The American Cinematheque Show Episode 1 In the American Cinematheque Show’s first episode, screenwriter Larry Karaszewski and host Grant Moninger travel back to 1971, where news faces were beginning to shake up Hollywood, film canisters were mysteriously arriving filled with questionable substances, and independent film was hitting its very first peak. The duo takes us on a tour through the five films (THE LAST MOVIE, THE HIRED HAND, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE & TAKING OFF) that Universal produced through studio executive Ned Tanen’s unofficial “youth division” in the wake of the explosive success of EASY RIDER. Featuring exclusive interviews from the Cinematheque’s archive with Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Verna Bloom, Monte Hellman, Richard Benjamin, and Buck Henry, this episode offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the early New Hollywood culture and explores what it meant for these young filmmakers and actors to receive suddenly an unprecedented amount of creative freedom. Listen Now