It goes chronologically, and because I missed a lot fo the start, this recording starts post-Godfather, post-Mean Streets, Post-Last Picture Show, with The Exorcist – and I notice that while my recording has Tubular Bells, the Amazon Prime version has no music at the same point, a victim of the different licensing agreements between TV programmes for broadcast, and for sale outside broadcast. It tells the story of the new generation of filmmakers that arose at a time when the old Hollywood studio system was in decline, and independent cinema was on the rise. It’s Easy Riders Raging Bulls, a documentary based on Peter Biskind’s book of the same title (which I also read at the time, and enjoyed). The next recording starts with a brief snatch of Top of the Pops, with Dermot O’Leary, but since this was late at night, I’m assuming this was I Love 1992 which I jolly well should have been recording.īut it switches to BBC Four, and the next recording is similarly missing the start – in fact it’s missing about 70 minutes, which would be really annoying except that it’s on Amazon Prime, so I can at least watch all of it. For completeness, Here’s all the questions, including all the easy ones just for fun.Īnd here’s the whole episode (including the Fastest Finger First bit that my recording misses). I looked at the documentary on the cheating scandal a while back, I’ve missed the beginning so it’s straight into the first question. They’ve subtitled it An Officer and a Gentleman?. It only lasted for a decade, but what a ride it was.First on today’s disc, something of a repeat, as it’s the edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire featuring Major Charles Ingram.
After Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, almost anyone who looked like he - they were mostly all male - had slept in his clothes, wore a bandana around his head, had a joint jammed between his lips, and a three day growth of beard, could walk into the office of a studio head and get a deal. This book explores the cultural and political context - the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Vietnam War Movement, Watergate - which spawned them, and describes the sorry state of the studios in the late-1960’s that made them vulnerable to the so-called movie brat generation that successfully stormed the gates. How did this happen? What was going on in America, and Hollywood in particular to prepare the soil from which sprang such a remarkable group of films?
This was the era of movies like The Godfathers, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, The French Connection, The Last Detail, Annie Hall, Jaws, The Last Picture Show, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, and so on, a group of pictures that towers over the product Hollywood is releasing today.
The 1970s was the last Golden Age of Hollywood film.
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