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   wlahearn@gmail.com to gggg gggg   
   Re: The Graduate (1967)   
   18 Jul 21 18:06:31   
   
   From: wlah...@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, July 18, 2021 at 1:05:14 AM UTC-4, gggg gggg wrote:   
   > On Friday, February 11, 2011 at 6:59:21 PM UTC-8, John Doe wrote:   
   > > Shown on Time Warner Classics tonight. Great movie, but was the end    
   > > awkward?   
   > (New Nichols bio):    
   >    
   > - The following year The Graduate—written by Buck Henry, who would become   
   a regular Nichols collaborator and life-long friend— shattered the remnants   
   of the PCA. It did so with a handful of other pictures released in 1967,   
   including Point Blank (   
   John Boorman) and Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn). These character-driven,   
   European influenced features included violence and sexuality, and, most   
   significantly, moral ambiguity. Films with these elements would not have been   
   able to find distribution in    
   mainstream theaters just a few years prior. The very subject matter of The   
   Graduate would have been deemed “un-filmable” by the PCA. Indeed, the   
   possibilities of U.S. cinema were transformed by the commercial success of   
   films such as Virginia Woolf    
   and The Graduate.    
   >    
   > http://bostonreview.net/arts-society/jonathan-kirshner-mike-ni   
   hols-and-american-century   
   What you really mean is Blow-Up, A Taste of Honey, and other foreign films   
   that signaled the end of the Hays Code. Keep dreaming that the gutless   
   Hollywood directors did anything.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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