Michael Mann’s first theatrical feature has pretty much everything you think of when you think of Mann - a lone-samurai-esque protagonist, cops and robbers, a propulsive synthy score, and lots of cold dark streets wet with rain and neon. It’s always a trip when an artist seems to come fully formed right out the gate. Lemme show you what I mean with these 9 great 1981 genre flicks, all seeing their 40th anniversaries this year.
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The New Hollywood’s countercultural ethos would stick around just long enough to collide with the budding commercial and genre-storytelling aesthetics of the newer Hollywood “industry” to birth one of the most influential and oddly underrated movie years ever. His mandate wasn’t simply to restore America’s economy and sense of military superiority but also, even more crucially, its innocence.”īut in 1981, re-illusionment was still looming. “If the sixties and early seventies were, at least in part, periods of disillusionment,” Hoberman writes, “the late seventies and early eighties brought a process of re-illusionment. Hoberman paints an indelible portrait of the ’80s as a decade when Hollywood spectacle crystallized into a new “dream life,” modeled after the American dream of the 1950s and early ’60s, and filled with Reagan’s own “law & order” and deregulation fantasies. Hoberman’s latest book, Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan. Lately I’ve been kinda fixated on 1981, just a banger of a year for genre flicks, killer sequels, exploitation romps, and high camp. We love to canonize certain calendar years for marking a changing tide in the world of film, or for just being stacked with excellent movies (or both). The great movie year is a ubiquitous concept of movie culture. Strung out between the aching, post-’60s come-down nihilism of the late ’70s and the neoconservative free-market mass-consumption orgy of the Reagan era, the masses occupy a strange, pre-apocalyptic no-man’s-land moment in American culture, and so do the movies.
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A recession is in full bloom and Ronald Reagan’s promise to “make America great again” remains, for good or ill, unfulfilled.
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