Two Lane Blacktop (Criterion) DVD

• 5.1 Dolby Digital (English)
• 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono (English)
• Audio commentary by Hellman and filmmaker Allison Anders
• Audio commentary by screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer and author David Meyer
• Interviews with Hellman, musician Kris Kristofferson, producer Michael Laughlin and production manager Walter Coblenz
• Rare, never-before-seen screen test outtakes
• Performance and Image, a look at the restoration of a '55 Chevy from the movie
• Color Me Gone, photos and publicity from Two-Lane Blacktop
• Original theatrical trailer
• Wurlitzer's screenplay, reprinted specially for this release
• A new essay by Kent Jones, appreciations by Richard Linklater and Tom Waits
• Reprint of 1970 Rolling Stone article "On Route 66, Filming Two-Lane Blacktop"

Director: Monte Hellman
James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson, David Drake, Harry Dean Stanton

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 the tagalong Girl (Laurie Bird). Along the way, they meet Warren Oates's Pontiac GTO-driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race - at stake: their cars' pink slips. Yet no summary can do justice to the existential punch of Two-Lane Blacktop. Maverick director Monte Hellman's stripped-down narravtive, 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.