Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

[Dunc]

Anyone vaguely interested in film, specifically 70's American cinema from the group of directors including Bogdanovich, Lucas, Spielberg, Coppola, Nichols, Altman etc etc should read this book by Peter Biskind.

It details the change in cinema from the early independent films of the early 70's to the rise of the blockbusters in the late 70's early 80's and the people (directors, actors, producers, studios) who were involved in it.

The follow up "Down and Dirty Pictures" that details the 'boom' in 90's independent cinema is also pretty good but not as good as this.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AM73R/qid=1139307809/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl/202-6123515-1597455

 

[Ox Fox]

The Last Picture Show directed by Bogdanovich is an all time classic and I can't understand why it's so incredibly under rated.

I also love his early psychedelic films - The Wild Angels and the Trip. Wild Angels has the quote Primal Scream used at the beginning of Loaded fact fans.

Reminds me that I once went to a 15 hour psychedelic film festival at the Scala in London, which attracted some interesting 'characters'. The Scala's great but the tube runs directly underneath it and the seats shudder, bit like the flat in the Blues Brothers in fact!

 

[highland fox]

The Scala's great but the tube runs directly underneath it and the seats shudder, bit like the flat in the Blues Brothers in fact!

There was a pub in Liverpool that had the trains running underneath it and you could hear them when you sat there drinking...wealth of useless info aren't I:icon_roll

 

[Dunc]

The Last Picture Show directed by Bogdanovich is an all time classic and I can't understand why it's so incredibly under rated.

I also love his early psychedelic films - The Wild Angels and the Trip. Wild Angels has the quote Primal Scream used at the beginning of Loaded fact fans.

There are some very good stories about how fecked up he got in the 70's in the book actually, but its all interesting stuff.

 

[Durham Fox]

Anyone a Jon Jost fan?

 

[Durham Fox]

Anyone a Jon Jost fan?

I thought that would kill the thread :icon_roll

 

[Ox Fox]

I thought that would kill the thread :icon_roll

I had to kick the tumbleweeds out the way just to get to it.

 

[Jari Rantanen's Shorts]

Anyone vaguely interested in film, specifically 70's American cinema from the group of directors including Bogdanovich, Lucas, Spielberg, Coppola, Nichols, Altman etc etc should read this book by Peter Biskind.

It details the change in cinema from the early independent films of the early 70's to the rise of the blockbusters in the late 70's early 80's and the people (directors, actors, producers, studios) who were involved in it.

The follow up "Down and Dirty Pictures" that details the 'boom' in 90's independent cinema is also pretty good but not as good as this.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AM73R/qid=1139307809/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl/202-6123515-1597455

He's also written Which Lie Did I Tell? which is more about how films get made, but also about his own experiences: another quality read. I'll lend it to you next time I'm up if you want Dunc

 

[Jari Rantanen's Shorts]

He's also written Which Lie Did I Tell? which is more about how films get made, but also about his own experiences: another quality read. I'll lend it to you next time I'm up if you want Dunc

Of course, the deliberate mistake being that Wiiliam Goldman wrote Which Lie Did I Tell? as his follow up to Adventures in the Screen Trade... Doh! This was bugging me for ages until I realised why what I had written was wrong!

Both are excellent books though - Goldman was the screenwriter on a number of good films, including Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, and the 1st book in particular gives a more personal account of the 70's heyday of filmmaking

 

[MHS]

Easy Rider itself, what a brilliant film. Typical road movie, but far better than stuff like Thelma and Louise, Bonnie and Clyde etc, IMO.

 

[Ox Fox]

Easy Rider itself, what a brilliant film. Typical road movie, but far better than stuff like Thelma and Louise, Bonnie and Clyde etc, IMO.

Were they really tripping in the Madri Gras scene? How how many herbal cigarettes did Jack Nicholson have before the camp fire scene, man? The best bit for me is the Phil Spector coke dealer scene at the airport, just as it's the most perfect piece of casting.

 

[Dunc]

Were they really tripping in the Madri Gras scene? How how many herbal cigarettes did Jack Nicholson have before the camp fire scene, man? The best bit for me is the Phil Spector coke dealer scene at the airport, just as it's the most perfect piece of casting.

Yeah they were fecked!

Dennis Hopper used to have written at the bottom of his script pages which drug to take to enable him to act in the required way for that scene!

 

[Matt_B]

Never seen easy rider but Fear and Loathing... is a cracking tripped out film

"What are you doing man...this is bat country"