easy riders and raging bulls documentary

Streets, which led to Jaws and Star Wars.

Hollywood formed an odd assortment of hippies, prodigals, movie buffsĪnd autocrats, but they could make pictures: Bonnie and Clyde led toĮasy Rider, which made possible the likes of The Godfather and Mean Original, some copped from foreign flicks). 'n' roll, personal demons and unconventional technique (some Of'movie brats' - boys fueled by film school, rock When the situation seemed at its direst, along came a gaggle Unprepared for the 'tectonic shift' of '60s culture. Trophies at My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music, had been caught Mid-'60s, Hollywood tottered on the edge of collapse, a victim of Historical bookends, Biskind develops a fairly simple thesis. Using the two films in his title as unofficial (and imprecise) Hacking away at some legends and then hastily constructing others,īiskind's book is a self-conscious feather-ruffler, a scandal sheet in which film and sex and ego and drugs keep colliding and recombining.Ĭall it a guilty pleasure, but isn't most pleasure guilty? The Myth-making that will enrage only those who take it too seriously. Like the Americanįilm Institute's instantly irritating list of the 100 greatestįilms of all time, this book is a serviceable enough piece of mainstream Mostly, Biskind wants to tell some wild stories. These movies managed to get made in Hollywood, and then how the dreamĭied. Pp.), Peter Biskind wants to tell us exactly how it all went down, how In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 506 Or the lunatics took over the asylum, or young filmmaking lunaticsĮventually flew too close to the sun and crashed into a sea of cocaineĪnd celluloid. Young filmmakers were given the keys to the kingdom, And there are so many moreĪttempts at understanding this mini-renaissance often turn intoĬliche festivals.

Is in the pictures: A not-so-random sampling includes two Godfathers,įive Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show, Badlands, Mean Streets, AĬlockwork Orange, Chinatown, Nashville, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver and Network. Represented the last great period of moviemaking in America. Most cinephiles would agree that the early-to-mid-'70s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.' Retrieved from MLA style: 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.' The Free Library.

Easy riders and raging bulls documentary