"The Bikeriders" Myth, Men and Motorcycles
(Photo credit: Kyle Kaplan / Focus Features)
‘The Bikeriders” stars Austin Butler and Tom Hardy. This film is based on a landmark book of photojournalism by Danny Lyon.
As a young man in the early ‘60s, he joined the Chicago Outlaws – a motorcycle club – to learn about and photograph its rough-and-ready riders.
Lyon described his book as an attempt to “record and glorify” the life of the American biker, but the film’s director Jeff Nichols takes a different approach.
Nichols has been speaking to 1A’s arts correspondent, John Horn.
