Cinema · 1976 Ranked
Best Films of 1976, Ranked by IQ Score
The single year most-frequently cited as the New Hollywood peak. The films of 1976, ranked by IQ Score.
1976 is the single year most-frequently cited as the New Hollywood peak. Taxi Driver, Network, All the President's Men, Rocky, and Carrie all released within twelve months.
The structural argument for 1976-as-canonical-year: the New Hollywood directors' mid-career peak (Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Pakula's All the President's Men, Lumet's Network) converged with the franchise-launching commercial entries (Rocky, Carrie) and the political-paranoia-thriller cycle's high point. Plus international cinema, Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Wenders's Kings of the Road, Bergman's Face to Face.
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