Before he was King of the Underdogs, he was King of the Counterculture!
John G. Avildsen has only recently cemented his reputation as the "king of the underdogs," owing to his having directed both Rocky (1976) and The Karate Kid (1984). Within the last decade, a feature-length biographical documentary was released and a critical study book was published. But before Rocky, he was an astute chronicler of the counterculture, whose films possessed a rugged street aesthetic. Those early films (including Joe, Guess What We Learned in School Today, Cry Uncle, Save the Tiger, and The Stoolie) are evaluated for assuming an alternate posture on the counterculture happenings of the era.
Daniel Kremer
Director, Writer
The Class of ‘9271%
Directed by John Ford70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
180° South72%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Room 23761%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
A Plastic Ocean75%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me84%
Public Speaking70%
Sherman's March67%
Wick Is Pain74%
Western Stars70%
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey77%
And the Oscar Goes To...68%
McQueen74%
The Making of Star Wars70%
