Two-lane blacktop
| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Videos/Films | Book Cart | Two (Browse shelf) | Available | 110367 |
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1971.
Disc 1: The film: Street racers ; Driver & Mechanic ; The Girl ; Three yards ; GTO ; For pinks ; "Keep a hunger on" ; Up, down, or sideways ; Boswell, OK ; No dancing ; Too much speed ; Lakeland Raceway ; No good ; Two-lane blacktop (103 min.). -- Special features: Optional audio feature commentaries / [by] Monte Hellman & Allison Anders, or by Rudy Wurlitzer & David Meyer ; Disc 2: The supplements: On the road again : 'Two-lane blacktop' revisited [featurette] (43 min.) -- Make it three yards [featurette] (39 min.) -- Somewhere near Salinas [featurette] (28 min.) -- Sure did talk to you [featurette] (23 min.) -- Those satisfactions are permanent [featurette] (26 min.) -- Color me gone [slide show] -- Performance & image : [a look at the restoration of a '55 Chevy from the movie and the film's locations today] [text feature with slide show] -- Trailer (3 min.). -- Booklet: includes the essays "Slow ride" / by Kent Jones -- "Ten (sixteen, actually) reasons I love 'Two-lane blacktop'" / by Richard Linklater -- "On Route 66 : filming 'Two-lane blacktop'" / by Michael Goodwin.
Director of photography, Jack Deerson ; film editor, Monte Hellman ; custom auto design & construction, Richard Ruth, William Kincheloe, H. Alan Deglin.
Starring: James Taylor (The Driver), Warren Oates (G.T.O.), Laurie Bird (The Girl), and Dennis Wilson (The Mechanic) ; with H.D. Stanton, Alan Vint, Bill Keller, Katherine Squire, George Mitchell, Kreag Caffey, A.J. Solari, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Jaclyn Hellman.
A car-obsessed Driver and Mechanic aimlessly head East from L.A. in a souped-up 1955 Chevy, drag racing for money and thrills. Drifting across the Southwest, they keep being buzzed by a Pontiac GTO. They are joined by The Girl after she climbs into their car while the two are eating in a diner. Later at a gas station, the three meet "GTO" and challenge him to a cross-country race to Washington, D.C. for "pink slips," where the winner will get the loser's car. Along the way, however, they keep stopping to help each other, and winning seems far from their thoughts. The road is itself a place to live, is home, not just a way to move
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital mono.; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 2.35:1, enhanced for 16:9 televisions; new restored high-definition digital transfer.
In English; SDH, subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Named to the National Film Registry in 2012 by the Library of Congress.
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