Two-Lane Blacktop [Masters of Cinema]

 ( Video Product ) 

• Two-Lane Blacktop Masters available on November 30 2023 from TheHut for 20.00
  
• Two-lane Blacktop - Masters of Cinema (Blu-Ray) available on March 24 2015 from Base for 8.49
  
• EAN bar code 5060000700442 ξ1 registered November 30 2023
  
• EAN bar code 5060000700442 ξ2 registered September 27 2014
  
• Product category is Blu-ray Video

• Model EKA70044
  

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. Special Director-Approved Blu-Ray Features: New restored high-definition master supervised and approved by Monte Hellman  Original mono soundtrack and optional newly remastered 5.1 mix  Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired  Audio commentary by Monte Hellman and associate producer Gary Kurtz  On The Road Again: Two-Lane Blacktop Revisited a 43-minute video piece in which Monte Hellman revisits the film's locations  Somewhere Near Salinas a 28-minute interview by Monte Hellman with singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson  Sure Did Talk To You a 24-minute video piece by Monte Hellman interviewing producer Michael Laughlin production manager Walter Coblenz and the director's son Jared Hellman  Rare archival screen-test footage of James Taylor and Laurie Bird  Original theatrical trailer  Optional music and effects track  A lavish 36-page booklet featuring rare production imagery the words of Monte Hellman and more!

^ Two-Lane Blacktop [Masters of Cinema], Masters of Cinema. TheHut. EAN 5060000700442 (revised Nov 2023)
^ Two-lane Blacktop - Masters of Cinema (Blu-Ray) Base. EAN 5060000700442 (revised Mar 2015)