Peter Biskind's Books
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Down and Dirty PicturesDown and Dirty Pictures chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines -- the Sundance Film Festival and Miramax Films -- that...Read More -
Easy Riders Raging BullsWhen the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. This was an age when talented...Read More
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WNYC, April 5, 2013
...GABFEST ( Click here for this week’s individual episode at Slate ) : The Heaven’s Gate Criterion Collection Blu-ray. Peter Biskind’s book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood . P.T....
Slate Magazine, April 3, 2013
...The Heaven’s Gate Criterion Collection Blu-ray. Peter Biskind’s book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. ...
Spectator, February 28, 2013
...Night. It’s read-it-in-a-morning short, and if you like William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade or Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls it’ll be a morning well spent. Freeman deploys the dusty wit and economy of style that Hollywood...
New Times SLO, January 17, 2013
...films, but Kenneth Bowser’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is as juicy as it is educational. Based on Peter Biskind’s bestseller of the same name, Bowser’s documentary explores how the “sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll” culture revitalized American...
Chicago Tribune, January 6, 2013
...poverty, gentrification and displacement. July My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles, edited by Peter Biskind (Metropolitan) Culled from long-lost tapes, this book captures the legendary director in unguarded...
Chicago Tribune, January 4, 2013
...poverty, gentrification and displacement. July My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles, edited by Peter Biskind (Metropolitan) Culled from long-lost tapes, this book captures the legendary director in unguarded...
Clash Music, October 5, 2012
...life. Richard: Fiction would be ‘Slaughterhouse 5’ by Kurt Vonnegut, Non-fiction would be ‘Easy Riders’, Raging Bulls’ by Peter Biskind. Ben: Woody Allen "The Complete Prose" because it is so funny it should be illegal. What...
BlackBook, January 18, 2013
...artistic integrity and youth recognition by everyone from Arthur Penn to Stanley Kubrick and Peter Fonda," said Peter Biskind in his book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls that provides perhaps the best written account of this era in Hollywood. And although...
Indiewire, January 17, 2013
...and co. pursued the film aggressively, Fine Line beat them to it, paying $2 million (causing, according to Peter Biskind's "Down And Dirty Pictures," Harvey to have a major meltdown at a party). The film went on to earn seven Oscar nominations, including...
Sky Movies, January 17, 2013
...filmmakers were equally staid, making films for themselves and their friends, rather for their audience. As film journalist Peter Biskind stated, "Before ‘Reservoir Dogs’, people rarely died in Sundance films except of old age, boredom or AIDS". All...
New Times SLO, January 17, 2013
...films, but Kenneth Bowser’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is as juicy as it is educational. Based on Peter Biskind’s bestseller of the same name, Bowser’s documentary explores how the “sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll” culture revitalized American...
South China Morning Post, January 16, 2013
...Foxx. It's predictably staged, and provides an unsatisfactory finish. In his book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, critic Peter Biskind argues that Steven Spielberg turned B-movies into A-list movies with Jaws. Tarantino's career has done the same for grade...
Chicago Tribune, January 6, 2013
...poverty, gentrification and displacement. July My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles, edited by Peter Biskind (Metropolitan) Culled from long-lost tapes, this book captures the legendary director in unguarded...
Chicago Tribune, January 4, 2013
...poverty, gentrification and displacement. July My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles, edited by Peter Biskind (Metropolitan) Culled from long-lost tapes, this book captures the legendary director in unguarded...
