illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel Radicals" features clips from such seminal films as Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967); Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967); Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" (1969); John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962); Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) and "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968); John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" (1969); Richard Brooks' "Elmer Gantry" (1960) and "In Cold Blood" (1967); and Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night" (1967) and "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968). Frankenheimer, Jewison, Hopper, Schlesinger, Penn, Buck Henry, Paul Mazursky, Roger Corman and Arthur Hiller are among the filmmakers who discuss the decade.
Direction
Hearing Dennis Hopper explain Easy Rider's chaos is worth admission alone.
Editing
Brutal, rapid-fire montages that mirror the decade's nervous breakdown.
Production
Rare archival footage of filmmakers who rarely granted interviews.
Director
Don Fizzinoglia
Woody Harrelson
Narrator (voice)
Paul Mazursky
Self (uncredited)
Roger Corman
Self (uncredited)
Robert Towne
Self (uncredited)
Arthur Penn
Self (uncredited)
John Schlesinger
Self (uncredited)
Norman Jewison
Self (uncredited)
John Frankenheimer
Self (uncredited)
Arthur Hiller
Self (uncredited)
Dennis Hopper
Self (uncredited)
William Wyler
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lee Harvey Oswald
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roger Corman appears despite having directed zero films discussed—his exploitation empire bankrolled half the New Hollywood anyway.
Released in 2002, this doc arrived just as digital cinema was repeating the 60s' democratization of filmmaking—history rhyming with itself.
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