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Jul 7, 2021 · Up in flames: the ending of Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop. The incendiary finale of Hellman’s 1971 existential odyssey elevates this classic about searching for intimacy on the open road. 7 July 2021. By Adam Solomons.
Sep 23, 2021 · Charles Taylor calls the ending of Two-Lane Blacktop, the film immolating in the middle of a close-up of the Driver, a “beautiful and awful benediction Hellman lays on his movie and his characters.”. In The Last Movie, the final words are of the village priest, who says, “Blood is everywhere.”.
May 28, 2015 · Two-Lane Blacktop goes about as far toward subverting the purpose of a road-race movie as you can go; if you walked in 20 minutes late, you’d be hard-pressed to divine that there’s a race going on at all.
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Dec 25, 2021 · The movie ends, appropriately enough, in the middle of a race, when the film stock appears to melt. That moment may have burned up Two-Lane Blacktop ’s commercial prospects, doing yet more doughnuts on the audience’s patience. But it left its mark on cinema.
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Monte Hellman's "Two-Lane Blacktop" is mostly about this race, which is an odd race in that nobody much seems to want to win. The driver and the mechanic have devoted their lives to racing and winning with their customized and rebuilt Chevy, and G.T.O. identifies intimately with his car, yet they keep stopping to help each other along the road ...
May 26, 2015 · Not only does Two-Lane Blacktop reveal little about where its characters come from, it seems to forget where it’s going. Though declared a race “for pinks” that will leave the winner in possession of both cars, the contest frequently gets put on hold—and maybe forgotten—as the participants trade cars, help each other with repairs ...
Jul 7, 2021 · The late American indie film auteur Monte Hellman was fond of a quote from Jean Cocteau that poetically summed up the fate of any real work of art: “A work of art should also be ‘an object...
