I think George is right in the following article.
George Clooney, one of Hollywood's most bankable stars who earns up to £15 million a movie, has taken a swipe at the film industry, saying he believes the golden age of cinema is dead.
The Oscar-winning actor said film studios were producing cinema "masterpieces" at the rate of ten a year in the 1960s and 1970s and today's movies lacked ground-breaking drive.
In a thinly-disguised attack on the modern-day values of Hollywood, the 46-year-old makes clear his belief that computer-generated imagery and visual pyrotechnics are no substitute for a good story.
Clooney places the glory years of cinema firmly between 1964 and 1976 when he says studios produced almost a masterpiece a month and directors like Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Alan J. Pakula and Sidney Lumet pushed new boundaries.
"It's 12 years and you could find ten films a year that are masterpieces," the actor told the Radio Times. "They don't make those films anymore. You couldn't come near making those films."
Clooney's conviction is such that a few years ago he gave each of his friends a gift of 100 DVDs from his favourite 12-year golden period.
They included Cold War classics like Fail-Safe, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Dr Strangelove as well as Bound for Glory, a biographical film about the folk singer Woody Guthrie.
He also loves Network, Lumet's satire about a television network's struggle for ratings and Scorsese's Taxi Driver with its standout performance by Robert De Niro.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/05/wclooney105.xml
