I remember when Siskel and Ebert dedicated an episode of one of their shows to films of the seventies. At one point during the show, Siskel said that the 1970’s were the last great era of film. Among others, his reasons were that back then, studios were dedicating budgets to film makers to tell any kind of story they wanted to pursue. That is why you had really interesting and strange stories with big name actors being shot beautifully. My Dad and I watched “Fat City” tonight. It was a movie made in 1972 by John Huston. Its about two boxers at very different points of their lives. From the opening scene with the location dissolves of Stockton (below) I said that I already love the movie. Stacy Keach and a young Jeff Bridges are in it. My Dad said that Huston was a boxer at one point and at different stages of his life, he had all sorts of strange odd jobs. This is a really great movie with a story that could have been written by Bukowski.