Jeff Nichols
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The Law-Respecting Lawlessness of 'Bikeriders' July 10, 2024
Jeff Nichols is a strange director. He makes movies about the forgotten Americans, the white working and lower classes of the Midwest, but it’s only European festivals that really take an interest. His protagonists are invariably men, yet it’s the fe...
The 'Bikeriders' Diaries June 27, 2024
Next to Robert Frank’s The Americans, there may be no book of midcentury American photography more influential than The Bikeriders, Danny Lyon’s landmark work from 1968. It’s not just the unforgettable photographs, which focus on the Chicago Outlaws ...
“The Bikeriders” Lends a Wild Bunch a Mythic Grandeur June 21, 2024
Authenticity is a feeling and investigative fervor is an attitude. The Italian neorealist classics bear the marks of the journalistic research on which they rely, but journalists rarely feature in the action. The whole truth of even an instant is vas...
