'Five Easy Pieces' Director: Bob Rafelson (1970) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | DOP-supervised restoration Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Five Easy Pieces. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged, ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, Five Easy Pieces is a lasting example of early-1970s American alienation, with a memorable soundtrack ranging from country singer Tammy Wynette, to classical piano pieces by Chopin, Bach and Mozart. Special features include: Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson Soul Searching in "Five Easy Pieces," a 2009 program featuring Rafelson BBStory, a 2009 documentary about the legendary film company BBS Productions, with Rafelson; actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn; filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom; and others Documentary featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley Audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson Essay by critic Kent Jones
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