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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0715515026925
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Criterion Collection
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 4458
Studio: Criterion Collection
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
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Product Description:
Drag racing east from L.A. in a souped-up '55 Chevy are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer-songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson in their only acting roles) accompanied by the tagalong Girl (Laurie Bird). Along the way they meet Warren Oates's Pontiac GTO-driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race - at stake: their cars' pink slips. Yet no summary can do justice to the existential punch of Two-Lane Blacktop. Maverick director Monte Hellman's stripped-down narrative gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession make this one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.System Requirements:Run time: 103 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/RURAL LIFE Rating: R UPC: 715515026925 Manufacturer No: CC1729DDVD
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James Taylor is The Driver, a car-obsessed racer with stringy hair and a concentration that precludes conversation. He travels the backroads of rural America with his buddy, The Mechanic (Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys), an equally obsessed lost soul at home only in the car or under the hood. They have no names, only designations, and no life outside of their gypsy existence, riding the unending highway in their souped-up '55 Chevy from race to race. After picking up a hitchhiking Girl (Laurie Bird), whose presence breaks the tunnel-vision focus of the two men, they challenge a middle-aged hotshot, the garrulous G.T.O. (Warren Oates) to a cross-country race. Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop is the most alienated evocation of modern America ever made, an almost abstract study in dislocation and obsession set against a vague landscape of roadside diners and rest stops. Taylor and Wilson deliver appropriately blank performances, only expressing emotion when The Girl sparks jealousy between them. Oates is a glib dynamo constructing a new persona in every scene, as if trying on characters to play as he ping-pongs between the coasts. "How fast does it go?" asks The Driver, admiring G.T.O.'s car. "Fast enough," he answers. The Driver snaps, "You can never go fast enough." These are characters on the road to nowhere who can't work up enough speed to escape themselves. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  -
This movie grew on me. At first, the nonacting and dirt-cheap just-shoot-the-movie production values annoyed me but then I got into it. Two-Lane Blacktop has a sort of grubby charm to it. A very idiosyncratic road movie. For actors, James Taylor and Dennis Wilson make great musicians and Laurie Bird, as the girl, seems to exist as little more than a sketched plot device. Someone for the guys to interact with and fight over. Warren Oates seems to be the "talent" here. Most road movies are freespirited ... Read More
Rating:  -
If you love old muscle cars and want to glimse a long gone era in the good ole USA this movie is for you. Solid performances from the actors make this a really watchable movie.
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This is not a review of the film itself - there are numerous sources of critiques and distillations of the plot (such as it is). Rather, this review is concerned with the presentation of the Criterion Collection dvd release.
The packaging is in a paper sleeve and similar to other recent double disc Criterion releases, such as The Double Life of Veronique - Criterion Collection. This release is one of the most extravagant releases Criterion has helmed, including not one - but two - informative ... Read More
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Call it an existentialist movie. Call it a character study. "Two-Lane Blacktop" is probably both. Probably. To say that it's about three guys, two cars and one girl is almost an exaggeration of a plot description. Two of the three guys - The Driver (played by James Taylor) and The Mechanic (Dennis Wilson)- seem to exist only to drive in their souped-up, primer grey Chevy. Their sum of their lives is this: one drives, one fixes the car, they race for money so they can continue driving and fixing their car. ... Read More
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Of all the movies in the late 60s-early 70s, this one haunted me the most. It's not about dialog or action in this one... it's what's going on in the periphery.
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