After success directing “The Godfather,” (1972) Francis Ford Coppola, came aboard as the producer for the 1973 film “American Graffiti,” saving the film from being butchered. Universal Pictures ...

A coming-of-age film series that follows a group of friends during the summer evening before they set off for college. The sequel follows the characters from the first film a few years later.

Though I hadn’t seen George Lucas’s film until a few weeks ago, I had seen 1975′s ‘Cooley High,’ which is known as ‘the Black American Graffiti.’ My parents took me to see “American Graffiti” at a ...

One of the main events in New York screenings this season is Film Forum’s month-long series “Far-Out in the 70s: A New Wave of Comedy, 1969–1979,” which runs from January 18th to February 14th and ...