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Wandering Strangers: Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop

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|Penny Folger| “You can never go fast enough,” declares James Taylor’s character in Two-Lane Blacktop, known here simply as The Driver. He occupies a world where he and his righthand man, The Mechanic, played by original Beach Boys’ drummer Dennis Wilson, make their living… Continue reading

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Death Race on the Road to Nowhere

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|Wil McMillen| Two-Lane Blacktop is a curious, dense race movie in which almost no racing actually happens. Instead, the film is haunted by the passage of time, by the feeling that life has passed you by, and ultimately, by death itself. Tragically, for three of the film’s actors, those themes would become reality sooner… Continue reading