Directed by: Monte Hellman
Stars: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird
Language: English + Commentaries (3tracks) | Subtitles: English (embed)
(Commentary with director Monte Hellman and filmmaker Allison Anders)
(Commentary with screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer and film professor and author David N. Meyer)
Country: Usa | Imdb Info | Ar: 16:9 | Brrip
Description: While drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevvy 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an alluring hitchhiker and the inexperienced, tall tale-spinning driver of a GTO.
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I agree with above comments, but also wish some American would have made a real American road movie that didn’t portray the prospects of young people being a hopeless road into oblivion. Seems those foreign movie makers had more of an agenda against Americans than a will to portray the American youth of the 60s and 70s. That goes for the Italian Antonio Michelangelo too, whatever his agenda was when filming in the US which I’m at loss to know, more than to push Marxism and getting to know even more women willing to undress.
psttt! our new enemies are the Russians again, not the marxists, drug traffickers or Islam…
From wiki: “Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, “What I liked about Two-Lane Blacktop was the sense of life that occasionally sneaked through, particularly in the character of G.T.O. (Warren Oates). He is the only character who is fully occupied with being himself (rather than the instrument of a metaphor), and so we get the sense we’ve met somebody”.[9] In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, “Two-Lane Blacktop is a far from perfect film (those metaphors keep blocking the road), but it has been directed, acted, photographed and scored (underscored, happily) with the restraint and control of an aware, mature filmmaker”.[10] Time magazine’s Jay Cocks wrote, “The film is immaculately crafted, funny and quite beautiful, resonant with a lingering mood of loss and loneliness … Not a single frame in the film is wasted. Even the small touches — the languid tension while refueling at a back-country gas station or the piercing sound of an ignition buzzer — have their own intricate worth”.[11] In his review for the Village Voice, J. Hoberman wrote, “Two-Lane Blacktop is a movie of achingly eloquent landscapes and absurdly inert characters”.[12] In his review for the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote, “The movie starts off as a narrative, but gradually grows into something much more abstract — it’s unsettling, but also beautiful”.[13]
The film has since become a cult film.[14] On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 93% based on reviews from 40 critics.[15] On Metacritic it has a score of 89 out of 100, based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.[16] The Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2012 as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”[17][18][19]
In 1994, Seattle’s Scarecrow Video invited Hellman to show the film at their store. They proceeded to collect 2,000 signatures, including Werner Herzog’s, for a petition to get the film released on video. Both People magazine and Film Comment ran articles about the store’s effort and the film.[4] … At a July 2007 screening of the film, Hellman revealed that the Criterion Collection was releasing a two-disc special edition DVD…[21] …
Two-Lane Blacktop…has been compared to similar road movies with an existentialist message from the era, such as Vanishing Point, Easy Rider, and Electra Glide in Blue.”
How about ‘Fear Is the Key’? Not really a road movie, but it does have some of those elements I think?
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Man! To think that there really were such things as road movies once. Stories about open spaces… Today there would be minimarkets at every turn and, naturally, it would all be observed from space by Google and broadcast around the world. What is it about humans that makes them want to destroy freedom wherever they find it?
Well said. Governments and corporations have taken all our freedoms, as pithy as they were, and no-one seems to care. They’re too busy scrolling shit on their feeds.
“Those who would give up essential liberties, for some temporary safety, deserve neither freedom nor safety.” – Ben Franklin
Thanks to the 401Ks, corporations and the female “Collectivist” vote, safety and security take precedence over liberties.
This movie and ‘Vanishing Point’ are the two best road movies of the ’70s. They’re a great double feature.
https://rarelust.com/vanishing-point-1971/
RL – you rock! One of the best road trip flicks ever – thank you so much for the help with this one.