, gangster rap, Must See TV, grunge music, and Friends dominated water cooler conversations, while the internet was just beginning to grab the attention of the world and hit college computer labs. While all of this was happening, incredible movies from big-budget blockbusters to quiet love stories were being released nearly every weekend at movie theaters around the world. Advances in computer-generated imagery gave au...

World Cinema: The French New Wave July 9, 2009 by admin Santosh Sandhu discusses the French New Wave… French cinema in the post war years consisted mainly of genre movies with high production values. It was often studio bound and formulaic. The Gaullist regime came to power in the late 1950s and wanted to promote a home grown industry to compete against the dominance of Hollywood. A film subsidy called the avance sur recettes was put in place which enabled many new directors to get their first films made. Roger Vadim’s commercially successful Et Dieu créa la femme (And God created Women...