Two-lane blacktop [videorecording (DVD)] / Universal presents ; a Michael S. Laughlin production ; screenplay by Rudolph Wurlitzer and Will Corry ; produced by Michael S. Laughlin ; directed by Monte Hellman.
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Edition:
DVD edition.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
James Taylor (The Driver), Warren Oates (G.T.O.), Laurie Bird (The Girl), and Dennis Wilson (The Mechanic) ; with H.D. Stanton, Alan Vint, Bill Keller, Katherine Squire, George Mitchell, Kreag Caffey, A.J. Solari, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Jaclyn Hellman. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971.
Contents:
[text feature with slide show] -- Trailer (3 min.). -- Booklet: includes the essays by Michael Goodwin. Disc 2: The supplements: "On Route 66 : filming 'Two-lane blacktop'" / [featurette] (43 min.) -- Make it three yards [featurette] (39 min.) -- Somewhere near Salinas [featurette] (28 min.) -- Sure did talk to you [featurette] (23 min.) -- Those satisfactions are permanent [featurette] (26 min.) -- Color me gone [slide show] -- Performance & image : [a look at the restoration of a '55 Chevy from the movie and the film's locations today] [text feature with slide show] -- Trailer (3 min.). -- Booklet: includes the essays "Slow ride" / by Kent Jones -- "Ten (sixteen, actually) reasons I love 'Two-lane blacktop'" / by Richard Linklater -- "On Route 66 : filming 'Two-lane blacktop'" / by Michael Goodwin.
Summary:
A car-obsessed Driver and Mechanic aimlessly head East from L.A. in a souped-up 1955 Chevy, drag racing for money and thrills. Drifting across the Southwest, they keep being buzzed by a Pontiac GTO. They are joined by The Girl after she climbs into their car while the two are eating in a diner. Later at a gas station, the three meet "GTO" and challenge him to a cross-country race to Washington, D.C. for "pink slips," where the winner will get the loser's car. Along the way, however, they keep stopping to help each other, and winning seems far from their thoughts. The road is itself a place to live, is home, not just a way to move.
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