Easy Riders@@ Raging Bulls : How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood

If you like movies (and who doesn't) you'll enjoy this book. It's not always an easy read because it's so dense with information, but it's always interesting and Biskind has an engaging writing style. Will dull the luster of some of your favorite directors!

Lots of great anecdotes about the most interesting time in American film history, Easy Rider, Raging Bulls isn't as comprehensive as the book it's adapted from, but it's a fun watch for fans of that era of American filmmaking. The supplements are a list of interviews that didn't make the original cut and they are comprehensive.

A surprising number of tomes dealing with Hollywood personalities ultimately fall flat. Not so with Peter Biskind's many chronicles. "East Riders and Raging Bulls" is no exception - a riveting and accessible read. Highly recommended.

If you are a fan of Scorcese, Hopper etc etc you will not be able to stop watching this documentary . . . It brings the movies of the 1970's right back into your life and reminds us that there were and for some part still are wonderful movies out there. This doc will quickly send you to Amazon or Netflix to watch and rewatch these fabulously directed movies.

If you have an interest in the old & "new" (changes of the 70's) Hollywood, you will love this book. Very informative.

This is a kind of Independent Film of the Seventies 101. It's a good solid introductory course that explains just what forces conspired to make the early seventies the moment for the film artist or auteur. If you are already familiar with early seventies cinema and have seen Easy Rider, Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands plenty of times then what you need is a graduate seminar on one particular area of cinema (Marty Scorcese's MY VOYAGE TO ITALY for instance is an excellent overview of Italian cinema and Italian cinema's influence on the American independents). Both EASY RIDERS & RAGING BULLS and that other documentary on seventies cinema A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE came out at about the same time and both really cover the same ground. Film students and film buffs will already be familiar with the story of what happened to the studio system in the late sixties and just why film students like Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg and Scorcese were allowed to make the kinds of gritty realist films that they wanted to make. Both of these documentaries are good solid introductions to early seventies independent cinema but neither will be enough to satisfy the film connoisseur. The reason these overview documentaries are unsatisfying is because they deal only in generalities and they do not have time to explore what drove each independent artist to make the films they made and so the documentaries just feel like yearbooks of the directors and stars waxing about their youth which was a time when the artist reigned supreme. It was no doubt a heady time when experiment was encouraged (by a few prescient and opportunistic producers who knew Hollywood needed new formulas for bringing young people to the theatres and who also knew that these young filmmakers just might hold the key to those new formulas). This was a generation brought up on foreign films and they were taught to believe that film could be art. A lot of them made some art but also a lot of them made a lot of money as well. The heyday of independence lasted only about seven or eight years (roughly 1967-1975) and it ended once the studios realized that the big money was in marketing the cr*p out of a new kind of blockbuster (Jaws, Star Wars, Alien)that appealed to the widest demographic possible. The other reason the era of the independents waned was because some of the independent film makers began spending vast amounts of cash on outrageous projects (Apocaplypse Now, Heaven's Gate)that didn't translate into box office sales. So there were those who blamed Spielberg and Lucas for their successes in crafting a new kind of formula picture that still dominates the industry today; and there were those who blamed the end of the era on Coppola's and Cimono's excesses. But this is a story that many are already very familiar with. The kind of documentary I would like to see is one that explores the lesser celebrated genres (horror, sci fi, exploitation, avant-garde cinema) and the lesser celeberated directors like Donald Cammell and Joseph Losey and Nic Roeg (as well as some of the stranger foreign influences on American & English directors of the seventies). This documentary is fine for those who are not yet tired of Coppola and Altman and Scorcese and the other oft celebrated bright lights of seventies cinema who will all no doubt get lifetime achievement awards. But a really good documentary tries to break new ground not just reiterate what is already common knowledge. One way to do this might have been to interview young directors and ask them about their influences and maybe even interview a group of young directors along with some of the older directors and get some interesting conversations going about where cinema has been and where its going. As it is this documentary like A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE is just a popular history. The names of the directors represented here and the list of films will surprise no one. A worthy introduction for beginners but not a very daring or groundbreaking take on a fascinating fistful of years in film history.

This doc leads to a really enjoyable, entertaining and informative evening. You get a really clear look between the lines as to what was going on during this renaissance of the movie business. Great memories of great nights at the flix.

"Easy Rider" is the best. Peter Fonda will always be remembered by this project. It is a film that will never be obsolete. I saw this film when it was first released. Watching it again after all these years, seems like yesterday. This film will never grow old.

Excellent documentaire. Il nous faits Connaître le cinéma de l'époque. En plus il y a un 2e DVD. Qui nous donne des entrevues avec les réalisateurs de l'époque. Pour 10$ Ca vaut la peine.

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This has to be one of the best books I have ever read. There are so many juicy hollywood inside stories and anecdotes. I have actually brought this book twice, Years ago and just the other day. I am not someone who generally makes a habit of this, but when I moved I couldn't remember which box it was in, but Amazon ever my friend, gave me an opportunity to re-read a book, the memory of which makes me smile even today. When I brought it it had the same front cover but it was in a red and orange theme. I really do recommend this book, though I have read his other book, which didn't do much for me, that one being Down and Dirty Pictures (Softcover) - A lot of people have really enjoyed it (according to reviews on this here yon Amazon), but having read and really enjoyed this one it left me pretty cold. Which is a shame because he has written other books such as Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture (Softcover) but I suspect the best of the stories are packed into this wonderful book.

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Entretenidisimo!!! La mejor cronica de cine que he leido.