Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
90 mins
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.
Andrew Sarris
Self (uncredited)
Jim Leavelle
Self (uncredited archive footage)
Nellie Connally
Self (uncredited archive footage: Dallas motorcade)
L.C. Graves
Self (uncredited archive footage)
Ike Pappas
Self (uncredited archive footage)
Don Fizzinoglia
Director
Lewis A. Bogach
Director
Lewis A. Bogach
Writer
Ethan Mordden
Book
Don Fizzinoglia
Producer
Lewis A. Bogach
Producer
Don Fizzinoglia
Editor
Don Fizzinoglia
Executive Producer
Lewis A. Bogach
Executive Producer