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These directors cultivated a fascinating eclecticism, driven by creative hunger and insatiable imagination. But what in the American scene were they reacting against, and just as crucially, what were they celebrating (or pillaging from other sources)? Gilbey also considers directors who established a body of work in the Seventies (Woody Allen), who blossomed as the decade progressed (David Lynch, Jonathan Demme), or who were prominent figures without being prolific (Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick). He takes each film and assesses its place in history while also scrutinising it as if for the very first time - as if it were coming to a cinema near you this Friday . . .
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None of the chapters are overtly bad- some are slight (Malick, Allen)- while the Robert Altman and De Palma chapters sound like test-runs for full length books (these chapters are worth the price of entry). Gilbey focuses a chapter-a-piece on Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg, Malick, De Palma, Altman, Kubrick, Allen, Demme, & Scorsese. Many of these directors have been written about much- Kolker's A Cinema of Loneliness, the Faber-series of interviews, The Movie Brats, Easy Riders Raging Bulls etc. There's not too much more here to say- perhaps the problem is less with the writing and more with the subject?
The Allen-chapter doesn't quite work- a reference to Allen's performance in The Front or his first (over)serious film Interiors might have been an idea. Gilbey doesn't solely restrict himself to discussing just one 70s film from these directors'- which is the problem, I think a chapter on Barry Lyndon or Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (which was brilliantly written about in a TV preview in The Independent)or Sisters would have been far more interesting. The De Palma-Altman- Demme and Lucas chapters probably work the best- and I wonder if Gilbey could have chosen less-celebrated exponents of New Hollywood: chapters not on the usual suspects (Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg, Kubrick) but on Friedkin, Bogdanovich, Ashby, Beatty and most of all Paul Schrader (who I feel is particularly overlooked- why not a chapter on Blue Collar or Hardcore? Why not a BFI book on Mishima? Why not a book of readings of Schrader's oeuvre to accompany the recent reissue/revision of his Faber interviews?).
It Don't Worry Me is not a bad book, a breezy read and I look forward to reading more from Gilbey- his BFI-book on Groundhog Day I've had on my wish-list for a month or so and now I'll have to get it. I hope he writes more on Altman- a comparison of the little-seen Secret Honor (1984) and Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995) is dying to be written (heck, I'll do it...); and the writing on De Palma here made me forgive the many problems his films offer...
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