Easy Rider (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) R

A man went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere ...
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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 3, 2016
  • Originally Released: 1969
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 58,634
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Though deserving of its esteemed status on account of the cinematic revolution it spawned, the feature itself is something of a relic. But since when isn't it fascinating to reflect on the fossils of the past? Full Review
Quickflix
Mar 12, 2013
Beyond the melodrama of groovy kids vs. rednecks is an emotion that more and more of us, young and old alike, are experiencing, the overpowering sense of loss, the anguish of What went wrong? We blew it -- how? Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Mar 28, 2017
Easy Rider, a sparsely written cross-country movie with a Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on extravagant motorcycles, is marred by draggy, romantic material. Full Review
Artforum
Jun 18, 2019
Rating: 5/5 -- Easy Rider, is not only emblematic of independent American cinema, but, released in 1969, is the definitive statement on the death of the 60s. Full Review
CineVue
May 9, 2016
None of the forced violence, lawlessness, rapist, gratuitous speed aspects of the motorbike clan in this perceptive film. Full Review
Variety
Jun 26, 2007
...Marvelous outdoor photography... -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars
USA Today
Nov 24, 1995
Rating: 2/5 -- Hopper, Fonda and their friends went out into America looking for a movie and found instead a small, pious statement (upper case) about our society (upper case), which is sick (upper case). It's pretty but lower case cinema.
New York Times
May 20, 2003

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A landmark in film history, EASY RIDER blew the studio doors open for more young directors than any film before or since, helping to create the wide-open climate that would lead to the production of many outstanding films in the 1970s. As its director, Dennis Hopper is usually given the lion's share of credit for the film's success, but the revelations of time suggest that the contributions of the late Terry Southern and, to some degree, Jack Nicholson have endowed the film with much of its residual power.

Starring Peter Fonda as Wyatt (alias Captain America) and Hopper as Billy, it traces the hippie duo's adventures as they mount their seriously chopped hogs on a journey to find the real America en route to Mardi Gras. In Arizona, they visit a commune whose members are having a tough time, and in a small Texas town they're jailed for joining a parade. But they're quickly sprung by an ACLU lawyer, the quirky, hard-drinking George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), who accepts their offer to join them on the trip to New Orleans, eager to visit the best whorehouse in the South. EASY RIDER accurately reflects the tensions and hostilities of the period, Laszlo Kovacs's photography is superb, Nicholson is exceptional in his breakthrough role--and the startling, stunning ending is a shocker.

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