Klute

For cinephiles prone to nostalgia, New Hollywood remains an untouchable zenith—a brief, fertile period when studio constraints loosened, auteurs flourished, and American cinema grappled with societal decay in ways both radical and artistically daring. Yet while this era birthed masterpieces that redefined filmic language (*The Godfather*, *Chinatown*), it also produced works whose cultural specificity now feels alie…