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Sep 22, 2021 · Of course, the world didn’t end and the national malaise would soon be lifted as the country defied into the upbeat ‘80s. But the message and vibe of these two films, that of weariness, boredom, and uncertainty, still resonates today. Two-Lane Blacktop and Vanishing Point are both frustratingly hard to find.
Dec 24, 2014 · The car has a tunnel ram equipped 454, a Muncie M-22 “rock crusher” four speed, an Oldsmobile rear end, fiberglass flip nose, lexan windows, fiberglass doors, and a fiberglass trunk lid. The car is a epitome of a street racer and the Two Lane Blacktop movie did a lot of kind of glamorize that scene in ways that had never been done before.
Jan 6, 2013 · Criterion ports over their deluxe two-disc DVD edition of Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop to Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio of about 2.35:1 on a dual-layer disc. The high-definition transfer is delivered in 1080p/24hz. This looks to be based on the same transfer for the DVD, but this full high-definition presentation delivers the ...
Jan 8, 2013 · Two-Lane Blacktop turned up on public television once in the eighties, panned and scanned. A few new prints were struck in the following years, but it was not until the late nineties, when it appeared on laserdisc and then DVD in the correct aspect ratio, that it assumed its proper place as one of the most striking American films of its era.
Jul 7, 2021 · Hellman’s 50-year exile from Hollywood studio filmmaking may be one of the most extreme cases of “director jail” in recorded history, but in Walker’s view, Hellman’s extreme creative ...
Nov 4, 2015 · In Monte Hellman’s new film, “Two-Lane Blacktop,”…the godhead is the crankcase of a 454-cubic-inch, high-performance ’55 Chevy with aluminum heads, the car through which two young men ...
Oct 7, 2021 · Laurie Bird and Dennis Wilson passed away too young to see Two-Lane Blacktop grow in stature into arguably one of the best American road films of all time. Move over Badlands and Thelma and Louise ...
