Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
2003
A documentary that sets out the story of the rising stars of 70s Hollywood cinema. Containing a mixture of archive footage, film clips and newly conducted interviews, the documentary contains contributions from such luminaries as Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Dennis Hopper and George Lucas. Read more
| Starring | Dennis Hopper, Cybil Sheperd, Richard Dreyfuss |
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| Director | Kenneth Bowser |
| Genres | Documentary |
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
A documentary that sets out the story of the rising stars of 70s Hollywood cinema. Containing a mixture of archive footage, film clips and newly conducted interviews, the documentary contains contributions from such luminaries as Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Dennis Hopper and George Lucas.
| Starring | Dennis Hopper, Cybil Sheperd, Richard Dreyfuss |
|---|---|
| Director | Kenneth Bowser |
| Studio | METRODOME DISTRIBUTION |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 56 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 17 Nov 2003 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Not surprisingly, Bowser's film can't quite match Peter Biskind's controversial book in terms of interview support -... read more on Time Out
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10 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Hollywood - The Golden Years
“Easy Riders, Raging Bulls” is very similar to the Robert Evans documentary “The Kids Stays In The Picture”, in that both deal with the same specific time and place – namely Seventies Hollywood.
They are also both adapted from books of the same name, released around the same time, although the two films are rather different in style.
This film follows the more conventional approach of using mainly talking heads, interspersed with clips from the movies of the time, e.g. Jaws, Mean Streets, American Graffiti, etc.
In Seventies Hollywood, for a brief time, the director was king. The studios were losing audiences in droves, and a new independent cinema was born, beginning with the release of Dennis Hopper’s “Easy Rider”. These early indies were hugely successful, prompting Hollywood mainstream to court this new wave of auteurs, rather than try and fight them. Cue the beginning of a very creative and exciting time in American cinema. The film school graduates from New York and L.A. were given almost total autonomy and creative freedom – as long as the money rolled in.
Hence the rise of film-makers such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese, who very quickly became powerful beyond their wildest dreams. But with power came wealth, fame, drugs and moral decay, until the revolution they created almost ended up consuming them.
This documentary charts the highs and lows from the people who were there, who recount the time with fondness, good humour and just a tinge of regret. -
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
a good introduction
We liked this documentary but I'm convinced that it was just a brief introduction to the subject. I would highly recommend it to the public in general as to have a better understanding of why we currently have the blockbuster films we have. But for someone who likes to dig deeper into the process of film making of that time, the book is a much better recommendation, and the film merely for visual pleasure and light entertainment. I was disappointed for example not to see more emphasis on the actors who also made the films what they are, like Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, and the absence of any mention of Stanley Kubrik.
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
A documentary that sets out the story of the rising stars of 70s Hollywood cinema. Containing a mixture of archive footage, film clips and newly conducted interviews, the documentary contains contributions from such luminaries as Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Dennis Hopper and George ...
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