America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

“I wonder if you have King of Marvin Gardens because I like that one too. What? Oh my god, well there you go. That kind of takes a lot of boxes. I've never seen Head, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Drive, He Said, A Safe Place, The Last Picture Show, and The King of Marvin Gardens. Yeah, this makes up for all the Christmases where I didn't get much of anything.”

“I’m going to bring out this, The BBS Story: America Lost and Found. On this you have The Last Picture Show, you have Five Easy Pieces, you have Easy Rider. But the film that I’m sort of obsessed by is Bob Rafelson’s debut, the Monkees’ film Head. It’s a movie about four young men trying to escape from their Network contracts, but then there are incredible musical sequences throughout it. The Performance of “Circle Sky” on stage with the double exposures is just pure cinema to me.”

“John and I grabbed the box set, the BBS Story, America Lost and Found. This film, The King of Marvin Gardens, is a real favorite of mine. It's beautifully photographed, I'm pretty sure it's Laszlo Kovacs that was the cinematographer. It's a very lonely film, very kind of slightly surrealistic, takes place in Atlantic City in the early 70s as Atlantic City is kind of in a state of decay.”

“Last of the bonus round. Okay, first of all, it has The King of Marvin Gardens. I love this movie so much. My dad, Bruce Dern, his best buddy, Jack Nicholson. The acting is incredible. Thank you, Bob Rafelson, for this incredible movie... But also, didn’t know, Drive, He Said, directed by Jack Nicholson, starring Bruce Dern. Two friends making a movie together, and it’s so raw and beautiful... This is an incredible series. I can’t believe this.”

“I knew Jack when he was just starting because one of my films came out when Easy Rider came out and we were on the same circuit and I knew him as a writer too and I mentioned his writing he went I'm an actor...”

“America Lost and Found: The BBS Story. BBS was a group of producers who were making cool movies in the late 60s, early 70s. And these are movies that Nicholson's in, Hopper's in, Peter Fonda's in, The Monkees are in. They were aiming for cool, you know, thoughtful stuff, but kind of also trying to be very realist. Get this box set and you can hang out with them.”