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Two-lane blacktop
Title:
Two-lane blacktop
Author:
Wurlitzer, Rudolph, screenwriter.
Edition:
Director-approved special edition.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus disc.
Summary:
A driver and a mechanic challenge a fellow hot rod enthusiast to a cross-country race.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1971.

Special features (disc 1): optional audio commentary by Hellman & filmmaker Allison Anders; optional audio commentary by Wurlitzer & author David Meyer; color bars.

Special features (disc 2, 159 min.): "On the road again : 'Two-lane blacktop' revisited" featurette (43 min.); "Make it three yards : a conversation with James Taylor", featurette (38 min.); "Somewhere near Salinas : a conversation with Kris Kristofferson" featurette (27 min.); "Sure did talk to you : a conversation with Walter Coblenz, Jared Hellman, and Michael Laughlin" featurette (23 min.); "Those satisfactions are permanent", screen test outtakes for Bird (15 min.) & Taylor (11 min.); "Color me gone" behind-the-scenes photos & publicity stills; 2 "Performance & image" featurettes; trailer (2 min.).

Booklet includes essays by film scholar Kent Jones ("Slow ride"), filmmaker Richard Linklater ("Ten-sixteen, actually-reasons I love 'Two-lane blacktop'"), and journalist Michael Goodwin ("On Route 66, filming 'Two-lane blacktop'", originally published in the Oct. 15, 1970 issue of Rolling Stone).
Language:
English
Contents:
Disc 1. Feature film -- Special features -- Disc 2. Special features.
ISBN:
9781604650037
UPC:
715515026925

715515137614
Format :
DVD