The 1970s marked the end of traditional westerns and the rise of the anti-western, questioning the genre's whitewashing of U.S. history. Movies like The Cowboys, Jeremiah Johnson, and High Plains ...

“What you got ain’t nothin’ new,” drawls Ellis (Barry Corbin) to Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning neo-Western film “No Country for Old Men.

That has been true since the early days of film, and it is still valid. However, the idea of “1970s New York” is the decade of the city that draws the most interest. There have been movies ...