Articles about Five Easy Pieces

Happy 75th Birthday, Jack Nicholson! LIFE.com looks back at some great unpublished photos.

An essay arguing that that films like "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" could be more appropriately deemed "New Hollywood" than movies like "Five Easy Pieces" or "Midnight Cowboy" because these blockbusters signal Hollywood's return to gearing their product for a mass audience after the studio system's countercultural (but historically beloved) hiccup - and that New Hollywood's understanding of "quantity" is quite different than Old Hollywood.

An argument that 1977 was the year innovation died and modern Hollywood emerged.

A @Guardian look at how a simply cup of coffee has saved movie moments, and sometimes entire films

Aaron Eckhart named his 5 favorite films for @rottentomatoes, and they're all pretty legit choices

Another great @awl/@splitsider list: "Actors Who Don't Pull Off Playing Musicians, In Order"

Jack Nicholson talks extremely candidly to Playboy magazine in 1972 when he's just starting to understand his popularity.

Happy 75th Birthday, Jack Nicholson! LIFE.com looks back at some great unpublished photos.

An essay arguing that that films like "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" could be more appropriately deemed "New Hollywood" than movies like "Five Easy Pieces" or "Midnight Cowboy" because these blockbusters signal Hollywood's return to gearing their product for a mass audience after the studio system's countercultural (but historically beloved) hiccup - and that New Hollywood's understanding of "quantity" is quite different than Old Hollywood.

An argument that 1977 was the year innovation died and modern Hollywood emerged.

Another great @awl/@splitsider list: "Actors Who Don't Pull Off Playing Musicians, In Order"

A @Guardian look at how a simply cup of coffee has saved movie moments, and sometimes entire films

Aaron Eckhart named his 5 favorite films for @rottentomatoes, and they're all pretty legit choices

Jack Nicholson talks extremely candidly to Playboy magazine in 1972 when he's just starting to understand his popularity.