Two-Lane Blacktop (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2013
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Taylor, Dennis Wilson & Warren Oates | |
Performer: | Laurie Bird & Harry Dean Stanton | |
Directed by | Monte Hellman | |
Edited by | Monte Hellman | |
Screenwriting by | Rudy Wurlitzer & Will Corry | |
Composition by | Billy James | |
Produced by | Michael Laughlin | |
Director of Photography: | Jack Deerson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Oates gives a compelling performance and musicians Taylor and Wilson supply the right degree of drifter cool.
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The Age (Australia)
Two-Lane provides a script to match [Oates] and he gives what is simply one of the year's most memorable performances.
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Los Angeles Free Press
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.
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Chicago Reader
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
It came nowhere close to the numbers on Easy Rider, but it is so much more worthwhile as a film. Indeed, I'm going to push my luck and say there has never been a better film about sweaters.
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The New Republic
Rating: 4/5 --
As a study in obsession and emotional dislocation Two-Lane Blacktop is in a class of its own.
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Total Film
even if the Driver and co. are just passin' through, they encapsulate a whole generation lost in the rootless, directionless '70s, scorching the viewer's retina with their quest for nothing.
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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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- Sales Rank: 22,538
- UPC: 715515102414
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