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 their invention of the superstar TV 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 countercultural id.
| Other titles new this week: Girl Who Played With Fire, The (2010) |
| Tangle Season 2 (2010) |
| Summer Of The Seventeenth Dol (1997) |
| Dear Wendy (2006) |
| Flipped (2010) |
| Down Terrace (2009) |
| Legend Of The Guardians The Owls Of Ha'hoole(2010) |
| Going The Distance (2010) |
| Tudors, The Season Four (2010) |
| Head (America Lost And Found) (1968) |
| Easy Rider (America Lost And Found) (1969) |
| Five Easy Pieces (America Lost And Found) (1970) |
| Drive, He Said/A Safe Place (America Lostandfound) |
| Last Picture Show, The (1971) |
| King Of Marvin Gardens, The (1971) |
| Red Shoes, The (1948) Blu-Ray |
| Deadly Impact (2008) |
| Crazy On The Outside (2010) |
| Experiment, The (2010) |
| Tudors, The Season 3 (2009) |