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Peter Biskind's Books
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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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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
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Onion AV Club, March 23, 2012
...In Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, there’s a great anecdote: Some studio execs attend a screening of The Exorcist, anxious (perhaps understandably) about the film’s prospects. Midway through...
The Scotsman, March 12, 2012
...for the battle for the monkey virus panic story that would become Outbreak, well… If tomes such as Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Sharon Waxman’s Rebels On The Back Lot are driven to a large extent by personal gossip about the...
Kirkus Reviews, February 24, 2012
...Julia Phillips, You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again (Random House, 1991) As maverick film journalist/historian Peter Biskind (Down and Dirty Pictures, etc.) has chronicled, the 1970s were a strange and dangerous time in Tinseltown, thanks mostly...
Time, January 18, 2012
...go down the more familiar route of embellishing Darth Vader’s backstory.” Lucas’s ex-wife Marcia says, in Peter Biskind’s 2005 book about the New Hollywood of the 1970s, “George would have remained an experimental filmmaker if it had not been...
Time, January 18, 2012
...go down the more familiar route of embellishing Darth Vader’s backstory.” Lucas’s ex-wife Marcia says, in Peter Biskind’s 2005 book about the New Hollywood of the 1970s, “George would have remained an experimental filmmaker if it had not been...
The Scotsman, January 2, 2012
...sustain him as a source of public fascination. Winkler’s book borrows the informal, rough-and-ready tone deployed by Peter Biskind, whose most famous work Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, of course, covered the period of Hopper’s greatest fame. It’s...
Onion AV Club, December 28, 2011
...s a sharp, challenging work in a field dominated by literary safe bets. Runner-up: Shock Value, Jason Zinoman Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls painted a picture of the enfants terrible of ’70s cinema, but in focusing on Coppola, Lucas,...
Kirkus Reviews, February 24, 2012
...Julia Phillips, You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again (Random House, 1991) As maverick film journalist/historian Peter Biskind (Down and Dirty Pictures, etc.) has chronicled, the 1970s were a strange and dangerous time in Tinseltown, thanks mostly...
Guardian.co.uk, February 23, 2012
...$414m worldwide, four key Oscars). "You don't hear the horrific Harvey stories you used to," says Peter Biskind, whose book Down and Dirty Pictures traced Weinstein's story through to the Disney split. "He seems to be regaining his normal stature as a...
Guardian.co.uk, February 23, 2012
...$414m worldwide, four key Oscars). "You don't hear the horrific Harvey stories you used to," says Peter Biskind, whose book Down and Dirty Pictures traced Weinstein's story through to the Disney split. "He seems to be regaining his normal stature as a...
New York Times, February 3, 2012
...IN his 2004 book, Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film, Peter Biskind recounts a striking story about October Films, the little movie company that could and sometimes did in the 1990s. It was December 1999 and...
Pajamas Media, January 30, 2012
...Mail is winning the newspaper war: by the management and editorial bullpen of the New York Times. As Peter Biskind wrote in...
