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...seems to be having much trouble embracing Easy Rider. Rex Reed, no less, thinks Easy Rider "is a bold, courageous statement of life seldom matched in motion pictures." The current WBCN ad (BCN moves closer and closer to Krackerjacks every day) for Easy Rider starts with quotes from Life and moves on to include forty other crates who feel that Rider is the film you can't afford to miss. This review is dedicated to all those who expected a shuck...
...Easy Rider is basically the filmic diary of a motorcycle trip through the Southwest to New Orleans. The travelers are two young hip types, Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) who have managed to smuggle in a large quantity of cocaine, and, having bought two Harleys, are heading for Mardi Gras to celebrate. The two meet up with George Hanson (Jack Richardson), a drunken Southern lawyer, while in a Deep South jail. Hanson, yearning for some legendary whorehouse and dominated unto middle-age by his Daddy, decides to accompany them to New Orleans. But camped out one night they...
...EASY RIDER is born of the natural union of American International motorcycle epics and all those westerns whose aging heroes have outlived their era. The two protagonists are as painfully inarticulate as any western idol; their sluggishness of mind is of course intended to be read as sensitivity and moral integrity. Billy's even decked out in a fringed suede jacket, boots, and cowboy hat. The beautiful Southwest landscapes of photographer Laszlo Kovaes turn hostile each night around the campfire, where a lot of authentic marijuana dialogue goes on. Like Western heroes, they are isolated in travel from their natural...
...first start-August 1 at Saratoga-the horse ran greenly and was beaten a length by Sun Cross. Silent Screen remedied the situation the next week, winning by 14 lengths "easily" and running only one second off the track record. Tuxedo-and-Champagne John L. Rotz, the horse's rider, said, "I have...
...which abound with vitality and cinematic invention. Scorsese choreographs his camera movements with an exhilarating, easy grace, and his dramatic use of rock 'n' roll (the film's title comes from a 1958 hit by the Genies) surpasses similar efforts in The Graduate and Easy Rider. Such fragments are bright enough to make Who's That Knocking-and more important, Martin Scorsese-worth watching...