raybert productions was a production company that operated in the 1960s , founded by bob rafelson and bert schneider .

its principal works were the wildly successful situation comedy the monkees ( and the group of the same name ) , and the 1969 movie easy rider ( co-produced with peter fonda 's pando company ) .

raybert was also the predecessor to bbs productions , a new hollywood production company founded by rafelson , schneider , and schneider ’s childhood friend stephen blauner .

bbs productions ' best known film is the last picture show .

raybert productions

television series not to be produced by raybert productions ; ward sylvester assumed the producing reins for the first time .
was labeled as pretentious by some but ultimately became a cult favourite . raybert productions’ status in the film industry took a
television series raybert productions saw to compleetion . notice in these segments the boys ' ill feelings about being saddled with the same old monkee scripts , which was an unfortunate reality ( hence their decision to halt the series ) .
raybert showed the pilot to nbc’s programming chief mort werner . “i don’t know what the hell we’ve just seen , ” he exclaimed , “but i think we should put it on the air . ”
the two men formed raybert productions and began developing their series . at first , they wanted to hire an established band , such as herman’s hermits , but decided they didn’t want to deal with record company contracts . but through the magic of tv , the band didn’t even need to be musicians—they wouldn’t really be playing the instruments ; they only had to look convincing . acting experience wouldn’t be necessary , either .
the bbs production company , an evolution of raybert productions , was the brainchild of bob rafelson , bert schneider , and steve blauner ( b - b - s , get it ? ) fueled by the financial success of the monkees , a rock group the production company had engineered , they had freedom and resources to do movies the way they wanted to do them . and they produced a small cluster of films that changed the face of hollywood .
instead of supervisor ( which was handled here by ed forsyth ) , fred j . brown provided the sound effects ( before raybert enlisted the services of edit - rite , inc . ) , and seymour friedman was production supervisor ( a position he also held for other screen gems sitcoms as
bbs productions ( its name derived from the initials of their first names ) , which entered into a production agreement with columbia under which bbs would be given complete creative control of the films it made for the studio provided that the budget of each of those films did not exceed $ 1 million .
raybert had their four musicians , but they were lacking one important detail—a name for the band . some possibilities tossed around : the creeps , the turtles , and the inevitables . then schneider suggested taking a cue from how the beatles had misspelled “beetles , ” and he turned “monkeys” into monkees .
back the late 60 ' s & early 70 ' s , hollywood was in decline , with attendance rates decreasing & more big budget films were flopping . to remedy this , more daring & edgy films were made , with rebellious characters , influences from foreign cinema ( particularly the french new wave of the early 60 ' s ) and more true grit than a handful of john waynes , in order to capture the mood and angst of young people in the era . one of the forerunners of this was bbs productions ( aka raybert productions in their early stages ) who made many films of this sort , many of which are seen as all time classics of american cinema , whose influence can still be felt to this day . to celebrate this wonderful era of cinema , i ' m going to rank their film ' s from best to worst . let me know what you think in the comments .
television production also provided lessons in haphazard filming techniques , as was the case with raybert productions during the production of the monkees ( nbc , 1966 - 68 ) , a satirical television show depicting the fictitious adventures of the popular rock group . the monkees was filmed using speedy and parsimonious production methods , where rudiments such as background lighting were sacrificed to enable the number of set - ups to reach a daily average of 78 to 100 per episode . not only did these financial constraints teach film - makers to budget efficiently , they also provided an insouciant atmosphere enabling new talents to try their hands at various crafts .
rafelson and schneider were both thirty - five , well connected , and already riding the youth wave , albeit in television . the pair had invented the hugely popular , emmy award–winning made - for - tv band the monkees , and their outfit , raybert , was set to perpetrate the ultimate goof , a monkees vehicle that would eventually be called head .
easy rider provided both the means and a road map for subsequent schneider - rafelson productions . they had trumped hollywood and could exult in their freedom . using their profits from the monkees , schneider and rafelson had put up the roughly $ 350 , 000 to finance easy rider , with columbia pictures releasing , as it had with head . shortly before easy rider opened in july 1969 , blauner joined the firm to handle distribution , and raybert became bbs . in the wake of easy rider ’s considerable success , bbs negotiated a six - picture deal with columbia ; bbs bought the right of final cut with the stipulation that the partners would cover all costs over a million dollars per picture , and bbs would split the net with columbia fifty - fifty .
( hd , 50 minutes ) this is footage from a discussion held at the american film institute on may 19th , 1976 . already the legend of the bbs productions was holding sway and while some of the stories are compelling , you can hear them elsewhere on this disc and in much better quality . as a time capsule this is invaluable but otherwise you can pretty easily breeze past it .
word spread around the l . a . music scene , and 437 “folk & roll musicians” and “insane boys” showed up to audition . after a three - month process in which the leading candidates were called back several times to perform in various groupings to see who had chemistry together , raybert ended up with two professional actors and two professional musicians—all of whom could sing and all of whom were funny .
he did three films with the actor and was the namesake for his character in ' chinatown . ' . . . he was 81 . gittes died saturday of natural causes in los angeles , publicist seth horowitz reported . . . gittes landed a job with bbs productions , co - founded by bob rafelson and bert schneider , and co - produced drive , he said ( 1971 ) , directed and co - written by nicholson . . . private eye j . j . . . .
rafelson and schneider loved the pilot , but test audiences hated it . tork explained why : “when the audience didn’t know who these kids were , the obnoxiousness was overpowering . they were like , ‘what are these brats doing ? ’” but instead of making the monkees more polite , raybert simply showed the pilot again—this time with early screen tests from jones and nesmith tacked on at the end . that did the trick : “it gave the next audience enough identification with the kids that they forgave them for being obnoxious . ”
episode in its second season to feature a tag interview segment . this particular one was filmed at the fred niles studios during the musical number filming sessions on the
rainbow
set ; according to the clipboard with which peter accidentally hurts his finger , it was the 34th scene of the first take with track 35 , production # 5338 , filmed on august 2 , 1967 , directed by bob rafelson and filmed by mr . whitehead , produced by fan productions , inc . it was one of only 3 episodes this season to feature interview segments ; the others are no . 48 ,
early names for the band include
the creeps ,
the impossibles
( later used by hanna - barbera for a cbs saturday morning series debuting in 1966 ) ,
the turtles
( already used ! ) , and
the inevitables .
raybert finally settled upon the correctly - titled
the monkeys ,
until they dropped the
y
in the name and substituted it with a second
e
( noting an impressive spate of rock combos with misspelled names [ the beatles , the byrds , the cyrkle , etc . ] ) , and thus and therefore ,
( hd , 47 minutes ) this documentary , also completed in 2009 , features interviews will all of the principles of the bbs productions as well as assorted film critics ( and richard schickel ) , who discuss what a powerful cinematic force the wave of bbs movies really was . you take away two things from this documentary , primarily ( or at least i did ) – what an astounding cultural impact the movies had and how brief this period was . six films . that’s it . and it changed the face of cinema , for a while at least . how many production companies can you say have even attempted something like that ? genius .
' five easy pieces ' is also dynamite – one of the more straightforward looking , at least of the bbs productions ( it lacks the hazy dreaminess of , say , ' head ' or ' a safe place ' ) . that straightforwardness is evident here and things look very striking and real , without any digital tinkering or glitchy technical issues of any kind . booklet ( clearly a lot of work went into this ! ) :
supervised by director of photography laszlo kovacs , this new high - definition digital transfer was created in 4k resolution on a northlight 2 scanner from the original camera negative and the black - and - white separation masters .
the monkees as a band , however , remained intact . in the summer of 1968 , raybert began filming a monkees feature film conceived of by their friend jack nicholson while he was tripping on lsd . head was a stream - of - consciousness , psychedelic diatribe against hollywood—tv in particular . it began with the monkees chanting , not singing , a parody of their theme song : “hey , hey , we are the monkees , you know we love to please / a manufactured image , with no philosophies . ” it only got weirder from there—and it confused its teeny - bopper audience . the film was panned and made only a fraction of its budget , squashing any plans for a sequel .
the plot of the pilot : the band’s upcoming gig at a fancy country club is in jeopardy when the sweet - 16 birthday girl falls for davy , and her stuffed shirt of a father doesn’t approve . the four stars—even dolenz and jones , who’d done some tv—were overwhelmed by the complexities of the shoot . raybert wanted a fast show , so they brought in tv commercial production teams , who filmed the stars riding on motorized skateboards , running amok through hotels , and doing other silly things . the monkees themselves were quite lost ; the show , they were told , would be crafted later in the editing booth . “the narrative of the shows was never that important , ” recalls nesmith . “what was important was a kind of kinetic energy . ”
the late george furth , notable for composing such stage productions as company ( 4 / 26 / 1970 - 1 / 1 / 1972 ) and twigs ( 11 / 14 / 1971 - 1 / 3 / 1972 ; 1 / 5 / 1972 - 7 / 23 / 1972 ) , reappears on this series as swindling nephew henry weatherspoon in episode no . 43 ,
a coffin too frequent .
furth previously turned up with robert strauss ( “alias micky dolenz” ) in a march 11 , 1966 episode of honey west ( abc , 1965 - 66 ) ,
pop goes the easel ,
and later appeared in an october 27 , 1975 episode of all in the family ( cbs , 1971 - 79 ) ,
mike faces life ,
with another monkee guest alum diane shalet (
fairy tale
) . furth passed away august 12 , 2008 at age 75 .
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while the supplementary features on criterion’s bbs set are a bit of a mixed bag in their collection of old and new interviews and commentary tracks , some assembled with criterion’s typical precision and some clearly compiled outside of their care , there is very little to quibble about here . the presentations of the seven films are superb , and while the merits of the individual movies will obviously vary with each viewer’s personal opinion , this remains an essential chapter in american film history , and criterion has presented it here with sufficient context for newcomers , as well as detailed insights and extra material that should please even those who have already acquired these films in various formats throughout the years . i don’t know whether it was an individual at criterion collection or sony who coined the title “america lost and found” for this release , but it’s quite appropriate for many reasons . one can’t help but reflect that , as a production company , bbs reintroduced american cinema to a generation that had come to feel that the films being made no longer accurately represented their reality as people living in this country at that time . and if roger ebert’s dismissal of today’s younger generation of moviegoers is to be accepted at face value , then perhaps american cinema — whether mainstream or independent – has lost its ability to connect with the real concerns and feelings of its intended audience yet again . but if the enthusiasm some of these people have demonstrated towards films made during the revolutionary bbs era — before they were even born – are any indication , then perhaps it’s time for another cinematic insurgency . america lost and found , indeed .
hat we need are good old american—and that’s not to be confused with european—art films . ” so declared the then twenty - nine - year - old beatnik method actor dennis hopper in an unpublished 1965 manifesto . “the whole damn country’s one big real place to utilize and film , and god’s a great gaffer ! ”
less than three years later , hopper was himself out in america , shooting a biker art film provisionally titled the losers . american international pictures , the home of fast , cheap , insouciantly exploitative horror , beach party , biker , and now crazy hippie flicks , had nixed the notion of a “modern” western in which a pair of motorcycle dudes make a major dope score , then ride cross - country to retire on a florida orange farm , only to be shot down—bang , like in the war—by a couple of redneck poachers . but then hopper and his partner , twenty - eight - year - old aip youth star peter fonda , secured the backing of hollywood’s hippest producers , bob rafelson and bert schneider .
schneider would produce , and rafelson would direct , from a script he wrote with another hollywood hipster , b - movie actor jack nicholson , thirty . their screenplay would be even more free - associative than the hit lsd adventure nicholson had recently written for aip , the trip ( 1967 ) —directed by roger corman and featuring fonda in the lead , with hopper playing a demonic sunset boulevard acid guru . nicholson was reunited with fonda and hopper when schneider assigned him to keep an eye on easy rider ( as the losers was renamed by scriptwriter terry southern ) .
over the next half dozen years , this group would create six more features that , in their engagement with the present moment , determination to break free of the movie - industry establishment , commitment to new forms of naturalism , and reckless , movie - intoxicated ambition , embodied the spirit of a new hollywood . something was happening , and they thought they knew what it was . . . pop music , pop alienation , a yearning for roots , the last frontier , casual sex , sudden death , crazy kids , vietnam .
bbs movies , although not always hits , were never less than events , engaging both audiences and a new generation of passionate critics . the discourse—as articulated by serious cinephiles like pauline kael and andrew sarris , as well as their younger colleagues around the country—was essentially about freedom . what were movies now , what could they be ? where was america going , where should it go ? some bbs protagonists felt liberated from the old constraints ; others struggled to achieve that state . it was beautiful , as peter fonda’s captain america recognized in easy rider , and yet impossible .
each bbs production celebrated the triumph of its own coming into existence—a triumph , in part , because the movies were themselves so excitingly downbeat , not least in their opposition to hollywood at that time . indeed , in film after film , bbs protagonists would go down to defeat . casualties of the not altogether understood “cultural revolution” happening around them , these characters typically carried the seeds of their own destruction—as did bbs itself , along with the counterculture with which its filmmakers identified .
in early ’68 , however , anything seemed possible . schneider and rafelson were itching to join the party when head and easy rider both went into production , in mid - february . and whether or not god was a - gaffing , america had never been crazier . as embodied by faye dunaway and warren beatty ( and rendered by robert rauschenberg ) , the righteous outlaws bonnie and clyde made the cover of time magazine just as 1967 ended and american casualties in the now three - year - long war in vietnam surpassed those suffered in korea . the vietcong launched their tet offensive , and america’s most trusted tv newsman , walter cronkite , returned from nam to declare the war a “stalemate . ” b - 52s pounded the hills around the marine base at khe sanh , seeking to bury the vc under more explosives than had ever been dropped in the history of mankind .
outsiders were in : antiwar senator eugene mccarthy nearly won the new hampshire primary , and president lyndon johnson declared that he would not run for reelection . martyrs proliferated : martin luther king jr . was assassinated in april , and two months later , so was peace candidate senator robert f . kennedy . sam peckinpah had gone to mexico to shoot the wild bunch ; aip’s current release , wild in the streets , had a fascist rock star taking over the country . the hippie musical hair opened on broadway—as did john wayne’s ode to the war the green berets . sds militants occupied columbia university and french students battled the cops in paris , while sympathetic filmmakers shut down the cannes film festival .
rafelson edited his footage for head and hopper struggled with his for easy rider as russian tanks rumbled into prague and the democratic convention erupted into police - state madness in chicago . a survey published that fall in fortune magazine found a million kids identifying themselves with the new left , but twentieth century fox studio boss darryl f . zanuck didn’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind was blowing : fox was making a che guevara biopic with a budget that dwarfed the cost of the actual cuban revolution . electoral chaos loomed . thanks to alabama governor george wallace’s third - party challenge , the presidential election seemed headed for the house of representatives . . .
hopper was still pondering his footage when richard nixon was elected president . one day later , after plastering new york with enigmatic posters , rafelson and schneider opened head .
as a hard day’s night ( 1964 ) had done for the infinitely more talented beatles , head provided an opportunity for the monkees—micky dolenz , davy jones , michael nesmith , peter tork—to cavort , caper , cutely sulk , and occasionally perform , with more than a bit of ironic self - awareness , for screaming mobs of fourteen - year - old fans . head was more fragmentary and surreal than its ostensive model , however , and was blatantly deflationary . the monkees were scarcely more than a textual effect in a nonstop barrage of wacky sight gags and pop culture references .
at least the monkees were honestly ersatz—and with the exception of the far more meretriciously fake and no less pop - idol - driven green berets , no hollywood movie produced during the vietnam war referenced that war more than head .
america was also , as suggested by head , one fake place . the first bbs production was a flop . but easy rider , produced for under $ 400 , 000 and returning its cost one hundred times over in its first release , was one of the greatest financial coups in hollywood history .
both within hollywood and without , easy rider presented itself as a generational statement . while head parodied the straight media , easy rider reveled in countercultural values—not just the sacraments of drugs , sex , and rock and roll , but also the i ching , hippie communes , guerrilla theater , doing your own thing , the brown rice millenarianism that predicted the impending collapse of urban civilization , when long - haired freaks would be fighting for their lives against the killer redneck straights .
successors to the wild one and the rebel without a cause , bonnie and clyde were righteous outlaws ; fonda’s narcissistic , cool - bordering - on - catatonic captain america and hopper’s hyperzonked , free - form , babbling billy were something else . these guys were freaks and heads , semiotic warriors and electric cowboys , true americans and losers , beautiful losers .
easy rider decried amerikkka but celebrated american freedom . hopper served up jack kerouac’s beat generation wanderlust and robert frank’s on - the - road landscape with a self - consciously artistic , european - inflected camera . he and cinematographer lászló kovács developed a widely imitated style , based on giant close - ups , sudden zooms , leisurely rack focusing , and ecstatic sunbursts . hopper’s sense of filmmaking also drew on american underground filmmakers ( kenneth anger’s wall - to - wall real rock music in scorpio rising , bruce conner’s fragmentary editing ) .
the use of strobe flash - forwards to signify scene transitions failed to catch on , but easy rider ’s rock - scored lyrical interludes—meant to evoke the experience of bombing down the highway with the car radio blasting , and typically used in stoned celebration of the nation’s empty plenitude—became the hallmark of hollywood hipness .
certainly , that’s how a sizable chunk of the audience saw ( or wanted to see ) easy rider . defending the movie in the new york times , village voice rock critic richard goldstein called it “a travel poster for the new america . ” ( and yet , paraphrasing a current simon and garfunkel ballad , the easy rider ad announced , “a man went looking for america and couldn’t find it anywhere . ” ) although devoid of political analysis beyond the assumption that , by waving their freak flags high in the american south , its martyred protagonists were not just easy but freedom riders , the movie articulated a generalized sense of failure .
“you know , this used to be a hell of a good country , ” nicholson muses at one point . “i can’t understand what’s gone wrong with it . ” it was nothing less than the bbs motto .
before the year of easy rider was out , bbs had bought its own four - story office building , off of the columbia lot . according to new hollywood chronicler peter biskind , 933 north la brea would soon be the epicenter of hollywood hip , and “bbs quickly became a hangout for a ragtag band of filmmakers and radicals of various stripes . ” it even inspired a rival outfit within the system : ned tannen now headed a youth film unit at universal , set to produce new films directed by hopper and fonda , as well as nicholson’s old pal monte hellman . “we didn’t have any burning ambition or slogan to change hollywood , ” rafelson would tell the los angeles press around the time that five easy pieces , the first columbia - financed bbs release , opened . “we just knew there was a way to do something that was groovier than the way it had been done . ”
made for under $ 900 , 000 , in forty - one days , during the winter of 1970 , five easy pieces was as freewheeling , in its way , as easy rider —anecdotal , shot in sequence , and so open - ended that director rafelson didn’t decide on which of the three possible last scenes he would use until the day the picture wrapped . nicholson was the star , but the landscape was paramount—in this case , cinematographer kovács lavished his attention on the bowling alleys , trailer parks , gas stations , diners , and cheap motels that , however familiar from robert frank’s midfifties photographs , had rarely been seen in american movies .
the script was by nicholson’s protégée carole eastman , who had written 1967’s the shooting ( one of the two low - budget hellman - directed westerns that nicholson had produced in the midsixties ) and jerry schatzberg’s 1970 puzzle of a downfall child ( all under the name adrien joyce ) . eastman drew on a story by rafelson—and perhaps on rafelson’s sense of himself . ( not named bobby for nothing , the protagonist is the sort of inveterate upper - middle - class rebel that the director told interviewers he had himself been . ) in some respects , the movie suggested an american version of françois truffaut’s shoot the piano player ( 1960 ) : existentially traumatized oil rigger bobby dupea is a trained classical pianist in flight from his past .
as f ive easy pieces elaborated on the easy rider trip , it naturalized head ’s structure . the movie is predicated on non sequitur ( bobby playing chopin on a flatbed truck , or abruptly attacking his peckerwood buddy : “keep on telling me about the good life , elton , because it makes me puke” ) and shock cuts ( a bowling ball crashing down , the camera swirling around bobby and a female partner engaged in strenuous motel room sex ) . bobby’s girlfriend , rayette dipesto , played by karen black , is pregnant , but that is mentioned only once , almost in passing , while , incorporating a personal anecdote she told rafelson , sally struthers ( bobby’s pickup , and soon to achieve tv stardom as archie bunker’s daughter ) gets a long close - up solo recounting the explanation she was given as a child for how girls get dimples .
creating , rather than following , fashion , five easy pieces appeared well into nixon time . by september 1970 , america had lived through the invasion of cambodia , the ensuing massacres at kent state and jackson state , the ongoing demonization of the counterculture , and , as embodied by the eponymous protagonist of the independent sensation joe , the ascension of the hardhat . suddenly , in a neat turn of the pop culture dialectic , here was nicholson , easy rider ’s hippie straight , as something new : a long - haired hardhat , a middle - class dropout , working on an oil rig and shacked up with a big - haired , dim - witted , warmhearted , country - lovin’ truck stop waitress , the living embodiment of the tammy wynette songs that , in an inspired audio analogue to the movie’s american landscape , rafelson took for his soundtrack .
moreover , nicholson and black became contemporary icons . ( nicholson was the fourth - ranked star of tomorrow for 1970 ; black was named second in 1971 . ) five easy pieces established the essential jack nicholson persona—the wild man outbursts and wise guy attitude , the arched eyebrow , and the devastating put - down . writing in cue , william wolf compared nicholson to tormented forties street kid john garfield , “the guy who can’t fit into life’s groove . ” but where garfield was a working - class hero , nicholson was more a faux - working - class antihero , not to mention a sincere cynic and alienated bon vivant—less a nouveau garfield than a degenerate clark gable .
once upon a time , pauline kael would note in 1971 , “the generally tawdry films we saw week after week contributed to our national identity—such as it was . now only the counterculture uses movies ( and only a few , key movies ) this way—for new heroes , new styles , new attitudes . ”
the year following five easy pieces brought a number of such figures—the titular protagonists of el topo , sweet sweetback’s baadasssss song , and billy jack —as well as the flowering of the hippie western ( fonda’s the hired hand , hopper’s the last movie , robert altman’s mccabe and mrs . miller ) . but the counterculture was hardly hollywood’s only audience . that same year after five easy pieces ’s apotheosis , clint eastwood’s dirty harry trumped nicholson’s hardhat longhair as a middle american culture hero .
still , bobby dupea was the quintessential bbs protagonist—alienated , wounded , charismatic , in flight from or defeated by a corrupt , violent , morally bankrupt america . it was a part nicholson would continue to play on the screen ( and in life ) for years to come . his subsequent films— carnal knowledge ( 1971 ) , the last detail ( 1973 ) , chinatown ( 1974 ) , and one flew over the cuckoo’s nest ( 1975 ) —would establish him as hollywood’s most successful maverick , acting out and loving it . the march 27 , 1971 , issue of life described “happy jack” auditioning actresses for the nude scene in his upcoming directorial debut , produced by bbs and adapted from jeremy larner’s novel drive , he said .
written in the aftermath of the cuban missile crisis and published in late 1964 , larner’s tale of a disaffected college basketball player brought the twenty - seven - year - old author the ten - thousand - dollar delta prize for a first novel . the book was prescient enough to include an lsd trip , but much in student life had changed—or rather , intensified—in the subsequent half dozen years . larner and nicholson revised the novel’s scenario to include college radicals , guerrilla theater , draft physicals , and an extreme instance of hippie madness , in addition to the affair between the conflicted jock ( twenty - three - year - old william tepper , in his first and , for more than a decade , last movie role ) and a sexually wanton faculty wife ( karen black ) .
appearing a year after the college films released in the wake of kent state ( getting straight , the strawberry statement , r . p . m . , the revolutionary ) , drive , he said was distinguished by its comic couplings , copious nudity , and kinetic basketball games ( nicholson was a fan ) . the movie had a haphazard quality that harked back to brian de palma’s anarchic indies of the late sixties , greetings and hi mom ! . its most entertainingly inflammatory scenes involve the mad campus revolutionary played by michael margotta , twenty - five , an actors studio grad featured in 1968’s wild in the streets .
drive , he said premiered at cannes and , according to the new york times , “set off the [ festival’s ] most violently negative reaction . . . as the lights came up , the people hooted , screamed , and whistled . some got to their feet and waved indignant fists toward where nicholson and his two actors , william tepper and michael margotta , were seated . ” although the times correspondent , cynthia grenier , attributed this audience antipathy to “the thoroughly unglamorous handling of the sex scenes , ” the anarchic politics—notably the climactic freak - out , in which the margotta character liberates the specimens in the campus science lab—were a more likely factor . ( the prizewinners that year included two popular - front myths , bo widerberg’s joe hill and giuliano montaldo’s sacco & vanzetti , and three more politically coherent american movies , dalton trumbo’s johnny got his gun , miloš forman’s taking off , and jerry schatzberg’s the panic in needle park . )
although drive , he said did poorly at the box office , its failure was eclipsed by the summer of flops suffered by universal— two - lane blacktop , the hired hand , and , most dramatically , the last movie —as well as the derisive incomprehension that greeted henry jaglom’s a safe place when it was shown that fall at a scaled - down new york film festival . variety reported that a safe place was the festival’s “most audience - dividing feature . . . it drew walkouts , boos , and fervently defensive partisan applause . afterwards , during a long onstage panel discussion , most of the audience remained and again divided on the film and its author - director . . . seldom has as much emotion been expended at a preview of a film so many people declared aloud they could not understand . ”
that reaction was not surprising , given that a safe place was essentially nonnarrative—the most radical experiment that bbs would produce after head . jaglom , who had gone to summer camp with bert schneider , was a self - described hyphenate . he’d had some experience in new york theater prior to going west , where he helped edit easy rider and played a theater professor in drive , he said . given his shot to make a movie , jaglom adapted a safe place —described in press notes as “autobiographical to a rather unusual extent”—from his play the uncommon denominator , which he had directed and appeared in when it was performed as an improvised off - broadway revue in 1963 . edited from fifty hours of footage , a safe place was an actor - driven , star - studded production , featuring not only nicholson but also tuesday weld ( in a role created onstage by karen black ) and orson welles .
the weld character , alternately known as susan and noah , spends time in jaglom’s childhood apartment , a treasure trove of postimpressionist paintings on central park west . rather than countercultural rock anthems , a safe place reiterates a series of pop standards ( “i’m old - fashioned , ” “as time goes by , ” “la mer , ” “someone to watch over me” ) . a witchy , possibly schizophrenic , hippie kook , weld first appears to be channeling jean seberg in lilith . “when i was a little girl , i flew , ” she insists throughout . her hapless suitor ( jaglom’s stage role , taken in the film by philip proctor , a longtime member of the firesign theatre ) describes her as “pretty , sad , and weirder than hell . ”
after a while , weld doesn’t seem to be acting so much as being— a safe place is the warhol factory screen test she never had . not so welles , who appears as a stage magician with an intermittent stage yiddish accent , performing tricks with a silver ball in central park—or is it in the weld character’s mind ? ( welles is the artiste ; he would repay the compliment after a fashion by casting jaglom as a young director in his unfinished hollywood melodrama the other side of the wind . )
the repetition and fractured chronology go well beyond the flash - forwards that punctuate easy rider ; the unmatched performances and raw sense of a prolonged acting exercise evoke john cassavetes’ shadows . “there are three scenes in a safe place that remain intact from the original script , ” weld told the new york times . “all the rest is either improvisation or was thought up or written right there , at the moment , or that morning . ” lengthy , apparently improvised riffs—including a long dream monologue delivered by gwen welles—are intercut with orson welles’s magic tricks , ultimately giving way to the sudden introjection of a devilish nicholson as another ghost from weld’s past . weld does manage to catch the magic ball but , maintaining the unbroken succession of cataclysmic bbs endings , apparently drowns herself in a bubble bath .
jaglom would attempt to explain himself in “the making of an anti - movie or learning how to fly , ” a prose poem manifesto published in the underground biweekly changes , while richard corliss , a member of the new york film festival selection committee , defended a safe place in the village voice as “exactly the kind of film—experimental , audacious , demanding , arrogant , and vulnerable—which the festival exists to encourage . ”
corliss suggested that audiences preferred overtly political experiments like dušan makavejev’s wr : mysteries of the organism , also shown in the festival that year , but it was clear that critics and audiences alike were much more taken by the other bbs offering at the event : the last picture show .
peter bogdanovich was the american director whose career path most closely approximated those of the french new wave filmmakers . a raging cinephile , he published auteurist film journalism in periodicals ranging from film culture and the village voice to esquire , wrote film notes for the new yorker theatre , and in 1964 , at age twenty - five , cocurated the museum of modern art’s epochal alfred hitchcock retrospective .
relocating to hollywood , bogdanovich apprenticed himself to roger corman at aip , where he reedited a soviet sci - fi film into voyage to the planet of the prehistoric women ( released in 1968 ) and spent six months working on corman’s the wild angels ( 1966 ) , scouting locations and rewriting the script . ( he would also take credit for casting peter fonda in the lead . ) as a reward , corman gave him a chance to direct a low - budget drive - in flick , targets ( 1968 ) , which , benefiting from a day’s work owed aip by boris karloff and inspired by the case of the 1966 university of texas sniper , was enriched with film references and topical sensationalism .
filming began in october 1970 , in archer city , the texas town where mcmurtry had grown up . bogdanovich’s journalistic acumen may be deduced from the production stories that appeared . fellow auteurist martin rubin published a lengthy report in the village voice ; former warhol associate donald chase visited the set on behalf of the hip monthly show . most remarkably , grover lewis—a childhood pal of mcmurtry’s with a small role in the movie—published a ten - thousand - word piece that alerted the readers of rolling stone to the movie’s existence months before it opened .
rolling stone ’s interest was not unfounded . predicated on an anecdotal series of sexual initiations , the last picture show was , no less than easy rider and drive , he said , a youth film—albeit pre - elvis and without an avatar of james dean . moreover , set in a bleak , stultifying backwater , the last picture show projected that now trademark bbs sense of failure ( “nothing’s really been right since sam the lion died” ) , and even a measure of existential angst . despite its all - american subject matter , the movie was closer to antonioni than john ford or howard hawks .
with its wide - open spaces , small dusty towns , and cast of lunch counter waitresses , drugstore cowboys , and hardhat oil riggers , the last picture show shared an echt american iconography with five easy pieces and easy rider —but with a difference . where easy rider deployed steppenwolf and jimi hendrix and five easy pieces drew on tammy wynette , the last picture show provided wall - to - wall hank williams . full of period artifacts ( paperbacks , magazines , movie posters ) , bogdanovich’s town is a museum of 1951 - ness ( with korea standing in for vietnam ) . movies are , of course , the privileged artifact , as embodied by veteran western actor ben johnson’s central role and narrative function as the town’s heart , sam the lion .
vincent canby hailed the last picture show in the new york times as “an adventure in rediscovery—of a very decent , straightforward kind of movie , as well as of—and i rather hesitate to use such a square phrase—human values . ” andrew sarris , bogdanovich’s senior partner in the americanization of french auteurism , wondered , “who would have thought a few years back that in 1971 peter bogdanovich would be traveling first - class on the express train of film history while dennis hopper was bumming a ride on a freight train headed for oblivion ? ” ( hopper’s boldly experimental , near identically titled fiasco the last movie provided a handy foil for the bogdanovich triumph . )
newsweek ’s paul d . zimmerman took his praise to the limit , beginning his review with the declaration that the last picture show was a masterpiece , and “not merely the best american movie of a rather dreary year [ but ] the most impressive work by a young american director since citizen kane . ” it’s possible that the last picture show received better notices than any american movie between gone with the wind and the godfather . even the finicky new leader critic john simon allowed that , although an example of “cinematheque direction” ( by which he meant derivative pastiche ) , it was “not bad by current standards . ”
some saw the last picture show as fulfilling their critical position . jonas mekas , who had published bogdanovich in film culture , took a week off from promoting the avant - garde to hail the last picture show as “a perfectly beautiful movie” and the epitome of intelligent “neoclassicism . ” mekas’s village voice colleague sarris , who wrote on this “extraordinarily exhilarating spectacle” at considerable length in those pages , saw the last picture show as a triumph for auteurism , crowing that bogdanovich had “won over many of his erstwhile enemies by providing them with an emotional experience they did not anticipate from a registered [ auteurist ] . ”
sarris was undoubtedly thinking of pauline kael , whose positive review of the last picture show is fascinatingly ambivalent : “i want to praise a movie that is in some ways , and good ways , very old - fashioned , ” she wrote , while immediately warning that her “praise for what will probably turn out to be a huge success with both critics and audiences [ shouldn’t be ] interpreted as a put - down of the talented people whose movies have been chaotic disasters . . . fiascos like drive , he said weren’t dead , in the way that fiascos like the last run were . and now bogdanovich has made a movie for everybody—not just the airport audience but the youth audience and the educated older audience , too . the danger is that the last picture show . . . the kind of straightforward , involving , narrative picture that doesn’t often get produced anymore—will turn into a bludgeon to beat other filmmakers with . ”
and that , in essence , is what happened with bbs’s next project , the king of marvin gardens .
the king of marvin gardens was in production from thanksgiving 1971 into the winter of dirty harry , with columbia pictures on the brink of disaster . ( the studio finished the year $ 29 million in the red . ) appropriately , the movie was shot , by kovács , in off - season ( and pre - legalized - gambling ) atlantic city , a desolate beach - resort town suggesting nothing so much as a lunar santa monica .
in addition to its location , the king of marvin gardens would end up showcasing nicholson’s range . he was cast against type as david staebler , an uptight , near autistic radio monologuist , while bruce dern was given what would normally have been the nicholson role , playing david’s brother , jason , a comic , megalomaniacal hustler with a head full of outsize dreams and a dangerous connection to the mob . the supporting , karen black–ish female role was split between ellen burstyn and neophyte julia anne robinson , as jason’s two women .
stylistically , the king of marvin gardens is the most restrained of any bbs production , with hardly any music to leaven the downbeat mood . ( the sole musical interlude is an instance of incidental surrealism , when the brothers and their girls camp on the idea of miss america—a sort of cargo - cult version of head . ) although not always convincing in its specifics , the movie conveys a powerful sense of place—and an even stronger sense of placelessness . if five easy pieces suggested a corn - fed , rowdy sort of ingmar bergman movie , the king of marvin gardens had the quality of star - spangled early antonioni . ( the maestro’s own american movie , zabriskie point , released two years earlier—which , not coincidentally , used bbs offices for its preproduction—was considerably more flamboyant . )
premiered at the 1972 new york film festival and opening shortly thereafter , the king of marvin gardens was poorly received , its ambition saluted by only a few critics . jay cocks wrote in time that while the film was less successful than five easy pieces , it was in many ways a “more interesting and certainly more daring” movie . in the dispirited aftermath of the christmas bombings , with washington preparing for nixon’s second inauguration , the new york times reported that the king of marvin gardens had received one favorable notice , as opposed to five mixed and fifteen unfavorable ones . fickle critics had anointed rafelson the new dennis hopper . nevertheless , most likely thanks to nicholson’s presence , the king of marvin gardens was actually a success—with $ 9 million in rentals , it finished as the thirteenth top - grossing movie of 1972 .
in any case , the king of marvin gardens was an end - of - the - road movie . rafelson’s fiercely drab easy rider analogue conjured up the american dream of a big score—here , jason’s fantasy of a casino on a private island off hawaii—and ended ( in sudden violence ) with the cry what went wrong ? perhaps critics at the time were responding to the movie’s pervasive sense of disillusionment , as though the rafelson protagonist had gone to alaska and found . . . this ? hollis alpert’s not unsympathetic piece in the saturday review found the movie’s “late - autumn bleakness . . . redolent not only of a dream that has passed but also a world that is passing . ” virtually all bbs movies featured a pair of temperamentally opposed male characters—one manic and volatile , the other passively depressed . in easy rider , drive , he said , and the last picture show , the guys are buddies ; in a safe place , they are rivals . five easy pieces has the male protagonist divided against himself , while , as the most extreme case , the king of marvin gardens opposes a pair of ambivalently antagonistic brothers and characterizes them as accomplices .
there was , however , one more project . during the summer of ’72 , as ellsberg’s trial approached in los angeles , schneider decided to produce a feature - length documentary in opposition to the vietnam war . rafelson suggested as director peter davis , responsible for the controversial cbs documentary the selling of the pentagon , televised in february 1971 . originally , davis’s new documentary was to focus primarily on ellsberg ; ultimately , it expanded to encompass the war’s origins in america and its prosecution on the ground , as well as what film critic michael atkinson would call “the semiotics of middle - class militarism . ”
only weeks after winning the oscar for best documentary ( schneider driving bob hope and frank sinatra nuts with an acceptance speech that included a “greeting of friendship” from the provisional revolutionary government of the republic of south vietnam ) , hearts and minds opened in new york , where vincent canby hailed it as “an extraordinary movie which may well be the true film for america’s bicentennial . ” hearts and minds was still in release five weeks later when , on april 30 , 1975 , saigon fell to the vietcong . thus , the war’s end merged with its cinematic representation and the ultimate bbs film . in more ways than one , hearts and minds was the movie that cashed the check the monkees wrote .
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bpp university law school is a private , for-profit provider of professional and academic legal education in the united kingdom .

it has eight branches in birmingham , bristol , cambridge , leeds , liverpool , london ( holborn and waterloo ) and manchester .

the school is owned by bpp holdings , a division of the apollo group .

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bpp university consists of four schools ; bpp university law school , bpp university business school , bpp university school of health and bpp university school of foundation and english language studies .
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there are many opportunities for you to visit bpp university law school’s centres across the uk , to find out key information about law career paths and your programme of interest .
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bpp accelerated law llb for £12 , 000 total . is it worth it ? ?
the lpc , for which bpp law school is famous , was designed by the company at the behest of five blue - chip city law firms , including lovells , herbert smith , and norton rose . these firms send their trainees exclusively to bpp .
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bpp university law school’s open evenings are a mixture of presentations , informal discussions and interactive sessions that give you a taste of what studying law is like , and give you the opportunity to discuss your future legal career with practicing legal professionals .
bpp university ' s law school has a reputation for excellence , one that is built on our proven ability to offer students the skills they need to succeed in law . their knowledge and insight will bring an added dimension to your learning and help you develop the practical skills that are most in demand at leading law firms .
bpp accelerated law llb for £12 , 000 total . is it worth it ? ? - the student room
crisp is also dean of bpp law school , which has recently become a honeypot for ambitious graduates . the new law degrees will take the form of an accelerated two - year llb – aimed at the overseas market – a standard three - year llb , and an llm .
12k is actually an amazing deal for an llb and it ' s not a bad law school . . . just thought id throw my thoughts in on this one
hello . i am international student looking for undergraduate study law in uk . i have applied to university of durham / nottingham / east anglia / leicester and leeds . however i heard about bpp law school which claims to have 1 / 3rd lawyers of uk graduated for this university and links with leading law firms . and above all the tution fees is very low as compared to the other univs in my list . ( much affordable for me ) all these figures are tempting me to apply to bpp . what do you think guys ? is bpp a good law school keeping the employment factor in view ?
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and although the new llm and two - and three - year llbs will be rolled out over the coming year , the law school ' s flagship courses remain the vocational gdl and lpc .
bpp university manages and operates the mctimoney college of chiropractic , with all degree programmes being validated by bpp university .
i am international student looking for undergraduate study law in uk . i have applied to university of durham / nottingham / east anglia / leicester and leeds . however i heard about bpp law school which claims to have 1 / 3rd lawyers of uk graduated for this university and links with leading law firms . and above all the tution fees is very low as compared to the other univs in my list . ( much affordable for me ) all these figures are tempting me to apply to bpp .
these contracts with the big law firms mean bpp tends to cream off the best people ,
says mark mccanney . mccanney is a newly qualified associate at a top city law firm . after completing his undergraduate degree in scottish law at edinburgh university , he did a part - time gdl , and then took the lpc .
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with over 20 years’ experience in delivering professional legal qualifications , bpp university law school is now one of the largest law schools in the uk . we are ranked as top five in the uk for excellence in teaching * and our students reap the benefits of being taught by legal professionals who have pursued careers at leading firms . 60 leading uk and global law firms send their trainees exclusively to us because our programmes deliver what they need and the relevance of our education together with the high standard of our teaching , facilities and materials .
cooper has now , in her second year , secured a training contract with a prominent law firm .
bpp university students association offers an independent voice for our students , and works closely with bpp to put students at the heart of everything we do .
is this even a serious question ? bpp is only a university in name .
also . . . i ' ve always thought bpp couldn ' t really be compared ( league table wise ) to other universities - because it ' s a specialist law college and it has a great reputation for post graduate law courses . . . but . . . the only other institutions that offer a 2 year accelerated law degree with similar entry requirements are colleges ( not even universities ) . is bpp really in the same league as my local higher education college ( which happens to offer a couple of degree programmes ) ?
bpp university is part of the wider bpp professional education group that educates a variety of professionals including those working within ftse 100 companies . our links with leading businesses , including lloyds banking group and simmons & simmons , help us to design and deliver highly relevant programmes in our business school that are tailored to today ' s business needs and linked to professional qualifications .
bpp issue a lot of confusing spin about their graduates . many city lawyers have gone to bpp , but they did so in order to do the required gdl / lpc courses after finishing their undergraduate studies at traditional universities . bpp is nobody ' s first choice for undergrad .
privately owned and with a tough work ethic , bpp is a university with a lot of differences .
is it not worth to go to bpp ? i am just tempted because it is very cheap .
looking for an lpc ? want a gander at some gdls ? keeping a lookout for an llm ? search for postgraduate law courses here .
we do intend to have academic gowns and graduation ceremonies and a figure - head ,
says bpp chief executive peter crisp , referring to the grandeur and flummery of higher education .
but we ' re not intending to replicate the undergraduate experience . our market is not the 19 - year - old school - leaver .
the lpc is taught exclusively by legal professionals . the graduate diploma in law ( gdl ) has a 50 - 50 split between practitioners and academics .
with over 20 years’ experience in delivering professional legal qualifications , we have proudly earned our place as one of the largest law schools in the uk .
not sure where to do your gdl , lpc , bptc or llm ? take a look at these law schools and find the right course provider .
my other offers are actually £27 , 000 total tuition ( £9 , 000 a year ) - so yes the price is a huge factor and definitely swaying me towards bpp . however , i ' m worried that if i lose interest in law after the 2 years , i will have closed a lot of doors for employment in a different field with an accelerated law degree from bpp . i wonder whether the extra tuition fees might be worth it for the extra employment prospects ( i have currently firmed nottingham university ) .
welcome to bpp university , the university for the professions . if you are aiming for a professional career in law , business , finance , accountancy , banking , chiropractic , dentistry , nursing , psychology or healthcare we believe we are the perfect choice for you .
yeah , the great price is definitely swaying me towards bpp . i want to make the right choice though - and i know a lot of people have questioned bpp ' s teaching and lack of reputation for undergraduate programmes .
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the qaa confirmed that bpp university meets the standards expected of a uk degree awarding body and had examples of best practice in the sector .
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bpp university is the only university in the uk that is solely dedicated to business and the professions . our links with leading businesses allow us to provide our students with a highly regarded professional education . our programmes are designed in partnership with employers in the fields of law , business and health and our tutors have real - world practitioner experience .
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omg just seen this and panicked i ' ve been offered a place t study law at bpp university i ' ve done research but didn ' t know it was this new , should i take my chances and go for it or should i be realistic i havent heard back from anyone else yet but what if thats all im stuck with . help
the llm will offer students the chance to carry out practice - driven , rather than academic , research into topics at the cutting - edge of law over the summer , before entering a firm the following september .
you can secure a place on our career guaranteed lpc or ma ( lpc with business ) if you obtain a minimum 2 . 2 on our llb ( hons ) or llb ( hons ) international commercial law degree
bpp university offers a wide range of modern , relevant postgraduate programmes and professional qualifications to help you realise your ambitions and tailor your learning to your specific interests .
bpp , based across four campuses in the uk ( leeds , manchester , and holborn and waterloo in london ) , is a private company specialising in professional education in business and law , and is the first private company to have been given the power to award degrees . buckingham , the only other private university in the uk , is a non - profit - making charity .
our study centres are located in some of the uk’s most popular locations and you will learn in professional workspaces , with modern resources and the latest technology . we offer many of our law and business programmes at multiple centres .
each of our buildings is equipped with the very latest elearning and technology facilities . all bpp university learning centres have dedicated computer equipment and study areas for student use .
this professionalism is perhaps inevitable . although crisp says bpp sees itself as being at the heart of higher education , the institute has one foot firmly in the professional world .
it ' s graduation day ! we ' ll be live streaming our ceremonies at 11am and 2 : 30pm over on our bpp university facebook page . watch it here :
bpp students work hard , unlike many of those in the recent higher education policy institute ( hepi ) survey , which revealed that british undergraduates average the lowest study hours in europe .
do not do an llb at bpp . if you go there , employers will assume that it was because you couldn ' t get into the russell group universities you ' ve mentioned .
hi toribdkmv our law school is highly respected by legal firms for its reputation for excellence . we are also one of the uk’s largest providers on the full - time llb so you will graduate with a degree from a university that is recognised by firms . our llb degrees have been designed with employers and all modules within the programme are ‘practice ready’ to enhance your employability in a legal context . we are holding open house sessions at our study centre and would recommend you visit one and meet our current students and staff and ask any questions you may have to help you decide . to register interest for this please go to urltoken i hope this helps tom
if i was an 18 year old looking to study full - time i would definitely choose , say , ucl over it - assuming that that is a realistic possibility for you . the course is fine , if you ' re choosing between mid - tier universities charging £25k and bpp charging £12k then i can definitely see choosing bpp . another factor to bear in mind is that bpp does not feel like a traditional university . there are no halls , and there are less social events / clubs . there will probably not be a big group going on a pub crawl in fresher ' s week .
bpp university is the uk ' s only independent university dedicated to business and the professions . our postgraduate accounting and finance programmes are developed in partnership with employers and professional bodies and enable you to benefit from :
bpp university is more than just an education provider ; it is your entrance to a profession and a career . we think , act and teach in a way that is innovative , knowledgeable and professionally - focused .
develop your career with an mclindent from bpp university and gain practical experience and theoretical knowledge in one of six specialisms . it instils the core skills that are essential for the professional practice of the postgraduate specialist area .
as a testimony to this , we are trusted by over 60 of the uk ' s leading law firms who send all of their trainee solicitors to study with us . we are selected by these firms because of the relevance of our education and high standard of our teaching , facilities and materials .
our study centres are located in some of the uk’s most popular locations and you will learn in professional workspaces , with modern resources and the latest technology . we offer many of our law and business programmes at multiple centres . bpp university study centres are based across london , london city , london holborn , london king ' s cross , london shepherd ' s bush , london waterloo and across the rest of the uk birmingham , manchester , liverpool , leeds park row , leeds whitehall quay , bristol and abingdon ( near oxford ) .
we are dedicated to preparing you for a professional career . we offer a strong commercial approach , within a business culture designed to help you stand out in the workplace after you graduate . our programmes are designed in partnership with employers and respected professionals in the fields of law , business , finance and health .
on the day last month that bpp was granted degree - awarding powers , its share price jumped 13 per cent . these two events summed up the fact that britain ' s newest higher education institution is not your average university .
i ' m a mature student doing the 2 - year degree at bpp so happy to answer any questions about it , or you can search through my posts as i ' ve answered many of the most obvious questions already .
london universities and bristol are clearly very much more well - known than bpp . if you have one of those on your cv then legal employers will recognise it as a good university . bpp is more of a risk as only a few cohorts have graduated - i think the first ' 3 year degree ' lot graduated last year so they will be on the lpc / bptc now . no employer knows how good ( or bad ) the degree is yet .
i ' ve finished at bpp now . zero hours lectures as you can watch them online ( which will take about 4 - 6 hours depending on the classes you take ) . 4 - 6 hours seminars per week , usually .
i suggest you pop this in the legal careers section or training board of rollonfriday . there are some recruiters around there who will give you their frank opinion . that opinion would probably put you off bpp at this time . posted from tsr mobile
if you want to be the best , you need to learn from the best . with over 20 years ' experience in delivering professional legal qualifications , we are now one of the largest law schools in the uk . we pride ourselves on building and shaping legal careers by developing our students into focused and highly employable solicitors or barristers .
bpp university is the uk ' s only independent university dedicated to business and the professions . our msc programmes are developed in partnership with employers and professional bodies to provide you with the skills and competencies needed to manage effectively in today’s world of business .
there ' s still time to book your place at bpp’s digital skills conference tomorrow . join us at 9 : 30am at london waterloo or online via our facebook live stream to learn about digital technology in the workplace . to book your place , visit :
a third of lawyers graduated from bpp because they did the gdl , lpc or bptc there . probably less than 0 . 01 % of lawyers in the uk did an llb there ( discounting the gdl top - up that they flog as an llb ) .
hi . . . i ' ll actually be 21 when starting in september . i have already been to university once - so i ' m not really too bothered about the lack of pub crawls ! what is it like studying at bpp ? are you in london ?
what country are you from , and where do you want to work after graduation ? if you want to return to your home country , you need to check that a bpp llb would allow you to practice in that jurisdiction ( it wouldn ' t in my country ) .
all bpp university learning centres have dedicated computer equipment and study areas for student use . you can make the most of our computer - based learning tools as well as our vast range of reading materials and resources available 24 / 7 via our online library and our virtual learning environment .
bpp university study centres are based across london , london city , london holborn , london king ' s cross , london shepherd ' s bush , london waterloo and across the rest of the uk birmingham , manchester , liverpool , leeds park row , leeds whitehall quay , bristol and abingdon ( near oxford ) .
bpp university careers service offers a comprehensive range of services to enable you to achieve your career goals . we can provide help and support to assist you in securing a graduate role on completion of your studies or help you develop your career skills and knowledge to enter or progress in a wide range of careers .
it ' s the same as with universities : the best universities aren ' t the best because they have the best books ,
he says .
they ' re the best because they take the best people . at bpp , you ' re constantly bouncing off people who are of a high standard .
our bsc ( hons ) international hospitality management [ top - up ] programme enables you to enhance your existing qualifications to gain a uk degree in international hospitality management from bpp university . designed with hospitality professionals our full - time programme enables you to gain valuable hospitality management experience through a work placement in the hospitality industry .
bpp was established in 1976 by alan brierley , richard price and charles prior to provide specialist training for accountancy qualifications . pioneering the use of new word processing technology they created specialist study learning texts for those sitting chartered accountancy exams . they quickly grew , adding classroom tuition and opened learning centres around the uk and in europe .
well , in regard to wanting to practice law in england and wales it wouldn ' t make a whole lot of sense to go to scotland anyway . plus the salaries in scotland are a great deal lower than that in england . it is probably worth pointing out that the only reason you pay ~ £9k a year is because the uk government introduced increased rates of tuition fees . the scottish tuition fees for ruk students was merely reactionary .
i know someone who did her llb at bpp ( with no previous degree ) , got a very bog standard 2 : 1 , and still managed to get a tc at herbert smith , so it isn ' t safe to say that at all . perhaps you just meant that it will be difficult to get into those firms .
nottingham is clearly going to be better academically and more respected by employers . it does have a reputation for handing out lots of 2 : 2s , though . if you can afford it i would probably go to nottingham - wasn ' t an option for me as a mature student but i have no particular regrets about going to bpp .
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don ' t do it ! if you get an offer from nottingham or durham take those . it ' s depressing enough doing the lpc at bpp . notwithstanding the fact that an undergrad degree from notts or especially durham holds more weight , you will have a much better overall uni experience at one of the normal universities as apposed to being surrounded constantly by wannabe lawyers .
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top - up
llm , students will be required to stay on after their legal practice course ( lpc ) , which is already taught at masters level , and complete two extra modules over a minimum of two months .
but whether this crop of highly motivated , career - minded students will wish to bother converting their vocational qualification to an academic one is yet to be seen .
our students are typically working a 40 - hour week ,
says crisp .
it ' s not like being an undergraduate . you have to treat it like a job – we expect a high degree of professionalism .
that professionalism is reflected in the course tutors who , according to crisp , view their students as clients .
we don ' t see them as a burden , and we don ' t see them getting in the way of our research ,
he says .
the facilities are good too , according to mccanney . but that ' s because the fees are so high , he says . anyone with a general undergraduate degree wanting to go through the gdl and the lpc – as is so often the case with graduates nowadays – is looking at fees of at least £15 , 000 . that ' s why it pays to get a training contract .
cassie cooper , 25 , from oxford , started her lpc last month , having completed her gdl .
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she says .
it was a big gamble – it ' s not cheap to do , and you need to feel your money ' s going to a good place . but i wouldn ' t take a penny back .
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i wouldn ' t have got this training contract without it . the career opportunities are second to none .
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with that being said , i think it is safe to say that you won ' t get into any of the magic circle / silver circle firms unless your first undergrad is from oxbridge / one of the top uni within the russell group .
i would be inclined to go with the schools on your list as they ' re more established choices ( especially notts and durham ) , and depending on which jurisdiction you want to work in , their reputation might hold more sway .
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i haven ' t got a degree ! i only studied for a year . . .
also have you made sure its not 6k per year , i . e many accelerated degrees charge for an extra term in the middle so end up paying for three years but just in the space of two
this strikes me as an irrelevance . the accelerated ll . b . is identical in every single way to the three year ll . b . except that you don ' t get a long summer break , you just keep studying . you will take the exact same modules as students on the three - year course and your exams will be exactly the same as those students . you still have to do 120 credits at each level . it ' s not a separate qualification ' accelerated ll . b ' , you get the same ll . b . as every other student , but you get it quicker .
probably one reason that few other unis offer the option is that the academic staff want a long summer break to go on holiday or to do some work of their own as opposed to teaching . another is that they just don ' t think enough students would take that route to make it worthwhile offering one .
i ' m a part - time evening student so some of your questions about diversity of ages and backgrounds are hard for me to answer well . i have been to a few full - time classes and most of the students in them appear to me to be ' normal university age ' .
re . low entry requirements , i take your point . i think the entry requirements are set too low but i suppose they are a business . the course is not dumbed - down to allow poor students to get through and get a good degree , though . the exam results are posted ( by student number ) on the student intranet and i can see that the ' average student ' does appallingly badly . there are less than 10 % firsts and a decent number of students failing modules . that to me suggests that the course is pitched at an appropriate level and the guys who got in with ccc ( you need bbb for the 2 - year option ) are for the most part finding it impossibly hard . others might disagree and say that it means that the teaching is rubbish but that has not been my experience at all .
just to put it into perspective , in scotland you have to do an accelerated ll . b as there is no gdl route . as such , the cheapest accelerated ll . b programme is £6k a year and the most expensive is currently £12k a year , so i think that considering you will get an ll . b that will allow you to work in england and wales ( i . e . , will allow you to work where the pay is generally higher than scotland ) for £12k means that it is potentially very good value for money . of course , that is all dependant upon you landing a decent job at the end of the day .
very glad though that i ' m not going to uni in scotland - because i think i would be little annoyed that i had payed £27 , 000 and a lot of my peers didn ' t have to pay a penny . . . that is a huge difference ! awful government : /
for what it ' s worth , i do have ~ £25k of debt that , like yours , will come off as a percentage of my income . moreover , because of the system up here in scotland , i will have an additional £13k of that type of debt whilst i pay ~ £18k in tuition fees up front . all in i ' ll have used ~ £51k and from that i ' ll have ~ £38k still to pay off ( granted that this is not the norm - an eea undergrad in scotland will have next to nothing to pay off , which in itself is annoying ) .
hi there , i ' m also a mature student i ' ve just applied last minute for the 2 year accelerated llb . just wanted to know how you are finding it and how many hours a week do you attend lectures / seminars ?
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