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An error has ocurred. Please try againSo here is a list of 365 films (one for each day of a year), that educated and captivated QT, and have inspired him to make the films he makes.
This list is based on interviews with the man, his reviews, his programming of the QT Film Fest, and his own many lists.
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American Masters: Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood (1998)
Which End of Hollywood?
The documentary takes the fight between director Hitchcock and producer Selznick over the control of the films they're making and uses it as a symbol of the end of Hollywood, meaning that during their collaboration and after that, the power of the producer decreased on behalf of the director's, and 'great producing' as Selznick did on Gone with the Wind was gone with the wind.
As far as I know producers and directors still fight during every stage of production, so I don't really see why Hollywood has 'ended' in that perspective.
End or no end, the documentary tries hard not to stick at the facts and gives us a psychological rapport of what those two men where thinking and what drove them. It is not bad done, but it's explained to us as we are a class full of stupid (really stupid) children.
Nevertheless, it has some interesting images of Hitchcock and Selznick you never saw before and you probably never will see again, and in the end that was the reason why I watched this anyway.