Easy Riders Raging Bulls : How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)

from MiaCulpa

Until reading "Easy Riders, Raging bulls" I hadn't realised how important "Bonnie and Clyde" was to the rise of the auteur. However, I didn't need to read "Easy Riders ..." to know that most people in the film business are somewhat nuts. Biskind is a fine writer but seems to want to write in an "...

from echaika

Rather too much gossip and trivia and not enough of his genuinely insightful interepretations of the radical shift in how movies were photographed and plotted in the 1960's. Especially annoying is his habit of referring to principals as "Bob" or "Tom" -- when, in fact, he has talked about several...

from Smokler

You can say Peter Biskind is being a jerk to the generation of filmmakers who revolutionized Hollywood in the 1970s with this gossipy, mean yet thorough retelling of the rise and crash of "The New Hollywood" or you could argue that this group of boy geniuses pretty much got what they deserved as ...

from CBJames

Before Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda made Easy Rider, Hollywood was controlled by the studio system. Directors were considered employees who worked for producers. While many of them became known for a signature style, they did not have full creative control over their work. The producers and the ...

from iftyzaidi

Though the subheading of the book is 'How the Sex n drugs n Rock n Roll Generation Saved Hollywood' it may have more accurately been titled 'How the Sex n Drugs n Rock n Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Before Imploding". The author, in chronicling the tales of the new generation of film-makers th...