BBS (producers Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner) invested $350,000 in Dennis Hopper's biker film and made $350 million — while also making Jack Nicholson a star. Hopper and Peter Fonda tell the tale on the Blu-ray commentary.
Karen Black surfed turbulent times in Jack Nicholson's 1970 directing debut about sex and revolt on campus. He supervised the new digital transfer (and in 1970, the nude-scene auditions).
Jack Nicholson perfects his "degenerate Clark Gable" persona as an heroically dissolute classical musician in dissonant love with countrified Rayette (Karen Black).
The Monkees made BBS the millions they poured into their revolutionary movies, none weirder than Rafelson's 'Head.' Their commentary on the Blu-ray makes way more sense than the trippy cult flick.
Nicholson plays the uptight brother upstaged by his out-of-control con-man brother Bruce Dern in Rafelson's Atlantic City tragedy.
Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, and Cybill Shepherd go deep in the sad heart of Texas in the octuple Oscar-nominated classic. Peter Bogdanovich supervised the new digital transfer and did two commentaries, in 1991 and 2009.
Tuesday Weld and Jack Nicholson improvised intensely in Henry Jaglom's fantasia, with a little help from Orson Welles as a Central Park magician.
