On the 40th anniversary of Easy Rider (which I personally commemorated with a purchase of the recently released Bluray, which makes the film seem vibrant and highly attuned and freshly found), Slate‘s Keith Phipps went on a journey that followed Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper‘s original path, and has written an essay about the movie, its legacy, and how the places it visited have changed.
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LACMA’s Michael Govan
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