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Tossing wristwatches away, two bikers hit the road to find America in Dennis Hopper's anti-establishment classic. After a major cocaine sale to an L.A. connection (Phil Spector), free-wheeling potheads Billy (Hopper) and Wyatt, aka Captain America (Peter Fonda, who also produced), motor eastward to party at Mardi Gras before "retiring" to Florida with the riches concealed in Wyatt's stars-and-stripes gas tank. As they ride through the Southwest, they take a hitchhiker (Luke Askew) to a
Jan 1, 1969 Wide
Dec 7, 1999
Columbia Pictures
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None of the forced violence, lawlessness, rapist, gratuitous speed aspects of the motorbike clan in this perceptive film.
The film may be a relic now, but it is a fascinating souvenir -- particularly in its narcissism and fatalism -- of how the hippie movement thought of itself.
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.
It plays today more as a period piece than as living cinema, but it captures so surely the tone and look of that moment in time.
unlike earlier films that exploited the sensational nature of their subject matter and did little else, Easy Rider borrowed its attitude and aesthetics from the various European new waves and sought to be about something.
... a countercultural shot across the bow of an out-of-touch Hollywood system.
like all great films, with a finger firm on the pulse of the entire spirit of the age, it predicted in terms brutal and eloquent the end of the whole fucking thing.
Despite it all, it's a valuable document of hepcat actors taking snapshots of America circa 1969
The 40th anniversary DVD of the 1969 seminal road movie contains several specials, including illuminating commentary from star-director Dennis Hopper.
No film evokes the Sixties more than Easy Rider, and no film from that period . . . has been glamorized as much.
More than anything else, the thing that gives Easy Rider its legendary status is that it's an indie film that became the spokesperson for a decade when Hollywood was preoccupied with other concerns.
The film stands up as a profound period piece that continues to reverberate with the despondent hostilities of modern American existence.
A film important to and influential in the flower-power late '60s, Easy Rider now seems like a narcissistic hodgepodge of travelogue and passion play.
The little road movie of hippie bikers was an odyssey for the era of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll...
The ultimate "road trip" movie.
Slack but powerful, sentimental yet scathing, experimental but predictable.
Dennis Hopper's seminal road film proved that critical movies of mainstream society could achieve both artistic cache and commercial success.
[A] simplistic amalgam of travelogue and the zoom lens.
I don't think I'll watch EASY RIDER again, but it's a well-made piece for sure.
Easy Rider is the seminal road film and is a legendary film in the cinematic medium. Directed by the late Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider tells the story of two bikers who head down to Mardi Gras. Along the way they meet many colorful people. Easy Rider is an important milestone in cinema because it changed the way cinema
November 14, 2011
Super Reviewer
Capturing a moment in time perfectly, this film is a time capsule to 1969. Though it now seems very dated to me, it does feature a truly great performance from Jack Nicholson.
October 30, 2011Super Reviewer
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