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Wise Library at the DGA to watch Bob Rafelson's 1970 masterpiece Five Easy Pieces. Leaflet - illustrated leaflet featuring an essay by critic Ken Jones.I just had a visceral reaction to it," says Lisa Cholodenko as she settles into a chair in the Robert E.Commentary - audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson.BBS: A Time For Change - in this video piece, filmed in 2010, critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley discuss the BBS and its legacy.

BBStory - in this documentary feature, director Bob Rafelson, Peter Bogdanovich, Jack Nicholson, Henry Janglom, Karen Black, Ellen Burstyn, Fred Roos, and Richard Schickel, amongst others, discuss the BBS legacy.

The discussion features director Bob Rafelson, who addresses the legacy of BBS.

Bob Rafelson at AFI - archival footage from a discussion held at the American Film Institute on May 19, 1976.

Also included are clips from an interview with Jack Nicholson.

Soul Searching in "Five Easy Pieces" - in this video piece, recorded in 2009, director Bob Rafelson discusses various technical aspects from the production of Five Easy Pieces, as well its unique narrative.

Teasers and Trailers - in English, not subtitled.

Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free Blu-ray player in order to access its content). ( Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. I spotted a few light artifacts trying to sneak in, but the encoding is very good. Also, there are no large debris, cuts, stains, or scratches to report. Grain is evenly distributed and well resolved and there are no traces of sharpening adjustments. Colors are well saturated, wonderfully balanced and very natural. Close-ups and the larger panoramic shots boast outstanding depth and clarity. Rather predictably, the film looks wonderful in high-definition. The release has been sourced from the same 4K restoration that was accessed when the America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set was prepared.

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Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion. At his family house, Bobby is once again confronted with the same pretentious, suffocating bourgeois atmosphere that drove him away years ago.įor additional comments on the film, please see our review of America Lost and Found: The BBS Story.

Along the way, however, he meets other women and dumps Ray in a motel. He has also found a girlfriend, Ray (Karen Black, The Great Gatsby, The Day of the Locust), a nice-looking waitress who likes sex and crying on Bobby's shoulder.Īfter his sister tells him that his father is seriously ill, Bobby heads back to Washington, together with the enthusiastic Ray.

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You can access our review of America Lost and Found: The BBS Story here.Ĭlassical pianist Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) has left his bourgeois family in Washington and found peace in Southern California, where he works at an oil rig and spends most of his free time bowling. The rest of the films in the box set are Rafelson's Head (1968) and The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider (1969), Jack Nicholson's Drive, He Said (1970), Henry Jaglom's A Safe Place (1971), and Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971). Svet Atanasov, May 29, 2015īob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces initially appeared in Criterion's America Lost and Found: The BBS Story six-disc Blu-ray box set.