Easy Rider (Hopper, 1969): Prince Charles Cinema, 5.45pm
This is a 35mm presentation and also screens on May 7th. Details here.
"This now-classic road movie turned the B-movie youthquake into an international art cinema. Easy Rider tells
the story of Captain America and Billy the Kid as they go looking for
America and, as Columbia’s original poster put it, “can’t find it
anywhere.” From its legendary compilation score to its echt-60’s lens
flares and culminating LSD trip, Easy Rider feels
disconcertingly familiar, a model of what Tom Frank calls “the conquest
of cool.” As they motor along to their inevitably tragic end, our
heroes do drugs, have their rights violated, meet some interestingly
allegorical groups of folks, and find themselves enframed by László
Kovács’s gorgeous cinematography."
Harvard Film Archive
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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