America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

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 made 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 created within the studio system but lifted right out of the countercultural id, and that now range from iconic to the acclaimed to the obscure. Starring Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, Dennis Hooper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Orson Welles. Films featured include EASY RIDER, FIVE EASY PIECES, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS, HEAD, DRIVE HE SAID, a SAFE PLACE.

Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Peter Fonda, Peter Tork, William Tepper, Davy Jones, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Micky Dolenz, Barc Doyle, Lois Smith, Antonio Mendoza, Ellie Walker, Phil Spector, Michael Nesmith, Julia Anne Robinson, Susan Anspach, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Billy Greenbush, Victor Mature, Robert Towne, Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers, Mac Mashourian, Fannie Flagg, Warren Finnerty, Henry Jaglom, Charles Lavine, Annette Funicello, Eileen Brennan, Timothy Carey, Arnold Williams, Mike Warren, Tita Colorado, Ralph Waite, Logan Ramsey, June Fairchild, John Ryan, Clu Gulager, Luke Askew, Helena Kallianiotes, Sully Boyar, Abraham Sofaer, Luana Anders, Sam Bottoms, Toni Basil, Don Hanmer, Josh Mostel, Sharon Taggart, Vito Scotti, Lynn Bernay, Sabrina Scharf, Sally Ann Struthers, Marlena MacGuire, Joey Walsh, Sandy Wyeth, T. C. Jones, William Pabst, Randy Quaid, Gary Goodrow, Charles Irving, Robert Ball, Imogene Bliss, Bill Thurman, Irene Dailey, Charles Robinson, William Bagdad, Percy Helton, Carmen Phillips, Lorna Thayer, Ann Thomas, Sonny Liston, Jessie Lee Fulton, Richard Stahl, Robert Arnold, Orson Welles, Gwen Welles, Tuesday Weld, Phil Proctor, Francesca Hilton, Barbara Flood, Roger Garrett, Julie Robinson, Ray Nitschke, Michael Pataki, Gary Brockette, William Challee, Jack Nicholson, Helena Humann, Van Kirksey, Loyd Catlett, Tony King, Frank Zappa, Jerry Fujikawa, Robert Glenn, John Hillerman, Terry Garr, Eric Johnson, Conrad Yama, I. J. Jefferson, Bela Lugosi, Kimberly Hyde, Noble Willingham, Rona Barrett, Charles Laughton, Ronald Reagan, Robert Page, Gordon Hurst, Douglas Ryan, Ralph Williams, Cindy Williams, Ann Miller, Bill Duffy, Lea Marmer, Lee Harvey, Frank Marshall, Tom Martin, Bob Rodgers, Ken Smith, Daniel Kern, David Norris, Bill Williams