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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (udgave 2008)

af Mark Harris

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[Explores] the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde-and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever.--From publisher description.… (mere)
Medlem:mkunruh
Titel:Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Forfattere:Mark Harris
Info:Penguin Press HC, The (2008), Hardcover, 496 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek, Read, Shelf
Vurdering:***1/2
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood af Mark Harris

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    Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960s af Ethan Mordden (ABVR)
    ABVR: Harris does an in-depth look at the production of five movies from the very end of the Sixties; Mordden gives a broad survey of the changes in Hollywood that led up to them.
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    Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood af Peter Biskind (sanddancer)
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I've only read about 75 pages but really am enjoying this book. The writing is very compelling and cliche-free.

The author includes many interesting anecdotes about actors, directors, producers, and others involved with the five films discussed. ( )
  monicaberger | Jan 22, 2024 |
One of the most fascinating non-fiction books I've ever read. If you're a cinephile, you can't not read this book. Likewise if you're interested in the cultural changes of the 1960s, it's a sure thing. Harris blends rigorous scholarship, great first hand interviews (inciteful quotes from Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in particular) with the narrative drive of a novel. ( )
  usuallee | Oct 7, 2021 |
Harris is a fine writer who mostly compiles interviews here without a wealth of insight into the times. At least certain anecdotes, like the endless nuisance of Rex Harrison's ego and his marriage troubles on the set of DOLITTLE, never get old. Harris does manage some good character insights into Sidney Poitier, a bourgeois bore victim of a historical moment and unique industrial circumstances that trapped him into unsatisfying work, and Mike Nichols, portrayed here as a mostly unlikeable prodigy. A good introduction to research into the New Hollywood era, and possibly a good bridge between better works on the old studio period and the full swing of the '70s. ( )
  brendanowicz | May 9, 2021 |
It was kind of fun to follow these five films from conception to awards. Probably more detail than most people may want, but I enjoyed getting the behind-the-scenes scoop on these classics. ( )
  spounds | Jun 27, 2020 |
Thoroughly enjoyable read taking a look back at the five movies nominated for best picture for 1968 Academy Awards. This book offers a lot of intriguing information regarding; Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night and Doctor Dolittle, five movies which give birth to a new Hollywood.
Very interesting information regarding each movie and the actors and directors involved. I nice little Epilogue sheds light on their careers after these ground breaking movies were released.
One downside is the fact that the information is scattered throughout the book and not in chronological order. Place a bookmark on the index for easy access as you'll refer to it often. ( )
  Carmenere | May 14, 2019 |
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Harris’s research allows him to raise the ante on just how stupefyingly timid and hidebound the industry had become. The pilot for the sitcom “Bewitched” languished for more than a year because of complaints by ABC’s Southern stations that its adman-loves-witch premise was “a veiled argument for racial intermarriage.” The book is full of these sorts of “Who’d have imagined?” pleasures. Had you known that Doris Day and Ronald Reagan were the early choices to play Mr. and Mrs. Robinson? That “What’s new, pussycat?” was one of Warren Beatty’s signature seduction lines? That Artie Shaw compared reading the script of “Bonnie and Clyde” to “looking in a sewer”?

Harris’s decision to track the projects year by year, alternating among them, allows us to so fully engage the filmmakers’ dogged will in the face of setbacks that we find ourselves rooting hard for even “Doctor Dolittle” to work out. “Bonnie and Clyde” may furnish the zippiest narrative: from its conception as a gangster film about, in Robert Benton’s words, “all the things they didn’t show you in a gangster film,” including the way rollicking good fun could turn instantly lethal; to its composition, with Benton and his screenwriting partner, David Newman, working while Flatt and Scruggs played “at full volume on the phonograph”; to its memorable and successful ad campaign. (“They’re Young. They’re in Love. And They Kill People.”)
 

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[Explores] the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde-and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever.--From publisher description.

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