Review of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) by Ross M — 06 Jan 2010

Another doc we watched in Producing, ER,RB tells the directors of the 70s took Hollywood by storm. I hadn't realized how intertwined the Hollywood heavyweight's lives were entangled when they first started out, from partying together, or just plain living life and the dream together, through their good times and their bad.

This was the first time where I've seen a documentary about Spielberg, Scorsese, Lucas, and Coppola where they were no longer icon's for film students to live up to but rather talented, fresh out of film school just trying to make it in this very tough industry.

It gives us aspiring filmmakers hope to see how similar their early days were as compared to our own, and how tough it was for them to finally make it. I also liked the brief inclusion of Roman Polanski because, despite his personal indiscretions (and before I get any shit on it, I chose 'indiscretions' carefully, but am in no way defending his actions) he still remains one of my favorite directors simply because of his vision and method of storytelling and he was very influential in this time.

This is definitely a movie for those film buffs who are interested in how things were in the 70s and 80s and how the names we've come to love and revere in film first started out.