Easy Riders---Raging Bulls

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The 1970s have come to be regarded as the last true golden age of American filmmaking, and this documentary, based on Peter Biskind's book of the same name, looks both at the movies and the people who made them in an era when the Hollywood system was briefly turned upside down. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls begins in the late '60s as the major Hollywood film studios were suffering massive losses when expensive blockbusters began to fall out of favor and a new generation of more independent and free-thinking creative minds were starting to make themselves heard. With the critical and financial success of Easy Rider, the major studios began to cautiously embrace the "new Hollywood," and directors such as Dennis Hopper, Bob Rafelson, Hal Ashby, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, Martin Scorsese, and Robert Altman produced striking and ground-breaking work that also found favor with the mass audience. However, professional missteps and personal demons robbed many of the "new Hollywood" talents of their powers by the decade's end, and when two of the lesser lights of the movement, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, enjoyed unexpectedly massive success with films which creatively looked to the past while economically changing the stakes of the movie business, many of their peers were lost in the shuffle. Originally produced for broadcast on the BBC, an expanded version of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was aired on the American cable outlet Trio.

Cast

Dede Allen
Francis Ford Coppola
Peter Bart
Andrew Cohen
Tony Bill
Karen Black
Peter Bogdanovich
George Lucas
Ellen Burstyn
Roger Corman
Martin Scorsese
Micky Dolenz
Steven Spielberg
Richard Dreyfuss
Peter Fonda
Carl Gottlieb
Jerome Hellman
Monte Hellman
Dennis Hopper
Willard Huyck
Stanley Jaffe
Henry Jaglom
Gloria Katrz
Margot Kidder
László Kovács
Kris Kristofferson
Mardik Martin
Mike Medavoy
Sylvia Miles
John Milius
Charles Mulvehill
David Newman
Arthur Penn
Michael Phillips
David V. Picker
Polly Platt
Albert S. Ruddy
Jennifer Salt
Andrew Sarris
Paul Schrader
Cybill Shepherd
Jonathon Tapin
Joan Tewkesbury
Fred Weintraub
Gordon Willis
Rudolph Wurlitzer
Vilmos Zsigmond
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Audience Reviews for Easy Riders---Raging Bulls

  • May 29, 2011
    Pointless documentary, which didnt manage to get interviews from the people it's about. The book it's based on was entertaining, even if filled with gossip-like anecdotes. It feels rushed and has pretty much no insight. Yet, its a documentary about films from the 70's, probably the best decade for the seventh art, so it's still mildly interesting.
    Hugo S Super Reviewer
  • Aug 23, 2008
    A good documentary that serves as an introduction to the much better book. Watch this first but then read the book. There's more sensationalism involved but it also covers much more detail. A good introduction overall.
    David S Super Reviewer
  • Nov 16, 2006
    An AMAZING documentary on Hollywood's history and its mutation.
    Super Reviewer
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