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 - Dayna - GoodreadsThis book started out slow, in fact I wasn't going to finish it, but I'm glad I came back to it. I think the issue was that is starts with Easy Rider, which is a movie I don't know very well and a bit ... Read full review
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: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
User Review - Isaac Davidson - GoodreadsLess of a study of innovative American cinema than an exploration of the backroom politics and sexual exploits of the major players of the era. It does have some great moments of insight regarding ... 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 ...
