Review: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
User Review - GoodreadsMuch like the movies he was writing about, Biskind's story of the New Hollywood had a non-linear structure, no heroes, and few happy endings. He clearly has a reverence for the movies of America's ...
Review: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
User Review - GoodreadsThis book is interesting, but incredibly problematic as well. It takes three approaches when discussing the films, filmmakers, and filmmaking business of the 1970s: the art, the business, and the ...
Review: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
User Review - GoodreadsAn interesting read, however it was different book than I was expecting. It has been a few years since I have read "Down & Dirty Pictures," by Biskind, and forgot about my gripes with that book, which ...
Review: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
User Review - Jason Coleman - GoodreadsThe upshot of this book's negative reviews seems to be that it is too full of gossip. I'm trying to imagine someone who buys a book about the film industry and is surprised, much less disappointed, by ... Read full review
Review: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
User Review - Seth Madej - GoodreadsPeter Biskind brings nothing to this sloppy oral history of the revolution that took place in Hollywood in the 1970s. He's a blowhard who uses his ostensible theme -- how the same people who ... Read full review
Review: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
User Review - Richard Motroni - GoodreadsProbably the only gossip type books I've ever read, but it is such an incredible fun read on how the old guard of Hollywood was completely over run by idealistic film makers who changed the industry ... Read full review
Review: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
User Review - Jay Hinman - GoodreadsThis one's a good 15 years old and has been on my 70s-film-education reading list for some time. It's likely the most popular and perhaps well-regarded of all 1970s film histories as well, though let ... Read full review
Review: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
User Review - Paul - GoodreadsUnfortunately this is less of the untold story of the birth of the Auteur directors of 70's (you know the ones...Coppola, Scorsese, DE Palma, ect.) and more a gossipy, vindictive, and mean spirited ... Read full review
Review: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
User Review - Josh - GoodreadsAn insider look at Hollywood and film-making in the 1970's, with a particular emphasis on the major directors and producers of the era, it's a vicious and nasty piece of work. The major players are ... Read full review
Review: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
User Review - GoodreadsBest book I have ever read on movies and the movie business! (I make one exception, an old out of print book called FROM SCARFACE TO SCARLETT, Hollywood Films in The Thirties, which is similar in ...
