Out of Their Depth: Corruption, Scandal and Lies in the New Hollywood
The Long Goodbye © 1973 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved

Out of Their Depth: Corruption, Scandal and Lies in the New Hollywood

Cinema Rediscovered 2024

Season

Please note : this season finished in July 2024

Following the cultural upheaval and racial tensions of the 1960s, the early 1970s saw America increasingly in social and political turmoil.

Opposition to the Vietnam War grew more violent following revelations of the brutality of American forces, meanwhile, at home, the full scale of the Watergate scandal was beginning to be revealed. The certainties of modern American values were not only tarnished they were found to be mired in corruption, scandal and lies.

This heightened unease in the mainstream American psyche was reflected in films from the New Hollywood, the period where the traditional male hero of the classic studio era was replaced by a protagonist who, whilst they thought they were in control, found themselves increasingly out of their depth.

This season is curated by Cinema Rediscovered Founder Mark Cosgrove.


Previous screenings in this season

Three Days of the Condor

classified 15 Out of Their Depth
Three Days of the Condor
Please note: This was screened in July 2024
Film

A C.I.A operative cannot trust anyone when their world is turn upside down in Sydney Pollacks tense political thriller.

Night Moves (35mm)

classified 18 Out of Their Depth
Night Moves
Please note: This was screened in July 2024
Film

The search for a missing teenage girl leads to a devastating emotional reckoning in this 1970s film noir starring Gene Hackman.

The Conversation

classified 12A Out of Their Depth
The Conversation
Please note: This was screened in July 2024
Film

Fifty years after its release, Francis Ford Coppola’s thriller now feels prophetic in its portrait of surveillance culture.

Chinatown (35mm)

classified 15 Out of Their Depth
Chinatown (35mm)
Please note: This was screened in July 2024
Film

A rare chance to experience this classic of New Hollywood, which pierces straight to the heart of American darkness, on 35mm on its 50th anniversary.

The Long Goodbye

classified 18 Out of Their Depth
The Long Goodbye
Please note: This was screened in July 2024
Film

The classic Raymond Chandler novel is given a laid-back satirical cinematic twist.

The Parallax View

classified 15 Out of Their Depth
The Parallax View
Please note: This was screened in July 2024
Film

A 50th Anniversary screening of Alan J. Pakula’s ominous vision of America – captured in the wake of the assassination of the Kennedy’s and Martin Luther King and just before the scandal of Watergate is about to break.

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