Considered the Last Golden Age of American Cinema, New Hollywood, or “The American New Wave”, of the late 1960’s and 1970’s brought some of the most momentous films and filmmakers of all time.  Influenced by Asian cinema and European film movements like The French New Wave of the late ‘50’s and early ‘60s, films like Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” (1972), William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” (1973), Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” (1975) and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977), and George Lucas’s “Star Wars” (1977) ushered in an era of the most commercially successful period in Hollywood’s history, and a generation of auteurs and ‘film school brats’ who changed the world of filmmaking as well as American culture forever.