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    ‘The Bikeriders’ review: Real Illinois motorcycle club becomes a story of uneasy riders

    Making a movie inspired by Danny Lyon’s 1968 photojournalism book “The Bikeriders” offers a filmmaker everything except a sure thing. A one-time member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, founded in suburban McCook, Illinois, photographer and (later) documentary filmmaker Lyon turned the aesthetic notion of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” outside in, capturing images — and in Lyon’s case, ...
    by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Jun 19, 2024 3 minutes
    Austin Butler as Benny in director Jeff Nichols' “The Bikeriders.”

    Making a movie inspired by Danny Lyon’s 1968 photojournalism book “The Bikeriders” offers a filmmaker everything except a sure thing.

    A one-time member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, founded in suburban McCook, Illinois, photographer and (later) documentary filmmaker Lyon turned the aesthetic notion of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” outside in, capturing images — and in Lyon’s case, tape-recorded anecdotes converted to text accompanying the photos — not as a penetrating outsider but a watchful insider. The book remains a key collection of Chicago-area images, faces, revelry, desolation, two-lane roads and one-way fate.

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