
Pictures at a Revolution
Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
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Narrated by:
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Lloyd James
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By:
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Mark Harris
It was the mid-1960s, and Westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals, such as Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, dominated the box office. The Hollywood studio system, with its cartels of talent and its production code, was hanging strong, or so it seemed.
But by the time the Oscar ceremonies rolled around in the spring of 1968, when In the Heat of the Night won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Picture, a cultural revolution had hit Hollywood with the force of a tsunami. The unprecedented violence and nihilism of fellow nominee Bonnie and Clyde shocked old-guard reviewers and made the movie one of the year's biggest box-office successes. Just as unprecedented was the run of The Graduate, which launched first-time director Mike Nichols into a long and brilliant career and inspired a generation of young people who knew that, whatever their future was, it wasn't in plastics.
What City of Nets did for Hollywood in the 1940s, and Easy Rider and Raging Bull did for the 1970s, Pictures at a Revolution does for Hollywood and the cultural revolution of the 1960s. As we follow the progress of five movies, we see an entire industry change and struggle and collapse and grow - and we see careers made and ruined, studios born and destroyed, and the landscape of possibility altered beyond all recognition.
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"Fresh and candid....A particularly accomplished debut book." ( The New York Times)
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Wonderful slice of history
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terrific
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Great book - especially for film buffs!
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The reader gets a LOT of pronunciations wrong
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As someone who works in "the industry" I found this book insightful and believe it would appeal to anyone with an interest in film. It makes accessible the process of actually getting a movie made; the business and politics of it all in addition to the creative process. It is so much more than you will find in a glossy magazine.
But really, someone should have done something about the mispronunciations. The narrator is very listenable, but Sidney Lumet's name is, as mentioned in other reviews, NOT pronounced LUMMIT. It's just not.
A good listen - A valuable book
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Excellent Book and Excellent Narration
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The narrator had this weird upward inflection thing when making a supporting comment that I feel he was told to stop doing 3 quarters through the book. That was the only thing I noticed to critique haha
Very Interesting
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Deeper revealing story about the shift in the Hollywood machine that eventually leads to the modern blockbuster mentality.
Great stories about specific films, actors, directors, and producers and how they all contributed to the film Revolution on the late 60’s.
If you like movies (let alone love them) this is a great bit of history.
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Mispronounced names
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Great stories, BUT where is this narrator from?
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