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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. "The film is immaculately crafted, funny and quite beautiful, resonant with a lingering mood of loss and loneliness." - Jay Cocks, Time "Two-Lane Blacktop is a movie of achingly eloquent landscapes and absurdly inert characters." - J. Hoberman, Village Voice "Self-enclosed, self-absorbed, and self-destructive, it's absolutely riveting." - Tom Milne, Time Out Two-Lane Blacktop is one of the most popular car-fetishist / petrolhead movies ever made and listed as one of the 50 greatest independent films of all time by Empire Magazine. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Hellman's iconic film on blu-ray and ltd Edition Blu-ray Steelbook for the first time ever anywhere in the world, available NOW!

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