The 1970s are often hailed as a cinematic golden age - but they pale by comparison to the sixties, perhaps the greatest decade in cinema's first century.
From across the world young film-makers emerged from nowhere to challenge the dreary conformity of the fifties and flout the taboos (both sexual and political) of their age. The foot-soldiers in this revolution included Godard and Truffaut, Pasolini and Bertolucci, Oshima and Forman, Polanski and Cassavetes . . .
Peter Cowie was in the thick of this cultural foment, not least when some of these firebrands shut down the Cannes Festival in the heady May of 1968. 'Revolution!' recaptures the cultural mood of the sixties through numerous interviews with the key film-making talents of the time.
