A couple of weeks ago, for the first time in its 70-year history, British magazine Sight and Sound s "Greatest Films of All Time" critics poll ranked a film directed by a woman as the greatest of all time.
G. Allen Johnson May 4, 2021Updated: May 6, 2021, 11:34 am
Jacqueline Bisset and Steve McQueen drive through the streets of San Francisco during the filming of “Bullitt.” The 1968 film will be a part of the TCM Classic Film Festival. Photo: Courtesy TCM Classic Film Festival
“Bullitt” is one of the most intense detective movies ever made, anchored by one of cinema’s greatest car chases.
But when she was making it, Jacqueline Bisset felt far from the action. As Steve McQueen’s love interest, she was in few scenes this was the late 1960s, early in her career, with international stardom still to come in the 1970s.
Show People (1928) to Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019) films about Hollywood, and by extension Los Angeles, have been there from the start of movies and continued in various guises throughout its multifarious history, often with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Throughout the sixties and early seventies several films were produced that spoke of the end of Hollywood as a creative enterprise, that is, as a field in which artists could examine their emotions and ideas and their response to the contemporary world – a civilization in crisis that they sought to describe or explore in depth from within. From Pier Paolo Pasolini’s