THU, JUN 23, 8pm:
MONTE HELLMAN: THEN & NOW
Webcast Q&A with legendary director
MONTE HELLMAN!
An MBC Premiere Presentation
Miami Beach HD Digital Premiere!
(Directed by MONTE HELLMAN/USA/1971/102mins.)
With James Taylor, Warren Oates, Dennis Wilson
“After DC we’ll go on down to Florida…
They’ve got some nice beaches down there”-James Taylor as The Driver
Maverick director Monte Hellman’s stripped-down narrative, gorgeous widescreen compositions, and sophisticated look at American male obsession make this one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made. Drag racing east from L.A. in a souped-up ’55 Chevy are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer/songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson, in their only acting roles), accompanied by a tagalong Girl (Laurie Bird). Along the way, they meet Warren Oates’s Pontiac GTO-driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race-the prize: their cars’ pink slips. Yet no summary can do justice to the existential punch of Two-Lane Blacktop. Be sure to follow-up the screening of TLB with Monte’s new film: Road to Nowhere.
The film will be followed by webcast Q&A
with director MONTE HELLMAN, who will discuss Two Lane Blacktop and his latest film Road To Nowhere.
CHECK OUT Richard Linklater’s reasons to love Two Lane Blacktop HERE
“TWO LANE BLACKTOP: Under the Hood of the Epic 1971 Road Flick” HERE
“IMMACULATELY CRAFTED, FUNNY, AND QUITE BEAUTIFUL…resonant with a lingering mood of loss and loneliness … Not a single frame in the film is wasted. Even the small touches-the languid tension while refueling at a back-country gas station or the piercing sound of an ignition buzzer-have their own intricate worth.”-TIME Magazine
$12 or $10 students/seniors or $9 MBC Members