We were all lured into talking to this guy because people thought he was a straight guy but he was filling a commission from the publisher for a hatchet job.
When asked about the book, Robert Altman said, “It was hate mail. But Spielberg and Lucas did slam the blockbuster nails into the coffin. To be fair, the movie lays a lot of the claim for that at the fact that so many of the New Hollywood auteurs flamed out or had badly recieved films. That said, Spielberg and Lucas come off the worst in the book, so I can see them not wanting to be part of a movie that was going to blame their blockbusters for being the end of the artistic aims of Hollywood. Many of the subjects from the book - including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Robert Altman and William Friedkin - declined interviews. Kenneth Bowser directed this - and several documentaries on another of my pop culture obsessions that had a brief period (s) of greatness followed by mediocrity, Saturday Night Live - and it’s the perfect companion to the book, building on the stories there by featuring interviews with most of the people who survived, like Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich, John Schlesinger, Johnathan Demme, John Milius, Karen Black, Cybill Shepherd, Francis Ford Coppola and more. This is a unique portrait of an iconoclastic period of movie history when filmmakers made a huge impact on the whole of American culture.Every few years, I re-read the Peter Biskind book that this documentary was based on, if only to make myself more depressed as time goes on over the fact that the New Hollywood that changed cinema faded so quickly and was replaced by whatever we have now. However, this newfound freedom gave birth to an explosion of ego, soaring budgets and a seemingly endless supply of drugs and the filmmakers' mutual support and encouragement degenerated into bitter rivalry. With each success the filmmakers were allowed more creative control. Hopper, Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas were among its main heroes. This was a golden age of American cinema. It all began with Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" in 1969, and came to a close with Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" in 1980. Those times gave birth to a new generation of filmmakers who breathed new life into Hollywood.
Section: Landmarks of American Mass Cultureīased on Peter Biskind's best-selling book, the documentary examines 1970’s Hollywood, when the director was the star of the movie. Add to favourites Screening schedule Screenings:
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