That Shelf

As the 1970s came to a close, many of the best filmmakers of the past century nearly had their careers ruined as studios asserted more control over them during the emergence of blockbuster cinema. Here we take a look at some of those special cases: Scorsese's New York New York , Friedkin's Sorcerer , Spielberg's 1941 , Cimino's Heaven's Gate , Altman's Popeye , and Coppola's One from the Heart .