In the annals of Hollywood, 1967 is one of those legendarily watershed years when seemingly every sacred cow wound up in the slaughterhouse. All those assumptions about moviegoers — what they would and wouldn’t pay to see — were turned upside down. The fat, complacent and decidedly risk-averse studio system, which had ruled the industry for decades, all but collapsed. The morality police who ran the Production Code were finally rendered toothless. For cinephiles, it was a year of ignominious ends and promising beginnings, and it’s one captured beautifully in Mark Harris’ PICTURES AT A REVOUTION: FIVE MOVIES AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW HOLLYWOOD.
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