OCT 12 · ROUTE 66 CENTENNIAL
Two Lane Blacktop
A film by Monte Hellman
w/ James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird
Rated R
1hr 42min
PRESENTED AS PART OF THE ROUTE 66 CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL
In this cult favorite road film, a mechanic (Dennis Wilson) and a driver (James Taylor) live only to race and maintain their 1955 Chevy. Heading east from California with no particular agenda, they give a girl (Laurie Bird) a ride, and en route she incites jealousy between the men by sleeping with them both. Meanwhile, the trio encounters an overbearing GTO driver (Warren Oates) who agrees to race them to New York, each side putting at stake their most prized possession: their car.
It came nowhere close to the numbers on Easy Rider, but it is so much more worthwhile as a film. Indeed, I'm going to push my luck and say there has never been a better film about sweaters.
David Thomson
The New Republic
The ultimate road movie and one of the great American movies of the 1970s.
Richard Luck
Film4
OCT 12 · ROUTE 66 CENTENNIAL
Two Lane Blacktop
A film by Monte Hellman
w/ James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird
Rated R
1hr 42min
PRESENTED AS PART OF THE ROUTE 66 CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL
In this cult favorite road film, a mechanic (Dennis Wilson) and a driver (James Taylor) live only to race and maintain their 1955 Chevy. Heading east from California with no particular agenda, they give a girl (Laurie Bird) a ride, and en route she incites jealousy between the men by sleeping with them both. Meanwhile, the trio encounters an overbearing GTO driver (Warren Oates) who agrees to race them to New York, each side putting at stake their most prized possession: their car.
It came nowhere close to the numbers on Easy Rider, but it is so much more worthwhile as a film. Indeed, I'm going to push my luck and say there has never been a better film about sweaters.
David Thomson
The New Republic
The ultimate road movie and one of the great American movies of the 1970s.
Richard Luck
Film4
