Drive, He Said (1971) [The Criterion Collection #547] (Repost)

Fresh off of his Five Easy Pieces success, Jack Nicholson mounted his enormously irreverent directorial debut. Based on the best-selling novel by Jeremy Larner, Drive, He Said, free-spirited and sobering by turns, is a sketch of the exploits of a disaffected college basketball player (William Tepper) and his increasingly radical roommate (Michael Margotta), as well as a feverishly shot and edited snapshot of the early seventies (some of it was filmed during an actual campus protest). Fueled by Vietnam-era anxieties and perched on the edge of utter insanity, Nicholson’s audacious comedy (also starring Bruce Dern and Karen Black) is a startling howl direct from the zeitgeist.

Directed by: Jack Nicholson

Written by: Jeremy Larner, Jack Nicholson, Terrence Malick (uncredited)

Starring: William Tepper, Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Robert Towne, Henry Jaglom

Music by: David Shire

Cinematography: Bill Butler

Edited by: Donn Cambern, Christopher Holmes, Pat Somerset, Robert L. Wolfe

Note: From the box set "America Lost and Found: The BBS Story".

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Special Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Jack Nicholson.
A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom, a 2009 video piece featuring Nicholson.
Theatrical trailer.