

A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.
Direction
Ted Demme's loving but unflinching lens on his heroes
Acting
Altman, Coppola, Friedkin — unfiltered, occasionally drunk, always brilliant
Production
Archival footage that'll send you scrambling for a watchlist

Director
Ted Demme
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ted Demme died less than a year after its Sundance premiere, making this his final directorial work.
The title references both the drug culture of the era and the intoxicating freedom directors briefly held before blockbuster economics crushed it.
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