so did this film get edited in the 90s?
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 8 January 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Huh.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 8 January 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
hellman looking like henry spencer, love it
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/maggroup1.jpg
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 8 January 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to watch this this weekend. My brother got me the Criterion a couple of years ago, and I've only managed to watch it once since then.
― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 8 January 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
the skinnydipping scene is in the script (which is worth reading)
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 8 January 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i have only heard of this bc of the mary heilmann painting named after it
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_3_467172_mary-heilmann.jpg
― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 8 January 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
so wait I don't get it - scenes were cut from the DVD release? That seems really strange
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 January 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone got the criterion release? these scenes are into it?
might be lost!
― moullet, Friday, 8 January 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
is this movie kinda like badlands y/n?
― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 8 January 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
in some ways
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 January 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, but i found it much more pleasant
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Saturday, 9 January 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
About as much like Badlands as Sunn O))) is like Whitesnake.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 9 January 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Friday, January 8, 2010 5:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yeah dogg
― 69, Saturday, 9 January 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Just got done revisiting this. Way more awesome than I remember. Maybe the ultimate car porn movie as well. I geeked out during the first scene at the dragstrip, when they're parking the 55 in a wide shot and you can see a AMC Hurst Sc/Rambler coming into the lot in the back.
Now looking at the script and came across this pearl cut from the scene when Taylor picks up Laurie Bird after she ran off while they were waiting at the garage:
GIRL: I like the other car. I like the way the seats feel and the tape deck. I could get to like the backseat.DRIVER: It's just another Goat.GIRL: What do you mean, Goat?DRIVER: GTO. They call it a Judge, too.GIRL: I like Judge. I don't get along with Capricorns.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 February 2011 06:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/PSB-5-38.jpg
― it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Friday, 18 February 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://bombsite.com/images/attachments/0008/1197/MaryHeilmanat303Gallery_body.jpg
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd never even heard of this until very recently.
Laurie Bird went out with Art Garfunkel.
― Le mépris vient de la tête, la haine vient du cœur (Michael White), Friday, 18 February 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
?!
― ice cr?m's world of female people (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 February 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
And committed suicide in his apartment, age 25. She was only in 3 movies.
― Hodge Podge Bodge, Peo-PLE! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 18 February 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
weird I was just posting about that elsewheres
laurie bird had such a weird life, made a handful of films (she was in annie hall!), was art garfunkel's lover, committed suicide. garfunkel wrote a book of poetry about it.
― it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Friday, February 18, 2011 1:43 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
― it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Friday, 18 February 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
In August 1981, Art released his fifth solo album Scissors Cut (U.S. #113, U.K. #51). This album included the Gallagher & Lyle hit "A Heart in New York" (U.S. #61). The U.K. version contains the track "The Romance" rather than "Bright Eyes." The album was co-produced by Roy Halee, who also co-produced the Simon & Garfunkel albums, including Bridge over Troubled Water. Paul Simon makes a brief appearance on "In Cars" performing background vocals. Near the end of the song, Art sings, rather mystically, lines from "Girl From The North Country" ("Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine") The album is dedicated to Laurie Bird and includes a partial photograph of Ms. Bird on the rear cover.
Art was devastated by Ms. Bird's death in Art's New York apartment while he was in Europe filming Bad Timing - A Sensual Obsession. Art was quoted at the time, "Laurie was the greatest thing I ever knew in my life, now I've lost it."[1] In 1988, he added, "I took her death terribly and remained moody over it through much of the 80's." Probably why he did not release another solo album until 1988's Lefty (excluding 1986's The Animals' Christmas with Amy Grant).
― it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Friday, 18 February 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~takanomo/LOVELOG_IMG/esquire_april_1971_01.jpg
Would love a poster of this cover.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 February 2011 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Would love to have the magazine. Old Esquires are the best.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Saturday, 19 February 2011 06:44 (thirteen years ago) link
More Bird/G-funk trivia: Laurie took the cover photo for the Watermark lp, now resting in a dollar bin near you.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 February 2011 06:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah,the old Esquires are the shit. Expensive tho, I found listing for that ish online for about 45 bucks.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 February 2011 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I couldn't find one on Ebay. Put in bids on a few lots from the early '50s, though.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Saturday, 19 February 2011 06:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It's funny, on ebay you can find upteen copies of the March and May '71 Esquires, but never the April.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 February 2011 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
^^Funny that, I scored a fairly expensive copy of the mag last week (arrived in the mail Tuesday), and now there's another up on ebay.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 March 2011 07:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess people be wanting to keep that particular issue.
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I just won the one that was on Ebay.
I think I might have been the asshole bidding you up on the last one, tbh.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Got rooked on 8 years worth of '50s Esquires that same day, because I wasn't near a computer to beat late-bidders.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I figured as much. It's okay--lord knows I've done the same loads of times in the past (and probably will continue to do so).
Enjoy the mag. It is a nice artifact, and the cover is quite gorgeous in person (there's an ad for a Mustang Mach I on the back cover). Because of the large page size and the small typeface, the whole script only runs 13 pages.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
sooo classic, this movie.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Just got done watching it. Mad at myself for not seeing it before now.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 08:19 (thirteen years ago) link
was surprised this actually was on cable the other day - just caught the end
― in my world of suggest bans (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
there used to be a cable channel devoted to cars that showed it all the time in the late 90s
― I am sorry for my insensitive tweet (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
First time I ever saw this was mid 70s, late night, in the pre-cable days when local TV actually showed movies. I was quite stoned, and found the minimal dialog (and endless drone of the engines) really hypnotic. Final scene freaked me right out.
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Interview with Hellman from a couple of days ago about his latest film Road to Nowhere.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
executive producing "Reservoir Dogs" for Quentin Tarantino
!!! wtf never noticed this
― underrated earl sweatshirt fans i have boned (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I was watching Wings For Wheels, the Born To Run "making of" doc, and they included a clip of TLB's opening credits when covering the "cinematic influence" over Springsteen's writing, which makes sense because the Darkness On the Edge of Town and Nebraska lps are kinda unimaginable without this movie.
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Went to look up showtimes for Road to Nowhere today... nowhere to be found. Really surprised it was only around for a week... Odd for NYC.
― You're runnin' with the (Cheetah), Saturday, 18 June 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
Classic or dud?! WTF kind of question is that? Under no conceivable circumstances could Two-Lane Blacktop be called "dud". It is somewhat debateable whether it is a great movie or just a good one and I can oscillate between these two alternatives, but dud? Never.
― Aimless, Saturday, 18 June 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Rolling Stones: Classic or Dud
Citizen Kane: Classic or Dud?
Shakespeare: C/D?
"Oxygen: C/D?" pending.
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 June 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
But yeah, that Road to Nowhere... not in theaters in NYC anymore... major bummer :-/
― You're runnin' with the (Cheetah), Saturday, 18 June 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't know about this movie till I looked it up just now. Truthfully, I'd rather it were a documentary about all the road films from the late-'60s and '70s.
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 June 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
I woulda seen that today, for sure! Super 8 it is...
― You're runnin' with the (Cheetah), Saturday, 18 June 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, ROAD TO NOWHERE was really hard to watch, a total trainwreck
― love you like a frat kid loves Cake (Tape Store), Sunday, 19 June 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
best description i've heard is "a lifetime version of mulholland dr."
― love you like a frat kid loves Cake (Tape Store), Sunday, 19 June 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it sounds bad. oh well.
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 19 June 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
christ, this movie is good.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
They’re all planets, they only reflect light.
― The Crazy World of Encyclopedia Brown (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52025/sonnet-xxv
― The Crazy World of Encyclopedia Brown (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
I haven't seen Road To Nowhere, but casting both Dominique Swain and Shannyn Sossamon was some serious 'keeping the millennium--era hawt dream alive' move for 2010.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 June 2022 03:49 (one year ago) link
quick callback to the discussion above - I think this is the sweater JT mentions which Joni knitted for him, with the two-lane blacktop across the middle:https://i.pinimg.com/originals/10/25/63/10256381b7a9e9c5a35a13fb246b19f3.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/GZ7UYFG.jpg(bit of a Nirvana Unplugged vibe for me)
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 13 June 2022 03:52 (one year ago) link
Watched The Shooting the other day. Not quite as radical as Two Lane tho it does end in a similar way.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 13 June 2022 09:17 (one year ago) link
― The Crazy World of Encyclopedia Brown (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
(bit of a Nirvana Unplugged vibe for me)
Son of Kurdt and Krist.
― pplains, Monday, 13 June 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
xp to selfGuess he had to end it somehow. Anyway really enjoyed watching this, thinking about it and reading about it.
― The Crazy World of Encyclopedia Brown (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link