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    Unique ID Code: 0000174097
    Added by: Stuart McLean
    Added on: 19/5/2016 17:57
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    Easy Rider

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    Certificate: 18
    Running Time: 95 mins
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    Content Type: Movie

    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 on the Blu-ray
    • 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-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

    Video Tracks:
    1.85:1 Colour

    Audio Tracks:
    2.0 and 5.1 surround in DTS-HD

    Directed By:
    Dennis Hopper

    Written By:

    Music From:
    Steppenwolf
    The Byrds
    Jimi Hendrix
    CSNY

    Director of Photography:
    Lázló Kovács

    Editor:
    Donn Cambern

    Production Designer:
    Jerry Kay

    Visual Effects:
    Steve Karkus

    Producer:
    Peter Fonda

    Executive Producer:
    Bert Schneider

    Distributor:
    Criterion

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