Two-Lane seduces IFC News
"No road movie is as in touch with its own road movieness as Monte Hellman's long-martyred Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)," writes Michael Atkinson at IFC News. "Blacktop might be a definitive American expression of roadness -- uncompromised, Rorschach-inconclusive, mythic, yet as real as highway weeds, and so eloquent in its mumbling way about basic existential identity and destination dilemmas that every frame has the poignant and needy ache of a child fruitlessly asking about God. It has little competition as the great lost and found movie of the much-missed American New Wave. Virtually everyone who sees the film is seduced by it..."
