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The conditions that birthed the last golden age of cinema - bloody conflict abroad, corruption in politics... - are back in force, and posed to yield a new generation of iconoclastic filmmakers.

Ashby died in 1988, but he directed some of the era's best dark comedies and satires, including Shampoo and Being There. He was also at the helm of one of the decade's most controversial romances: ...