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  1. Story of two men drag racing across the USA in a primer grey 55 chevy. Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver.

  2. Two Lane Blacktop 1971 R1 Disc. To save right click on the cover below and choose Save Picture As... Download the latest CD covers and DVD Covers.

  3. Two-Lane Blacktop (The Criterion Collection) Rated: R. Format: DVD. 4.6 2,170 ratings. IMDb 7.2/10.0. $2899. Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime. FREE Returns.

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    Drag racing east from Los Angeles in a souped-up ’55 Chevy are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer-songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson, in their only acting roles), accompanied by a tagalong Girl (Laurie Bird). Along the way, they meet Warren Oates’s Pontiac GTO–driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race. T...

    Criterion ports over their deluxe two-disc DVD edition of Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktopto 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 expected im...

    The disc presents two audio tracks, a lossless PCM 1.0 mono track and a remixed DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround track. I actually liked the 5.1 track on the DVD and it carries over well to the Blu-ray. It’s not the most immersive surround track, limiting its use of surrounds, but it has far more depth and range in comparison to the mono track. The racing sc...

    Criterion ports most everything over from the DVD edition, but do leave out one of the more significant features of the DVD edition. The disc starts off with not one but two (!) audio commentaries, one featuring director Monte Hellman and filmmaker Allison Anders, the other featuring screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer and author David N. Meyer. Both come ...

    Some minor noise issues aside (they’re easy to overlook) I think the Blu-ray offers a decent enough upgrade over the DVD. It also carries over most of the supplements from that edition, though lacks the reprinted screenplay. It comes with a high recommendation. BUY AT:

  4. Jan 14, 2013 · Monte Hellman's dazed, stoically gorgeous 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop is another one of those nuggets from the storied American cinema of the '70s that easily proves what's by now a commonplace among movie buffs -- that it was a time when the frantic desperation of the crumbling Hollywood studios made for a marked uptick in the adventurousness a...

  5. Gallery of 10 movie poster and cover images for Two-Lane Blacktop (1971). Synopsis: A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe.

  6. Two-Lane Blacktop. Drag racing east from Los Angeles in a souped-up ’55 Chevy are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer-songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson, in their only acting roles), accompanied by a tagalong Girl (Laurie Bird).

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