Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
How Scorsese, Coppola, Friedkin and Bogdanovich seized Hollywood in the 1970s, and what it cost them.
Biskind’s account of how a generation of young directors took control of Hollywood after Easy Rider and lost it again by the end of the 1970s. Built from hundreds of interviews, it follows Scorsese, Coppola, Friedkin, Bogdanovich and Altman through the films and the drugs and the collapse, and is as much about the industry’s economics as its personalities.
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Darren Aronofsky
This is an incredibly delicious read—just a great, great account of that era from Easy Rider (’69) through the mid-’70s. It’s the story of all those great filmmakers—my icons—Scorsese, Coppola, Friedkin, and Bogdanovich. They changed the way movies were made in America. It recounts their adventures in making movies.
Interview · August 2011
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