The Bikeriders
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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’ Can’t Outrace All the Clichés June 25, 2024
Watching television with his wife and young daughters one night in the mid-1960s, Johnny (Tom Hardy), a roughneck, spiritually stifled truck driver, stumbles across a prime-time broadcast of 1953’s The Wild One—a seminal depiction of biker gang ritua...
“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...
