- Category: Video » Drama » Drama, General
- Format: DVD
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- Number of Discs: 2
- UPC/EAN: 715515026925
- WAPI (Tower ID): 111467707
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: December 11, 2007
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #5290 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #1005 in Drama (See Top 100 Drama Bestsellers)
- #1005 in Drama, General (See Top 100 Drama, General Bestsellers)
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About "Two-Lane Blacktop (DVD)"
Review
USA Today, 10/15/1999, p.10E, "...What the movie has is a feel for the road and out-of-the-way restaurants and gas stations matched by few others..." Total Film, 07/01/2007, p.134, 4 stars out of 5 -- "As a study in obsession and emotional dislocation TWO-LANE BLACKTOP is in a class of its own." Sight and Sound, 03/01/2008, p.98, "Hellman and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer keep it as stripped down as almost anything in contemporary European art cinema -- it's both abstract and concrete." New York Times, 12/18/2007, "Mr. Hellman films the flat, empty landscapes with his eyes on the horizon line, as if he were John Ford following a wagon train on its way west."
Title Note
Theatrical Release: 1971
Release Note
Contains theatrical trailer. DVD Features:
Product Notes
Cult film director Monte Hellman follows up his legendary westerns THE SHOOTING and RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND with another bona fide classic, this time set on the paved highways of early 1970s America. Making their acting debuts, musicians Dennis Wilson and James Taylor play a pair of drag-racing drifters who battle against willing competitors all along the back roads of America, encountering a wild cast of characters. After stopping for lunch one afternoon, Taylor (The Driver) and Wilson (The Mechanic) discover a young woman in their back seat (Laurie Bird, credited as (The Girl). The newly formed trio continues to head east, and places a risky bet with Warren Oates after bumping into each other at a gas station. The first automobile to arrive in Washington D.C. is the winner. The prize: the loser's car (Taylor and Wilson drive a 1955 Chevy, while Oates pilots a 1970 Pontiac GTO). Strangely enough, rather than turning into a relentless fight to the finish, none of the participants seem too worried about picking up the pace. In fact, they act as if they're afraid of reaching their destinations, spurning an endless series of sidetracks that turns Hellman's film into a broad existential metaphor and cementing its place as one of 1970s Hollywood's bravest motion pictures.
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