Easy Rider (The Criterion Collection) 05/16 Blu-ray (Rental)

This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster. The down-and-dirty directorial debut of former clean-cut teen star Dennis Hopper (Blue Velvet), 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 (Five Easy Pieces), and explosive ending the American road trip would never be the same. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION 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 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