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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock'N'Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

USA | 2003, 119 min.

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Festival edition: 2005

Section: Landmarks of American Mass Culture

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Based on Peter Biskind's best-selling book, the documentary examines 1970’s Hollywood, when the director was the star of the movie. Those times gave birth to a new generation of filmmakers who breathed new life into Hollywood. It all began with Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" in 1969, and came to a close with Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" in 1980. This was a golden age of American cinema. Hopper, Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas were among its main heroes. With each success the filmmakers were allowed more creative control. 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. This is a unique portrait of an iconoclastic period of movie history when filmmakers made a huge impact on the whole of American culture.

Director(-s): Ken Bowser

Ken Bowser has produced, directed and written for ABC News Productions and is the producer/director of the Emmy Award-winning "Frank Capra's American Dream" and "Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer". Made his feaure film debut "In a Shallow Grave" in 1988.

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Producer: Ken Bowser, Rachel Talbot

Cast: Dennis Hopper, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman, Jerome Hellman, Charles Mulvehill

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