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  The History of the Movies That Matter

  As the sixties cultural revolution of self-fulfilment began to take hold in America, Hollywood was in a full-on state of panic. No-one knew what fantasies to peddle and the cowboys of the American Dream were starting to look unprofitably out of touch. Enter the flim school geeks like George Lucas and Spielberg and the hipster movers and shakers of the first wave of the New Hollywood, producing movies like Bonnie and Clyde that slashed across the critical and public tastes alike. This expertly-written book was based on hundreds of interviews with the key players and those that felt the immediate effects of their sometimes damaging antics. All the lunatic plans are laid out here, some of which leading on becoming the biggest movie franchises of all time, and the book has an elegaic feel as the Hollywood machine gradually re-caliberates and takes what it wants from the young talent, leaving the rest to burn in their own frustrations. By the time the blockbuster bullies its way to centre stage, the dance is all but over and the money is won; but it's an exhilarating spin while it lasts.

  Review by Dom Egan on 14:04, 04 Apr 2008

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