Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)
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- Country of origin:
- USA, 1971
- Age release:
- Dieser Titel ist nicht FSK-geprüft.
Delivery to minors is not possible.
Infos zu Titeln ohne Jugendfreigabe - Item number:
- 2653044
- UPC/EAN:
- 5060000700442
- Release date:
- 23.1.2012
- Series:
- Masters of Cinema
- Genre:
- Action
- Playing time ca.:
- 103 Min.
- Director:
- Monte Hellman
- Actor:
- James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson
- German Title:
- Two-Lane Blacktop (Asphaltrennen)
- Language:
- Englisch
- Picture:
- Widescreen
- Subtitles:
- Englisch
With the melancholy open-road epic Two-Lane Blacktop, American auteur Monte Hellman (The Shooting, Cockfighter, and the recent Road to Nowhere) poeticised the beautiful, terrible rootlessness of his nation in the era of Vietnam. Funded by Universal in a bid to recreate the success of Easy Rider by giving a number of filmmakers $1m and final cut Hellman's effort is now regarded as one of the key films of the New Hollywood renaissance of the early 1970s. While driving eastward on Route 66, two rival car owners The Driver (singer-songwriter James Taylor) and The Mechanic (Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys) in a souped-up, drag-racing '55 Chevy, and a middle-aged braggart (Warren Oates) in a gleaming GTO begin to race for each other's "pink slips" and the affections of the listless female hitchhiker (Laurie Bird) who joins them on the road. Scripted by esteemed novelist Rudy Wurlitzer, and featuring the only screen performances of Taylor and Wilson, Two-Lane Blacktop remains a timeless, existential portrait of lives in transit and of a country questioning its identity. Two-Lane Blacktop is one of the most popular car-fetishist / petrolhead movies ever made and listed as one of the 50 greatest independent films of all time by Empire Magazine. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Hellman's iconic film on Blu-ray for the first time ever anywhere in the world.
Extras:
Commentary: Monte Hellman (director) and Gary Kurtz (associate producer), Documentaries: 'On the Road Again - 'Two-Lane Blacktop' Revisited'; 'Somewhere Near Salinas'; 'Sure Did Talk to You', Rare archival screen-test footage of James Taylor and Laurie Bird; Optional music and effects track, Trailers
