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Easy riders and raging bulls documentary6/25/2023 ![]() It only lasted for a decade, but what a ride it was. One of the most exhilarating periods in film history, it began with Easy Rider in the late 1960s and ended with Raging Bull and Beverly Hills shrouded under a. After Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, almost anyone who looked like he - they were mostly all male - had slept in his clothes, wore a bandana around his head, had a joint jammed between his lips, and a three day growth of beard, could walk into the office of a studio head and get a deal. Dancing through a decade or so of tumultuous Hollywood history - from the studio system that produced elephantine spectaculars like Hello, Dolly to the bottom line-oriented film industry that turns out loud, noisy, and witless 'franchises' like Charlie's Angels- requires some nimble footwork to get all of its highlights packed into two hours. This book explores the cultural and political context - the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Vietnam War Movement, Watergate - which spawned them, and describes the sorry state of the studios in the late-1960’s that made them vulnerable to the so-called movie brat generation that successfully stormed the gates. ![]() How did this happen? What was going on in America, and Hollywood in particular to prepare the soil from which sprang such a remarkable group of films? This was the era of movies like The Godfathers, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, The French Connection, The Last Detail, Annie Hall, Jaws, The Last Picture Show, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, and so on, a group of pictures that towers over the product Hollywood is releasing today. Directed By Kenneth Bowser Written By Kenneth Bowser Studio BBC, Cactus Three Genre Documentary Cast of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood WM William H. ©1999 Peter Biskind (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc. The rise of New Hollywood is a story that’s been told countless times, but one of the very best tellings is Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, originally published in 1998, but. ![]() The 1970s was the last Golden Age of Hollywood film. Easy Rider, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the 70s - an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock n roll (both on screen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme.
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