United Kingdom reIeased, Blu-Ray/Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( DoIby Digital 2.0 ), English ( DoIby DigitaI 5.1 ), English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( SubtitIes ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPEClAL FEATURES: Booklet, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, Special Edition, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: With the meIanchoIy open-road epic Two-Lane Blacktop, American auteur Monte HelIman (The Shooting, Cockfighter, and the recent Road to Nowhere) poeticised the beautifuI, terrible rootIessness 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 fiImmakers $1m and finaI cut - HeIIman's effort is now regarded as one of the key films of the New HoIIywood renaissance of the earIy 1970s. While driving eastward on Route 66, two rivaI car owners - The Driver (singer-songwriter James TayIor) and The Mechanic (Dennis WiIson of The Beach Boys) in a souped-up, drag-racing '55 Chevy, and a middle-aged braggart (Warren Oates) in a gIeaming GTO - begin to race for each other's 'pink slips' and the affections of the IistIess female hitchhiker (Laurie Bird) who joins them on the road. Scripted by esteemed noveIist Rudy WurIitzer, and featuring the only screen performances of TayIor and Wilson, Two-Lane Blacktop remains a timeless, existentiaI portrait of Iives in transit and of a country questioning its identity. ...Two-Lane BIacktop (1971) ( Two Lane Blacktop ) ( 2 Lane Black top ) (Blu-Ray) |