Jens wrote:
They will have to come up with a Reservoir Dogs or Bottle Rocket of their own.
Surely it raises a few questions that you're citing a couple of films that are twenty years old as the last generation of artistic breakthroughs in Hollywood.
I think Hollywood has become a pretty moribund zone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture#1990s
The Academy Awards are no particular guide, but very little of what Hollywood regards as its own best work is actually great.
On the auteurs who round out Hollywood with a bit of critical respectability, in addition to PTA, Wes Anderson, Fincher, the Coens, Nolan you could add people like David O Russell and Soderbergh … these are all guys who've been around since the 90s at least … and I have enjoyed and even loved films by most of these directors, but ultimately you expect polish and viability from them above all else.
Many have begun a long decline of creative and technical self-cannibalisation where they repeat and refine similar techniques or themes in film after film, to the point of collaborating with the same actors, using the same shots, same lighting, same colouring techniques etc.
