Two-Lane Blacktop (2-DVD) R

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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 10, 2015
  • Originally Released: 1971
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 5,992
This exciting existentialist road movie by Monte Hellman, with a swell script by Rudolph Wurlitzer and Will Corry and my favorite Warren Oates performance, looks even better now than it did in 1971. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Dec 13, 2007
Rating: A -- "Two-Lane Blacktop" prompts a dialogue of uncertain expectation with its audience. Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
Feb 24, 2013
[It] remains a vital piece of filmmaking Full Review
Trespass
Sep 15, 2013
Rating: 4/5 -- As a study in obsession and emotional dislocation Two-Lane Blacktop is in a class of its own. Full Review
Total Film
Feb 25, 2013
Hellman and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer keep it as stripped down as almost anything in contemporary European art cinema -- it's both abstract and concrete.
Sight and Sound
Mar 1, 2008
The ultimate road movie and one of the great American movies of the 1970s. Full Review
Film4
Feb 25, 2013
Two-Lane Blacktop is a movie of achingly eloquent landscapes and absurdly inert characters.
Village Voice
Dec 13, 2007

Product Description:

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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  • UPC: 715515137614
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