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Easy rider

Μυθοπλασία/Fiction, ΗΠΑ/USA, 1969, 95 ́, DCP, Έγχρ./Color, Mε ήχο/Sound

Wyatt and Bill, played by co-scriptwriter Peter Fonda and by the director of the film Dennis Hopper accordingly, after transporting drugs, they decide to ride further their chopper motorbikes and travel cross country. They meet the decadent lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), and hippies seeking alternative ways of life. They also experience the bigotry and hatred from the inhabitants of small-town America. It’s a landmark film, at the threshold of independent New Hollywood, in which the decadence of the ‘American Dream’ is rendered with sex drugs and rock n roll. While it was a low-budget film, it cashed millions, probably due to the uncensored representation of the counter-culture of the 1960s.

Dennis Hopper// Dennis Hopper, film actor, director, and writer, with Easy Rider, rose to fame as a counter-cultural icon. However, his substance abuse overshadowed his creativity. By the mid-1980s, having overcome his addictions, Hopper attained additional renown for his photography and his paintings.

Σκηνοθεσία/Direction Dennis Hopper
Σενάριο/Screenplay Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper Terry Southern
Φωτογραφία/Cinematography László Kovács
Μοντάζ/Editing Donn Cambern
Ηθοποιοί / Cast Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector
Παραγωγή/Production Peter Fonda for Raybert Productions Inc., The Pando Company, Inc.
Αποκατάσταση ταινίας / Film Restored in 4K by Sony Pictures Entertainment in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna from the 35mm original picture negative and 35mm black and white separation masters. 4K scanning and digital image restoration by L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory
Πηγή κόπιας/Print source Park Circus

 

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The 10th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival is carried out in the context of “Cinephilia in the New Age II” which is funded by the European Union — European Regional Development Fund (Operational Programme ROP ATTIKI of NSRF 2014-2020). All actions are carried out under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.