"I think that all of us who began at that period, to varying degrees, had a sense of Hollywood history, much more than people today. Francis Coppola and Billy Friedkin and [Martin] Scorsese and I all had different people we liked in terms of past filmmakers, but we did have a sense of film history as well as film grammar that we drew on. That was part of the dynamic—everybody brought his more modern sensibility to bear, but it was definitely based on... a filmmaking technique that was tried and true." —From the opening conversation with Peter Bogdanovich ]]> en-us 2005-10-09T23:59:59-05:00 http://www.beatrice.com/1970s/archives/001793.html editor 2005-10-09T23:59:59-05:00 http://www.beatrice.com/1970s/archives/001787.html Film historians like Peter Biskind (Easy Riders, Raging Bulls) have taught us a new way of looking at '70s Hollywood: Films like Five Easy Pieces and The Last Picture Show are now held up as icons of American cinema's second... editor 2005-10-09T23:55:11-05:00 http://www.beatrice.com/1970s/archives/001786.html Speaking to John Warner, the author of the writing guide Fondling Your Muse, Ron Hogan reveals the lengths he went to for art's sake: "I spent a half-week with a photo editor poring through the archives of the Academy of... editor 2005-10-09T23:48:27-05:00 http://www.beatrice.com/1970s/archives/001794.html In recent years, Hollywood studios have released remakes of '70s hits like The Amityville Horror, Assault on Precint 13, The Bad News Bears, The Fog, The Longest Yard, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory., and Fun With Dick and Jane,... editor 2005-10-09T23:22:32-05:00