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I agree on all points.. AA Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 9, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi Dave: > > Agreed about your assessment, although I love "Taxi Driver," consider it a classic mainly because I knew the NYC of those days. Same with "French Connection." The place was a total hellhole dump by the 70s, and those films depicted it as-was. > > I don;t recall the Cinema Noir films pointing to any better tomorrows. They were correctly depicting a society ground down by the depression, the corruption of prohibition and the general depravity resulting from poverty, time on hands and rampant corruption, which was a true depiction of many areas of US cities in those days. > > -- Tom Fine > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Breneman" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 1:06 PM > Subject: [ARSCLIST] AW: [ARSCLIST] AW: [ARSCLIST] for those interested in the biggest Star Wars news this side of the galaxy > > > I shouldn't have spoken so broadly. I didn't mean that it was dark in that there > was no creativity, it just was dark, as in ominous, frequently depressing > (films like Taxi Driver and Easy Rider were more an ordeal than an > entertainment) and ambivalent. A film that started without a studio logo > often as not just ended, with no resolution to the story. It was like you came > in after the start and left before the end. > > Dark, ominous, ambivalent - that's the 70s. It was like the 30s, but without > the belief in a better tomorrow. A lot like the current decade in that regard. > > > -- > David Breneman > [log in to unmask] > -----Original-Nachricht----- > Betreff: Re: [ARSCLIST] AW: [ARSCLIST] for those interested in the biggest Star Wars news this side of the galaxy > Datum: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 13:59:02 +0200 > Von: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>