Easy Rider in 4K

Easy Rider in 4K

Selected by the Writers Branch. Free for museum members.

Selected by the Writers Branch
Free for museum members

Peter Fonda and director Dennis Hopper play two bikers, flush with the profits from a cocaine deal, who embark on a cross-country ride to New Orleans. Along the way, they join up with a hard-drinking lawyer played by Jack Nicholson in a star-making, Oscar-nominated performance. With its rock soundtrack, László Kovács’s naturalistic cinematography, and Donn Cambern’s kaleidoscopic editing, the film was a stylistic groundbreaker as well as a pop culture phenomenon. Fonda, Hopper, and novelist Terry Southern were nominated for the original screenplay.

DIRECTED BY: Dennis Hopper. WRITTEN BY: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern. WITH: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Robert Walker Jr. 1969. 95 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 4K DCP.

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