Also, they did a lot of cocaine. Like David O. Russell, Jason Reitman is a polarizing filmmaker, but he got to making a proper “SNL” movie first, and he made a 1970s New York movie in the process.

Some movies just sort of lose their luster. Some, but not all. Harkening back to the 1970s — to many the best decade of American movies — here are a selection of films that hold up and are ...

Movie soundtracks as albums were just beginning to take off by the 1970s. Of course, there were earlier examples, The Graduate featuring Simon and Garfunkel from 1967 for example. The 1970s though ...