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October 19, 1999 "Please retry" | — | 1 |
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Genre | Drama |
Format | Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen |
Contributor | James Taylor, Monte Hellman, Warren Oates |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 42 minutes |
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Product Description
Product Description
Two guys and a girl in a souped-up '55 Chevy race an older guy in a GTO. Directed by Monte Hellman
Set Contains:
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Monte Hellman
- Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
- Two audio commentaries; one by Hellman and filmmaker Allison Anders, and one by screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer and author David Meyer
- Interviews with Hellman, musician Kris Kristofferson, producer Michael Laughlin, and production manager Walter Coblenz
- Rare, never-before-seen screen-test outtakes
- “Performance and Image”: a look at the restoration of a ’55 Chevy from the movie
- “Color Me Gone”: photos and publicity from Two-Lane Blacktop
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: new essay by Kent Jones
Product details
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.12 ounces
- Item model number : CRRN2451DVD
- Director : Monte Hellman
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 42 minutes
- Release date : March 10, 2015
- Actors : James Taylor, Warren Oates
- Studio : Criterion Collection (Direct)
- ASIN : B00R244D00
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,324 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #755 in Drama DVDs
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Not a great movie but the times (1971) are spot-on and the subject manner classic in my memory. Probably why I was a car chick in the 70s and why I lived my ‘72 Chevelle Malibu vroom
Driver and Mechanic are the original slackers. They love racing, and hustling people to keep racing and their supercharged '55 Chevy. They are not hippies, but car junkies. The meet a loud mouth middle aged guy driving a newer sportier GTO who wants to race them for pink slips. Eventually they agree to what amounts to a gentlemen's type race from New Mexico to the East Coast. There's not a lot of suspense to the race, and the film is about. . . well whatever you want it to be about. GTO pretends to be someone else everytime he picks up a new hitch-hiker. He's amusing himself with his creative imagination and re-inventing himself to escape the middle age blues. Eventually there's a little bit of a competition over a young female hitchhiker.
The film was filmed on location as cast and crew drove across the country. The bare-bones script is by Rudolph Wurlitzer and Will Curry.
The film becomes more and more abstract as it moves along. The story matters less and less. A circle eventually forms and we realize we've been riding along on a very unique, one of a kind film. There's a wonderful example of an utterly open ended final shot.
Some are going to find this film very dull and wonder what there is to admire and respect about it. Others are going to 'discover' all sorts of things that are of course not actually present in the film itself, but are thoughts and reactions the film has sparked and triggered within them as they watched the film. Other's will enjoy the muscle cars, and late 60's cars that make sporadic appearances or rev up their engines on occassion.
It's a film you watch many times and find different subtexts, moods, ideas and space within. It's a film that requires the viewer to both observe, accept and participate in, like one would a living sculpture.
It's the kind of art film you would never expect from a director who made two quirky Westerns for Roger Corman in the mid 60's (The Shooting and Ride the Whirlwind --with Nicholson right before Jack became a star with Easy Rider). Hellman also went on to make the very interesting Cockfigher with Warren Oates. He's appreciated by a small, growing cult of afficianado's and you'll find Hellman's name more recently as executive producer of Reservoir Dogs.
For something really unique I suggest you find a way to watch the DVD of Two-Lane Blacktop.
The film was long out of circulation because of disputes over music rights. They were resolved and the film has been beautifully transferred to DVD and actually looks better than it ever did since the contrasts in light were carefully boosted during the DVD transfer.
Chris Jarmick Author of The Glass Cocoon with Serena F. Holder - A steamy cyber thriller available January 2001. Please order it today. Thank You
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"Das Ende der Siebziger begann am Anfang der Siebziger." Paul Lewis (aus EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS; Peter Biskind 1998)
Wo soll man beginnen, wo enden, wenn man über diesen Film spricht? Einen Film, der so viele verschiedene Eindrücke hervorruft, das man ihn zunächst weder einordnen noch verstehen kann. Man kann TWO-LANE BLACKTOP von Monte Hellman nur fühlen. Entweder trifft einen das Werk mitten ins Herz und berührt die rastlose Seele, oder es lässt einen vollkommen unberührt. Alles ist möglich. Wie im Kino. Und TWO-LANE BLACKTOP ist pures Kino. Und mehr als das. Wo fange ich also an bei diesem funkelnden Diamanten von einem Film? Vielleicht bei dem Zitat von Quentin Tarantino, welches groß auf der Rückseite der DVD-Hülle prangt: "Wenn es einen Regisseur gibt, der es verdient hätte wieder entdeckt zu werden, dann ist das Monte Hellman." Man könnte ihm, allein bezugnehmend auf TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, nur beipflichten. Das Hellman, der wie viele spätere Meisterregisseure bei Roger Corman arbeitete und in den Sechzigern einige schöne Western mit Jack Nicholson drehte, ist ähnlich den Figuren in seinen Filmen einer der nie richtig angekommen ist. Ein Außenseiter, mehr noch als Sam Peckinpah, der nur selten wirklich zeigen konnte was er kann, weshalb seine späteren Filme wie IGUANA (1988) auch eher gewöhnungsbedürftig sind, um es mal vorsichtig zu formulieren. Dennoch ist TWO-LANE BLACKTOP gerade dadurch nur noch ein umso größerer Schatz. Doch das Außenseitertum ist nicht die einzige Gemeinsamkeit, die Hellman mit dem großen Sam Peckinpah, der später sogar in Hellmans Italo-Spätwestern CHINA 9, LIBERTY 37 (1978) auftrat, die Hollywood-Outlaws arbeiteten auch beide nach einem Drehbuch von Rudy Wurlitzer (PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID), dessen Script zu TWO-LANE BLACKTOP vom ESQUIRE-Magazin als bestes Drehbuch des Jahres bezeichnet wurde.
In TWO-LANE BLACKTOP ist alles anders als in vergleichbaren Filmen. Er ist weder so laut rebellisch wie EASY RIDER (Dennis Hopper 1969), noch so abgeklärt cool wie VANISHING POINT (Richard C. Sarafian 1971). Allenfalls durch den Produzenten Ned Tanen kann man eine Nähe zu Filmen wie THE HIRED HAND (Peter Fonda 1971) ausmachen, ebenfalls ein vergessenes Kleinod. TWO-LANE BLACKTOP ist existenzialistisch, realistisch und zugleich metaphorisch und referenziell, es geht um alles und um nichts, ist eine lyrische Parabel über den Strom des Lebens an sich, über das dahintreiben, gleich den Protagonisten, wie auf einem langen ruhigen Fluß, voller Wahrhaftigkeit und Schönheit, ohne einen Anfang, ohne ein Ende und dabei ein Film über das Kino selbst und im Nachgang betrachtet das wohl bezeichnendste Werk über das New Hollywood, nein, dieser Film IST New Hollywood, mehr noch als EASY RIDER und all die anderen.
"...eine bedrückende Entglorifizierung des postpsychedelischen Aussteigertraumes über die Hoffnung verlorene Freiheiten auf den Landstraßen wieder zu finden." (aus THE LATE LATE SHOW; Ulrich von Berg 1985)
Am eindrucksvollsten dürfte hierbei die von Monte Hellman's (wie auch Sam Peckinpah's) Stammschauspieler Warren Oates dargestellte Figur des GTO sein, nach seinem Wagen benannt, der die Kehrseite des amerikanischen Traumes verkörpert, der sich desillusioniert an kaputte Ideale klammert, sich selbst belügt und alle anderen gleich mit, der aber auch nicht allein sein kann, Gesellschaft um jeden Preis sucht, einmal in Person eines von Harry Dean Stanton in einer Minirolle gespielten schwulen Anhalters, der dem GTO eindeutige Avancen macht, ein kleiner Gag am Rande dem homophoben Möchtegern-Macho, und dabei so viel mehr als das. Am Ende gibt er sich ein letztes Mal der illusorischen Hoffnung auf ein kleines bisschen Glück hin, nur um sofort wieder enttäuscht zu werden. Und mit dieser Erfahrung bleibt er nicht allein. Danach spielt nichts mehr eine Rolle, weder das Rennen, die Handlung, noch sonst irgend etwas. Alles ist am Ende, löst sich auf. Sogar der Film.
The beauty of it for me is that the scenes are not all jammed up with boring attention grabbing shock tactics, but allow the viewer some space to get absorbed into it,so after a while you end up on the road with the movie itself which is ultimately more engaging and satisfying than being force fed visual adrenalin.
To sum up if you prefer deft characterisations,roaring V8 engines and entertaining realism this is a movie for you, if you've got a digitally reduced attention span you'll probably miss the point.