Sunday 17 December 2006

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971 Monte Hellman)

James Taylor, Dennis (Beach Boys) Wilson, Warren Oates.

With its non-professional, minimalist performances, script, and lack of lighting and incidental music, this could be an early work of Dogme, directed by Bresson. Warren Oates has funny lines as he lies to a succession of hitchers.

Laurie Bird was living with Art Garfunkel when she killed herself eight years later. According to 'Fragile Geometry' (Joseph Lanza), Garfunkel had a fatal premonition of her while filming Bad Timing. He was about to return to the US for more filming when he heard she'd killed herself, the same way as Milena attempts it in the film.

They sure knew how to do film endings in the seventies.

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