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Two-Lane BlacktopOther

by Monte Hellman

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British film director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver.
loved

Instead, for the eleventh movie in my top ten, I would like to include a film that has become something of an intangible Magic Eye picture for me: Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop. There is no movie that I have watched more often in an attempt to unpeel and unravel it.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Edgar Wright, the entry for Two-Lane Blacktop.

2011-09-27·criterion.com ↗

American independent filmmaker of the mumblecore movement; made Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), Drinking Buddies (2013) and Happy Christmas (2014), and created the Netflix series Easy (2016 to 2019).
loved

Two-Lane Blacktop also had a great energy about it, but in a more deliberate, quiet way.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Joe Swanberg, the entry for Two-Lane Blacktop.

2009-06-09·criterion.com ↗

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