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Two-lane blacktop [digital videodisc] / Universal presents ; a Michael S. Laughlin production ; screenplay by Rudolph Wurlitzer and Will Corry ; story by Will Corry ; produced by Michael S. Laughlin ; directed by Monte Hellman.

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[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2007]

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Criterion collection 414.

2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.) + 1 screenplay (111 p. ; 19 cm.)

Disc 1 the film: Street racers -- Driver & mechanic -- 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 -- Color bars (1971) (103 min.); Special features: Commentaries [by] Monte Hellman & Allison Anders [optional audio feature]; by Rudy Wurlitzer & David Meyer [optional audio feature].

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 [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, and "On Route 66: Filming 'Two-lane blacktop'" by Michael Goodwin.

The Driver and The Mechanic roam the country in a tricked-out 1955 Chevy, drag racing for money and thrills. While stopped at a diner, The Girl climbs into their car and plants herself in the backseat. Drifting across the Southwest, they keep being buzzed by a snazzy 1970 Pontiac. GTO chats up a storm, bending the ears of the hitchhikers he regularly picks up off the side of the road. Like modern day cowboys, they just keep moving--no roots, no responsibilities--the only real threat the loss or destruction of the vehicle itself. These three men, one woman, and two cars end up in a race to Washington D.C., yet 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.

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