AMERICA LOST AND FOUND: THE BBS STORY (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences -- namely, young people -- and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money from the invention of the superstar pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community. The innovative films produced by this team between 1968 and 1972 are collected in this box set -- works that now range from the iconic (EASY RIDER, FIVE EASY PIECES, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW) to the acclaimed (THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS) to the obscure (HEAD; DRIVE, HE SAID; A SAFE PLACE), all created within the studio system but lifted right out of the counterculture id.
• Runtime: 11:31
• Media Format: Movie