![]() Beginning with Bonnie and Clyde and ending with Heaven’s Gate (more or less), Biskind’s book covers so much ground, and so many careers, that it would be easy for the book to fall into chaos. Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls tells the story of that decade, explaining just what led to an era in film so dominated by directors who were given free reign to make their own unique pictures, and what happened by the 1980s that brought that to a close. From big-budget pictures like The Godfather to personal stories like Mean Streets, from the revolutionary Easy Rider to the predecessor of the modern blockbuster Jaws, the 1970s was a time of incredible growth and change for the film industry, and there are no shortage of films from the decade that can be held up among the greatest films of all time. If you were to ask me what the best period for American film was, I’d be hard pressed to argue that it wasn’t the 1970s, a period where a slew of factors gave us some of the most personal – and most interesting – films of all time.
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