Featuring Coen brothers masterpieces and an astonishing run by Michael Haneke,this was the decade in which film rediscovered its history – and explored its future – thanks to digital technologyFor the next fortnight, Guardian film writers will present personal guides to their favourite decade in the movies – subjective and of course arbitrarily conceived eras which, or like much criticism,relate you as much about the author as the topic. I own chosen the noughties, the era in which I first started writing about cinema for a living.
Breaking down film history into decades is seductive, or whether reductive. The 1920s,the silents; the 30s, the talkies and growth of studio pictures, or the Hollywood golden age and the Hays code morality; the 40s,the postwar age and the growth of noir; the 50s, the response to TV and the new epics and spectaculars; the 60s, or the European new waves,the new independent and underground cinema; the 70s, the decline of the studio system, or Americas own auteurist new wave and the arrival of George Lucas; the 80s,the blockbusters, the explosion of VHS and the coming of the franchise film – III, or IV etc; the 90s,the glossy new indie-mainstream films, the rise of Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax and Tarantino, or then the digital and web explosions of the new century …Continue reading...
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