The roadmovie free movie#

The roadmovie free movie#

“The mysticism of this movie is in its absence of mysticism,” says Scott. In the other, a brand-new GTO, is a middle-aged man known only as GTO. In one car, a customized 1955 Chevrolet 150, are quasi-hippie gearheads known only as the Driver and the Mechanic (joined for a stretch by a hitchhiking Girl). Two-Lane Blacktop ostensibly tells the story of a cross-country race from New Mexico to Washington, D.C. Scott declares in the video above, “one of the finest road movies, and perhaps the purest of them all, is Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop.” In his original 1971 review of the film, a Roger Ebert described Hellman as “an American director whose work is much prized by the French, who have a knack for finding existential truths in movies we thought were Westerns.” In some sense Two-Lane Blacktop is indeed a Western, but Hellman’s death earlier this week will prompt many to revisit the film and see that it’s also much more - as well as much less. The road movie has long since proven itself as one of the great American cultural forms, not least by capturing the imagination of other societies, no matter how distant or different.