AS PART OF COLLECTION CALLED "THE '90s DO THE '70s"
Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way will play the Criterion Channel this January, as part of the channel's collection, "The ’90s Do the ’70s." Here's the breakdown:
The ’90s Do the ’70sIn the 1990s, the twenty-year cultural cycle—in which each generation rediscovers and reinterprets the youth culture of the last—saw Gen X filmmakers turn to the 1970s for inspiration. But with more in mind than mere nostalgia, directors like Richard Linklater, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, and Paul Thomas Anderson used this much-mythologized decade as a lens through which to examine contemporary social concerns. Ganja-hazed, bell-bottomed youth rebellion found resonance in grunge-era slacker disaffection (Dazed and Confused, The Virgin Suicides) and the dark cynicism of the Watergate era came to inflect the end-of-history anomie of the century’s final years (Dead Presidents, The Ice Storm). By turns dreamy, gritty, and glam, these films remix the music, fashion, and cultural iconography of a pivotal era to their own incisive ends.
FEATURING: Dazed and Confused (1993)*, Carlito’s Way (1993), Dead Presidents (1995), Boogie Nights (1997), The Ice Storm (1997), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Velvet Goldmine (1998), 54 (1998), Summer of Sam (1999), The Virgin Suicides (1999)