Two-lane Blacktop, March 3, 2013

Sunday, March 3 – 7:30 PM
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, 1971, Universal, 102 min. Dir. Monte Hellman. Two motorheads in a supercharged Chevy (singer James Taylor and Beach Boy Dennis Wilson) take on Warren Oates and his monstrous Pontiac GTO in a cross-country race. Haunted by the vast, open spaces of the Midwest and an addictive sense of speed, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP is the essential American road movie - Hellman calls it "the last movie of the ’60s." One of the amazing things about the film is its Bressonian simplicity in following its protagonists; here, the universe itself is stripped down for maximum velocity to an astonishingly bleak and lonely microcosm: the hard, spartan interiors of Taylor’s and Oates’ cars. With Laurie Bird. Discussion following with director Monte Hellman. {35mm}

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