This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster'. '.strtoupper('t')he down and dirty directorial debut of former clean cut teen star dennis hopper blue velvet, easy rider heralded the arrival of a new voice in film, one pitched angrily against the mainstream'. '.strtoupper('a')fter the film's cross country journey with its radical, new wave style editing, outsider rock soundtrack, revelatory performance by a young jack nicholson five easy pieces, and explosive ending the american road trip would never be the same.special featuresrestored high definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography lászló kovács, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackalternate 2.0 and 5.1 surround soundtracks, presented in dts hd master audiotwo audio commentaries, one from 2009, featuring actor director writer dennis hopper, and the other from 1995, featuring hopper, actor writer peter fonda, and production manager paul lewisborn to be wild 1995 and easy rider shaking the cage 1999, documentaries about the making and history of the filmtelevision excerpts showing hopper and fonda at the cannes film festival in 1969interview from 2010 with bbs productions co founder steve blaunertheatrical trailersan essay by film critic matt zoller seitzclick images to enlarge