Pros: lots of behing the scenes info on classic cinema Cons: sometimes seems too sensationalized
I've always had an admiration for directors of movies. Many people are obsessed with who will be the star of a movie. I am often more interested in finding out who is going to direct the movie. Over the years, I developed a respect for the...
Pros: Fascinating, amusing, insightful, shocking Cons: An awful lot of denials there, Mr. Biskind!
This controversial book charts the rise of several key players in American cinema from around 1967 through to about the 1980s (with the financial disaster Heaven’s Gate” essentially sounding the death knell of the Filmmaker-as-King ...
Pros: Exciting portrayal of modern iconoclasts Cons: At times relentless
"This was the cutting edge, but it was so exciting and gorgeous and glamorous that everybody knew it was heading towards an abyss. And that was attractive in and of itself. There was a mystic wildness about the partying, the music, the drugs, the...
Pros: Engrossingly captures a great period in Hollywood Cons: A little too many inside references
When Star Wars Episode I came out last year, most people consulted the cover stories in national magazines to catch up on the legend. My way of boning up on STAR WARS was reading the delightful 1998 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind ($15 in...
Pros: Very well researched, interesting stories Cons: does drag along in spots
It's hard to believe in hindsight how American film classics such as "Easy Rider", "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Wild Bunch" once seemed so controversial and even dangerous.
Pros: A fascinating coverage of a creative period in Hollywood’s history Cons: At times hard to believe; and an excess of foul language
Biskind’s book is a hectic wallow in the lives of the New Wave of directors who appeared in the 60s and challenged the Old Producers of Hollywood, and, for a time, won the battle, producing a swag of memorable films, including Bonnie and Clyde, MASH, The...
Pros: A Virtual Rolodex and Who's Who of Seventies Hollywood Cons: Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll, A bad thing?
Being a long time Hollywood history buff, I was intrigued to read this book. Peter Biskind, the author really seems to know a lot about his subject matter and lays out a tale that is really a kind of searing indictment on the permissive Hollywood ...
Pros: Author goes straight to the sources, finding out what few else could Cons: none
The 70s were one of the more prolific and golden eras of filmmaking ever in the history of the world (given film's only been around for less than a century). This book does a hell of a job outlining the history of that era in an all-inclusive fashion,...
When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. This was an age when talented you...More at HotBookSale
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