![]() The films covered include both successes and flops, including some films (such as Harold and Maude and Raging Bull) that weren’t well received at the time but are highly regarded today. ![]() Miller), and Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind), starting in the late 1960s with films such as Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde (making it a nice follow-up to Mark Harris’s Pictures at a Revolution) and going through the early 1980s.Įasy Riders, Raging Bulls aims to present both the artistry and the business side of how many classic films of the 1970s were made. This book chronicles the work of many major directors of the 1970s, including Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), Robert Altman (Nashville, McCabe and Mrs. You know that old joke about how the majority of New Yorker cartoons could be captioned “ Christ, what an asshole!”? I thought about that a lot while I was reading Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock’N’Roll Generation Saved Hollywood.
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