While the really big-hitters such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola have, understandably, given this a body-swerve, there are plenty of influentials still ready to step up to the mic.Įnter Dennis Hopper - whose battle with addiction is surely one of the most documented in Hollywood - Peter Bogdanovich - who seems to have been almost as much of a stud as Warren Beatty - and a host of actors, actresses and producers, including Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn and Karen Black - who doesn't seem to have quite come down from that 70s high yet. You won't find any dodgy Z-listers here - or at least, if you do, they will still have something sensible to say about the film-making in the decade of flares and platforms.īased on Peter Biskind's book of the same name, the film-makers set about quizzing the great and the good from the 70s as to how - and indeed if - the 'sex, drugs and rock'n'roll generation saved Hollywood'.

Thankfully, this informative romp through 70s cinema has chosen its talking heads carefully. It's only when you watch an in-depth documentary such as Easy Riders, Raging Bulls that you realise how much second-rate rubbish TV-makers now foist on us in the name of factual entertainment.

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