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_danhill's review
5.0
I'm a sucker for tell all volumes on Hollywood (one of my favorite books is Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind). This book is very much in the vein of Biskind's book, serving as a kind of prequel in fact. The book details the genesis and production of the films nominated for Best Picture at the 1967 Oscars-- Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, and Dr Doolittle.
The last of those pictures is the anomaly, an example of the overblown, expensive tent-pole pictures the studios of the time still thought relevant. The book itself goes into detail about the wave of new thinking coming to Hollywood at the time from the French New Wave movement. Directors like Truffaut and Godard were all the rage and their influences were now starting to seep into the American film industry culminating in writers Benton and Newman attempting to get the directors attached to their Bonnie and Clyde script.
Because of the narrow scope of the book Harris is able to go into much more specific detail than Biskind did with his volume, weaving together on set spats, anecdotes and analysis of the films nicely. It was this year perhaps more than any that set the stage for the golden age of the 70's to come to fruition, promoting a new kind of thinking about film.
Highly recommended to even the most minor of film buffs.
The last of those pictures is the anomaly, an example of the overblown, expensive tent-pole pictures the studios of the time still thought relevant. The book itself goes into detail about the wave of new thinking coming to Hollywood at the time from the French New Wave movement. Directors like Truffaut and Godard were all the rage and their influences were now starting to seep into the American film industry culminating in writers Benton and Newman attempting to get the directors attached to their Bonnie and Clyde script.
Because of the narrow scope of the book Harris is able to go into much more specific detail than Biskind did with his volume, weaving together on set spats, anecdotes and analysis of the films nicely. It was this year perhaps more than any that set the stage for the golden age of the 70's to come to fruition, promoting a new kind of thinking about film.
Highly recommended to even the most minor of film buffs.
danhill's review
5.0
I'm a sucker for tell all volumes on Hollywood (one of my favorite books is Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind). This book is very much in the vein of Biskind's book, serving as a kind of prequel in fact. The book details the genesis and production of the films nominated for Best Picture at the 1967 Oscars-- Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, and Dr Doolittle.
The last of those pictures is the anomaly, an example of the overblown, expensive tent-pole pictures the studios of the time still thought relevant. The book itself goes into detail about the wave of new thinking coming to Hollywood at the time from the French New Wave movement. Directors like Truffaut and Godard were all the rage and their influences were now starting to seep into the American film industry culminating in writers Benton and Newman attempting to get the directors attached to their Bonnie and Clyde script.
Because of the narrow scope of the book Harris is able to go into much more specific detail than Biskind did with his volume, weaving together on set spats, anecdotes and analysis of the films nicely. It was this year perhaps more than any that set the stage for the golden age of the 70's to come to fruition, promoting a new kind of thinking about film.
Highly recommended to even the most minor of film buffs.
The last of those pictures is the anomaly, an example of the overblown, expensive tent-pole pictures the studios of the time still thought relevant. The book itself goes into detail about the wave of new thinking coming to Hollywood at the time from the French New Wave movement. Directors like Truffaut and Godard were all the rage and their influences were now starting to seep into the American film industry culminating in writers Benton and Newman attempting to get the directors attached to their Bonnie and Clyde script.
Because of the narrow scope of the book Harris is able to go into much more specific detail than Biskind did with his volume, weaving together on set spats, anecdotes and analysis of the films nicely. It was this year perhaps more than any that set the stage for the golden age of the 70's to come to fruition, promoting a new kind of thinking about film.
Highly recommended to even the most minor of film buffs.
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