Two-Lane Blacktop [SEP] film editor
Two-Lane Blacktop
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 road movie directed by Monte Hellman and starring songwriter James Taylor, the Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird. "Blacktop" means an asphalt road.
"Esquire" magazine declared the film its movie of the year for 1971 and even published the entire screenplay in its April 1971 issue, but the film was not a commercial success. It has become a counterculture-era cult classic. Brock Yates is the organizer of the Cannonball
in which Hellman was the editor. "I can't look over someone's shoulder. I need my hand on the brake". He had control of the final cut, but was contractually obliged to deliver a film no longer than two hours. The final version ran 105 minutes. In their April 1971 cover story, "Esquire" magazine proclaimed "Two-Lane Blacktop", "film of the year". Hellman initially thought that the "Esquire" article would be good publicity for the film, but in