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  • Starring: Francis Ford Coppola
  • Summary: For American cinema, the 1970s was an era during which a new generation of filmmakers created work for a new kind of audience. In this documentary, pioneering writers, directors and actors talk about the times, their films and their colleagues. (IFC Films)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. It's illuminating and nostalgic and for anyone who lined up for American movies in that bygone golden age.
  2. 60
    As one might expect from IFC, actors and directors dominate the interview segments, which may be the reason the narrative never finds its way to Heaven's Gate.
  3. 30
    One wonders what exactly Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme thought they were doing in this documentary, which doesn't so much look at the period as genuflect before it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1