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      • But no summary can do justice to the existential punch of Two-Lane Blacktop. With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped-down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.
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  2. In this cult favorite road film, a mechanic (Dennis Wilson) and a driver (James Taylor) live only to race and maintain their 1955 Chevy. Heading east from California with no particular agenda ...

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    • Monte Hellman
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  3. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Rated R. The girl simply turns up one day and gets into the back seat of the 1955 Chevy. She doesn't seem to have a name, but then nobody else does, either. The driver and the mechanic drive away without even speaking to her, and that's how they come to be together.

  4. This year I bought the Criterion Collection Edition of Two-Lane Blacktop, and I haven't thought any other movie this year nearly as much. The film stars James Taylor, Denis Wilson, Warren Oats, Laurie Bird, a tricked out 1955 Chevrolet 150 two-door sedan and a 1970 Pontiac GTO.

  5. Jul 7, 2021 · Monte Hellman’s 1971 film, Two-Lane Blacktop, which opened 50 years ago today, still confounds not only critics but its fans and friends.

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  6. Jul 23, 1971 · Two-Lane Blacktop: Directed by Monte Hellman. With James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson. While drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevrolet 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an enigmatic hitchhiker and the tall-tale-spinning driver of a GTO.

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    • Monte Hellman
    • 1971-07-23
  7. Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 American road movie directed and edited by Monte Hellman, written by Rudy Wurlitzer and starring singer-songwriter James Taylor, the Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird.

  8. Jul 7, 2021 · Two-Lane Blacktop might be the greatest car movie ever made. This quiet, anti-narrative masterpiece and bonafide cult classic is the best of the ‘existential road-trip’ movies and one of the greatest American films made in the early ’70s.

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