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THE BIKERIDERS (2023)
Run Time: 1:56:00
Producer: New Regency Productions
Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer: Jeff Nichols, Dany Lyon
Key Cast: Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy
FILM MAKERS
Written and directed by Jeff Nichols, The Bikeriders tells a fictional story inspired by the 1967 photo-book of the same name by Danny Lyon and stars an ensemble cast that includes Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, and Norman Reedus.
The Bikeriders premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 1, 2023, by 20th Century Studios.
SUMMARY
“I’ve been thinking, I can run this club forever. I’ve built this from nothing. This is our family. You and me kid.”
Kathy, a strong-willed member of the Vandals who is married to a wild, reckless bikerider named Benny, recounts the Vandals’ evolution over the course of a decade, beginning as a local club of outsiders united by good times, rumbling bikes, and respect for their strong, steady leader Johnny.
Over the years, Kathy tries her best to navigate her husband’s untamed nature and his allegiance to Johnny, with whom she feels she must compete for Benny’s attention. As life in the Vandals gets more dangerous, and the club threatens to become a more sinister gang, Kathy, Benny and Johnny are forced to make choices about their loyalty to the club and to each other.
RELATED MEDIA
The Bikeriders, Danny Lyon (1967) – Purchase on the Aperture website for the current reprint that is true to the original.
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Well now …
Looking forward to this one … and err .. gonna have ta buy the book as well … and assuming The Bike Riders is a good book … may have to add a couple more of Mr Lyons books to the home library …. as there’s more than a few interesting titles in his catalogue
Molto grazie Corrinna … this’n’s a winner !
You should definitely add The Bikeriders to your library – everyone should! It’s a remarkable book: Danny Lyon went from staff photographer for the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), working the the South registering Black folks to vote – and working alongside Cliff Vaughs as another staff photographer – then went back home to Chicago, joined the Outlaws, interviewed and photographed them, and produced The Bikeriders. It’s a singular piece of photo/journalism: he was interviewing his friends, as they were, and his photography is superb. But, when he published the book the response was ‘like zero, man’, and he had crates of unsold books sitting around for years. I was given my first copy of The Bikeriders in 1985 as a birthday gift! Marylin Bull inscribed it in purple crayon, ‘to Paul, from Crazy-Tits’, which was wholly apropos. She paid $.50 for it. I paid more like $300 for my next copy in the 2000s, an ultra-rare first edition hardback, which I gave to my bestie. There have been several reprints, the best of which is probably the Twin Palms edition (fine art photography house). But, there’s a replica edition too, which definitely captures the original spirit. BUY THIS BOOK.
Good to hear PdO .. especially in light of the rather … errr … iffy reviews of the film . Suffice it to say the Telluride press panned it as uneven overall with the 2nd half being derivative .
Hmm … not that I put that much stock in what the Telluride press has to say .. despite them constantly giving me thumbs up positive reviews of my performances in their fine albeit excessively gentrified ( beyond even Aspen ) town ..
So yeah … I’ll be calling up Powells in the next week or so ( the mountains and I with the wife by my side have and extended rendezvous ) to order the book ..and eff it … I’ll watch the film anyway making my own judgement once I’ve seen it .
Thanks again PdO !!!!
GTR … aka … Kafka on the High Plains 😎
PS; Any of his other books worth delving into ?
Aperture made a fascimile edition of The Bikeriders in 2014: ISBN 978-1-59711-264-2.
Other important books include:
Conversations With The Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054. ISBN 9780714870519.
Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 2010. ISBN 9781931885881.
The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. New York City: PowerHouse, 2005. First published in the late 1960s during ‘first wave gentrification’ of NYC.
Well … gonna have to delve into his onsite article ” The End of Photography ” as well … seeing as how thats also pretty much the state of music today .
Everybody thinks they can … so they glom up the Digiverse with terabytes of blatant ephemeral crap .. making it all but impossible to find ( or be found unless you’re willing to act like an idiot selling your very should for a few gold shekels ) anything worthwhile
Hmm … odd that Mr Lyons hadn’t showed up on my radar previously . …. hmmm .. ” Oh Well ” … he’s most definitely on it now !
Thanks again Paul … 😎
Photography like music like writing…as Gillian Welch noted in her brilliant song ‘Everything is Free’.
“Everything is free now
That’s what they say
Everything I ever done
Gonna give it away
Someone hit the big score
They figured it out
That we’re gonna do it anyway
Even if it doesn’t pay”
Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy6VMDXB2SQ
I have the Aperture facsimile edition, available around £20. Your mention of $300 for original, some time ago, sent me to look for current prices… and I see £1,500 – £2,000! A couple of other books are mentioned: there is also The Seventh Dog that covers 50 years of DL’s photography.