The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s remains a mythologised chapter in American cinema, a fleeting moment when studios granted directors unprecedented creative freedom, resulting in audacious, boundary-pushing films. While this period birthed enduring masterpieces—*The Godfather*, *Taxi Driver*, *Chinatown*—it also produced curious experiments that, for all their ambition, failed to resonate beyon…