| The New Hollywood Box Set (Drive, He Said / Five Easy Pieces / The King of Marvin Gardens / Last Picture Show / A Safe Place / Head / Easy Rider) |  | Artist: Artist Not Provided
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 8
UPC: 043396321021
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Description
The Late 1960s brought about an era of change in America and two men were there to capture that moment on film, Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider . Before Rafelson and Scheider, Hollywood had yet to keep pace with the times with the political and social climate changing. BBS Productions was born, a production company created by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider and later with Steve Blauner. The BBS, released Five Easy Pieces and was the catalyst that finally brought about a new era in Hollywood filmmaking. BBS, started a new way of movie making and the acceptance of Hollywood to this new way of filmmaking would influence how films were thought about and viewed still to this day. BBS Productions were able to make movies almost without interference from the studio. With the success of Easy Rider, a six-picture deal would emerge with Columbia Pictures. These films journey through this provocative period of both American life and filmmaking itself.
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Interesting films from the late 60's - early 70's June 11, 2009
calvinnme (Fredericksburg, Va)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I wouldn't call this New Hollywood. It's more like medieval Hollywood, but then a boxed set of films so named probably wouldn't sell. Old Hollywood is my favorite era - the era up through 1965 or so when there was still one unified production code before the modern rating system began. New Hollywood really begins after 1980, when cost concerns become so great that nobody takes any chances and the film industry slowly evolves into a pre-packaged, summer blockbuster-dominated, teen approved assembly line that is one step above reality television.
In between those two eras is the period of time these films represent. There was still room in Hollywood's budget for taking chances with small films and new writers. This period of time coincides with a time of great cultural upheaval in the U.S. and these films are part of the product.
"Drive, He Said" is a look at college campus life circa 1970 and is Jack Nicholson's directorial debut. The film is a bit of a mess, but it certainly is interesting. Stars Bruce Dern, Karen Black, and William Tepper as a college basketball star.
Five Easy Pieces" is one of the better known films in the group. Jack Nicholson was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his performance. Nicholson plays a brilliant classical pianist from a wealthy family of intellectuals who prefers working as a laborer in an Oklahoma oil field to living the life to which he was born. When his father's death becomes eminent, he returns home and has to face what he has been running from all these years.
"The King Of Marvin Gardens" stars Bruce Dern who is constantly coming up with various schemes and scams. When he decides to build a resort in Hawaii with money he stole from his mobster boss he gets his brother (Jack Nicholson) involved, and the consequences of the scheme are severe.
"The Last Picture Show" was released in 1971 and received eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. It is a coming of age tale set in a 1951 small Texas town that is slowly dying. Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms, and Cloris Leachman all star.
"Easy Rider" stars Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, and Dennis Hopper (who also directs). Nicholson plays an alcoholic attorney who rides along with Fonda and Hopper, who in turn play two drug-dealing motorcyclists who are riding around the country in a journey that brings them into contact with many interesting people. Some of them are friendly, some not so much.
"Head" is a 1968 film co-directed by Jack Nicholson and starring the Monkees. It is one strange montage after another with the Monkees clearly rebelling against their prefabricated made-for-TV roots. There's even a cameo by Victor Mature as "Big Victor" a giant injected into the film for purposes unknown.
"A Safe Place" from 1971 stars Tuesday Weld as a girl looking for emotional safety in her past experiences. She is involved with two men. Phil Proctor plays the "safe" boyfriend, and Jack Nicholson plays the interesting but dangerous boyfriend. Supposedly, back in the early '90s, Henry Jaglom, who directed and wrote "A Safe Place", had so despaired of convincing Sony to release the film on VHS that he deposited bootleg copies at several Los Angeles video rental stores himself just so he would know that people would have access to it.
Since all but one of these films - The Last Picture Show - involves Jack Nicholson as either director, writer, or actor, you could almost call this set "Early Nicholson". It's surprising but refreshing to see Sony putting some of these largely unknown films on DVD alongside better known classics as other studios have retreated to safer ground.
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