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Title: Two-lane Blacktop - The Masters of Cinema Series
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 01/23/2012
EAN: 5060000700442
Description: 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.
Director: Monte Hellman
Studio: Eureka
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Actor: Richard Ruth, Rudy Wurlitzer, David Drake, Harry Dean Stanton, James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson
No Of Discs: 1
Run Time: 103 minutes
Region Code: Blu-ray: B (Europe, AU, NZ, Africa...)
Special Features: Bonus Footage, 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
Rating: 15
MPN: EKA70044
Release Year: 2012

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