Easy Rider [1969] (Criterion) (Blu-ray)

Easy Rider [1969] (Criterion) (BLU)

Dennis Hopper

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Synopsis

This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster. The down-and-dirty directorial debut of former clean-cut teen star Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider heralded the arrival of a new voice in film, one pitched angrily against the mainstream. After the film’s cross-country journey—with its radical, New Wave–style editing, outsider-rock soundtrack, revelatory performance by a young Jack Nicholson, and explosive ending—the American road trip would never be the same.

Special Features:

Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography László Kovács, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Alternate 2.0 and 5.1 surround soundtracks, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
Two audio commentaries, one from 2009, featuring actor-director-writer Dennis Hopper, and the other from 1995, featuring Hopper, actor-writer Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis
Born to Be Wild (1995) and “Easy Rider”: Shaking the Cage (1999), documentaries about the making and history of the film
Television excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969
Interview from 2010 with BBS Productions cofounder Steve Blauner
Theatrical trailers
An essay by film critic Matt Zoller Seitz