Peter Biskind

El espectacular éxito de Easy Rider en 1969, una película de moteros de escaso presupuesto, marcó el inicio de una nueva era en Hollywood. Una generación de jóvenes directores, Martin Scorsese, Francis F. Coppola y Steven Spielberg entre otros, comenzaron a filmar con actores aun poco conocidos, como Robert De Niro, Al Pacino y Jack Nicholson, y en pocos años se convirtieron en los nuevos y poderosos señores de Hollywood, artifices de clasicos modernos como El padrino, Chinatown, Taxi Driver y Tiburon.Basado en cientos de entrevistas con los propios directores, pero tambien con productores, estrellas, agentes, guionistas, ejecutivos de los estudios, esposas y ex esposas, el libro de Peter Biskind narra dia a dia la epopeya de los jovenes lobos de Hollywood, la genesis de sus peliculas y sus luchas contra el establishment.Moteros tranquilos, toros salvajes es la esplendida cronica de ese viaje alucinante que fue Hollywood en los años setenta, la historia apasionante y veridica de la ultima gran edad de oro del cine americano, una exaltada celebracion de la creatividad y la experimentacion, pero tambien del sexo, las drogas y el rock and roll.

El libro que relata los pormenores de la trayectoria de los hermanos Weinstein en «la fábrica de sueños». A finales de los años ochenta, empezó a desarrollarse una nueva generación de directores de c

El espectacular éxito de Easy Rider en 1969, una película de moteros de escaso presupuesto, marcó el inicio de una nueva era en Hollywood. Una generación de jóvenes directores, Scorsese, Coppola y Spielberg entre otros, comenzaron a filmar con actores aun poco conocidos, como Robert De Niro, Al Pacino y Jack Nicholson, y en pocos años se convirtieron en los nuevos y poderosos señores de Hollywood. Basado en cientos de entrevistas con los propios directores, pero tambien con productores, estrellas, agentes, guionistas, esposas y ex esposas, el libro de Peter Biskind narra dia a dia la epopeya de los jovenes lobos de Hollywood, la genesis de sus peliculas y sus luchas contra el establishment. Es la cronica de Hollywood en los años setenta, la historia de la ultima gran edad de oro del cine americano, una celebracion de la creatividad y la experimentacion, pero tambien del sexo, las drogas y el rock and roll. La ultima edad dorada del cine creativo de Hollywood en una cronica imprescindible (Diego Manrique, El Pais); Morboso, duro, documentado e imprescindible (Carlos Boyero); ¡Que maravilla! (Manuel Hidalgo, El Mundo).NOTAS PARA ISBN:El autor es ingles.

'You'll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn't' Steven Soderbergh 'Insanely readable' Slavoj Zizek 'Your book was ... like a bag of pot, with me saying, 'I'm not gonna smoke.' But I was insatiable' Quentin Tarantino on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls In The Sky is Falling! bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind takes us on a dizzying ride across two decades of pop culture to show how the TV and movies we love - from Game of Thrones and 24 to Homeland and Iron Man - have taught us to love political extremism. Welcome to a darkly pessimistic, apocalyptic world where winter has come, the dead are walking, and ultra violence, revenge and torture are all in a day's work. Welcome to the new normal.

El espectacular éxito de Easy Rider en 1969, una película de moteros de escaso presupuesto, marcó el inicio de una nueva era en Hollywood. Una generación de jóvenes directores, Scorsese, Coppola y Spielberg entre otros, comenzaron a filmar con actores aun poco conocidos, como Robert De Niro, Al Pacino y Jack Nicholson, y en pocos años se convirtieron en los nuevos y poderosos señores de Hollywood, artifices de clasicos modernos como El padrino, China-town, Taxi Driver y Tiburon. Basado en cientos de entrevistas con los propios directores, pero tambien con productores, estrellas, agentes, guionistas, ejecutivos de los estudios, esposas y ex esposas, el libro de Peter Biskind narra dia a dia la epopeya de los jovenes lobos de Hollywood, la genesis de sus peliculas y sus luchas contra el establishment. Moteros tranquilos, toros salvajes es la esplendida cronica de ese viaje alucinante que fue Hollywood en los años setenta, la historia apasionante y veridica de la ultima gran edad de oro del cine americano, una exaltada celebracion de la creatividad y la experimentacion, pero tambien del sexo, las drogas y el rock and roll. Un libro apasionante y una verdadera rareza, pone todos los entresijos de Hollywood al descubierto, y lo leemos boquiabiertos, engullendo un escandalo tras otro a tal velocidad que corremos el riesgo de ahogarnos. Pero tambien es una cronica excepcional, escrita con notable inteligencia, llena de informacion y que va mas alla de los escandalos... (San Francisco Chronicle). Indiscutiblemente, el mejor libro sobre el tema (Tim Appelo). Un libro que equivale al mejor Robert Altman (Mark Steyn). El retrato salvaje de la ultima epoca de oro de Hollywood (Festival del Film Norteamericano de Deauville, 2002). Peter Biskind ha sido jefe de redaccion de la revista Premiete y director de American Film. Sus articulos han aparecido en The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post y Rolling Stone, entre otras publicaciones.

Here is Hollywood over the last three decades - the superfreaks, lowlifes, charlatans, and the occasional geniuses who have left their bite marks on American culture, as refracted through the trajectory of Peter Biskind''s career. Biskind began as a radical journalist and film critic. Now he can legitimately describe himself - as he does in the autobiographical introduction to this book - as a ''recovering celebrity journalist''. At the heart of the book are the likes of Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, Sue Mengers, and uber-producer Don Simpson, all of whom Biskind portrays in great Dickensian detail, charting how they have had a simultaneously strangulating and liberating effect on the industry.

In the late 1980s a generation of filmmakers began to flower outside the Hollywood studio system and in the following decade, the independent film movement bloomed. Dozens of lesser-known filmmakers such as Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino began walking away with coveted prizes at Cannes and eventually the Academy Awards. Many of these directors were discovered at Robert Redford''s Sundance Film Festival and then scooped up by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, whose company Miramax laid waste to the competition. In Down and Dirty Pictures, Peter Biskind tells the incredible story of these filmmakers, the growth of Sundance into the premier showcase of independent film, and the meteoric rise of the controversial Weinstein brothers who left a trail of carnage in their wake yet created an Oscar factory that is the envy of the studios.

The definitive look at how the 70s movie makers changed the face of cinema

A finales de los años ochenta, muchos directores como Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee o Robert Rodríguez cosechaban premios, algunos llegaron a Cannes. Muchos de ellos, descubiertos en el Festival de Cine de Sundance, creado por Robert Redford, fueron aupados por Harvey y Bob Weinstein, cuya compañia cinematografica, Miramax, arrasaba en cada certamen. Peter Biskind cuenta la historia de los directores y las distribuidoras independientes que revitalizaron Hollywood en los noventa. Sigue la trayectoria expansiva de Sundance, que de festival cinematografico regional se convirtio en el principal escaparate del cine independiente. Traza la meteorica ascension de Harvey Weinstein, quien dejo tras de si una estela de cadaveres pero logro crear una fabrica de Oscars. Sexo, mentiras y Hollywood es una lectura obligatoria para todo aquel que se interese por el mundo cinematografico y quiera saber hacia donde se dirige. Cometi el error de ponerlo sobre la mesilla de noche, y fue como si tuviera al lado una bolsa de marihuana y dijera no voy a fumar. No podia dejarlo (Quentin Tarantino); Es un fragmento fascinante de la historia cultural, un fragmento que rebosa de los cotilleos mas jugosos (The Times); Muestra con lucidez como los movimientos de vanguardia se convierten en el establishment (The New Yorker).

In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty. Famously a playboy, Beatty has also been one of the most ambitious and successful stars in Hollywood. Several Beatty films have passed the test of time, from Bonnie and Clyde to Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds (for which he won the best director Oscar), Bugsy, and Bulworth. Few filmgoers realize that along with Orson Welles, Beatty is the only person ever nominated for four Academy Awards for a single film -- and unlike Welles, Beatty did it twice. Biskind shows how Beatty used star power, commercial success, savvy, and charm to bend Hollywood moguls to his will. Beattys private life has been the subject of gossip for decades, and Star confirms his status as Hollywoods leading man in the bedroom, describing his affairs with Joan Collins, Natalie Wood, Leslie Caron and Madonna, among many others. Biskind explains how Beatty exercised unique control, often hiring screenwriters out of his own pocket, producing, directing, and acting in his own films. He was arguably one of the most successful and creative figures in Hollywood during the second half of the twentieth century, and in this fascinating biography, Warren Beatty comes to life -- complete with excesses and achievements -- as never before.

A dazzling, no-holds-barred chronicle of the wild 1970s that transformed Hollywood, capturing the sex, drugs, genius, and chaos that ignited a cinematic revolution and changed movies forever.In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock n roll, Easy Rider heralded a decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry.Easy Riders, Raging Bulls takes us on a wild ride that chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country; how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto; why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated; how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars; how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood; how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller; and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub. It was a time when an anything goes experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off.After the success of Easy Rider, young film-school graduates suddenly found themselves in demand, and directors such as Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese became powerful figures. Even the new generation of film starsNicholson, De Niro, Hoffman, Pacino, and Dunawayseemed a breed apart from the traditional Hollywood actors. Ironically, the renaissance would come to an end with Jaws and Star Wars, two hugely successful films that would create a blockbuster mentality and crush innovation.Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors themselves, producers, stars, agents, writers, studio executives, spouses, and ex-spouses, this is the full, candid story of Hollywoods last golden age. Never before have so many celebrities talked so frankly about one another and about the drugs, sex, and money that made so many of them crash and burn. By turns hilarious and shocking, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of Hollywood at work and play.

In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty. Famously a playboyhe has been linked to costars Natalie Wood, Julie Christie, Diane Keaton, and Madonna, among othersBeatty has also been one of the most ambitious and successful stars in Hollywood. Several Beatty films have passed the test of time, from Bonnie and Clyde to Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds (for which he won the best director Oscar), Bugsy, and Bulworth. Few filmgoers realize that along with Orson Welles, Beatty is the only person ever nominated for four Academy Awards for a single filmand unlike Welles, Beatty did it twice, with Heaven Can Wait and Reds. Biskind shows how Beatty used star power, commercial success, savvy, and charm to bend Hollywood moguls to his will, establishing an unprecedented level of independence while still working within the studio system. Arguably one of the most successful and creative figures in Hollywood over the last few decades, Beatty exercised unique control over his films, often hiring screenwriters out of his own pocket (and frequently collaborating with them), producing, directing, and acting, becoming an auteur before anyone in Hollywood knew what the word meant. In this fascinating biography, the ultimate Hollywood Star comes to lifecomplete with excesses and achievementsas never before.

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom The Sopranos to streaming: the scandalous behind-the-screens story of the TV revolution by the author of the cult film classic Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things, the shows we watch - and the ways we watch them - have been transformed over the past fifty years. Out of the bland wasteland of play-it-safe broadcasting came astonishing stories of sex, violence, and corruption shown first on cable, and then by way of streaming. Today, the power of viewers to select what they want and when they want it is greater than ever before. In short, we are living in a new golden age of television, but golden ages dont last forever. Revolutions have a habit of eating their own, and the era of peak TV may have an unhappy ending.Pandoras Box is a major new account of the small screen from cultural critic Peter Biskind. Through exclusive, candid and colourful interviews with writers, showrunners, directors and actors, Biskind brings us face to face with the people whose creations we encounter every day on our sofas, and reveals the dynamic interplay of art, commerce and technology. We follow executives down the corridors of power and see how their money and guile cultivate, then crush creativity; we witness the making - and unmaking - of TVs biggest hits. There has never been a more exciting time in entertainment history, and Peter Biskind, the ideal insider guide, captures it all.

Youll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldnt Steven SoderberghInsanely readable Slavoj ZizekYour book was ... like a bag of pot, with me saying, Im not gonna smoke. But I was insatiable Quentin Tarantino on Easy Riders, Raging BullsIn The Sky is Falling! bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind takes us on a dizzying ride across two decades of pop culture to show how the TV and movies we love - from Game of Thrones and 24 to Homeland and Iron Man - have taught us to love political extremism. Welcome to a darkly pessimistic, apocalyptic world where winter has come, the dead are walking, and ultra violence, revenge and torture are all in a days work. Welcome to the new normal.