Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Williams plans to compose works specifically for the Pops and will continue to compose film music as time permits. "This appointment marks the beginning of a new era for the Pops." Ozawa said yesterday. "John Williams is very talented...
...film, also, the decade witnessed some notable contributions--foremost among them The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Annie Hall and The Deer Hunter--but they were overwhelmed by a procession of disaster films (The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), occult films (The Exorcist, The Omen and sequel films (The French Connection, American Graffiti, Rocky, Jaws and most everything else, part II) that provided the standard fare for most of this country's theaters during much of the decade. We tended to stumble into the trap of praising a movie just because it made money when our critical instincts should...
...more likely, though, that the arts appeared less experimental because in each case the mainstream adopted and popularized what had previously been the domain of the avant-garde, while the fringe groups, the repertory theaters, independent film studios and artists' colonies where experimentation traditionally takes place, failed to innovate upon the increasing scale of outlandishness to which we had become accustomed. Off-Broadway became almost as conventional as the Great White Way itself, and nearly as expensive, so much so that a new term and class of theater, "Off-Off-Broadway," emerged. Save for disco, popular music spawned nothing...
Many of the other arts followed patterns similar to those in film and theater: a few standout contributions in an otherwise unmemorable and/or incomprehensible decade. In literature, for example, the most notable works were written by names from the past: Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, a few others. Twenty years from now, though, an historian looking back on the '70s will proably be more impressed--or depressed--by the extraordinary amount of selfhelp/how-to/me-generation literature that dominated the best-seller lists: The Joy of Sex, I'm OK, You're OK, The Complete Scarsdale Medical...
Manhattan (1979). That rarest of contemporary film phenomena-an American comedy of manners-by Woody Allen...