Easy Rider (The Criterion Collection)

This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster. The down-and-dirty directorial debut of former clean-cut teen star Dennis Hopper (Blue Velvet), Simple Rider heralded the arriving 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 (Five Simple Pieces), and explosive ending the American road go back and forth would never be the similar.

DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
– Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography László Kovács
– Alternate 2.0 and 5.1 surround soundtracks, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
– Two audio commentaries, one from 2009, featuring actor-director-creator Dennis Hopper, and the opposite from 1995, featuring Hopper, actor-creator Peter Fonda, and production manager Paul Lewis
– Born to Be Wild (1995) and Simple Rider : Shaking the Cage (1999), documentaries concerning the making and history of the film
– Tv excerpts showing Hopper and Fonda on 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