Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

After 20th Century Fox's "The Sound of Music" raked in big box-office and Academy Awards, every Hollywood studio was busy for the next couple of years trying to duplicate its success (it's not specified here, but Fox itself was one... Full review

A documentary like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls should be the kind of documentary I should like more. It is chock full of interviews and choice information about the time period (60's-70's) in American cinema that changed everything, for a lot... Full review

The withering latter-end of 1960s cinema gave birth to a short-lived area of mainstream artistic vision - the 1970s was a decade wherein "the director was the star of the movie." I've never thought of it this way, but as... Full review

"Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" is an orgy for movie lovers. How can anyone who loves film not be in heaven at the constant parade of landmark films and key industry figures that charges across the screen in this fast-paced documentary?... Full review

I read the book EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS by Peter Biskind and was amazed by it... If 'm honest I'm ashamed to say I rarely read for pleasure and it's something that I do meen to put right but EASY... Full review

The last golden age of Hollywood film-making is captured in this two hour documentary, based on Peter Biskind's bestselling book of the same name. Director Kenneth Bowser does a commendable job of corralling many of the key names of the... Full review

I ran across the documentary by accident, and am really glad that I did - having been a slave to film study for the last 17 years of my life, I have read about, viewed documentaries involving, and seen the... Full review

I read and enjoyed the book, too, but it and the movie make several points I disagree with: _ Almost all of the people mentioned in this film are still around, if you don't count cancer victim Hal Ashby, one-hit... Full review

This is a great look at Hollywood in the 1960's and 1970's. If you hadn't already noticed, that was an era of great American films, and "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" tells you how and why. The interviews and narration are... Full review

The book's design is to track all five movies from conception to release, a happy strategy that both illuminates American filmmaking during that period and demonstrates how little the world in which the movies surfaced resembled the one in which... ... Full Article

The year is 1963. "The Motion Picture The World Is Waiting For" is released to critical disdain and audience apathy, nearly destroying one of the most powerful studios in Hollywood, bringing a screeching halt to the practice of resting a... ... Full Article

Want a rich rundown of the most exciting era in movie history? Peter Biskind's book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, is still the only tome in town, telling the tales of a fresh crop of Godard-weaned lunatics who stormed the Hollywood... ... Full Article

Just as Jim Bouton's 'Ball Four' took baseball fans into the reality of the dressing room for the first time, sparking rage amongst the baseball elite who felt their privacy had been invaded, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls took movie fans... ... Full Article

Bonnie & Clyde. Easy Rider. The French Connection. Mean Streets. The Godfather. The Last Picture Show. The Exorcist. Jaws. Chinatown. Apocalypse Now. Star Wars. Raging Bull. ... Full Article