-Lane Blacktop () [Blu-ray]

$ 23.01

Studio: Criterion Collection Release Year: 1971 Weight: 0.29 Pounds ISBN: 0715515102414 Brand: The Criterion Collection Format: Blu-ray gtin13: 0715515102414 Type: Does not apply Genre: Drama UPC: 0715515102414 Package Dimensions LxWxH: 6.69x5.31x0.67 Inches Color: color Director: Monte Hellman Movie/TV Title: Two-Lane Blacktop (Criterion Collection) EAN: 0715515102414

Description

Drag racing east from L.A. in a souped-up ’55 are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer/songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys’ Dennis , in their only acting roles), accompanied by a tagalong Girl (Cockfighter’s Laurie Bird). Along the way, they meet Warren Oates’s Pontiac GTO–driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race—the prize: their cars’ pink slips. But no summary can do justice to the existential punch of -Lane Blacktop. With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped-down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman (The Shooting) is of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.