Nicolas Billon analyzes the success of American popular cinema at the end of the 20th century. Film critics, academics and directors discuss these films that made a mark on audiences in the 1980s and 1990s. "Jaws" was one of the pioneers, and Steven Spielberg later became the benchmark. These films, very diverse, have propelled their main actors, such as Tom Cruise or Arnold Scharzenegger, to the rank of stars. On the technical side, the sometimes abusive use of special effects underlines the technological mutation of cinema. This documentary rehabilitates a number of films sometimes despised by critics by placing them in a historical perspective.
Nicolas Billon
Director, Writer
Sylvain Duchène
Writer
Nicolas Ripoche
Writer
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Room 23761%
Woman77%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Daguerréotypes73%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Sidney70%
Public Speaking70%
A Decade Under the Influence79%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound69%
Extremis69%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Sherman's March67%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
180° South72%
