This special bonus episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1969 features Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider. Directed and co-written by Dennis Hopper and starring Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson and Luke Askew, Easy Rider is a key touchstone of 1960s counterculture.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/easy-rider-1969), Gene Moskowitz in Variety (https://variety.com/1969/film/reviews/easy-rider-1117790631/), and Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1969/07/15/archives/easy-rider-a-statement-on-film.html).
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