And Now For Something Completely Different. Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982) Through interviews and archival footage, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls takes us behind the scenes of many of these groundbreaking classics, relating a number of fascinating stories, like how studio chief Jack Warner couldn’t make heads or tails of Bonnie and Clyde, and why most of the major studios passed on distributing Martin Scorsese’s breakout movie, Mean Streets. Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on-screen.

With films like Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Last Picture Show, this “new wave” brought Hollywood back from the brink of oblivion, and, in so doing, changed the face of American movies forever. With the studio system in turmoil, it fell to a group of novice filmmakers to rescue American movies, which they did by reaching out to a younger generation of fans. Macy, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is a BBC-produced documentary that spells out, as the tagline put it, “ How the Sex, Drug, and Rock & Roll Generation Saved Hollywood”. Can you imagine being a fly on the wall, listening in on those conversations?Īs someone who loves movie, I’m finding it hard to imagine anything else!

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