Two-Lane Blacktop

(Monte Hellman, 1971; Eureka!, 15)The concept of the road movie goes back to Homer's Odyssey. But the genre wasn't named until the early 1970s when a group of American countercultural pictures much influenced by the new European cinema demanded collective recognition. Arguably the best was Two-Lane Blacktop, the existential masterpiece directed by Monte Hellman, who'd been responsible for the first west coast production of Waiting for Godot and learned his moviemaking skills working on low-budg...

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