On The Andy Griffith Show, Griffith played Sheriff Andy Taylor, the straight-laced peacekeeper in the tiny town of Mayberry.

Patton Oswalt, Martin Scorsese, Seth Rogen and more examine 1975 as a key cultural and historical turning point. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic It’s here that film scholars and people with ...

This documentary could be better, but it offers a helpful lesson for film fans new to the movies of that decade. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

The late release date of Morgan Neville’s Netflix documentary “Breakdown: 1975” struck me as odd. The 50th anniversary of that year will end in 2 weeks. This feature purports to be an essay on 1975 ...

Directed and produced by Morgan Neville, the Netflix documentary Breakdown: 1975 focuses on that year, in the 199th one for America, in the thick of political chicanery and cultural trauma, and in the ...

The year 1939 is often cited as the high-point of American filmmaking, the evidence including “Gone With the Wind,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Stagecoach,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “Ninotchka.” In ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jodie Foster is the perfect narrator for this garrulous film about films, in which director Morgan Neville puts ...

The average cinephile will require no encouragement to check out any random documentary about the cinema of the United States’ glorious 1970s. Does Breakdown: 1975, an essay film for Netflix on that ...

Shazam is one of the most well-known apps for identifying music, but it was designed mainly for mobile devices and doesn’t offer a full desktop version. For those who want alternatives to Shazam, ...

There has been a concerted effort over the years to venerate the 1970s as the last truly great period of American filmmaking, a time in which the younger artists who made up New Hollywood churned out ...