Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Monte Hellman

Writers: Will Corry, Rudolph Wurlitzer

Cinematographer: Jack Deerson

Cast: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson

A pair of drifting, laconic drag racers and the teenaged hitchhiker that they picked up along the way meet a middle-aged fantasist at a petrol station, who they challenge to a road race to Washington for pink slips – a race that threatens to start on several occasions but never really does, in Monte Hellman’s hauntingly idiosyncratic existential road movie. Iain.Stott